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FOR VICE-PRESIDENT:
ARTHUR SEWALL.
OF MAINE.
The Bunco Financier.
There is now talk if another bond Is
sue. This is an old topic of discussion.
It has Itecn bean! at mrular Intervals
ever aim-e Mr. Cleveland, in order to
pi. j-.- bis friends, the International
hankers, placed his will above the law
of the laud : nd announced that the
greenbacks cud treasury notes would be
paid in sold ai the option of the note
holder, instead of in sold or silver at
the option of the government.
When Mr. Cleveland overruled and
viot.vt si the law and made his personal
prefervnc<“« superior to the will of con
gross and the fieople, the gold sharks,
the internal tonal bankers and the
various financial syndicates and
trusts. underst«"sl h'.s action to
be an invitation to them to ' wade
In." as the phrase 13, and loot the
treasury; and this they proceeded to
do with all the dispatch and prompti
tude known to those wiio are familiar
to the gentle art of -haute finance.” To
loot a private corporation is a matter
that the criminal statutes describe, but
when a nation is looted, those who en
gage in It wink at one another and call
It "high finance;” and so it is. for no
nation or people can l*e looted by the
mcnileTs of the “haute finance" with
out the consent of themselves or their
rulers. In this case, it was by the con
•ent of the rulers whom the voters of
this republic choisc to protect and pre
serve their interests.
As we have said, the old talk of a
bond i.'*ne has been revived. It tins
been revived in Washington city by the
officials who are supposed to represent
the people, and, notwithstanding the
faet that the propio of all persuasions
of political )«elief. are known to be bit
terly opposed to these unnecessary
mortgages laid upon their substance
and their resources, it is announced that
the president stands ready to accommo
date the Rothschilds and their accom
plishes! American agents with another
issue of bonds.
Rut. along with the revival of the
talk of another I«.nd issue, we hear a
brand new rea<«>n for It. It is now said
by the element that has made bond
Issues possible that If another issue is
made “neces-ary” it will l-e owing to
the “political situation.” In Other words,
the tools and ag -nts of the money pow
er, and the representatives of the “high
finam-iers," are now diligently circulat
ing the statem« nt that what they are
pleased to t« rm “the free silver craze"
la responsible for the outflow of gold.
The only matter that causes surprise
is the fact that the representatives of
the “haute finance” have not thought of
this Iw'ont. The agitation for the resto
ration of silver has been going on at a
tremendous rate ivcr since Mr. Cleve
land took off his hat to the “high
financiers” and politely invited them
into the j-opi» '« treasury. And yet these
worthy "high financiers" have never be
fore thought proper to mention it as an
explanation of their desire and purpose
to compel a bond issue.
There has never been any cessation of
the drain of the gold reserve since the
Rothschilds, assisted by a swarm of
brokers, began their International oper
ations to force bond issues, and the
drain has gone on tn the face of the
faet that there has not been a month
since the raids began that the balance
of trade has l<een in our favor. In-
Mead of shipping gold we ought to
have been Importing it. and this impor
tation would have taken place but for
the manipulation of exchange by the
“haute finance” of Europe add their
agents here.
If it be said by some reader with small
memory of events and some knowledge
nf the operations of exchange, that no
power ran manipulate the rates, we re
ply that the process Is much easier to
those who undertake it than the sim
plest operations of Wall street are to
the speculators In that vicinity. The
proof of the pudding is in chewing the
bag.
In February. Belmont, represent
ing the Rothschilds, and the Morgans,
representing the Deutsche bank, entered
Into a secret deal with Mr. Cleveland
to furnish the treasury with $62,0)0.000
tn gold. One clause of the contract was
that the Kot(pschiids aud their brethren
were to “protect” the treasury. They
were to stand guard over the treasury
and prevent the outflow of gold, and this
they did. From the date of the bond
Issue until the ensuing October no gold
was exported.
Now, If the demand for gold for ex
port had been natural —the result of the
Inevitable course of trade —not all the
power of all the banks could have pre
vented it. But as it was the result of
the manipulation of the rates of ex
change In the first place, all that the
Rothschilds had to do was to call off
the manipulation, or to reverse the pro
cess. They found It an easy matter to
import gold when they had ceased their
manipulations.
When their contract bad expired by
limitation they renewed their manipula
tions and drew out the gold they had
paid for the Itonds. This drain was fol
lowed by an Issue of fIOO.UOO.OUO of
bonds in February of this year, and,
though only four months Lave passed,
they have drawn out. during that time,
and during the period of payment, $60,-
000.0U0. The reserve is now down to
about $05,000,000 and still falling, ami
the talk of another bond Issue is re
vived.
Strange as It may seem to sensible
people, some of the agents of the money
power are now trying to argue that the
gold drain Is the result of a purpose,
now well known, on the part of the
people to restore silver to the place it
formerly held in our monetary system.
The infatuation of the gold men is al
together without precedent. Nothing like
it has ever been seen in the history of
the world. They imagine that the peo
ple are a lot of simpletons who can be
gulled aud deceived by any lie that the
money power may choose to concoct.
There is no limit to bond issues while
this country maintains the gold stand
ard. but there is a limit to the patience
of the people and that limit has been
n-ached. They have been gulled aud
deceived on the money question for
twenty long years. They will l»e gulled
and deceived no more. By restoring
silver aud by electing a man who will
fearlessly carry out the law. they will
forever put an end to the looting of tho
treasury for the benefit of foreign cap
italists.
••Th® Arbitrament of the National
Convention.”
Previous to the meeting us the na
tional democratic convention in 1592, a
’urge aud influential section of the dem
ocratic voters of the south were violent
ly opj»osed to the renomlnatiou of
Grover Cleveland. These voters were
represented by The Constitution and
other new spapers us more or less prom
inence. They contended that if he was
nominated, his election would be dis
astrous to the party.
In fine, the proposed reuomination of
Mr. Cleveland was opposeil by large
number® of democrats with considerable
bitterness. It was charged then that
he was a gold standardist in disguise,
and his letter to the Reform Club, op
posing the free coinage of silver, only
served to strengthen the convictions of
southern democrats that he was not the
man to carry out the financial reforms
which the party had in view.
But the opposition to Mr. Cleveland’s
nomination did not prevail. The Consti
tution was signally defeated in Its ef
forts to prevent that result, aud ever
ready critics took advantage of the op
portunity to deride the paper's influence
and to mak“ contemptuous comments on
its efforts to stem the tide that set in
favor of Cleveland.
The Constitution was defeated, and
along with it the hopes of the men who
had desired to bring about linaueial re
form in favor ot the people. We feared
that a dangerous blow had been struck
at the party, and that the defeat of The
Constitution was the defeat of demo
cratic hopes and desires for at least four
years; but we accepted “the arbitrameut
of the national convention.” In a pri
vate letter to Mr. Cleveland The Con
stitution frankly informed him that
it had opposed his nomination; that
the convention had settled that matter,
aud that it would fight as zealously for
his election as it had opposed his nomi
nation.
In another column will I>e found the
reply us Mr. Cleveland to that letter, and
we commend it to the attention of
those democrats in this state and else
where, who, following the lead of Mr.
Cleveland, have trying to wring
from their party an Indorsement of tho
gold standard. ‘T think,” says Mr.
Cleveland, "the underlying principle of
party organization is what you so ad
mirably express as an acceptance of the
arbitrament of the national conven
tion.”
That Is just as true today, the 20th of
July, 18b6, as it was when Mr. Cleve
land wrote it on the 16th of July, 185)2.
l our years have not changed the signill
auce of this statement. If the element
that opposed Mr. Cleveland because it
knew that bis nomination and election
would not be fruitful of financial re
form could afford to give Idm a hearty
and a loyal support, surely it cannot be
a very great strain on those who have
I followed Idm Into the political wilder
ness of goidolatry to “accept the arbit
rament of the national convention," and
to give to both platform and candidate
a zealous support.
Wall Street to the Rescue!
We print today a significant article
from The New York World, a newspa
per which, in oltedience to the demands
of the money power, has refused to sup
port the democratic candidates.
The World has had enough experience
as a democratic newspaper to know that
when Wall street begins to organize its
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forces in the open, the time has come
for the democratic people of this repult
lic to stand shoulder to shoulder in de
fense of rights and privileges that be
long to the struggling masses in every
part of the union.
Mr. Pulitzer's newspaper has played
the part of a democratic organ long
enough to know that such a movement
as that which has been organized in
Wall street is not only new to our politi
cal experience, but a sign as certain as
it is significant that every demand
made by the democratic party rests on
reason and justice. Heretofore the sin
ister influences that have given the
term “Wall street” its peculiar mean
ing, have been content to fight behind
the screen and with the lights out so
that the public would not be able to
meet the influences brought to bear In a
hundred different ways and through a
hundred different channels.
The World itself, which has surren
dered to Wall street in large matters,
has kept up a show us opposition in
small things and warns the syndicate
bosses that the course they have taken
in organizing McKinley clubs is not cal
culated to help the cause of the gold
standard for which the Hanna McKin
ley syndicate stands. In the heat of
its anger that Wall street should expose
its hand at this stage of the game, The
World informs these ’nnfluences” that
the people have a real grievance against
them. This Is going pretty far for a
metropolitan newspaper that is known
to be “in the push,” but The World chas
tises In order to save, and its anger is
not based on the fact that Wall street
"Interests” are opposed to the Interests
of the people, but on the fear that the
recent demonstration in the stock ex
change will endanger tho gold standard.
Do we do The World injustice? Let
the reader go through its article with
care. Wall street is warned that any
demonstration it may make “is not cal
culated to help the republican ticket.”
and it is the election of the republican
ticket, put out by the Hanna syndicate
that the gold men. including Wall street
and tin* gold editors have at heart. If
The World were not interested in the
success of the Hanna-McKinley trust,
why should its anger be aroused at
“Wall street hysterics?”
But The World’s angry warning comes
too late. Wall street has been deceived
by presidential obstinacy and by tho
extraordinary failure of the New York
newspapers to print the news, into be
lieving that the democratic party has
fallen into the hands of a few fanatics
who do not represent the people; and it
is now convinced that the time has come
for it to crawl from behind the breast
works and enter the campaign without
disguise.
Then* is nothing more natural than
that Wall street should organize Bank
ers aud Brokers' McKinley Clubs; and
as the syndicate bosses and speculators
know no jHditie.s, it is also natural that
these pulit'u'al clubs of bankers aud
brokers should be coniposerl of nien
who cal! thcmselvi s “dcimwrats” or "re
publicans,” according as they may best
subserve their own “interests.”
Not a Sectional Issue.
Though many spacious arguments in
favor of the existing monetary system
have been advanced by the advocates of
a single gold standard, none of these
arguments have betrayed such a rank
and bitter spirit of sectional hatred as
the one which Sterling J. Morton, the
secretary of agriculture, uses in advo
cating a third ticket.
Hailing from lhe great state of Ne
braska and representing in tho cabinet
of President Cleveland the interests of
the American farmer. Secretary Morton
should be the last man on earth to de
fend a policy which means nothing less
than destruction to the agricultural in
terests of the country.
No sooner had this man assumed his
otlicial toga aud passed, so to speak, un
der tho golden rod of the administration
than all the benevolent schemes v Inch
he had formed for ameliorating the < oti
dition of the farmer vanished '.ike a
dream. As paradoxical as it may seem,
he ceased to represent tho agricultural
interests of the country on becoming the
se<-retary of agriculture. In espousing
the cause of Wall street, it was neces
sary for him to throw the American far
mer overboard; and. though it may have
cost him some regret, he never hesitated
for a single moment to comply with the
conditions prescribed by the money
power.
Not satisfied with the stock argument
of the single statidard orators and anx
ious to make himself conspicuous, he
aims a sharp-pointed sectional arrow at
the south.
This he does with all the grace of a
demagogue in nn interview which re
cently api>eared in The New York
World. In this interview, Secretary
Morton said:
“Had the northern democrats re
fused to separate themselves from the
southern democrats, Mr. Lincoln could
never have been elected president. If
It was the duty of democrats to divide
on the issue before the country at that
MAJOR MKINLEYS POSITION AS TO CLEVELANDISM.
Here i* what. Mr. McKinley’s platform has to say about Cleveland and
Ulevclamlisni.
Gold standard democrats who have been defending the administration must
swallow this if they vote for McKinley.
(Extract from preamble of republican national platform.)
For the first time since tho civil war the American people have witnessed
the calamitous consequences of full and unrestricted democratic control of
the government. It has been a record of unparalleled incapacity, dishonor
and disaster. Tn administrative management it has ruthlessly sacrificed
Indispensable revenue, entailed an Increasing deficit, eked out ordinary cur
rent expenses with borrowed money, piled up the public debt by $262,000,-
000 in time of peace, forced an adverse balance of trade, kept . jperpetual
menace hanging over the redemption fund, pawned American ere ft to alien
syndicates and reversed all the measures and results of success republi
can rule. In the broad effect of its policy it has precipitated pa
Industry and trade with prolonged depression, closed factor JJf () !
work and wages, halted enterprise and crippled American proa'ui em while
stimulating foreign production for the American market. Eve w«onsider
ation of public safety and individual interest demands that the/‘ , J b
shall be rescued from the hands of those who have shown th / ves in
capable to conduct it without disaster at home and dishonor and
shall be restored to the party which, for thirty years, administer « it with
unequaled success and prosperity.
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time, it is no less < r them
to divide in the pre:DD V A
What does the se. Ull 111‘Agricul
ture mean? Does he just as
lhe democratic party *>6o, mak-
ing the election of M D()II10Cr
it should likewise s] I'.ie pres
ent time in order to iif e success
of the republican tick- ‘pi is not
the reasoning of a de J. but the
language of the secret a AWL .'dts of no
other construction.
Overlooking this repub
lican sympathy, which a v> retary of
agriculture did not in orhaps to
make, it may be asked, ,’iext place,
w hy he so fiercely assai. democrats
of the south, who havem ba', voted in
unison with democrats ff. n *\her states
of tho union and who J’i squarely
upon the principles h<!. l '‘.':tted by
Thomas Jefferson? ’is p
In what sense is the iri n ) before the
American people a .<> Carnal issue?
Surely the secretary o' agriculture lias
forgotten who composed the Chicago
convention. The delegates from tho
south composed only a small part of that
body and could never have dictated the
platform alone. The ticket put forth by
tho Chicago convention represents the
great masses of the country from ene
extreme to the. other. Neither candidate
is from the south, and this fact of itself
brands the lie upon the forehead of
every detnogogue who dares to raise the
issue of sectionalism.
The people of this country have risen
up and pronounced judgment upon tho
iniquitous gold standard. Not only hi
Georgia and Tennessee and Texas and
Virginia, but in the great middle states
of the union—in Illinois and Ohio and
Indiana—tho people have entered
a bitter, protest against the exist
ing policy of tho government. This
feeling of discontent has crossed the
prairies, and climbing the steeps of the
Rocky mountains, has unfurled the ban
ner of financial reform in the states of
tho far west, bordering upon the I’ai'itle
ocean. And yet the charge is made by
a member of the cabinet that the issuo
raised by the democratic platform is
sectional.
Secretary Morton Is not the wisest man
in public life, but he knows a few things.
If he will take the trouble to refresh
his memory, he will perhaps recollect
that Ohio and Illinois and I'tali and
Montana are not southern states. He
will also recognize, what he seems to
have forgotten, that the Rocky moun
tains do not belong to this section. Af
ter he gets these matters straight in his
mind he will perhaps bo able to discuss
the situation with some intelligence.
Instead of being sectional, the Issue
joined by tho Chicago platform is as
broad as tho continent itself. The prin
ciple on which It rests is as old ns the
republic, and the benediction which it
invokes upon the country finds a coun
terpart only in the refreshing dews of
heaven. The sectional idea can find
existence only in the minds of those
whose sense of justice has been de
stroyed and who have no scruples what
ever in perverting the truth. This ex
plains the attitude of ’Secretary Mor
ton.
Arbitrary Federal Interference.
There is no declaration in the Chicago
platform more thoroughly democratic,
or worthier of the unanimous approval
of our people than that which denounces
the arbitrary interference by federal au
thorities In local affairs as a violation
of tho constitution of the United States
and a crime against free institutions.
In tho same breath the democratic
party declares its special opposition to
government by injunction, objects to it
as a new and a highly dangerous form
of oppression by which federal judges,
in contempt of the laws of states ;:nd
rights of citizens, become at once legis
lators. judges ami executioners, and ap
proves the bill passed at the last session
of tho United States senate, and now
pending in the house of representatives,
relative to contempts in the federal
courts, and providing trial by jury in
certain cases of contempt.
Democratic opposition to arbitrary in
terference by federal authorities in local
affairs is older than tho orgaidzation of
the party. It is as old as the organic law
of the land. The principle on which
tills opposition rests has been relied on
at all times to protect the states in their
reserved rights and the citizens of the
states in their liberties; and during the
darkest hours of the reconstruction
period tin* jicople of the south depended
on it ami aiqiealed to it to protect them
against tho unlawful employment of
the federal troops and other government
agencies unconstitutionally brought
against them.
Tn the south no democrat should bolt
over this declaration. Here the mailed
hand of federal interference In state
matters, notably in the days of recon
struction. has been felt more keenly
than anywhere else.
Tho essence of the declaration is em
bodied in the constitution and has al
ways been a vital principle of democ
racy. Take away from the states this
protection, close the mouths of the dem
ocratic people of the country to protests
against arbitrary federal interference In
local affairs, and at once our form of
government would undergo a tremen
dous change. The man at the head of
affairs—the commander-in-chief of the
army and navy of the United States —
would be more powerful and less re
sponsible than all the princes and poten
tates of Europe combined.
We have a government of the people,
by the jx'ople, and for the people; but
this government of the people rests
wholly on the independence and rights
of the citizens of the states; and this in
dependence and these rights cannot
exist in the face of arbitrary interfer
ence of the federal authorities. The
federal authorities have the right to in
terfere only when the authorities of a
state or of states find themselves con
fronted by conditions that they are not
powerful enough to resist.
The declaration is not only democratic
but American, ami when the principle
was violated, as during the reconstruc
tion period, the jieople suffered.
In Old Faneuil Hall.
Never since the days of Samuel
Adams, the sturdy patriot of the revo
lution, has old Faneuil hall, in Boston,
witnessed such a patriotic gathering as
the one which assembled in “the cradle
of American liberty” last Tuesday even
ing.
Tho occasion of this spontaneous out
pouring of the people of Boston was the
return of George Fred 'Williams from
the recent democratic national conven
tion in Chicago. Aside from greeting
the brilliant young delegate who had fig
ured with such heroic prominence in tiie
Chicago convention, the object of the
meeting was to indorse the democratic
nominee and to agreo ujion some def
inite plan of campaign.
From every part of Boston the surg
ing democrats gathered into the old
historic landmarks. When the building
became so full that no one else could be
safely admitted, it was announced that
an overflow meeting would be held on
the outside.
Such enthusiasm as the meeting de
veloped was altogether without a paral
lel. The oldest man present could not
recall Hie time when greater feeling was
manifested, not even during the fierce
and bitter campaign of slavery.
The first speaker of the evening was
11. ,1. Jaqueth. an ex-president of one
of the leading banks of the city. In
speaking of the eloquent words of Mr.
Bryan, in which ho described the suffer
ing entailed by the gold standard. Mr.
Jaqueth observed:
We of tho east, as a mass, do not under
stand the meaning of these words as well
ns do our brethren ot the west and south.
W» have not had any free discussion, our
leading paper® have refused to print any
but the gold side, our banks have frowned
upon loans to stiver men, upon loans to
business men of a silver state, upon col
lateral based upon property in those stales.
The speaker further declared that a
campaign of education was needed in
New England and that just as soon as
the issues involved In the campaign were
fairly discussed, the people would open
their eyes to the justice of bimetallism.
Chairman T. W. Coakley, before in
troducing the next siteaker, aroused the
enthusiasm of the meeting to its highest
pitch by referring to old Faneuil hall.
S
Ttcre, where our Infant republic first
snatched at the bonds of British tyranny.
We calebrate tonight the dawn of a new
deliverance from oppression- the declara
tion of a ni-w and a nobler Independence.
Nobit r, because to master self Is a greater
achievement than the conquest of nn alien
foe. In 1776 America threw oft the yoke
of a foreign sovereignty. In IM*5 the repub
lic shall emancipate itself from the indus
trial and financial yokes which it blindly
ass im< d In 1873.
But the greatest ovation was reserved
for George I'red Williams. That brainy
young orator struck the key-note of his
speech when he said, amid a perfect din
of applause:
To change one’s mind Is tho hardest thing
that is given man to do. and I ask all hon
est minded men, when I have changed my
mind, must I bo silent and go about acting
a living lie b- fore my fellowmen. (Cries of
"No! No!’’) My conscience Is my own from
now until the day of doom, and when It
gives mo its approval not nil the abuse
and slander of my enemies can turn me to
the left, nor can your approving voices
swerve me to tho right. (Applause.)
Next came J. T. O'Sullivan, :i free coin
age candidate fur congress, who made a
rousing speech. In referring to the Chi
cago platform, he said:
Wo are going, at the next state conven
tion. to demand that It Indorse the Chicago
platform. (Applause.) We are going
there to renominate George Fred Williams
(applause) with so loud and clear a voice
that it will travel down to the plantations
of Louisiana and out to the wheat fields ot
Nebraska.
< Mie us the last speakers was Philip J.
Dorety. After referring to the stainless
record of the democratic nominee, he
closed with this passage:
If there Is to be a campaign of ridicule,
abuse, and invective let our opponents have
a monopoly of It. Rejoicing us we do in
this movement, which wo believe will tend
to the advancement and elevation of tho
best Interests and highest hopes of tho
people ot the country, let us approach the
campaign “with malice toward none, but
charity for all.”
Boston is fully enthused over the dem
ocratic ticket. A brilliant campaign has
been Inaugurated and the outlook for
democratic success in the Bay State is
by no means unpromising.
A Campaign in the East,
While the republicans and the Irre
concilable gold men of the east are mak
ing the ridiculous charge that the dem
oeartic party is engaged in the business
of sectionalism, the leaders of the party
are preparing to demonstrate in a prac
tical way that the cause of democracy
is the cause of all; that wherever man
toils for his bread or is engaged in build
ing a foundation for the future, the
principles of democracy are to be wel
comed and treasured.
The national executive committee has
decided that the formality of notifying
the brilliant leader who has been made
the standard bearer of the party of the
fact that he has been chosen, will take
place in Madison Square Garden in the
heart of New York city.
The chief event of that occasion will,
of course, be the speech of Mr. Bryau
accepting the nomination. And that
speech will be a message to the people
of tho east not less than to the people
of the whole country.
While the notification itself will be a
mere formality, the speech itself wil be
neither formal nor perfunctory. It will
give the metropolis an opportunity to
hear the voice of the man whose power
and earnestness have made him the
prophet of all the people. It will give
the citizens of New York an opportunity
to behold a man charged with a mission
to deliver the toiling masses from the
thraldom of the money power.
From New Y'ork Mr. Bryan will make
a tour through New England, and will
deliver his message in the stronghold
of the trusts and combinations that are
crying out that democracy is anarchy.
He will prepare the ground and pave
the way for an active and a vigorous
campaign among the toiling masses of
the east, aud it will be surprising indeed
if, after they have beard the just, hon
est and conservative demands that the
democratic party has placed in its plat
form, they do not rally to the party
standard.
Now, as always, the cause of one is the
casue of all. The policy that has re
pressed production, depressed business
and thrown thousands out of work in
the east, has brought about the same
results in the south ami west. The pol
icy that will remedy these evils in one
section will remedy them in all. Wher
ever men are engaged in toil, they are
interested in promoting democratic
principles.
This will be made so plain by the time
the campaign Las fairly begun that the
spook of “sectionalism” will be confined
to the editorial rooms of the republican
newspapers.
Maine Is Almost Certain.
The New York Commercial Advertiser, '
a strong advocate of the single gold
standard, is almost on the point of con
ceding Maine to the democrats.
Recognizing the wisdom of the Chi
cago convention in selecting Arthur
Sewall, of Maine, as the second man on
the ticket. Tiie Commercial Advertiser
states that unless a vigorous campaign
is carried on in that state for the repuie
lican nominees that Maine will inevita
bly go democratic in the coming election.
This able metropolitan journal is can
did enough to admit that a strong silver
sentiment has taken root in Maine with
in the last few weeks and that vigorous
measures will have to be adopted in
order to prevent the state from Is-ing
lost to the republicans.
Such an expression as this from one
of the leading gold standard organs is ■
most significant. The democrats have j
already mapped out a plan of campaign j
and will proceed at once to follow up the '
advantage which they have already i
gained.
Maine voted the democratic ticket in
1880, ami site will probably vote it
again in 1806.
From Bryan’s Chicago Speech.
"If they ask ur here why it is that
we say more on the money question
than we say on the tariff question,
I reply that if protection has slain its
thousands the gold standard has slain
its tens of thousands. If they ask us
why we did not embody all these
things in our platform which we be
lieve, we reply to them that when we
have restored the money of the consti
tution all other necessary reforms will
be possible, and that until that is
done there is no reform that can be
accomplished.”
Japan’s Recent Disaster.
Americans sympathize with Japan in
the sore disaster which has come upon
her within the last few weeks as the
result of an immense tidal wave.
Tiie magnitude of the catastrophe can
be realized from the statement which
is made oflleially that in one district
alone over people were killed and
4.556 houses d»*stroyed. In another dis
trict. 6.600 persons were killed and near
ly ,1.000 houses destroyed. The total
loss of property and life which the island
has sustained cannot be correctly esti
mated at this time. It is safe to sur
mise. howev.-r, that no less than 50,000
people have met death.
One of the greatest barriers in the
way of Japan's development is the fre
quency of earthquakes, fidal waves,
mountain slides and similar disasters.
Tornadoes are by no means uncommon,
and scarcely a year i»asses without a
visitation of some kind. Japan, how
ever, is plucky and will soon recover
from her present disaster, as she has
from former ones.
Mr. McKinley will please step Into
the front parlor. His friend Bynum
have came.
Little Mr. Eckels has up and bolted.
Maybe this accounts for the hot wave
in the east.
The Chicago platform is a great dis
infectant. Insects and parasites cannot
abide it.
Those who imagine that Tammany is
going to take to the woods don't know
anything alwit democratic history.
McKinley's candidacy is in the hands
of a trust. In November it will go into
tho hands of a receiver.
We refer the poor cuckoos to the letter
written by Mr. Cleveland to The Consti
tution, two years ago today. He tells
them what their duty is.
Democrats who want to read a great
newspaper and a good one should spend
1 cent a day in buying The New York
Journal. It is supporting the demo
cratic party.
I - • — ——
Complaint is made that Bryan has no
executive ability. Well, he has never
had to have bis estate “wound up” by
his friends. This is what the Hanna
trust did for McKinley.
We shall now see whether Senator
Hill is big enough to remember that the
refusal to make him temporary chair
man at Chicago was not aimed at his
personality, but at the arrogance of the
gold contingent.
The Washington Post, with a fine
scorn of the inevitable, continues to
lean to both parties. But please don't
cease to remember that Uncle Reriah
is a horny-handed democrat, handicap
ped by wicked partners.
“Gold is the money of civilization,”
says The New Y’ork World. Well, are
republics civilized governments? Look
at Mexico, and the South American
countries’ Why don’t merry, merry
England, warlike Germany, liberty-lov
ing Russia, big-hearted Austria, classic
Italy, and generous Spain become civ
ilized by organizing republics? The
money of civilization! Bab!
EDITORIAL COMMENT.
Judge Bryan, the father of the democrat
ic nominee, was quite an eccentric o,d
man. Shortly after locating in the state
of Illinois he was seized with a violent
spell of sickness which threatened to end
his career. Realizing his critical condition
he made a vow that if the Lx>rd would
spare his life he would l>ow his head In
prayer and thanksgiving at least three
times a day. The judge kept his word.
Frequently when a case in court was being
tried before him he would take out his
watch and just as soon as the hour of
noon was reached he would get down on
his knees before the bench and offer up
a silent prayer. The judge was twice a
member of the Illinois senate and once a
member of the state constitutional con
vention. lie was twice nominated for
congress and could have l>ecn elected, but
he would not allow the use of a single
cent for campaign purj>oses. His son is
likewise strongly religious and has many
of his father’s peculiarities.
The largest school In the world is located
In the heart of I»ndon. Thirty-live hundred
Jewish children are included in the list
of pupils, and a peer of the realm. Lord
Rothschild, presides over Its destinies. It
is no ordinary place of learning. The chil
dren are mostly orphans, and were i* not
for the bounty of Lord Rothschild there
would be no ’school at all.
Every April about the time of the Jewish
passover, each boy is presented with a suit
of clothes and a pair of boots, each girl
with a dress aaid a pair of shoes. VV hen it
comes October, if the April boots are worn
out and poverty prevents the youngster
from having another pair, jxtrd Rothschild
sees to it that the want is supplied. In
connection with this school there is a
savings bank department. The interest
allowed on deposits is 10 per cent per an
num, although tho amount of individual
savings on whi -ii this interest is paid
is not to exceed £5. The teachers in the
school may also avail themselves of tho
benefit of the bank, but the maximum in
dividual savings in this instance are limit
ed to £ls per annum.
On» of the longest tunnels In the world is
the one which runs through Mount Cents,
cor.neetlng the provines of Savoy and Pied
mont. This tunnel is between seven and
eight miles in length. The plans for this
remarkable excavation were drawn in IMS.
but i; was not until several years later that
the work was actually commenced. King
Victor Kmanuel of Italy inaugurated tha
construction ot the tunnel by putting the
machinery in motion in 1857. The borios
was not completed until December, 1870.
mure than twelve years later. The cost of
the work was |13,(WU,000. Another famous
tune! is that which passes through Mont
St. Gothard, which is the longest In tha
world, being 48,840 feet in length. It trav
erses the center of Switzeland at a height
o’ from SjiiO to 12,000 feet above the sea.
It was commenced In 1872 and was opened
In 1182, ten y ars having thus been occu
pied in its construction It has a very im
portant effect uj>on the commerce between
Italy, Switzerland and Germany. This tun
nel was bored out by means of mechanical
drills, the progress made being thirteen feet
per day.
WALL STREET’S CAMPAIGN.
Organizing Bankers and Brokers’
McKinley Clubs.
From tho New York World (gold organ.
The stock exchange has no Bryan, so
far as is known, but on Saturday it work
ed itself into quite a fair imitation of the
Chhago convention hysterics. One of th
members frantically waved an Americar
flag, and there was a great outcry and
uproar against “Bryan and populism.” The
tumult end'd with the organization of a
“Bankers and Brokers’ McKinley Cam
paign Club,” consisting of democrats and
republicans.
These men may moan well, hut they (Ton t
seem tot know that any d mon-tratton
which they may make :s not calculated
to help the republican ticket They ought
to have received a strong hint from St.
Louis and to have learned for certain
from Chicago that anything whi?h "Wall
street" wants is quite sure to be hotly
'opposed by immense bodies of voters la
other parts of the country.
Nor Is this feeling without reason. Many
of the wrongs and grievances complained
of by the voters who sent the wild two
thirds majority to the Chicago convention
are real and just. Utterly mistaken as
we believe these men to be in the remedy
they propose, and strongly as we have felt
it to be our duty to resist and to plea!
with them, wo have never for a moment
lost sight of the fact that their grievance
is great and their complaint in some part
well founded.
It is the concrete and combined power
for which "Wall steet" Is the symbol in
the popular mind that has ma lea monopoly
of transportation, that has br >ught all the
great prime necessaries of life—iron, steel,
coal, oil, beef, sugar and a hundred oth
er®—under the control of trusts and com
binatDns that oppress labor at one
and rob consumers at the other.
It is "Wall street” that has d-plctM
the treasury of gold and exacted usurious
millions from the government in forced
bond sales to "protect its credit."
It is you, gentlemen of the gambling
exchanges, manipulators of money cor
ners, organizers of swindling trusts, wreck
ers of railroads, shearers of "lambs,” tax
dodgers and absorbers of money that you
never earned, who have done more ’ha t
all the ignorant blundering at Washing
ton and all the demogogy at the south
and west to raise the specter of anarchy
and populism at which you now stand af
frighted.
And it Is the knowledge of these facts
that leads us to deplore the blundering
and excesses at Chicago. The rui‘”-3 of
that convention protected Wall street far
better than tho atock exchange can do it.
They did the work of the trusts far more
effectively than any debauched legislators
or complaisant attorney generals nave
ever done it For by forcing an issue in
volving the Integrity of our currency and
the honor of the government they have
rendered republican success certain. And
what that means the memory of the car
nival of spoils and the revel of extrava
gance, tariff for campaign contributors and
protection to trusts under the last republi
can restoration will faintly indicate.
As a result of the Chicago crime and
blunder tho people who suffer and com
plain will have not more money but less,
not fewer mortgages but more. They will
have more taxes, more trusts, more debt,
more misery. “Consequences are unpity
ing.” But if anything can help to avert
them it will be the organization of Wail
street McKinley clubs.
A Populist—But for Bryan.
Editor Constitution: I am a populist from
the crown of my head as low down to the
ground as I go, but I am a Bryan man.
I refused to vote for my brother-in-law,
Ron. Ben E. Russell, as democratic nom
inee from the second congressional dis
trict two and four years ago. because
he ran on the Cleveland ticket. I pray
that the people's party may indorse th®
hero of the hour, Hon. W. J. Bryan.
It will be a sad day for the "pops” if
they refuse to see this. There are many
reforms needed, but the money question
must be settled first and on that “united
we stand; divided, we fall."
T. A. CUNNINGHAM
Bingen, Decatur County, Georgia, July
14. 1896.
Don’t Sulk.
From The Fort Valley Leader.
Don't sulk In your tent, but com® out
and support the nominees of democracy
—like men.