Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1875-08-19
The True and the Bogus.

The Bulletin editor, in speaking
to young men, says;
Then ally yourselves with the Demo-
cratic party of the Republic, whose
founders and prophets were jefferson,
Franklin, Madison, and jackson.
If there was any resemblance, any
affinity, between the present Ohio
Democracy and that of the found
ers and prophets" above named,
there might be a little show of sense
and aptncss in the advice rendered.
But there is not the slightest connec-
tion between the two. They are as
far apart as the poles; as different as
darkness and light. 1t would be
much more to the honor of these Ohio
demagogues to acknowledge their
separation from the founders and
prophets" and the establishment OF
a neao democracy, than an attempt to
deceive and mislead the young by
claiming TO be the successors OF
jackson, Franklin, &c. But no, that
is standard of virtue to which the
leaders of the Ohio democracy do
not aspire, and we expect them to go
on dcceiving and misleading to the
end of the campaign.
But now for the founders and the
prophets" and if you can find any
resemblance between their democ-
racy and that of Allen, Cary, Vance,
Aleshire d Co., then we will acknowl-
edge ourself fool, and that white
is black, and black is white.
In letter to q friend in Cincin-
natl, in 1912, Gen. jackson wrote
these words:
ga National paper currency is great
curse to any people, and particular
curse to the idbOrer of any country, fol-
its depreciation always falls upon the
laborer."
Madison, in writing to Jefferson
upon this subject, said:
ssThe paper money here ceased to cir.
culate very suddenly few days ago
Nothing but evil springs from this i'm.
aginary money, wherever it is tried, and
vet the appetite for it, wherever it has
not been tried, continues to be felt"
Even Bill Allen was once q demo
crat after the fashion of the "found
ers and prophets" In 1912, in 6
speech in the Senate, he said;
"You may patch up the laws as much
as you please; you may wall in the Dis
trict with bank paper, and the only eff
| feet would be to create the more urgent
and imperative necessity for return tC
specie payments"
Again, in 1916, the Democratic
leaders in Ohio, desiring to warn the
people against the evils of paper
currency, said:
ssThe labOrer, the farmer, the me.
chanic would be subjected to none Of
these hardships, would be deluded by
none of these false statements, if they
were paid for their labor in gold ant
silver. Such currency the Democracy
now offer to them. They do not wanI
one kind of money for the ofiice-hOldel
and another for the people. They wani
one currency for the whole people, :
currency that is real, firm, stable, uni
form, unwavering, always valuable, ant
never deprecated, incapable of coutrac-
ton to-day and expansion tomorrow
always current and at par, not only in
every State in our Union, but in every
country upon the face of theearth. There
is but one such currency, and that is
gold and silver"
These extracts are ample to accom-
plish the purpose we had in view
namely, to show that the democracy
of the Allen Cary school is the pre-
else opposite of that preached by
the founders and prophets" )" and
that it is n fraud of the gravest
eharacter-One. which should con-
sign the perpetrators to everlasting
infamy, if not to the penitentiary-tc
attempt to palm it off upon the peo
pie as coming from Jackson, Jeffer
son, &c. Such deceit would shame
any one but q hardened demagogue
1t is an insult to the memory of the
"founders and prophets" of the
democratic party, which the true
friends of those eminent men and
leaders should rebuke, by casting
their votes against this bogus democ-
racy.