Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-05-13


terprises in action, and hard times.
The great national sponge, called the
M'Kinley bill, has absorbed for the
benefit of a few the property won by
the toll of the many, and the silver
ring cries in chorus that the resulting
stringency is caused by lack of free,
unlimited coinage of that metal.
q notice, however, that they have
dropped their rupee and wheat argu-
ment and now are poisoning the South
with financial heresies, using the low
price of cotton as the means of pro-
noting their decisions. 1t is an
economic fact that everybody in the
South should have sense enough to
remember, that when wheat is high,
cotton is low Last years wheat was
high, and last years cotton was low.
Food and drink are the primary neces-
sites of man. Clothing is secondary.
Foreign crop failure and famine raised
wheat, and the people filled their bel
lies at the expense Of their backs.
Silver had about as much to do with it
as the moons Of Jupiter with the
teething of the hippomotamus il the
Nile. The whole truth is, that Mr..
Cleveland has put the system of pro-
tective spoliation in peril. He des-
troyed sectionalism upon which the
Protectionists had so long relied, and
which they put in focus whenever they
were in danger, and they have invent
ed the Silver question to take it's place,
to divide the Democrats, defeat
Cleveland, and continue the system of
plumber which enriches a few at the
cost Of many.
"Here in the West there are no
Democrats in the silver camp except
such as desire the defeat Of Cleveland.
l am safe in saying that 80 per cent.
of the party demand his nomination.
They demand more than that. They
want him nominated by a convention
of his friends who will organize the
party and constitute the National
Committee to elect him.
"There has always been a suspicion
here that in 1888 the committee was
originated to defeat him. There were
queer things done and said at the
headquarters in New York, and there
from radiated the chill that went to
the party's marrow. Mr.. Cleveland's
ideal leadership has put hope in the
heart, and his heroic self-sacrifice has
put courage in the conduct of the
party in the States where we must win
and hold public favor if We expect to
be again a genuinely National party.
We cannot go on tied to the South
and New York. From that bondage
he has given us the first promise of
delivery, and already Wisconsin, Mich
igan, Iowa and Illinois lift up their
faces.
"He stands to day the first and
foremost American in the hearts of
his countrymen. True, some polite
ians are striving by toll and craft to
reach the honors which the people de-
sire to bestow on him. So Aaron
Burr and George Clinton toiled and
intrigued for the Presidency, but the
people turned away from the polite
ians and called to their service
Jefferson, the statesman.
If nominated, Mr.. Cleveland will
be elected, and then this Republican
castle of selfshness will crumble and
fall. The greeds and grudges of the
past will evaporate, and the real Re-
public will come again.
1.-The accumulation of wealth in The
hands of the few, the boosted ma
terial prosperity which is around us
but not shared by the masses, are TIT
signs which have gone before the fal
of other nations. The people need re
enfranchisement aud more liberty il
its largest sense. All things needfu
are promised in the ideal policy of MI
Cleveland; then let the party do it
duty
For what avail are plow and sail,
Or land or life if Freedom fail?"
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