The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1893-08-12
THE PLuTocRATIc RALLY.
Intellectual Efforts OF MllllOnolres to Cow
troll tho Democratic Party.

THE PlO7OCRATJC HAeI1s
1neneetu.i Efforts OF Miuionsires to Coae
troll tho Democratic Party.
The question in this country which
involves all other questions is whether
it shall be governed by its 65. O0O,O 900
people or by the few thousand pluto
Gratis who own the bulk of its wealth
and who, by virtue of such ownership,
claim the right to rule.
That was the question in 1890 and
again in 1892. when the people rose,
and, as they thought, shook off the yoke
That is the question now when tho
plutocracy has rallied and has massed
its forces to snatch victory from de-
feat. s
That will be the question until the
sovereignty of the people is v1ndfcated
and democracy is asserted against plaar
tocracy.
The millionaires of America are
moved by a strange infatuation to DO
lieve that their money is omnfpotent.
They had no sooner seen that they were
routed by the onslaught of the masses
of the democratic party than they set to
work in the democratic party itself to
capture control ofOthe organization
which had been soused against them ~
to show how formidable it is to unjust
privilege.
They will never succeed and they are
only making it worse for themselves
at the final settlement, but they arc
now in high feather at their imagined
success.
After the magnificent work which
carried Illinois and Wisconsin for the
democratic party and vvrenched the en-
tire west loose from it's subsection to
the plutocracy, the democratic party
had within easy reach half century OF
power as it had after the defeat of the
4ederalists under Adams. Seeing this.
the plutocrats set to work to undo whae
had been done by assuming control as
democratic leaders. The country then
learned for the first time that Mr..
Henry Willard was a democrat, and the
democrats of the country were bumlh-
ated to the dust by the spectacle OF IA
cific railroad lobbyists, attorneys and
other dependents taking charge of the
party in the northwest and pushing for
ward for recognition as cabinet officers
and dispensers of patronage. And with
this came the still more bitter humilia~
ton of the capture OF the Wisconsin
senatorship by a nobody, a mere mill
lionaire who had never demonstrated
CAPACITY except for getting unearned
money. When this person was elected
against a democrat of national reputa-
tion who is honest enough and brave
enough to be poor, there was not q
democrat who saw what was done but
felt his check crimson with indignant
shame and his hand clinch with resent-
ment.
And from that day to this these peo-
pie, in their blind fatuity, have gone on
believing that because, by their money
and their influence, they can control an
am bitious and INSCRIPTIONS man hero
and there and make him betray tho
trust the people have put in him. they
can control the people and check tho
forward movement of the mighty de-
mocracy.
They will never do it. They are fool
ish in attempting it. The people have
made up their minds that they will re-
store n government of equal rights. in
which the rights OF persons and the
rights of property shall be guarded
with all the power of the people; in
which the right of a man to hold and to
enjoy his own earnings shall not be iu'-
paired by laws which take the earn
ings of a million to make a millionaire
of ono. The people have set their minds
on that and nothing will deter them
St. Louis Republic.