The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1894-06-22
The Record.

honesty, patriotism, fidelity and states
The republicans did not dare to shut
the minis to silver.
Cleveland did it; and had the help of
the very cuckoos who were rampant Free
and who are now being ZEN
dorsed'' by every court house crowd in
their respective districts
The republicans did not dare to give
the Rothschild syndicate the "option"
between gold and silver which the law
said should belong to the government.
But Cleveland did it and then opened
the way by which -purchase-not
can be used to rake gold out of the
the treasury-then forcing bond issue to
get back that identical gold.
Imbecility, corruption and venal favor
itism never reached such climax The
Wall streeter takes silver note demands
gold for it; gets the gold when the law
said he might be paid in silver. The
issues bond and sells it for the gold
Net result-the Wall streeter has used
silver, or greenbacks to get gold bond
which is not to be taxed and which brings
him guaranteed slice of the taxes of all
of us
The republicans did not dare to stop
purchasing silver while the law of 1890
stood on the books.
Cleveland did.
Now there is the record. Who disputes
it? Nobody. Who endorses it? Democrats.
The above is true and faithful record
of the democratic administration under
Cleveland and the office hunting contin-
gent which gives voice and direction to
the party, made up by honest, brave Tom
Watson and published in his Peoples
Party Paper. 1t is not strange that the
elections everywhere are going against
Cleveland and the party. The people have
tried them, fairly tried them. Given
them every opportunity and power to
fulfil the promises they made on every
platform and in every paper throughout
the country. They have gone back on
every one of them. 1t is a clear case of
deception, treachery and unblushirg
betrayal of the people, showing the utter
unworthiness of the party; its imbecility
and lack of craftsmanship or ability.
The democrat party under the present
organization will never be again trusted
with national control in this generation.
1t cannot starve and survive till another
generation comes on the public stage to
be deceived by its old political tricks and
promises.
The people drove the republican party
from power because the conditions which
now exist were produced by their policy.
That policy has not be changed by Cleve-
land and his mercinaries, but steadily
continued, or allowed to run along, grow
ing from bad to worse by the ripening
process of time. Congress, which prom
ised so much before it was elected has
stood still. 1t was done nothing, nor tried
to do anything but to complete the
destruction of silver coinage which the
republican party had begun, and which
the democratic congress was elected, more
than for any other object, to prevent.
They have wasted the time, and robbed
the Treasury while waiting, over pre-
tense of making some underlined altera-
tons in the tariff, but their work has
amounted TO nothing and can amount to
nothing. The fourth of March will see
this congress go out never again to return.
But what is to take its place is the vital,
the momentous question. The people
turned a republican congress and admin
istration out to put the present disappoint-
ment and sore public affection in its place.
Will they replace it with the same which
they hurled from power with such hot
indignation two years before The COM
mon sense and intelligence of the Amer
lean citizen is on trial as never before.
They knozO there is no relief from present
suffering through the republican party.
1t is pledged to go on and complete the
present plutocratic system which the
people vainly hoped would be checked
by the election of Cleveland and the
present cuckoo congress.
Another administration of that system
will go far to solidifying plutocracy where
it can be sustained by hired, armed
force as the monarchies of Europe are
sustained 1t will need but generation
to bring us titled class established by
law and wage slave class established by
poverty, whose chief purpose will be to
feed and support titled nobility. The
Democratic system of the United States
will have given place to a Plutocratic
government of America, with a large
army, powerful navy and class oftitled
and their retinue of paid and
pensioned retainers to keep the laboring
masses down. This is what the return of
the republican party to power means
unless it is checked by armed instruction
of the masses before the scheme can be
consummated. One more republican
administration on present lines and moth
ing will prevent this consummation but
the wage of battle. followed by the divis-
ion of the country into four or more
nations: The East and North to the
Alleghanies the South to the Gulf; the