The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-06-27
ANOTHER GIGANTIC SWINDLE.
Getting Ready to Fool the People
Once More

OHSS
WASHINGTON, June lit is given
out on the highest authority that
Senator j. Donald Cameron, of
Dental candidate. Free silver and
Protection is Mr.. Cameron's platform
that is, the coinage of all the pro-
duct OF the American silver mines on
the ratio OF 16 to 1. and the full recOg-
nltlon OF the SO-called American pro-
tectlve principle in fixing all future
tariff schedules. For months past Mr..
Cameron has been leaning toward the
free coinage people, and it has been
noticed that more frequently than any
other Republican senator he has
voted with the free silver contingent
from The South.
MI. Cameron's presidential aspira-
lions arc serious. He firmly believes
that the time has come when the peo-
pie If the South and West should
unite against the monetary power of
Wall street and New England Him
self an eastern man. and classed with
Wealih v plutOcrats he yet aSpires to
be the Republican Moses to lead the
country out of the bondage of com
mercial disaSter-the John the Baptist
crying iu the wilderness to prepare
the way for new financial dispense
tion.
With Thomas Brackett Reed, of
Maine, and James Donald Cameron,
OF Pennsylvania, jointly advocating
the marriage of protection and free
coinage, it would seem that the party
opposed to Democracy was on the
verge OF one OF its periodical dissolu-
lions, and that the campaign of 1896
will witness strange political bed-fel-
lows CnnrinU cnntpntp6lV no Tho
same blankets.
The republican party, which de-
monetized silver, in 1913: which helped
Cleveland to repeal the Sherman act,
when majority of the Democrats
kicked and held back; which voted
against BANDS bill to coin the silver
bullion in the United States Treasury
vaults, and sustained Cleyeland's veto
of the same, is going into the cam
paign of 1894, as the especial cham
pion and defender of silver; and in
1896, will nominate Don Cameron. or
Tom Reed as free-Siiver candidate
for the presidency.
We will have Pontius PLATE, after
he sent Christ to the cross, insisting
that st. Peter must step aside, and
that, Pontius, must lie the first
Bishop of the new church. For did he
not wash his hands? And cannot
John Sherman wash his whole rotten
carcass if he can get another chance
to fill his pocket and serve the Plutoc-
racy?
Oh the sham. The vilainous sham!
And it will fool millions.
And right here in Minnesota the
same game is to be skillfully played.
Read this, from the Minneapolis Tri-
bune of June 18th:
A meeting of more than usual inter
est will be held at tho Union League
rooms this evening. Among the ad-
dresses to be delivered will be one by
Congressman John Lind, the recog-
nized leader of the Minnesota Repub-
licans who are in favor of the free
coinage of silver his subject being
1.-THE Coinage of Silver" The address
and the expected attendant discus
siOns will bring the matter out quite
thoroughly, and in view of the ap-
preaching state convention will be
important in its results. DR.. w. w.
Folweli of the University, will also
deliver an address, The attendance
will not be limited to members of the
league.
John Lind, in the name of free-sil-
yer, is to be the attractive bait, on the
golden hook of Plutocracy, to lure the
sucke RS 10 destruction, while Tawney,
McCleary, Washburn and the rest
carry off the fish by the basket full.
But viii the suckers bite? We shall
see