The Monticellonian., 1895-05-17

I language. IL is not an idle threat It is not the empty mouthing of branless dem | agogue. It is the statement of stern fact I 1t is the utterance of vigorous thinker and defender of goldbug ideas.
 From this authoritative source, we learn | that the Eastern Democracy does not intend ;o abide the will of the majority on the fnan- cial issue which since Jacksou's time has been the most vital issue of the Democratic party. We are deliberately informed that the Democrats of New York, Massachusetts, New Jersey and Connecticut will go bodily into Che Republican party if the Democratic party indorSes free coinage of silver again. It follows, as n matter of course, that the goldbugs will go into the so-callcd Eastern Democrats and vote the Republican ticket. although that party may also adopt 4 free silver plank. We take this announcement as final, authoritative declaration that the goldbugs will desert the party if it adheres to its timc-honored position on the money question.
 The efforts of Vest and Vorhees and other leaders to ascertain the will of the party on this question are denounced. The caucus of the Democratic members of the Missouri Legislature on this question is declared to be infamous. Goldbug papers declare that fl you want harmony" in tbe Democratic par ty "no issue" must be discussed. They heap epithcts on all who proclaim the right ot the people to pass on the question of free coinage, which is declared to be a 'popuis- tie cruze." Democrats who favor free coin age of silver are called "cranks," "soeial- ists, :" fools, ,'''c cheats, ;" ''swindlers" All gumcnt is met with scurrilty. Debate is closed with an insolent assumption of su- periorty. The right of the plain people to discuss, much less to decide. the money question. is impudently denied, and with a final stretch of unlimited folly we are told that all the wisdom of the country is com bined with its wealth!
 The course of the goldbugs is a bold def- anee of the principles of popular sovereign ty. Their platform is the latest edition of Vanderbt's infamous manifesto, "The peo- pie be dammed!"
 What do the people propose to do about it3 There are eight millions of men in the United States Nho faver free coinage of both gold and silver. What do they propose to do about its
 There are 200 GOO men in Louisiana who favor free coinage What will they do about itg
 They are all invited to obey the edicts of ring rule. Win they accept the invitation? They are confronted with the yoke of elec- ton machinery. Win they bend their necks?
 We know what the people will do in State and Nation They will meet defiance with ! iuace organization with organization, warfare with wsrfnre They will rise in their might and ovcrwhelm the conspirstors who arc plotting to build q base putoerscy on the ruins of this republic
 The times are ripe for such Il rising. The public welfare demands it. Dieu Le Vea!- Monroe (La Bulletin.
 The BHletR. in the above has gone wild on tangent, we sus- pect. The New Orleans States has no more authority to speak for the Democracy ot the East than it has for tho Chamber of Deputies of France. It may con- lecture as much as it pleases, but 1t knows no more about what the Eastern Democracy will do in case the free silver idea is successful than does the Bulletin, and the lat CT paper knows no more about it than we do. We can onl y have an opinion; and our opinion is that 1t the Eastern Democracy finds itself outnumbered and out generated in the financial fight, ii will gracefully fall into line and yield to the inevitable. Bat if il should decide to go we would just have to let 1t go, for 1t would nev CT do to let the tail carry tho kite.
 The fact of the business is, the common people, the masses of the East, like the people of the Soutt and West begin to see the necessi ty for more primary money, ane hence the tree coinage of silver i'd es i is not alone confined to one ol two sections, butlt is abroad in tht land, and unless there is an inter nat al monetary conference anc an international agreement upoT monetary matters which vii prove satisfactory to a majority O the people, before the next Ma tional Convention meets, thC chances are about Is to that tht National Democratic Convention will adopt a Is to sil"er plank by about Is to l vote. So let, keep cool and labor assiduously y