The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-06-19

FORCE any Otner people WOulO NC pOWSI-
less, but the American people for more
than one hundred years have met and
conquered every foe. They have always
been equal to the emergency.
Silver was demonetized by the Republi-
can party, and the leaders Of that party
have labored in season and out Of season
to keep it demonetized. The great mass
advent of President Cleveland was in
favor Of the repeal of the infamous act
of 1873. demonetizing silver, as Is shown
by their uniform votes In both houses of
congress. But when the money power
discovered Cleveland they found an IN
strument to thwart the will of the Demo-
cratic masses, and they gained a yalua-
BILE ally for Sherman and Harrison and
other active agents of the gold standard.
The alarm and distress caused by the
raid Of the gold combination in 1893 Gre
ated furore which amounted to polit-
ical cyclone, which was directed by the
firm hand of the executive against the two
fell before the blast, but the Republicans
sailed with the wind. and the Democrats
who were stranded by the violence of the
storm were swept back into the arms OF
the Republicans of the two houses. To-
gether they made a majority to do the
bidding of the money powers and to wipe
from the statute book every law which
recognized silver as g. money metal.
The people have at last taken this mat
ter into their own hands. Twenty years
of betrayal have taught them that
equivocal platforms and good-Lord.
good-devil politicians mean gold monop-
oily. They know that those who say
they are friendly to silver, but want il
accomplished without doing it them
selves are enemies and cannot be trust
ed No man is a bi-metallist who does
not advocate bimetallism as 1t existed
thousands Of years before Sherman Wis
tied England in 1867, and before he car
ried out the purpose Of an English syn
dictate to strike down silver in 1873.
Conventions and the party lash have
thwarted the will of the people for e
years. Public plumber, a venal press
and ten thousand banks have dominated
the conventions of all parties since the
man from Buffalo took charge of the
Democratic party. A majority to do the
will of the gold monopoly has been east
ly secured in the convention of both the
old parties, and a multiplicity of issues
bars the success of the Populist. What
are party lines without party princi-
pies. What is the Democratic party
when it repudiates Jefferson and Jack
son, and follows John Sherman? The
Democratic masses are in favor of re-
storing the money of the constitution
They are speaking out in every state
and their voice is heard with dread by
the enemies of the republic. A very
large percentage of the Republican
masses are equal true to the principles
of free government with the Democratic
masses, but the Republican leaders who
worship at the shrine of gold monopoly
are more numerous and more powerful
than the Democratic leaders who work
with them to maintain in the gold stan
dard. There are more Harrisons than
Clevelnds, and more Shermans than
Carlisles.
The Democracy Of Illinois has broken
the ice The rank and file of the Repub-
lican party South and West are sullen
and angry but the manipulators are
still in control. The Republican con-
vention Of Kentucky renewed the allie
glance of the party of that state to the
alien gold syndicate, but the ties of par
ty are not strong enough to hold the
Republicans of the great Northwest in
line. The South and West, and the pro-
ducing classes of all sections, have a
common interest in restoring the money
Of the constitution and regaining con-
troll of the government of the United
States; but an alien gold trust is in
trenched in the sanctums of the press,
in the counsel chamber of the banks, in
the houses of congress, and in the ex-
ecutive mansion. The people are unit
ing in every section of the country to
strike for liberty and recover their lost
government.
The American people have been be-
trayed with kiss for the last time.
They now know that every man who
qualities his determination to fight for
the free and unlimited coinage of silver
at the ratio of 16 to by the United States
alone, is an enemy of the cause. All
we demand is the 16 to statutes of 1884
and 1887. There were no ifs and
"ands' about these statutes. There are
none in the creed of the true bimetal-
list The advocates of free coinage at 16
to by the Unitde States alone, comprise
three-fourths of the voters of the United
States. The only hope for gold mono
poly is to divide and conquer. They
have played that game for the last time.
The hearts Of the people are in a COM
mon cause, produced by common cal
amity. Whatever politicians and time
servers may do, the South and West and
all lovers of free institutions everywhere
will come together and rescue this gov
eminent from the rule of the gold kings,
The policy Of the enemy to impoverish
the mass is now we'll understood. It is
well known that opportunities create in
dependence and manhood; that want of
opportunity creates poverty and cow
ards. One more gold president might
do the work and destroy the foundation
Of Republican institutions, which is in
dependence and prosperity Of the people.
Thanks to Mr.. Cleveland the purposes
of the enemy are disclosed. If the peo-
pie submit to financial bondage, and lose
their liberty, they will have been warned
in time. The gold standard, falling
prices, and hard times are as much the
policy of Sherman, Harrison and the
great mass of the leading Republicans
as it is of Cleveland himself. The only
difference is, that Cleveland proclaims
openly what the hypocrites do secretly.
At the last moment it looks as if there
was going to be serious split in the con-
vention. Congressman Sibley of Penn
sylvania, is the disturbing element. His
speech last night, in which he denounced
Democrats who would refuse to advocate
free silver just because there were Pop
ulists and Republicans making a fight
for the white metal. has created storm
Of protests. Many Democrats in the
convention, headed by M. C. Galloway,
of Tennessee, ex-editor of the Memphis
declare they will not indorse any plat
form which declares for free silver re-
gardless of party lines.
Senator Isham G. Harris of Tennessee,
one of the most popular and prominent
figures in the convention is understood
to be against the withdrawal Of the par
ty lines, and altogether there promises to
be pretty fight if the committee on res
olutions presses the abolition of party in
the advocacy of free silver.
The platform will. OF course, contain a
regular plank declaring for the free and
unlimited coinage of silver at 16 to 1, and
a plank is now being discussed which is
in favor of a national silver committee,
to contain one member from each state,
which shall advocate the cause of silver.
Congressmadn H. D. Money, of Missis-
sippi, followed Senator Stewart. In his
first words he repudiated the abolition of
party lines, and he said:
Il am here a silver man from the
crown of my head to the sole of my feet,
and am a Democrat all oYe,