Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1895-09-26
NoTEs AND COMMENT.

Gov. Stone says: III the next demo"
cratic national convention declares for
gold monometallism and dominates
president upon such a platform, the
party will not carry a dozen states"
Then the democratic party will not
carry dozen states, for no democratic
national convention is going to do any"
thing else but declare for gold stand
ard and nominate a man that favors
it. OF course, the platform may be a
straddle, in order to preserve harmony,
but the candidate will not be. All OF
the eastern and middle states are UNI
compromisingly in favor Of gold
standard, and about hall Of the states
in the south and west that have held
conventions this year have declared
themselves in favor Of the same poll
icy. That the next national demo-
cratic convention will give free silver
black eye is as certain as any future
political event can be. 1t Is apparent
now that the gold wing Of the demo-
cratic party is assisting the republic
ans in carrying out John Sherman's
financial policy. The free silver men
in the democratic party are doing some
very vigorous kicking now with their
tongues, but after the next democratic
national convention they will fall In
line and assume the role Of assistant
republicans to the assistant republics
ans.
It's now perfectly plain that the meetA
ing Of free silver democrats $50 called)
at Washington was only movement to
check the stampede Of voters from the
democratic party. The three leading
characters of that meeting were Sena-
tors Jones Of Arkansas, Turpie Of Indi-
ana, and Harris of Tennessee. They
were reinforced by such political tum-
BILE bugs and blatherskltes as Lon
Livingston Of Georgia, who climbed
into prominence on an Alliance ladder,
and then kicked the ladder out from
under him, and Dan Voorhees,, who en-
gineered in the senate the repeal Of the
only silver law we had on the statute
books. All these men assert that free
silver is the only thing that can ever
restore prosperity to this country, and
that the present gold standard system
is ruinous and leads to the hell Of poY-
erty, yet they declare that if their party
succeeds in committing itself to such
policy in the next national convention
they will vote with the party and thus
indorse 1t. In fact they are simply act
ing in the role Of stool pigeons and
bunco-steerers for the Jew brokers Of
this country and Europe.
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1t requires no keen foresight to see
that the trend of events in this country
points to a monarchy. The recent ut
terances of Minister Bayard at a ban
quet in England in which he made the
declaration that 1t required a strong
man to govern the people of this coun-
try is only one Of the straws which in
dictate the direction In which the politi-
cal wind is glowing. In his speech Mr..
Bayard said: 1.-THE President Of the
United States stands in the midst Of
a self-confident and oftentimes violent
people, and 1t takes man such as Mr..
Cleveland to govern them" Now as a
matter of fact when Mr.. Cleveland
undertakes to govern" the people Of
this country he Is out Of the bounds Of
his Jurisdiction. It is the general sup
position that the people Of this country
govern themselves. Although they fall
far short Of 1t in fact, our plan Of gov
eminent is constructed upon this prln-
ciple. AS a matter Of fact the people
are governed by political machines con-
trolled by men who have usurped the
rights Of the people and subordinated
them to their own selfish greed. That
Mr.. Cleveland has for more than two
years been actually governing this
country no one will have the temerIty
to deny. He has subordinated his party
machinery, and even violated the laws
of the land and the spirit Of our instl-
tutions to accomplish his designs. His
ordering the troops to Chicago and
bribing congress with the patronage at
his command were not only fragrant vio-
lations Of law, but were grave enough
offences against the constitution to de-
mand his impeachment. The logical
result Of such conduct on the part Of /
the chief magistrate Of the land can be