The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1895-08-09
P~LuTOCRAIIC CHEEK.
MULTITUDE IS TO BE DISPOSED
OF.
A Plutocratic Paper Tells How 1t win
Be Done-How the Poor Devils Arc
to he s~ide-Tracked.

CIdt OlSpOSeS OIL the silver question:. In
discussing the probability Of a silver
fssuesi in 1896, It says:
Both republican and democratic free
coiners will make their threatened
demonstration in the national conyen-
lions. There is no room for doubt on
this point. In both conventions they
will be beaten. This point also can
safely be considered settledsss From this,
time onward to the conventions the re-
publicans will have no trouble with the
question, for when the league at Cleye-
land muzzled the delegates from the
mining States all chance for a disturb
ahce in the republican ranks on the
question this year ended. In the con-
vention the crushing process will be
substituted for the -muzzling. and the
silver incident In its present stage,
SO far as it concerns the republican
party. will be closed"
tHallao, Carter! Alloy, Dubois!. Hist,
Teller! how do you like that? You see
now how it is going to be done. You
were 'muzzled' at the meeting of the
National League, but you are going to
be crushed in the convention. Then
what are you going TO do? Sneak back
INTO line and vote for the crushers?
That is what you have always done.
>. Where is your manhood? Where is
your backbone? Where Is your patriot
ism? Will you be slaves or will you
be men and patriots? But how about
the democrats? Listen, here is what
the same paper says about them:
The democracy, though, will not get
OF SO easily. Taking all the states to-
gether the silverite democrats outnum-
Der the other sort of democrats, but the
other sort have the brains, the disci-
pine and the courage. These qualities
beat mere numbers in politics, war, and
wherever else they come in conflict. In
all the western and southern states
which hold conventions to nominate
state officers there will be a fight be-
tween the two democratic elements, and
some of the states which have no off,
GERS to nominate may get up conven-
lions to fight on silver and nothing else.
These wrangles and this great expendi-
ture of energy will hurt the democracy
for the time, and perhaps for the whole
campaign, but it will have no effect on
the national convention. In the con-
yention the silverite democrats will,
easily be beaten as they were in 1888
and 1892; a straddling platform will
be framed and a man will be put up
for President who will, if elected, veto
every silver bill that gets within his
reach
We will bet a four dollar dog that is
just the way it will be done. That is
the way it always has been done. The
west and south have neve counted for
anything in a national convention.
These sections have always allowed the
east to dictate both the platforms and
the candidates. And they will do it
again. Now let. us read what value the
G.-D.puts on. your manhood. 1t says:
But what will the free silver repub-
licans and democrats do when their
parties turn them down in the conven-
tons? They will do as they did in the
previous Presidential years. Some will
sulk and others will buster, but all, Or
nearly all, will vote the ticket. A free
silver democrat can gain nothing by
voting for an anti-silver republican; a
16 to / republican will not help his
cause by scoring out from the republic
can Scylla and getting swallowed up in
the democratic Charybdis. There will
be a free silver party, Of course-that
is, there will be If that Sioley-Stewart-
Jones coterie of .cranks hangs together
until next year, and there will be a
Populist party, but these cabals will
have no more effect on politics in the
conditions which will prevail next year
than will the prohibitionists, the wom-
an suffragists, or the single takers. In
order to make his vote count and to
keep up a living connection with things
the republican and the democrat will
have to go with n or the other Of
two parties which will stand on the
same side of the vital question Of the
day, and he will be exceedingly likely to
stick to his own"
There you have it, the program to be
pursued in 1896. The free silver repub-
licans are to be Crushed in the repnb-
lican convention, and the free silver
democrats are to be outWitted in the
democratic convention. This point"
a y the CD 'scan safely be considered
settled" Not that the silver democrats
are not in a majority but "the other
sort have the brains, the discipline and
the courage" That's pretty hard to
take but it is deserved. The silver