The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1895-09-27
The Third Term Conspiracy.

If a third term why not fourth and
fifth? Behind this third term movement
is yelled one of the greatest conspiracies
against the republic that has been con-
cocted in the century. This conspiracy
aims at no less than all empire; or at least
all aristocracy established by forms of
law. For thirty years these plotters have
been increasingly at work. They have
now mustered into their ranks the entire
banking influence, the railroad corpora
tions, the telegraph and all the electric
monopolies, the mining corporations, and
every large monopoly concern, such as
Armour beef, etc, monopoly, the coal
oil and sugar trust, the street railway and
larger manufacturing trusts and combines.
All these trusts, combines and monop-
olies are more or less beholden to the
money power, and any that refuse to
obey will be crushed out by that power.
These great monopoly concerns are as
beholden to, and in the power of, the
money loaning class as the men employed
by the great corporations are the wage
slaves of their monopoly masters. 1t is
but few weeks since ]. P. Morgan, the
American head Of the Rothschild-Cleve-
land bond swindle, assembled the pres
idents of the railroad lines east of Chi
cago, and refusing to listen to any argu-
nents or reasons from them, told them
that uniform system of rates must be
established high enough to secure div
idends and pay interest on the watered
railroad stocks and bonds, and any pres
ident or controlling officer of road who
dared to disobey might look for another
job. Here was the spectacle revealed to
the people of this country of one man
speaking for the combined money power
of England and the United States, laying
down the edict of that power to the pres
idents of the railroads, which assume to
control interests that are capitalized at
ten billions of dollars. Collaterally this
imperial money power embraces in that
edict issued by ]. Pierpont Morgan to the
railroad presidents, every minor corpora
ton in the country. Willingly or unwil-
lingly they must obey the dictation of
this colossal money power or suffer the
penalty of being crushed for disobeying.
This is the hand which is being grad
ually shown that belongs to the great
conspiracy whose ambition and aim is
the oyerthroyu of the rapub1;c Of tho
United States and planting on its ruins
an aristocracy of wealth and privilege, to
be followed if successful by one of birth
and titles established by form of law and
an empire with royal head, as France
under Napoleon Ill
With this volcano under their feet the
people slumber! The next advanced step
of the conspirators is third term for
Cleveland if money and fraud can accom-
plish it. Cleveland is their chosen agent.
They have found an INSCRIPTIONS law
coarse, despotic and daring when urged
on by the money power. Gold is his god
and his coarse nature is filled with the
ambition to rule. The power whose tool
he is has him well in hand. He has cor
rupted what little patriotism there was in
most of the leaders OF the democratic
party by the bride of office. The party is
now divided between the gold system of
the conspirators and the free coinage of
silver. To gain complete control of the
party the work of intimidation and
bribery is being pushed to the utmost. If
the gold power succeeds in gaining the
mastery of the party by the time the
Presidential convention meets next year,
Cleveland will be nominated for a third
term and the silverites will be driven to
submission or out of the party. The
majority of them will cravenly submit
and give up their manhood to party
slavery. If the silyerites, on the other
hand should hold the controlling power
i'll the convention, free silver candidate
will be nominated unless they can be
bulldozed by the minority, bank interest.
In case they should hold onto their man.
hood and Americanism and control the
convention, the goldites would imme-
diately seceed and nominate Cleveland.
This would be the role that the slave
power played in 1860, and for similar
purpose. That purpose was to establish
a slaveholding aristocracy il the southern
States
The conspiracy now in progress is to
establish a money and corporation arts
tocracy embracing the whole country
within its dominion. Two candidates of
the party would doom it to hopeless
defeat, divide and separate the reform
forces whose cause i'll common is now,
and likely to remain till after the next
Presidential election, the question of free
coinage.
If the silver element of the democratic
organization should have sufficient back
bone to hold its own, the goldite element
of the republican party would endorse
Cleveland as their candidate, "sound
money" candidate, and point to the
honest masses of the party that the frag-
ment which held to free silver represented
the democrat party, and this would satisfy
the majority of the party who vote for
their party as they hurrah for one side or
the other of base ball game. The repub-
lican party leaders are holding their party