The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1895-06-28
The Memphis Silver Convention.

This convention i'll the interest of silver
refutes the daily goldite papers assertion
that the ''silver craze" is dying out, has
reached its turning point and is subsiding,
etc. The very reverse is true. But while
this is true there is good deal of old
party politics in it. Many of the speak
ers at the convention were particular to
declare they are democrats, that there is
no necessity of leaving the democrat party
to accomplish the reconciliation of silver.
The dream and the effort of this class is
to obstruct the advance and growth of the
Peoples party. This class have made up
their minds that the next President and
Congress must be made republican, while
the democrat party will take its accus-
toned place as noisy opponent to the
republican party. Their late experience
has satisfied the leaders of the democrat
party, as we'll as everybody else, that the
party is wholly unfit to be i'll control of
the government, but it wants to still exist
and by its existence shut out any new
party from making Roadway against the
republican plutocracy. 1t is to the interest
of the leaders of both old parties to pre-
serve this status of political conditions.
The leaders of the democrat party will
throw all the strength of the party they
can to reinstate the republican party with
its corporation system, in power, and the
republican leaders will assist to the utmost
to keep the democrat rump party from
disintegration. The great effort now
making is to make the silver movement
appear as democratic party movement,
nominate democratic Presidential ticket
as silver party ticket and shut off, if
possible, the Populist party, prevent their
rank and file voteIs South and West from
straying from party lines and swelling
the Peoples party. The shylock papers
studied to avoid mentioning the Peoples
party in the movement and represented
it as a democaat party movement, and
many of the silver speakers resorted to
the same methods to ignore the Peoples
party.
The central purpose of the organization
of the american Binetallic party was
to force recognition for silver on the dem,
ocrat party. 1t is plain that that party
must go to pieces in the next Presidential
campaign if something of the kind is not
done. There is no effort being made to
crystalize the Bimetallic party as dis
tinct political element, but its force is
being brought to bear on the western and
southern element of the democrat organ
ization. The primary motive of the Bi
metallic movement is to keep the old
parties strong enough to occupy the
field, exclude all reform measures and
compromise on the free coinage of silver.
When the danger of annihiation has
become unmistakable, to the democrat
party, the republican party will yield the
free coinage of silver in order to save the
democrst party, as breakwater to the
political storm
The republican party is going to nom-
mate straight gold ring, stylock, Roths-
child, national bank, monopoly, rich man
ticket i'll the next Presidential campaign,
sweep all the Sound money" element Of
the democrat party into it, and hold the
democrat party together by nominating
silver candidate.
By this movement they hope to battle
and finally crush the Peoples party and
dissipate the entire reform movement
The fitness for selfgovernment of the
American people is to be tested by this
strategy. Judged by their servile homage
to party we are by no means convinced
that they are capable of self-government.
They have been governed by plutocracy
for a number years and are not today ex-
ercising the functions of self-government
They continue to vote for the old parties
that enslave them, which is licking the
hand that smites them. A faithful dog
will do the same.