The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-05-22
WEST AND SOUTH.


Hence the halo has gone from it for
ever. The most devoted Democrats
cannot longer refuse to see what their
party has done and cannot refuse to
read the hidden results in the almost
universal bankruptcy Of our people.
1t won't do to say Cleveland did it
all. That is not the truth. Cleve-
land is bad enough, God knows! He
has sold himself for money. He has
merchandise Of her distress. But the
cabinet was all Democratic and it
dwelt within Cleveland's shadow
without murmur.
The Senate was Democratic and it
has not dared to question the schemes
Of the president.
The House was Democratic, and it
was as seryile as any tyrant could
have wished.
A party acts through it's chosen rep
resentatives, and in this instance all
the representatives of democracy from
president to Senate, from Senate to
House, and from Congress clear on
down to village postmaster, Cleve-
lands ruinous policy has met no re-
sistance.
What has been done has been done
by the party and the party is respon-
sible.
Such being the tree, what shall be
"Cut it down. Why cumbereth it
the ground?"
The Democratic party OF toda, g a
mere piece Of cunning machinery 4 it'll
which the East rules and loots the
South and West.
Friends, take your own choice, but
as for me, as long as have breath
shall fight the battles of the South as
against the deadly domination of the
East.
Icannot bear to see my people for
ever victimized by the money-power
which Hamilton fortified in the class
laws which now throttle us.
cannot bear to see the South strip
ped of all her glory without the wish
to offer her all the strength OF my
arm, all the zeal of my heart,
Patriotism, in it's last analysis, Is
love of home, or wife and child, kith
and kin, friend and neighbor.
The southern leader who blindly or
willfully enslaves the South-the land
OF home and kindred-iS a man whom
| cannot underS tand-to respect.
The South is being sacrificed to the
East and southern leaders have been
leading the victim to the altar.
Can we not end the fearful condi-
tion?
Cannot we Georgians unite for
Georgia; we southern men for the
South?
Let us get together. AS southern
men let US think of the South, work
for the South, live for the South.
Let US get off our knees and be
men.
Shall we forever truckle to the east:
Shall we never be ashamed of its
| dicta ton?
In the name of the manly courage
which once made southern heroism a
synonym of daring, challenge you tc
a performance of your duty.
| No law yet sanctions the infamies
OF Clevelandism.
No statute supports the bold usur.
patton by which he has decreed that
coin" means gold only.
| No legal foundation uphOlds the
single gold standard.
Bad as the repeal of the Sherman
law was, shameful as the inaction OF
| Congress on the bond question was
| the destruction of the bi-metalliC
standard and the establishment OF
the single gold stand was a mere act
| OF Cleyeland's will.
He knew that Congress was toe
cowardly and too corrupt to interfere
and he usurped an authority which
did not belong to him by law.
It Is not too late to restore bi-met.
| allism.
But act promptly. He who dallies
now is twice bastard, he who doubts
| is trebly damned.
We cannot afford to trust a party
which does not know it's own mind
which is rent into factions; which il
controlled by the privileged classes
which has sold US into bondage tt
England and the Rothschilds; which
has increased our taxes; which has
made our debts and taxes harder tt
pay, brought down our cotton to
cents, beggared our farmers, pauper
lied our laborers, and bankrupted ou1
merchandise party which keeps M
campaign contract-which breaches
Tom Jefferson and practices Ton
Reed, to whose stump speeches in favor
Of free silver an exhibit is attached in
the shape of brand-new silver dollar
stamped 1894, and to whose votes il
Congress the smile Of John Sherman
goes by way Of chrome and illustra
| UlOus WuOSC CNOuOuy 1OduS us WILL
bonds; whose tariff reform is sold al
so much per yard to the trusts ant
com bines; whose states rights means
an empty mail sack on a freight car
with the United States army by tn.
side OF it, to pilot it through loca
riot: whose free silver means no silve
at all; whose love of the people mean!
unlimited concessions to the priv
legged interests, and whose rabid an
petites for doing wrong things in til,
most offensive way was never so full,
illustrated as when Congress violated
the Sabbath in order to put the finish
ing touches to their unholy schemes
of spoilation, OF legalized robbery o
the helpless taxpayer
love my country-I want to serv
her. l have no enmities to nurse, n,
hatred to crafty. Always and every
where my voice has been for peace
and shall ever be!
accept the nomination. and shall
cndeavOr to carry your standard, a
usual, to victory. And this time
hope to be allowed to receive the com
mission which / have tiwce won.
This district has nothing TO fea
from me-unless my intense desire t
be of service to it be danger.
It has nothing to hate me for, IN
less my loyalty to the principles o
Jefferson and jackson and Stcphen
be cause for hostility.
No greater harm can be done to thi
peOple. this state, this section, tha
the eternal continuance Of politica
crime. which defies the will Of the ma
jority as expressed at the ballot box
Every sane man in the distric