The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1895-07-05
The Irresistible Advance.


The Memphis Convention, the meeting
of Republican Leagues at Cleveland and
the Democratic Kentucky State Conven-
ton have proved eye openers to the old
parties that have smitten them with fear.
The persistent lying kept up by the pluto
cratic daily papers had kept the public
partially in the dark as to the advance of
the free coinage policy among the people.
These conventions removed the mask
that had been held between the public
and the truth by the lying daily
press, and revealed the fact that free
silver principles dominated all of these
conventions.
The convention of Republican Leagues,
held at Cleveland, was probably the great
est surprise of all. The belief had been
advanced by the daily press ofthe eastern
cities that goldbugisn at that convention
would so completely squelch and silence
the advocates of free coinage in the party
that it would never rise again to plague
the leaders. But 10 when the free silver
delegates in this body guard of the
Republican party were counted they
outnumbered the gold bug members !
What was to be done? The silver men
were not only there in force but showed
unmistakable symptoms of being aggres-
sive. When this hand writing appeared
on the wall of the convention hall Bel
shazzer's knees smote. The silver men
said we are ready for an open declaration
of financial policy for the party or abb
solute silence on that or any other ques-
ton. With fingers on their lips the gold
bugs moved in silence to adjourn, and
without so much as resolution deserving
the name this meeting that was to publish
Rothschild's proclamation to the world,
dissolved, rather than adjourned. The
dissolution and departing of this body of
the elite of the Republican party from
Cleveland was as silent and mournful as
the burial of Sir John Moore.
In the face of these facts the foolish
daily papers will continue to make them
selves ridiculous by repeating the silver
this popular movement set in motion by
the Peoples party is moving from West
to East with increasing power. The fact
was revealed that those clubs, represented
before the meeting to be solid gold bug
concerns, were full of free silver members
hailing from the most easterly parts of
the country, while west of the Missouri
they were solid for silver.
The banks and the whole shylock band
are ready to spend hundred million
dollars to elect a gold ring President in
1896. AS bribery has been their plan of
action in this conspiracy running over
thirty years, as the supreme hour of
danger approaches that policy will be
pressed with redoubled energy. Bribery
is their only line of action. They have
no other. They have bought up the
newspaper press and the leaders of the
old parties Those they were unable to
buy or coerce they have driven out of
power with abuse and SANDER.
The split in the two old parties oil the
money question is too wide to ever be
closed. They cannot have two Republican
parties and two Democrat parties.
The game from now till the National
conventions in 1896 will be to get togeth-
er, which seems to be impossible. Money
will flow like water to hold the entire
Republican party solid in the gold ring,
and divide if possible the Democrat party
into silver party and gold party, but
this seems impracticable. The gold ring
end of the Democrat party will not go as
a body into gold bug Republican party,
nor will they vote silver Democrat
ticket. A straddle Democrat ticket which
is now being considered, will not fool
many. The great body of the silver men
of both old parties will go into the Peo-
pies party, the only truly sound. honest
money party in the country. There is no
place else in sight they can go. The
honest principles of the Peoples party
are fast levening the masses. Populist
papers are rising to the emergency and
every day becoming more aggressive and
clear in their just demands and exposure
of criminal acts and deceptive policy OF
the two old moribund parties. The sword
of Damocies is suspended by single hair
over the head of these old parties and
their leaders see it.