Birmingham state herald., 1896-06-18
THE Rns1rI.r CERTAIN.

| power. It has never dlSplayed any ulS- position whatever to legislate in such a way as to give the masses fair chance in the battle of life with the classes. But this is the first time in the history of thel party when those who control it have been sufficiently bold to prevent the par l ty through it's national platform from att tempting to deceive the people.
 In 1888 on the financial question the na- tional republican party declared as fol- l lows:
 ''The republican party is in favor of the use of both gold and silver as money and condemns the policy of the demo- cratic administration in it's efforts to de- monetize silver"
 | This declaration was made during the | closing months of MT. Clevelands first | administration. Upon it the party went to the country and won the battle. With | a platform condemning the efforts of the first Cleveland administration to demon- etize silver the republican party was successful.
 | In 1892 the same party was permitted, l UT lCddliCu, LiiC OdoC may now pSSA4, by the money power to declare in its na- tional platform as follows on the finan- cial question:
 "The American people from tradition and interest favor bimetallism and the republican party demands the use of both gold and silver as standard money"
 From March 4, 1889, up to, the time of the making of this declaration the re- publican party had been in power and no effort had been made by it to redeem the pledge made in 1885, The democratic party, in it's platform at Chicago in 1892, denounced the eoWardy republican makeshift for free coinage, specifically pledged the people that if placed in pow CT it would coin gold and silver without discriminating against either metal or | charge for mintage. The verdict of 1888 | was in 1892 reversed, and by an unprece- dented majority the democracy was placed once more in control of the goy- ernment.
 Nothing is plainer than that the peo- | ple-the voters of this country-are in the fight for bimetallism. No class of | people see and realize this fact more ple inly than does the money power. For months it has been earnestly engaged in the effort to keep the issue from the people.
 Thousands of time and millions of dol lars have been expended in the effort to force both the great parties in this country to declare for the British gold standard. By that means it was hoped to stife the voice of the people.
 The controlling idea was that party ties were sufficiently strong to prevent a | sufficient number of the two old parties from breaking away and joining the new I party to enable it to win in the November election, and therefore, as was the case in 1892, the money power would be se- | curely in the saddle resardless of which of the old parties won at the ballot box.
 It was a deep laid scheme, and for a time it looked as though it was going to win, but the tide changed.
 The great masses who constitute the rank and file of the democratic party rose up in their might and power and repudiated the idea that the democratic party founded.by Thomas Jefferson, as a party, could be prostituted to the use | of the money power of the country
 In thus acting the party was forced to | repudiate the man whom it had twice elected to the highest office within the gift of the people of this great nation But in doing so it gave confidence to the toiling masses, and today the true de- mocracy of the country stands where Andrew Jackson left it and where Grover Cleveland found 1.-the exponent and true representative of the people of the land.
 It has refused to abandon the princi- ples upon which it was founded. Sing ing its praises and ralying around it's standard today are to be found more peo- pie than ever before.
 For the first time in the history of this government great party has taken the field openly and boldly for the money power and against the people. By its platform, which 1t will make today at St. Louis, the republican party in unmistak- able terms and words absolves all alle- glance to it of every single member who is in favor of "a government of the people, for the people and by the people," Unless man favors robber tariff in the interest of the millionaire manufactur- CTS and the trust barons and the British gold standard, which is entirely in the interest of bond gobblers, gold gamblers, stock jobbers and American and British shylocks, he has no business In the ranks of the republican party. He has never had any business there, but the deceptive declarations of the party in the past have furnished an excuse for his remaining there and voting for it's can