The Portland daily press., 1896-09-22
BRYAN PoPocRATs.
Not National But Sectional Party.


Slavery in its palmiest days, never
raised more direct sectional issue than
has been raised by the Bryan popocrats
in this presidential campaign. The sill
yer craze had it's birth and origin in what
is known as the Silver States. The sill
yer millionaires who control all the
large mines In those states thought it
would be very fine thing for them to
take their silver ore worth about 30
cents on the dollar to the United States
minis and have it coined without ex-
pense to them, into legal tender dollars,
worth one hundred cents.
The free coinage theory in the interest
Of single industry-and no other-was
started in section of country, which
alone was to be benef ted by it,
10 bring this false financial theory
into public notice, as political ques-
tion, the " Populist'' party was formed.
But these silver states--although backed
by this party, were pow rless to spread
this financial heresy unless they could
Zine drives" with other sections and
other states. Taking advantage of the
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bulwark of the Democratic party as then
constituted, and that capturing that
party would greatly increase its political
strength, the Populist party sought an
alliance with the old secession wing of
the same, and In that way by melting
their old sectional hatred of the North,
succeeded In capturing the Chicago
Democratic convention. The moment
the Chicago platform was adopted the
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Jackson, which we all respect, ceased to
exist az political organization.
The party that marched out OF Chicago
under the Bryan-6ewall flag, was pot
the Democratic party. but wild horde
OF Popocrats with treason and war upon
the interests of the great North, in
scribed upon Its banners. It was CUB
stantialiy the Southern rebellion revived,
with man, that party years ago would
have been dubbed 'doughfacen booted
and spurred" and mounted upon seces-
sion horse marched out as commander.
The Bryan-Sewall Watson party of to-
day is mot national, but sectional
Southern party arrayed against the
North and all northern interests.
The Silver States, il 30 disposed, have
become powerless to control the party,
for the Southern Brigadiers'' are In
the saddle. The dog no longer wags the
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the Popocrat party is Southern section
al party is freely admitted in their news
papers and political journals. As proof
of this, look at their calculations of sue
cess, and you will find the very first
figures in the columns, will be placed
the electoral votes Of the "Solid South"
for Bryan. Seriously, the Popocrat
leaders don't expect to cover either the
New England, the great Central States.
or 70 cfofo in hn Novk1x
Their great reliance is upon the South,
on what remains Of the old defunct JEFF
Davis Confederacy, the substratum of
the rebellion.
In further proof of this Bryan has thus
far mainly confined his oratoricaI CLAP
trap to the old free states. thinking the
Slave States safe enough without listen
Ing to his buncombe harangqes about
81 free coinage of silver 16 to l.
The truth is, Bryan's low estimate of
the intelligence Of the Northern people,
will work his defeat. If he has the pre-
sumption to think that the people in thu
North will abandon their we'll settled
opinions, by merely listening to his
BON bastic fustian, he will find himself
mistaken.
He had better go South among his
friends and declaim to the "Sand Killers
and Clay Fathers" whose native ignor-
anoe would enable them to more fully
appreciate the expert political sayings
Of this fit representative OF Altgeld, Till
man & Co.
II he has any doubt as to the response
he will get from the great North, let.him
study the returns from Vermont and
Maine, where what few kfriends he has
left lie buried under an avalanche Of from
thirty to fifty thousand majority.
And this great tidal wave will roll on
and on from State to State, until Bryan
and Sewall and Watson and their delud-
ed followers, like Pharoah and his Egyp-
tian hosts, lie buried beneath the swell
ing waters-not of the Jordan-but Salt
River''-whose ebbing and flowing tides
for generations past, have concealed the
last resting place of long line of dema-
gogues and dishonest politicians who
forever in the darkness Of final defeat.
John i PERRY