Willmar tribune., 1896-02-18
AnpIarteet Paaa


staid at home a1ad let the election go by
default
There was no trouble with the gold re.
servo and no hint of any loss of con fdence
In tho national credit until about the time
of the presidential election. While tho
secretary of the treasury, Mr.. Foster, was
contemplating the probabilities of a deficit
in the revenue the raiding of the treasury
by withdrawing gold did not begin until
after Cleveland's election.
There were Withdrawals of gold in the
regular order Of business, but tho endless
chain had not begun to work.
Object Lesson of 1893.
We then for the first time got glimpse
of the conspiracy of which have spoken.
Mr.. Foster gavo tho holders of greenbacks
and treasury notes the option of having gov
ernment paper cashed in gold or silver, and
as they all demanded gold the gold in the
treasury rapidly ran down. The financial
papers took up the cry of the country going
to 4 silver basis, and the first premonitory
breezes of the panic of 1898 swept over the
land. While there were no reasonable q
causes to produce distrust the conspirators
fomented it by every means possible and
set in motion the machinery of the news
papers which they control to terrorize the
business interests of the country and make
ready for the "object lesson which Mr..
Cleveland told us was coming. 1t was
expected by the cont1ding Democracy that
the installation of the new administration
would witness a change of policy. The
trust in the president was very great, and
remembering how he had shipwrecked the
party in 1883 by his quixotio tariff mes
sage and the emphatic Endorsement which
Eol l>ol @vSx 70 %no oI.,fE r%olD D<
Chicago the silver Democrats had reason
to expect that he had learned some wis
dom, and that the government would ex-
ercise its option to pay it's obligations in
coin, either gold or silver, for its own pro-
lection.
The people by their votes had demanded
q change from the Republican policy. A
Democratic president gave them change
for tho worse by encouraging his moneyed
friends, who controlled the newspapers and
thus directed the current of public opin-
ion, to hurry up their operations of rob-
berry by means of the panic and to acceler-
ate the downward progress of the country.
We had fondly hoped for relief, and ev-
cry Democrat was supremely happy.
came up here as governor of my state
and stood out In tho cold around here on
East Capitol street for four hours, nearly
frozen to death, to be present at the jolli-
f1cation and glorifcation upon the inaugu-
ration of Democratic president with
Democratic senate and Democratic house,
and God forgive me for being such fool!
We, say, we Democrats, had fondly
hoped for relief. We elected a president to
give tho people bread, and he gavo them
only stones.
Now, here is m extract from tho address
of Mr.. Cleveland in response to the COM
mittee of notifications:
Mr.. CHAIRMAN AND GENTLEMEN-Tho mes
sage you deliver from the national Democracy
arouses within me emotions which would be
we'll nigh overwhelming if I did not recognize
here assembled the representatives of great
party who must share with me the RESPONSE
bility your mission invites. I find much relief
in the reflection that I have been selected
merely
Merely
to stand for the principles and purposes to
which my party is pledged, and for the enforce
ment and supremacy of which all who have any
right to claim Democratic fellowship must
constantly and persistently LABOR.
The President Arraigned.
watched for these utterances because
if he had evinced or shown any purpose of
-treachery would have tried to deliver the
vote of South Carolina to some other man.
Therefore, feeling a personal grievance in
tho mans action, am here today to ar
raign him before tho American people for
his misdeeds and before tho party for his
treachery and to ask for verdict.
There is not one word here which would
warrant ono to expect that tho leader of
tho Democratic party, it's head and guide,
would ignore the platform and treat with
contempt tho trusted lieutenants whom
the people had sent to the national capital
to assist in shaping tho party's policy. The
language would lead us to expect the very
reverse. How many Of these reasonable
expectations have been met? How many
of you, men grown old and gray in the
service of the party and of the nation, men
who wero its trusted leaders before this
man from Buffalo was ever heard of-how
many, say, have been called into his
councils2 Speak if there be any here
shall be glad to hear them. Where has this
man sunk his personality? Whom has he
oonsultedf whom has he recognizedi
Whose advice has he followed? Mono but
that of the bootlicks and sycophants who
have crawled on their knees for the crumbs
of patronage and betrayed their constitu
ents for the Offices in his gift.
In the entire history of this country the
high Office of president has never been sc
prostituted, and never has the appointing
power been so abused. Claiming to be tht
apostle Of civil service reform, he has do
bauched the civil service by making up
pointments only of those whose sponsor:
would surrender their manhood and will
bated breath walk with submissive heat
in his presence. With relentless purpos'
he has ignored his oath Of office to uphold
and obey the law and has paid out golt
instead of coin and issued bonds to bu,
more gold, by both actions overriding th'
law and giving no heed to the interests O.
any but his moneyed friends-I might So!
his owners OF partners. ..
Whatever claim Of legality may be pu
forward for the redemption of treasur!
notes. in gold, there can be none as to tn
redemption of greenbacks in anything bu
coin, and the option was given him to re
deem the treasury notes in either gold o
silver While to this besotted tyrant coil
<has come to mean gold alone he cannot b.
his mere ipse dixit change the law of thi
land and peryert the plain meaning OF tn
English language He has sold bonds t.
buy gold with which to redeem greenbaok
when there was large quantity of silve
in the TREASURY which, according to law
=. should have been used, and the law onl
authorized the sale of bonds for COIN. HI
Republican predecessors and allies wh
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