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the GREAT PROMISING PARTY.
IT nAkES MORE FAIR PROMISES AND
ASKS FOR ANOTHER CHANCE -
PARTY MUST BE JUDGED BY
ITS PERFORMANCES AND
NOT BY IT'S PROMISES.

The onIy Guarantee Of Coed f&i'h In Pr
sen, rromis.. :. sh~ taithfsin~s- N itt
which P..t Promise. Have been kept
The Old Party Bosses Frightened at the
Rapid Growth Of the Peoples fsrtv-
The Rape Oh the People. Party Flat
fsrm-wh.. tn. Somsnati.n ef sr1An
Meas
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wAsgIsoroS, -. G., July IL, So
Democratic politicians have met IN
national convention, made more fair
promises. and asked for another
chance They have made better
promises than ever before, and. in
fact, have put forward the best plat
form and ticket that they have had for
a quarter Of century. Yet, party
that has been III power must be judged
by its performances and not by its
promises. \ party that has mad
"chance" must stand or fall by its own
record. The good faith of its present
promises must be- tested by the faith
fulness with which past promises and
pledges have been kept. When the
Democratic party Is weighed in this
balance, and measured by this test,
(Which Is the only fair and safe one
then any Democrat nominated and
vouched for by the Chicago conyen-
ton alone was marked for defeat.
They have declared for free silver in
express terms for the first time since
ho hnt fbay hayl doll barafaiy
and purpOsely put party above coun-
try, and their action, if not their pur
pose, threatens to fatally divide the
! reform forces in this campaign.
The Democratic politicians, includ-
ing those Of the South and West, have,
by long train of broken promises
and braZen deception, forfeited the
confidence of the people, and now
they refuse to take the only course
that would be a guarantee that their
| last promises are made in coed faith.
A just cause and a fairly good candi-
| date for President are fatally handi-
capped and discredited by the endorse
ment of such divided, discredited
and treacherOus narty, with such i
damaging record.
THEY MUST STAND OR FALL BY THIS
! RECORD.
What has been the record Of these
politicians since the war? Most of
them, who were in Chicago this week
bowling so loudly for silver and try
ing to steal the platform of the Peo-
plies Party, have figured in every Dem
cratic national convention for the last
twenty years. Ever since 1873 the
financial question has been just as
great an issue, as far as the welfare
and prosperity of the people is con-
cerned, as it is to-day. Yet, during all
of this time, large number OF the
same politicians who controlled the
recent Chicago convention have been
in every Democratic convention, and
helped to nominate straightout and
uncompromising g0ldbugs and monop-
Olists for the Presidency, who, if they
had been elected, would have done just
what the Republican Presidents have
done.
EVERY CANDIDATE SINCE THE WAR A
GOLDBUG.
Yes, every Democratic candidate
since 1873 has been the candidate
of the monopolists and the money
. power. If any of these candidates hat
been elected, they would not only have
: vetoed any free coinage bill, or any
bill to abolish the national banks, OF
any bill to increase the legal tender
money of the country and deprive the
gold gamblers and bankers of tn,
dangerous and infamous power to ex
, pand and contract the money of tn,
country at will, but they would ais
have used the tremendous power O
patronage of the government to con
taminate and bias public opinion
thrOugha subsidized press, and to in
r fiuence and coerce, if not corrupt, Con
1 gress itself.
SOUTHERN AND WESTERN POLITICIAN
HAVE HELPED TO NOMINATE THESE
t CANDIDATES..
These same sO-called free silver Dem
g ocratic politicians (wbo have just bee
! making such loud professions Of pa
s these conventions and helped t
dates at the request and IN
. der the influence of Wall street. 1
T. fact, every one of these candidates i
the past have been from New Yorl
and were selected by Wall street be
q fore the convention met. These sc
called free silver Democratic pclit
/. ticians from the South and West hav
, for twenty odd years, and without
protest, but with apparently great sa
!, isfaction, met, and ratified the selet
l. tion Of Wall street.
> WERE THEY IGNORANT OR DID THEY D
- IT KNOWINGLY.
- Is it possible that these souther
- and western politicians have been is
norant OF the blighting and ruinol
- effects of the rule of mOnOpOl
t. and the gold trust upon IL
l. farmers, laborers, and every produ
Y. ing interest Of the nation, or ha,
) they willingly and knowingly betra.
= ed the people and sacrificed the
= country to British rule? Have the
- knowingly sold their country for go
1. candidate should win, get the spoiIs
S, office for themselves and their henc
7. men and in order that they might,
e, any event, handle the big campais
4. corruption fund furnished by the COL
y. bined New York and London plut
> crazy? In short, they have COMM
- ted these crimes against the peOp
either ignOrantly and fOolishly,
.. knowingly and deliberately, if not co
5. ruptly. In either event they are da
n, gerOus and unsafe leaders for the ne
j. pie to long follow.
W. EITHER "KNAvEs OR FOOLS"
- When, in 1898, the attempt was ma
H. to repeal the last silver law on t
M statute books, the late Senator Van
)r. of North Carolina said that any M
Ct. who wonld vote to repeal that la
tt without at the same time, and in t
r.. same bill, voting to put free coinage
~ its place was "either a knave or a foe
y This applies with equal force to t
conduct of these Southern and We
ern Democratic politicians, who ha
for a quarter of century been nor
mating gold-bugs for the presiden,
and then agreeing with the Repub
can politicians to keep the truth fir,
Re- the people by fighting sham bait
AN lover the tariff and other minor issu