Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1896-06-24
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The SILVER SECESSION.
Hostilities Openly Declared Under Teller's
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ST. LOUIS, Mo-, June 1.-Two
months ago wrote from Washington
that the West would bolt Mckinley
and gold at the St. Louis convention.
AS this is written the West, the silver
West, is marching out. The revolt is
practically accomplished. The white
savages of silver are leaving the reser-
vation for the warpath. Their great
medicine man, Teller has set up the
war pole and the young bucks vie with
one another as to who shall be the
first to strike his war ak into it, as
proof of his enlistment. The mutiny
is on. Rebellion is afoot and the sill
yer West, with its own candidate and
its own platform, will wage war on
gold and the East.
This means the defeat of Mckinley.
Possibly the death of Republicanism.
Not the least significant of the signs
of the hour is the steady confidence
with which the silver forces march
away. They leave their fellows of
gold as Dundee left the Whigamores
of Edinburgh; their feathers tossing,
their banners wide flung and free.
They nail their gauntlet to'the gates
of gold and the East stands defied to
the uttermost of war. They have re-
membered what the East forgot.
They, too, have a country and a
cause. There is West, as we'll as an
East. Silver has its clans, as we'll as
gold its people. The allied natives
the. East forgot; the West did not.
And 80 the silver fighters 60 back
to their tribes. Hannaism, Mckinley
ism, an over-reaching East playing
the hogs part in its golden selishness
have split the party. The last chance
of success for the Republicans has dis
appeared.
There be hills beyond Pentland,
And friths beyond Forth.
Ifthere be lords in lowlands,
There be chiefs in the North
The East can laugh at these people.
The East should laugh at people less and
study them more. This Eastern policy
of the tip-tilted nose-has already cost
it the South. That region glowers at
at the East across its borders, and the
fires of its hatred never die. To day
the West arrays itself against the East
and begins running out it's lines of
battle. The West has become ally
to the South, and the ally will be
found the harder, more indomitable
enemy than the original foe.
It is pleasant and easy for the East
to come from its baths and its gardens,
its games and its houses of marble and
gilt to idle about the forum and malign
the West call its people Goth and
Vandal. But it may hardly prove
profitable. The East might better re.
call what the Goths and Vandals did
to Rome.
These silver people are the Swiss of
America. They are poor in all save
courage. They have heard their war
horns sounding and the battle is on.
They will fight with cool valor of buc-
cancers. When the East goes against
them, pride blown, purhlind in its con-
ceit of riches, yet weaktwith the pos
session of that which it relies most up
on-its money-it will be the old story
of Charles of Burgundy over again.
The Swiss will win, and whereas just
terms might once have been made
with them in their hour of might and
wisdom, the West will grant as little
as it got. What was done to the
West, the West will in its turn do.
These silver men have already made
captive the senate ofthe United States.
There they appear the veriest Spar
tans of legislation. They fought the
Dingley bill to its death. They boast.
ed that you should never have pro-
lection until they had free silver.
They made good their boast in the
session of congress just ended, and the
Dingley bill left unburied on the field
testified not only to their plans, but
to their power to carry them out.
What they did to the Dingley bill they
will return in December to do again
to any legislation they may levy silver
war against.
Mckinley will be beaten, and now
I'll tell you how. This silver revolt
will sweep the West between the
Missouri and the Pacific. You may
buy a gold plank in Dakota and again
in Oregon, but you can't buy the peo-
pie. You can't bribe the public in
the wide region named from the coast
to the Missouri, from the Rio Grande
to the English line. Silver will sweep
all before it. Teller will get most of
them, but at least Mckinley has lost
every electoral vote after you leave
the Missouri river. They will 60 to
Populists, to Democrats, to Silver Re-
publicans, but they will none of them
60 to Mckinley, that candidate hand
made by Hanna on a platform to
which in his heart of hearts he is false.
Heaven hates coward, and McKin-
ley has not been brave. The people
are against him, and the gods will not
fight on his side. Give the West to
silver. California, Oregon, Washing
ton, Montana, Idaho, Nevada, Utah,
Colorado, Wyoming, the Dakotas, Ne
braska, Kansas and Texas-silYer has