The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1896-07-01
The SILVER SECESSION.
A REVOLT IN FULL SWING AND
HOSTILITIES DECLARED.
The War Horn Has Sounded and the Sill
yer West Will Wage Battle on the
Gold and the East.
Gold and the East.


Gold and the East.
A. 81. Lewis, in New York Journal.
Two months ago wrote from Wash
ington that the west would bolt McKin-
ley 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 reserva-
ton for the warpath. Their great med
cine 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 axe into it, as proof of
his enlistment. The mutiny is on. Re-
belliOn is afOot and the silver west, with
it's own candidate and it's own platform,
will wage war on the gold and the
east.
This means the defeat of Mckinley.
Possibly the deaf 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 Nhigamores of Edin-
burg; their feathers tossing, their ban
ners wide flung and free. They nail
their gauntlet to the gates of gold and
the east stands deted to the uttermost
of war. They have remembered what
the east forgot. They, too, have a
country and cause. There is west,
as well as an east. Silver has its clans,
as well as gold its people. The allied
natives the east forgot; the west did
not.
And SO the silver fighters go back to
their tribes. Ranna;sm, McKinleyism,
an over-reaching east playing the hogs
part in its golden selfshnesss has split
the party The last chance of success
for the republicans has disappeared.
There be hills beyond Pentland,
And friths beyond Forth.
If there 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 the
east across it's borders, and the fires of
it's hatred never die. Today 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.
1t is pleasant and easy for the east to
come from its baths and it's gardens, it's
games and its houses of marble and gilt
to idle about the forum and malign the
west and call its people goth and van
dial. But it may hardly prove profitable.
The east might better recall 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 ard the battle is on.
They will fight with The cool valor of
buccaneers. When the east goes against
them, pride.blown, purblind in it's con-
ceit of rsches, yet really weak with the
possession of that which it relies most
upon-its money-it will be the old sto-
ly 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 wis
dom tie west will grant as little as it
got. What was done to the west. the
west in its turn will do.
These silver men have alresdy made
captive the senate of the United States.
There they appear the veriest Spartans
Of Legislation. They fought the Ding
ley bill to it's death. They boosted
that you should never have protection
until they had free silver. They made
good their boast in the session of con
gress just ended, and the Dingley bill
left unburied ON the field testifes not
only to their plans but to their power
TO carry them out. What they did to
the Dlngley bill they viii return in De
cemoer 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 tho pna.e