The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-06-30
THE SILVER SECESSION.
a revolt in Full Swing and Hostilties
Declared Under Teller's Lead

ene 81. Louis convention. AS this is writ
zen .he west, the silver West, is march
ing out: The revolt is practically ac-
coihPnshed The white savages of silver
e ieavlnS the reservation for the war
pain. The great medicine man. Teller
mas set up the war pole, and the Young
Ducks vie with one another as to who
snaii be the first to strike his war axe in
10 IT, as proof of his enlistment The
h nutihy is on. Rebellion is afoot and the
4 SILVER west, with it's own candidate and
lts own platform, will wage war OH gold
4 and the East.
This means the defeat of MCKINLEY.
possibly the death of Republicanism.
Not the least significant of the signs
ol che hour Is the steady confidence with
which the silver forces march away.
They leave their fellows of gold as Dun
zee lett the Whigamores of Edinburg:
1helr feathers tossing, their banners wide
hunS and free They nail their gauntlet
20 the gates of gold and the East stands
defied to the uttermost of war. They
have remembered what the East forgot.
nney, TOO, have Il country and cause
Ihere Is Il West as we'll as an East. Sill
yer has its Clans as well as gold it's PEG.
pie The allied natives the East forgot.
the West did not
And so the silver fighters 90 back to
their tribes. Hannaism, Mckinleyism.
an over-reaching East playing the hogs
part Ill It's golden selfishness have split
the party. The last chance of success for
me Republicans has disappeared.
There be hills beyond Pentland
And friths beyond Forth
III there be lords in the 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 il
the South. That region glowers 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 its lines of battle. 1.-The West
has become an ally to the South, and the
ally will he found u harder, more in
domitable enemy than the original foe.
1t is pleasant and easy for the East to
come from its baths and its gardens it's
games and its houses of marble and gilt
to idle about the forum and malign the
West and call its people Goths and Van
dals The East might better recall what
the Goths and Nandals did to Rome.
These silver people are the Swiss of
America. They are poor in all save cour-
age. They have heard their war horns
sounding and the battle is on. They will
fight with the cool valor of buccaneers.
When the East goes against them, pride
blown, purblind in its concet of riches,
yet really weak with the possession of
that which it relies most upon--its
mOney--it will he the old story of Charles
OF Burgundy over again. The Swiss
will win, and whereas just terms might
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
tha Mast rho \Uest in, i
These silver men have already made
captive the Senate of the United States:
there they appear the veriest Spartans OF
legislatlon; they fought the Dingley bill
to its death; they boosted that you should
never have protection 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
testifes not only to their plans, but to
their power To carry them out. What
they did to the Dingley bill they will re-
turn in December to do again to any
legislation they may levy silver war
against.
Mckinley is beaten, and now I'll tell
you how. The silver revolt will sweep
the West between the Missouri and
Pacific. You may buy gold plank in
Dakota and again in Oregon, but YOU
can't buy the people; you can't bride 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 90 to Pop
ulists, to Democrats, to silver Republi-
cans, but they will none of them go to
Mckinley, that candidate hand made by
Hanna on platform to which in his heart
of hearts he is false.
Heaven hates coward, and Mckinley
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, Washington, Mon
tana, Idaho, Nevada, Utah, Colorado
Wyoming the Dakotas, Nebraska. Kan
sas and Texas. Silver has already con-
CURED them all. And the South---Mc-
kinley cannot win or hold foot of it,
Every former slave State, bar Delaware,
will go Democratic. There is no doubt
in Il national war with the Democracy
for free silver of such states as Missouri
Kentucky and Maryland. Even West
Virginia would be hard to hold Nc
kinley may kiss hope goodbye so far as
Missouri, Arkansas, Louisiana, Misss-
sippi, Alabama, Tennessee, Kentucky,
Georgia, Florida, the two Carolinas, Vir-
Siild anu MARY ldnu are involved. lie III
get none of them.
Count up the others, and see if he'd
have enough should he carry them all.
He'd be made to sup defeat. But even
were they enough, faith has not decided
that Mckinley carry the others He can
carry Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont,
Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Con-
necticut, the five New England States.
Reed, the Republican Achilles, will sulk