The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1896-10-30

| GUS, dySpeptlc, rundown, debllltate
feated at this election it will en-
trench itselfbehind standing army
and free speech and free elections
will be unknown in the U. s..
hereafter. This particular phase of
the campaign, as remarked before,
has in manner OvershadOwed the
financial issue and there is a deter
mination settling down in the minds
of the American voters that they
will be free and that money robbers
shall not own them. The railroads
and the banks are using every eXer-
ton to intimidate their employees
and their customers, threading dis
charge and ruin unless Mckinley
is elected. Our advice to the
American people is, let them
threaten; vote for Bryan and we
will elect him, and when these gen
tlemen attempt to carry out their
threats the American people will
see to it that they don't do it. We
will crush them as they should be
crushed. America must be free !!
Taking the situation all round it
is as propitious and full of hope as
the most ardent lover of his eoun,
try could desire. There is no ques-
ton but what Mr.. Bryan is going
to be elected and elected by the
largest majority ofany President in
the last twenty years. There is no
question that when he is elected
that he will carry out the prin-
ciples of the platform upon which
he is running, and the plutocrats
know that they can never buy him
or intimidate him. Hence their
desperate fight. We urge all to
pay no attention whatever to what
the goldbug paper may claim or
say. They are written with false
hood for the purpose of deception,
fos the purpose of decrying and dis
heartening the friends of reform,
Do not let it have that effect, but
on the contrary when you see one
of their falsehoods printed, buckle
up the strap around you and go in
and fight all the harder. See that
every man that can vote is at the
polls as early as possible, and see
that those votes are put into the
ballot box, and when in there, by
the help of Almighty God and
your strong arms, see that the votes
are counted and counted honestly.
Allow no rascality to defeat you in
the result of your verdict. There
never has been an election since the
first one that elected George Wash
ington President of the United
States that had one hundredth part
of the direful results which will
surely occur unless we win this
fight. With Mckinley elected the
first step will be to retire the green
backs, the next step the silver Ger
tificates, the next step to redeem
the silver dollar in gold, and all the
money the people will have to pay
a debt in this country with will be
gold, which is an invisible quantity.
At great meeting in the city of
Washington the past week, where
over 10000 people were in the
audience, the speaker for Bryan
asked the audience if there was a
man, woman or child present who
had piece of gold, and only one
man in that vast audience acknowl
edged that he had a piece of gold.
Gold belongs to the money changers
and the money robbers. They keep
it locked up. Nowhere does il
come out except for speculative
purposes. All enterprise of an in
dustrial character is destroyed, the
nation is filled with unemployed
men who are seeking work to earn
bread, business paralysis pervades
every quarter of the county, more
commercial failures occurred in the
last month than ever in the history
of the American people. Yet these
monsters are not satisfied but want
to place us under the foot of money
and of money changers. With this
result accomplished the great mid
die class of our people upon whom
rests the integrity and liberties of
the country will be stamped out
and destroyed. The time for the
parting of the ways has come.
Those who are for liberty and for
country, for home and for family,
for peace and prosperity, should
vote for Bryan, because the enemies