The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1896-03-13
Political Forecast and Contrast.

Rothschild, pawnbroker system OF nnahce
There is but one party, the Peoples party,
that is harmonious on the financial ques-
ton. 1t has no gold gamblers in it. All
the other parties are dominated by this
arrogant, plutocratic element which will
tolerate nothing short of unquestioning,
unconditional submission to its imperious
demands. That element will leave all
parties that will not submit to the plat
form it dictates and join hands in the
party which lays down "gold standard,
"gold basis" Sound money" plank, and
no party will do that except the Republi-
can party. Every day makes the pros
pect more apparent that the Presidential
battle is between the Populist and Repub-
lican parties. The Democrat and Prohi-
bition party are destined to cut no figure
in this campaign. The latter wouldn't
anyhow, but the desertion from its ranks
of the goldbug element will prove an
object lesson to the old members.
If the election is thrown into the House
of Representatives, the majority of the
States being represented by free silver
members it is almost certain they would
not vote to seat the goldbug candidate Of
the Republican party, and the Senate
would never elect a goldbug Vice-Presi-
dent Every day is foreshadowing the
defeat and ront of the gold ring aristoc-
racy now in the saddle.
The two old parties are blended in the
''gold standard" policy as they were in
the slavery policy preceding 1860, and the
Prohibition party occupies position
similar to the Abolition party for twenty
years before the great party smashup in
1860 The Peoples party is occupying
similar ground to the financial slavery
system that the Republican party occu-
pied to chattel slavery and the two old
parties in 1860 During the stormy con-
tests in the decade embracing the period
from 1850 to 1860, the Wing and Demo-
Graf parties we're split up over the slavery
question. The slave holders were AFRO
giant. imperious and domineering. They
would brook no hesitation nor submit to
reason or argument, but denounced all
who did aQt agree with them on slavery,
just as the "gold STANDARD" parties who
now dominate the Republican and BEN
ocrat parties denounce and sneer at all
who refuse to kneel at the shrine of
the golden calf.
The Shareholders appropriated the Dem
ocrat party and declared it the standard
bearer of their cause, just as the British
gold ring party has captured and doni-
nate the Republican party of to Cay. The
Shareholders in the Wing party, when
the slavery question drew the lines to
their utmost tension and the choice had
| to be made between the extension of
slavery into the territories and freedom
| for the territories, the shibboleth of the
Democrat party was the extension of
slavery. The dominant element fer free
dom was too strong in the Wing party to
be crushed or driven out and the party
came to an inglorious end. Its slave
holder element joined the Democrat slave
party and the liberty loving members left
both old parties and formed the Repub
lican party.
A similar operation is taking place to-
day. The party in favor of wage slavery
for the masses, composed of bankers,
bondholders, interest drawers, the sal
aried class, corporations, trusts and mo-
nopolies, have drawn together under the
aegis of the Republican party as the great
SHAREHOLDERS and their little satellites
drew together under the Democrat party
before they broke out in rebellion and
open war.
In the Presidential canvass of 1866 the
Wings made feeble effort to hold their
party together on a platform of "Consti-
tuition and Law" which was the last
dying spark among the ashes of the old
party of Henry Clay. The Democrat
party was too nearly divided in two equal
parts for either to dominate at the
national convention, and split was the
result with Douglass on theoretic plat
form called "squatter sovereignty" and
Breckenridge on solid slavery platform.
This year of grace 1896 finds the Demo-
crat party pretty nearly divided between
"sound money" and free silver. There |
will be a struggle for the mastery at
Chicago. and the gold ring element will
20 to the Republican party, which will,
on the 9TH of July, have nominated
thorough gold standard candidate. The
silverites must either go to the Populist |
party or set up hopeless. insignificant
ticket of their own, with the knowledge
i'll advance that such ticket cannot pos
sibly carry single State This or a
platform is their only alter
native, with dodger candidate.
Every day develops the situation more
clearly that the Presidential contest is to
be as much like that of 1860 as changed
will permit. On the one side
in the ranks of wealth and
Plutocracy are the adherents of the Eng !,
lish Jew system of financial rule, repre-
scented by the Republican party. They
are combined against the masses of labor |
employed in productive industry, and
they propose to reduce the toilers to a
condition of hopeless wage slavery, as the
negroes were held in chattel bondage. !