The herald., 1896-07-23
All nv His

All by MS Lonely
Editor Herald: All by my lonesome
pen this, thinking all the time OF the
party chip emanating from the wisdom
offering of Hill, and gold chin of Whit
ney. both dancing in the gold-bug waltz
OF Wall street and keeping step to the
Shylock quickstep.
AS they appear in the lead of the party
calamities skipping to its forum to sub
due the courage of the gallant west and
south, and Haunting the colors of the
impious braves of Wall street and the
foreign fiscal graders of old England.
we think that the picture of party taffy
on the stick is of the proper consistency
when they greet the great autocat.
Grover. in response, as Hill would say.
with Il am a Democrat and always
was" How's that
Don't forget this impressive bit of the
kings English. for it lays to the doors
of the gallant Bryan and his progressive
enthusiasts recently in the party body
at Chicago that they We're not of blood
faith, If you please-which regulates the
Democratic pulsations which keeps Hill
and his pard Whitney's political Dutch
up TO their view of normal conventional
action.
This pair of party calamities went to
the great city of sin as worshipers of
capitalistic pelf, and while at the foot
stool of one of the greatest gatherings
~ 10 thC pressure Ol the party
ers or America to make up, so far in
Democratic history. and there. indeed,
ala the great political boss of the Bow
cry precincts get mad and take a walk,
because the sterling Bryan spoke after
him and went him thousands better in
the minds of the vast audience. while
Whitney, Villas and Bragg and host of
party ginger-foots took their bitters un-
der protest and straiEhtway made for
home to plead the baby-act before their
respective constituencies
What dose of pure party conceit
to think that these swallow tails of the
Democratic party can control its future
destiny now in the hands of iiAe pro-
gressive west and south, and backed as
it Will be by the grandest, of all in line
of splendid states and people, the Pa
cific coast, and bordering mineral states.
The party fiat and rank and file has
been reached always heretofore by the
arrogant bugle of New York and other
states of its kith, and under this as
suming process of ''as goes New York,
so goes the Union" The cumbrous
rule has worn out of it's usefulness in
1896, and new and very progressive
era with more pliable and modern
tabulated order of things has taken it's
place, for as in the lines of old Uncle
Horace: 60 west, you naughty boy,
where you will find an pluribus condi-
tloH o1 tAliSS anu people nara no
beat
New York does not appear in this
fight on the battle of the standards as
being hardly in it. for when we reflect
that the progressive Democracy under
the gallant Bryan, the referendum and
other nice, choice points emanating
from the Populists, the splendid pha-
lanX of Independent Republicans under
Teller, coupled with his consistency and
great state experience to double up
upon the common enemy (Wall street,,
honest labor, which has become a great
thinker in recent years, the farmers, in
fact all decent people, animate and may
be some inanimate, will yet storm the
corridors and forums of monopoly,
trusts and bank combinations, under
leaders who take for the argument
logic, If you please-the' dollars of our
dads and its merits as the money of
ultimate redemption upon which de-
pends the happiness of the people of
our great and common country.
BILLY B.