The record-union., 1896-08-10

nominee is DdQIy neeueQ just now. 1t
is plain that the Democrats do not in
tend to meet us on any fair, common
ground, and now, having suffered the
humiliation of counting Miss Democracy
and being scornfully rejected, we should
show just a little of that Independent
spirit which made our party members
proud of the organization in 1892.
The result might be the election of
Mckinley, consummation devoutly to
be avoided, but the responsibility of
McKinley's election would not rest upon
the Populist party. We have gone
nine tenths of the way toward the De-
1nocratic camp for the sake of one little
principle of our party-not one of our
most important principles either-but
we believed it would bring some little
measure of relief to the over -burdened
people, and as the Democrats adopted
it and made it their chief issue, we Of
fered to lay aside for the present the
most important principles Of our party
and join them in a united effort to re-
store to the people the free coinage of
silver. They flatly refuse to accept our
profered assistance, unless we kick our
own Vice Presidential candidate off the
ticket and agree to vote for National
Bank President along with Bryan.
AS time goes on, we are more and
more convinced that the Democrats are
not sincere in the protestations Of
friendship for free silver Their dispo-
sition to divide the vote for Congress
men so as to insure the election of the
Republican candidates, shows that their
only hope is to elect the President and
shows further that they have no choice
as between a free silver Populist and q
Republican. They went to the very
extreme of political deception to cap
ture our National Convention and force
us to nominate Bryan and now they cal
culate that our members will vote for
Bryan regardless of the shameful man
ner in which Bryan and his managers
may treat us They calculate that we
have no self-respect nor manhood left,
and that the great body of our party
can be stampeded by the magic name
of Bryan, as our National Convention
was stampeded.
The National Committee should at
once give us a straight Populist to vote
for.
MILLIONS FOR THE CAMPAIGN.
Stockton Mail: Wall street is
touring money into the lap of Mr..
Hanna in steady stream. Dispatches
in to-day's MALI show that the sub
scriptions already amount to S1O,000-
600, and the statement is made that
as much more can be had for the ask
ing National campaigns are neces-
sarily expensive. Campaigns of edu-
cation are especially costly, since tall
ent of the highest order has to be
secured and the printing must be
rushed out, no matter what the eX-
pense. The country has had several
Presidential campaigns, the cost of
which reached a million and a half a
side, but these were looked upon as
unusually extravagant.
To what uses does the gold syndicate
intend to apply the large sums of
money which it is getting from the
bankers and corporations? There Is
no legitimate way in which so great a
sum of money can be expended within
three months. OF what possible use
can be the millions collected over and
above the actual necessities Of the
campaign?
SILVER AND WHEAT.
Fresno Expositor: Most of the in
telligent wheat growers of California
are we'll aware of the close sympathy
between wheat and silver, and many
of them realize that the discrimina-
ton against the white metal means the
ruin of the wheat farmer Of this coun-
try. even with soil, climate and i'm
proved methods in his favor. Many,
however, are not altogether clear as to
exactly why this is true.
| The answer is simple enough. Eng
| land, the great wheat market of the
world, must get the bulk of her silver
supply from the two great silver pro-
ducing countries of the world, the
United States and Mexico, and it is
only with cheap silver that she can
utilize to our disadvantage the coolie
produced wheat of India.
| How is this reconciliation of silver
| to help matters? The answer is simple
| enough. The moment our Mints are
| thrown open to the coinage of full
! legal tender silver dollar at ratio of
| l to l, that moment the value of every
ounce of silver to be hereafter mined,
not only in this country, but in Mexico
also, will be worth 81 30 an ounce.
| The silly argument that a man in the
United States or anywhere else could
| take $500 in gold and purchase silver
at one-half or even 30 per cent of its
coin value, is presumulg on the ignor-
| ance of the man to whom it is ad-
dressed.
MUTUALITY CHARGED.
| San Jose Herald: New York advices
say that Hanna and Platt are now on
| of ia " IN
accord regarding the conduct of the
Republican campaign. Why, of course,
Hanna. the trust, combine and monop-
oily boss, and Platt, the Republican pro-
lection boss, could not help but agree.
Their interests are mutual and their
alliance strictly business.
SEND MORE OF THEM
| Santa Rosa Press: 1t is hoped that
our great and good friend, President
Greene of the Connecticut Mutual Life
| Insurance Company, will continue
sending out his anti-free- silver circu-
| lars They make the very best cam
paign literature for the cause of free
silver, and, like the recent circular OF
the California Bankers Association,
will make thousands of votes for Bryan
and the cause of the people. More than
a few Santa ROsans who have received
the manifesto of the gold manipulators
have declared that they are more de-
| termined than ever to vote for free
silver. The very fact, they say, that
these corporations are so very much
worried over free silver is evidence
that something is wrong with the
present standard the trusts love
so we'll Hence, they propose to
vote for free silver. The Press
hopes the output of these cir