The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-06-24
CAMPAIGN C1QlLlTY.

Editor Representative: It Is in order to
throw out a suggestion or two as to the
conditions upon which the. coming political
battle is to be fought. So far as is now OBJ
servable, there is no lack Of nerve between
the silver and the gold men. The prelimi-
nary skirmishes at Democratic conventions
between the factions, while at Republican
primaries outside of the silver states the
while it is silent, it is nevertheless strong
and deep, and will assert itself as the cam
paign progresses The trappings of party
sit lightly all around, and the general be-
lief that Grover Cleveland, in a certain con-
tingency, viii follow his gold eagles into the
Republican camp. is not calculated to tight
be a party anarchist.
The insolence Of the Republican press and
of the orators Of that party, in traducing
in question their motives denouncing them
as cranks, idiots, crazy looms rascals and
udiationists--demands. summary punish
ment These insolenr hierlings are the
Hessians of the gold contingent and work
for pay and bounty. These papers are
bonded to gold syndicates. newspaper mat
ter is selected for them at headquarters
as are the Orations which hired spouters
proclaim from the stump.
Why should silver kepublicans, , be thus, thus
they stand squarely where James G. Blaine
stood when summoned to meet his Cod
they stand upon the financial plank of the
Republican national convention Of 1892, and
which stood as the shibboleth Of that party
for the succeeding four years. In country
where the laws of common civility prevail,
these papers would be suppressed by the
strong hand and the orators would look
through convention halls and country
school houses, and miss their ears: TO TINS
complexion they are fastening with no Tag
gard steps
It is bad enough to be robbed in dark al
leys and ON devious highways by professed
friends but to be throttled by these scoun-
drels while we are the tramp to the tenn
pie of justice begging for bread at way
stations, justifies blow from the shoulder
and an application of the foot.
BY this protest must not be understood
as advocating the use of the bludgeon, nor
yet the use Of the revolver, In repelling the
and of their corps Of janzaries., I simply
desire to remind these pimps and their. en-
ployers, Sherman, Carlisle and Cleveland,
that these implements are lying around
| come into play. That emergency may not
be far away. II we had a Patrick Henry
rnxns y oat upon tSe ar It s
| Did the departed spirit Of James 6. Blaine
| that James G.. Blaine who was murdered
at the Minneapolis convention OF ls9zn = lc,l
| rope--look down upon the late St LOUIS
convention as the members filed to thir ap-
pointed seats? Did he witness the reganaa
I trampled upon his grave and insulted ms
memory by shouting for a gold standard?
| "Imperious Caesar, dead and turned to clay
| And these shameless rascals abuse and be-
lie Republicans for treading In the footstep:
! of the dead commoner Of the party of Henry
| Clay and Abraham Lincoln.
the men VINO murdered Blaine, and who nov
| invoke his name to bind his late followers
to the chariot wheels OF Rothschild' Morgan
O! shame, where is thy blush?"
Blaine clubs!"-Great God! what next
WIN. WEIGH.
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