The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1896-10-09
LETTER FROM WASHINGTON.
WASHINGTON, d. G., Oct. 0, 1896.

Tile l'eMOcTdtlC UlckeU anu pldtIoflI.
Being more familiar with your views
on the financial question through
their constant reading Of your able
Journal, than they were with the kind
OF stuff OF which you are made,
some feared that you might follow
Grover Cleveland and his mugwump
newspapers out OF the Democratic
party. But having known you well
since the time when l wore pants but
toned onto bodies, l felt confident of
the course you would pursue. l knew
that with you, as with all other true
Democrats, the perpetuation of the
Democratic party and its principles
were paramount to any M single
issue that might arise, and your en-
phatic declaration for the party and
platform, when all of the Wall street
mirrors were being dumped on the
side Of bOodle-bearing corporations,
was no surprise to me. But we can
not fail to contrast your attitude with
those Of the New York World, the
Baltimore Sun, the Philadelphia Re-
cord, the Louisville Couricr-Journal
and Others Of like stripe. Once splen.
did types Of American journals enlist
ed on the side Of the plain people and
humanity they represented all that
was grand and cnnobling in Journal
ism, but under the increasing infu-
encc of the gigantic money powers,
they have become subsidized and cor.
rupted, having for the sake of Doodle
forfeited their own principle and their
right to the exalted position they
once occupied in the estimation and
confidence Of the American people;
while you, with your characteristic
boldness and manhood, never hest
tating to decide between right and
wrong, principle and ignominy, duty
and treachcry, stand out like a grand
old monument of principle, beneath a
bright, clear sky Of popular approval.
In the language Of the Inimitable JEFF
%ferson, may you live long and pros
per-"
The political condition which con.
fronts the people Of this liberty-lOving
nation to-day, as viewed from Wash
ington, is doubtless the same as
viewed from all other sections of the
country, and an expression from here
will throw no new light upon the sit
uation, but it will show that there is
sympathy even among the people at
the nations capitalize headquarters
OF plutOcracy, aristOcracy and AFRO
gance-for the cause of the laboring
masses, the wealth producers of this,
our common country. From Wash
ington, as from every other point of
the globe, it is known that the pres
cnt campaign is nothing more than a
desperate effort OF the money powers
to control the government of this
country that their own pecuniary in
terests may be best s~ubserved, as
against the concerted desire OF the
common people for financial freedom,
which can only be secured through a
government of the people, by the
people and for the people,"
How do w know that the powers
are arrayed against the American pco.
pie? Because in the beginning of this
campaign the Republican party nam
ed a candidate for president whose
past record was committed to bimetal.
lism, and it is know that the original
financial plank of the platform, fash
Toned by himself, did not endorse the
gold standard, but was a gigantic
straddle, but while the Republican
convention was still in session, the
agents of gold from the money centers
compelled that convention to change
the straddle plank to one declaring
for the present gold standard until
this country can secure international
agreement. And it is further known
that their bimetallist candidate kept
his mouth closed on the financial
question for weeks after his nomina-
tion, and until his proprietor and
manager prised it open with a gold
crowbar, and even now they have to
administer the crowbar every time
they get a grunt from him on the
subject. In addition to this evidence,
when the m%oneycrats of the Demo-
cratic party thought they would be
able, as they always had, to control
the national convention, knowing the
growing sentiment which was in re-
volt against their former methods
and fearing that certain members of
the party, who had grown weary wait
ing for the Compromised relief would
not consent to another gold candi.
date and platform, AMI the money
powers themselves feeling so confident
that such a candidate and platform
would be the result Of the Chicago
they set actively to work
through their press and orators to
mold a sentiment In the interest of
harmony and against the undeluo.
cratic idea Of "bolting." What do we
see next? The gold people failed in
their efforts TO control the conyen-
ton, and almost to a man bolted their
and have set up a counterfeit
party for the avowed purpose of de-
feating the regular Democratic nomi-
nees and the election OF the Repub-
leans.
The Chicago convention was posi-
hlV the most, ~reuular and rnprnconta.