Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-10-10

they found they We're unable TO control
the patronage of the party. There is not
among the whole assemblage one who
was old enough to'vote. no. not a single
man. but stood for free silver until Grover
Cleveland became President in 1888 and de-
clared he would carry out the financial
policy laid down by Harrison and Foster.
That very moment they changed their
mind. And the reason was that most of
them were instructed by their bosses that
the collar around their necks would be
tightened and the tab taken OFF and an
other man put I'm their place if they did
not shout for BALKAN and Balaams ass.
Per- was their aim. not principle, and they
began TO shout. They said more than
their masters and went further in render
ing homage TO the Golden Calf. The
master who had ruled the roost at st.
Louis Mark HANNAH wants to hoodwlnk
the people by saying blmetallism is right
when other nations say to let down the
bars and lead the monster forth. but this
body of servants" who stand with out
stretched hands and glarlng eyes weeping
over the dunlcity of those they serve, de-
clare that England's policy of a single gold
standard was their ultimatum and their
policy of plutocracy is the only one that
we win accept. And this. they say. is the
policy also of jefferson and Jackson. 1t
Is a fine thing that Jackson Is not living
and President, or he would treat them TO
the same diet he dished out to Nicholas
Fiddle and the bankers who waited on him
TO have him change his mind about We
toine the charter for the extension of
the National Bank They threatened him
when they found him persistent in his
views, and he told them If they impugned
his motives he would hang the last one
OF them higher than Hannah. And that is
what he would do to-day II he was i'm the
Presidential chair; he would treat them to
coil of hemp for a neck-collar in place
of tho golden band they now wear. Jack
m. Jefferson and all the old Democracy
were for the masses. and their greatest
aim and their best teachings We're to avoid
British policies There was not man in
The Indianapolis convention that held the
position OF delegate through the will Of
the people hut they were there by the aid
and through the will of that element of
rich men. headed by Rothschild of Eng
land and mis- vampires In this country. as
sisted by a few Americans Of like ilk-
the drones of society They have been
standing together and making our laws.
earnest sized. an emissary of England.
dictated measures and helped formulate.
I'm our finance committee. the act that
demonetized silver These men who are
so anxious to maintain the single gold
standard are the men who have been max
Ing your laws on finance. The laboring
r,r. Oh
is an done for business and for business
men. Bryan says that every man is a
business man. The fa5ir who sells pen
ellis uuou the street. the man who digs
SANG I'm the West Virginia hills. and the
farmer who plows from morn TO evening
and sleeps with his family in q log cabin
or q bundle Of straw I'm corner on the
Eoor. is as much a business man as the
millionaire who lives I'm palace and
sleeps on n bed made Of gold and who
handles millions of money daily. Each
man is an American citizen and should be
dealt with the same under the law. The
great Democratic party believes i'm dem
ocrauc form of government i'm the broad
est sense this term win imply. Was it in
this sense that the indianapolis convention
met? Not by any means. They met for
the purpose of shaking hands with Mark
Hanna. to aid him i'm some way to continue
the system Of the rich man making the
laws in his own interest There is one
system of government the people love. and
that Is the system that knows no favor
iteism. a system by which every citizen
stands on the same plane and that will
give each man an equal chance for his
white alley and which confers no special
privileges on no one; a government that
protects every citizen alike and confeTs
no sreater favors to the rich than II ex-
tends to the poor. All these functions are
trampIed under foot by this bastard Nc
Einley side show. Bond issues must go
ON. every privilege boasjed of by every
true American. emanating from our Con-
stitution is obliterated. and the old Ham
n.on principles Of a strong government
I'm the interest of the few substituted.
But. thank God. Judas can't cover his
head with the great mantle Of Democ-
racy without giving out the faith that is
I'm him. Little by little the inward work
ings of this convention is being exposed.
and IT'S dim. dark. damnable carcass with
an its putrid odors are being brought to
public gaze. and by the 81 of November
10 Will exist I'm name only. hated and de
spised by an. and will be dubbed a ring of
designing pIutocrats whose only ahp was
TO subsidise their fellow man TO a sR.very
more terrible than that Of the negro in
the South prior TO the war. Already the
calling yoke of this bondage is felt by the
masses. Promotheus-like. they are chain
ed az the feet of the monied power of this
1,trf % n
spirit cannot be curbed. 1t may be shack
LED for a while. as IL Is now, but it will
concentrate its powers and by the civil
authority granted by the Constitution of
the nation. will hurl from place those who
have traduced them. and brand them,
together with those who were their aides
and abettors. with the word Dishonest,
meaning that this party acts under sto-
len name for the purpose of aiding the
election of Mckinley. They assume this
hvpocritical position to deceive all they
can and turn them from Bryan and the
only Democratic party there is. But their
nefarIous work Is damning them. the lis"I
shines I'm upon them and their inward in
tentions are written before US all. Their
only object is TO elect Mckinley and con-
tiuue Grover Cleveland's financial policy
as laid down by the Republican party dur
ing Harrisons administration. Its doc
triucs are no longer deceiving. Its mo-
tives are unmasked. its principles known
and the hypocrisy that underlies its whole
system is plainly manifest and is burning
deep into the minds of the people because
it is unjust. un-American, without prece-
dent and false in every conceivable way.
But thank God the trimming Of its lamp
let's i'm the light and hosts Of men are