The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1896-09-19
MoRGANTowN SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 49, 1896


luHi NOIt ut0u luSCO IL VFtTs
0 yes. that big little gathering OF
self notable individuals is over, past
and gone, but its unsavory memory,
will endure as long as the memory
of Benedict Arnold lives, and as long
as treason is odious Gen'l John
Manley Palmer, of Illinois, has been
stigmatized as leader, and Gen'l ST.
mon Bolivar Buckner, of Kentucky.
as second mate. Two old war vet
erans-the one battled in the blue,
and the other in the gray. So it is
mingle, mingle where you may.
The former has in long life been
a democrat, republican, populist and
silverite, and is now placed ON the
block to be slaughtered by his
friends, like poor old Greeley. The
latter was bravely battling as leader
of the gray, while his State was in
the Union, and its people in the con
federacy. Poor Simon, first lost his
cause, and now must himself, be of
fered up for the sins of these sore
headed boilers. But Satans amhi-
tion caused his fall, and so it ever is.
Now war is declared. and the battle
is on, and must be decided at the
polls in November The Mckinley
army is diminished in numbers and
badly demoralized in spirit. and its
general-in-chief, Hanna, in bad re-
pute, and no recruits coming. for
they have en- masse, gone to free
silver.
The soreheads or boilers army are
but few, and they are all captains,
uniformed in gold ribbons and sash
es, quite too fine to go in the rain,
while the national democratic host,
led by its famous general, William
Jennings Bryan, is marching ON from
skirmish to victory. His army,
strong and full of courage, and grow
ing day by day, and confident ofvic-
tory. The result cannot be doubt
full What, then, can these sore
heads meanY They cannot hope to
carry a single State; nay, not sim
gle electoral vote. They can only
hope that if they cannot man the
democratic ship and steer it into
their own port of gold only, they
can sink it, But in this hope they
will also fail, as ingloriously as they
did in 1860 when this same set of
rule or ruin big bugs (now gold
bugs bolted from the Baltimore
democratic national convention that
nominated Horace Greeley for presi-
dent as peace offering to the coun-
try and nominated an independent
ticket, with that great lawyer, Chas.
O'Connor, at its head, who at the
November election following receiv-
ed all the way to $4,000 popular
votes out of an aggregate vote of TO-,
600, 900 or more, and failed to carry
single state or electoral vote; and
so we opine it will be again. The
people will rule. As we before said
these soreheads do not and cannot
expect to carry a single state or a
single electoral vote, but they do
hope to get enough democratic votes
in some two or three of the more
doubtful states to enable Mckinley
to carry their electoral votes. and in
this way elect Mckinley, not that
they love their life long enemy the
more, but that they hate the young
democracy more. In fact, it will be
found that their ticket is only in
tended as decoy ticket to catch the
unsuspecting who do not quite like
free silver, but cannot be induced to
vote for Mckinley directly, while
the captains and main conspirators
all intend to vote for Mckinley di-
rectly. But in this they will be again
disappointed as badly as when they
went In force to the Chicago nation
al democratic convention, determin-
ed to rule or ruin it, but so signally
failed. The honest well meaning
portion of democrats will like that
great statesman, Senator David b.
HILL of New York, declare first and
last, they are democrats; and will
vote with their party who follow the
Chicago platform. And why should
they not? There is nothing either
novel or startling in that platform,
except that itspeaks in truth and So
berness what it means, whereas the
platforms of both the great parties
have heretofore, spoke with forked
tongues which could be construed
to mean one thing, or the other. All
democratic platforms heretofore
adopted, favored bi-metallism; that
| is, both gold and silver That is all
the platform does, only it says it so
plainly that all can understand it,
and the people can no longer be duped
or deceived by the leaders, and they
do now understand it; and hence,
the land slide to Bryan.
No party or party platform, until
this year of our Lord, has been
bold enough to assert or claim sin
gle gold standard of basic money, but
always the double or bi-metallic
standard, that is, both gold and sill
yer. The Republican st. Louis
platform of this year favors the sin
gle gold standard, until they can
get the consent of the great CONNER
cial nations of Europe,to let us have
bimetallism, and it pledges the Re
publican party to do its best coax
ing with the crowned heads of the
old world to get them to consent
that we may have what we want and
50 much need, thereby confessing
that bimesalism is what we need
and is better for us than the gold
standard.
Patriots of 1776 and 1872 hang
your heads in shame! The sorehead
or bolter's platform as to finance, is
like themselves past finding out or not
giving definite or rational meaning.
1t uses so much garbage, confusion
and untruth, until like all its form
err utterances on that subject, it defies
definite construction. But passing
by the preamble, we find these
words: ITO this long established
democratic policy we adhere, and in
sist upon the gold standard, and the