The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1896-10-02

| pllG(l Ou SdlulNidJ 1851 WAN g f>'AfN
er by the Mark Hanna bureau of Balti-
more, Mr.. Geo. R. Gather, who held
forth in spirited way, large part OF his
{ speech being the regular stereotyped
spread eagle which answers equally we'll
for all parties and is extensively used
when the speakers subject is barren of
facts and the speaker of ideas, as is gen.
orally the case this campaign with the
Mckinley speakers.
Mr.. George R. Gather proposed" to
discuss the silver question, but when he
had closed OH that subject not man i'll
the audience knew what he was driving
at Mr.. Gather gave his audience no in
formation OIL the subject whatever. AS
the lawyer who quoted Latin to the jury
and told them it was Greek, when re-
minded by the Court he was quoting
Latin said: "Your Honor, it is all Greek
to the jury" So Mr.. Gathers silver talk
might as we'll have been i'll Greek for all
the information his audience got on the
subject from it.
Mr. Gather skinned over and skirm-
ished round the questions at issue but
discussed none of them. His grand dash
was into the immense prosperity of 1892
which struck the country like spring
tide. Nothing since the organization of
society or the establishment of civil gov
eminent has equaled that wave of pros
perity which submerged the country in
1892. 1t is strange that the discovery of
this unparalleled prosperity was not heard
Of till this campaign began. Then the
goldbug press began to tell about it, and
Mr.. Gather was lifted off his feet telling
it to the audience, and as none of them
had ever heard of the occurrence before,
the faithful band of Mckinley clacquers
clapped and shouted, and the small boy
in the street blew his whistle shriily and
all were happy. There is something sim
gular about this immense prosperity of
1892. The farmers never heard of it.
They were called Calamity howlers"
about that time, and of course weren't
"howling' because of prosperity. Dunn
and Bradstreet's report 10, 27o failures of
business firms that year with liabilities
sos, sos, 24S. These unfortunates, like
the farmers, must have been missed by
the great golden wave. Harrison and the
republican party who had been in power
for four years must have been the authors
of that unequaled prosperity, and yet the
unreasoning, ungrateful people were so
disguised with their great prosperity that
they bundled them out of power, neck
and heels, and placed Cleveland i'll the
White House and democratic congress
with big majority in the House-a
mighty poor trade in our opinion, but they
did it all the same. This appears like very
strange requital for the authors of such
immense prosperity which happened in
1892. They have just found it out it ap-
pears, and it fits that water melon story
the speaker told,
Mr.. Gather had something to say about
the illustrated Farmer" article published
in the MIDLAND JOURNAL Sept. 18th, but
only to apologize for the caricatures
which were produced of the farmer, from
the leading goldbug papers. He said the
Jews and the dudes and the summer girl,
ETC., were pictured in similar style but
it didn't hurt them any. They didn't
mind it and the inference to be drawn
Well, they won't, but they will not forget
the authors next November. 1t was
noticeable that Mr.. Gather did not attack
the article he referred to. 1t bristles with
truths that can't be met by the goldbugs.
When speaking of the silver of all the
world coming to the United States i'll the
event of free coinage, he should have read
to the audience the article in the MID
LAND JOURNAL, published the day before.
1t would have given his hearers great
deal more information on the silver flood
than Mr.. Gather impaired in his entire
| discourse.
When Mr.. H. H. Haines introduced the
speaker, by way of preliminary remarks
he assured the meeting that there was no
doubt whatever that Maryland would go
for Mckinley by $4,000 majority. That
was as sure as if the polls had been count
ed and vote returned. He had been to
Baltimore and Philadelphia and learned
all about it. This meant-and it could
mean nothing eise-that Mark Hanna had
counted out the required sum to pay the
citizens of Maryland for their votes for
Mckinley. These goldbugs actually be-
lieve that the white men in 1896 can be
bought and sold and driven like the
"niggers' OF 1886, and having bought
them at the polls they will get their
money back by keeping them raising so
cent wheat and IS cent oats, and other
products in proportion.
f Chairman Haiues also told the meeting
: that the club was making arrangements
to organize marching" company and
glee club, and Mr.. c. w. Wilson sang a
r protection" song to demonstrate how
the thing would work.