The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-05-24
A SERIOUS RumoR.
Friends OF Silver Are Warned to Look Ont
For q Trojan Horse ut Chicago.

Friends OF Silver Are Warned to Look Ont
For Trojan Horse at Chicago.
1t has been rumored around town for
several days that the Democratic gold
ties are arming Trojan horse for the
chicago convention 1t is proposed to
go to the convention carrying flag of
truce and offer to surrender to. the free
silver forces from the south and west 1t
is anticipated that if the Rothschilds
gang go to the convention in the garb of
friends and express willingness to sur
render everything they can get it all by
yielding free silver platform, which
will be made to be broken, as platforms
usually are They will secure candi-
date with mouth for silver and heart
for gold When they have secured can
dldate who will be true to the people
during election and true to the goldites
after election, they will open tho doors
OF their Trojan horse and let out the
Whitneys, tho Brices, tho Hills, the
Germans, the Harritys, the Carlisles,
and Last, but not least, Grover the good.
They will embrace the new candidate
and, after the manner Of the boa con-
strictor, slime him oil over with flattery
and promises. swallow him at once and
digest him at their leisure.
1t is true the Trojan horse will con-
tain none of the implements Of warfare
which were necessary in the times of
which Homer writes, because the gold
bug munitions Of war do not consist of
guns and swords, but of lies and brides,
and it Is supposed that the supply of
these modern weapons Of warfare which
will be deposited in the Trojan horse
will be practically inexhaustible.
1t remains to be seen whether the free
silver Democrats who meet at that con-
vention will combine with the goldites
ON any terms If they do, they are lost.
a Democratic nominee supported by the
united Democracy Of the south and east
will turn out goldbug, if elected,
with us much certainty as night follows
day, and with us much certainty as the
two old parties have lied to the people
In their platforms and through their
candidates ON this snmo question for
the Last rs years A union of the free
coinage men of this country and the
goldlte trust, with headquarters in Lon
don, Is as fatal to free coinage as the
union in the same den of the lion and
lamb is fatal to the longevity of the
lamb. This union has been tried with
disastrous results for the last 30 wears,
and we take this occasion to warn free
coinage men that they must come out
from among the enemies of the country,
II they expect to be trusted The free
coinage men will no moro support a
candidate who is supported by the Gold
trust than they will an avowed goldite.
II the Democrats think they can fool
the people again and let New York run
the campaign, they will be mistaken.
a union Of free coinage men and gold
ties at Chicago on any terms means
death to the Democratic party. The
states in which it lives are for free coin
age, and if the leaders Of the Democracy
of the south and west make their bed
with Wall and Lombard streets they
will lie in that bed alone and without
the masses of the people, and the third
party will destroy Democracy in it's
stronghold, because Democratic leaders
by joining Wall street abandon the
Democracy Of Jackson and jefferson.
No. If the Democratic party wants to
exist 1T must return to tho principles Of
its founders If it wants to be destroyed,
it will stay with Wall street, but in
that case there will DO a new Democracy
which will defend the principles of the
fathers, and that new Democracy will
contest every inch of ground in the
south and west in the campaign of 1896
against the false hearted candidate who
seeks the support of Wall streets gold.
Silver Knight