Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1896-10-29

" cies ny fretehdihg 60 DC enemies OF the
Money Barons.
Special Correspondence OF Gazette ana journal
Chicago, ILL.,, Oct. 21.-Over and
over it has been remarked that the
only fit line of battle from which to
attack the trusts and their soulless COM
binea and the tariff barons is that
which was thrown out at Indianapolis.
The Bryanites have made terrible
hullaballoo about the iniquites of the
big commercial combines and the
money power generally, and no doubt
it has won them votes; no doubt the
strongest plea they make is that this
is the fight of the poor against the
entrenched rich; but as the campaign
draws toward Its close thoughtful men
are more and more impressed with the
thought that their campaign on this
line has no solid basis. Indeed, it is
hard not TO believe that the enmity Of
the men who are managing the Bryan
campaign to the money barons is a
mere hollow pretense, mere desperate
beating of tomtoms for the purpose Of
diverting attention from the silver fall
lacies which have cost Bryan so many
votes. There is more than enough in
the organization of the popocratic CAM
paigu to encourage this idea. BY gen.
erahconfession of the popocratic poll
ticans German is in the saddle now in
all of their serious moves. A photo
graph of German in the act of clipping
the talons of the trusts would be joke
which could scarcely escape William
Jennings Bryan himself.
1t was to German the Macedonian cry
of the sugar trust and the lead trust
and the coal trust went in 1893, when
the Democrats were working on their
tariff bill. 1t is German whom they
and the other scandalously protected
interests now hail as chief of their
saviors. And it is noticeable that
nearly all the other Senators who had a
hand in that tariff hold-up are now
joining in the squeal against the trusts
and in favor of Bryan. How many
thinking voters, jealous of trust power,
can they hope to deceive?
Even Brice. lusty champion OF
sound money, is quiescent. Can it be
| the crusade of the Bryanites against
| the corporations and monopolies wins
his sympathy and holds him back from
| the Palmer and Buckner movement
Interesting, il true. Next to Cor
mon, Murphy of New YORK was the
most resolute of the Democratic protec-
| tionists in the Senate He swore by
the cuffs and collars of Troy that some
of the vested manufacturing interests
should have substantial protection or
tariff reform did not go" Mr.. MUIR
ply Is now moving heaven and earth
for Bryan and the New York REGULAR
nominees, plotting the crowd who are
threatening to read David b. Hill and
William +. Sheehan out Of the party.
Old Henry g. Davis, who registers
| from West Virginia, and who was
| check by jowl with German when he
sat in the Senate, has come out of his
| hole for the first time these five year
| hallooing for Bryan and damning the
trusts. He is millionaire, a
merciless operator of corporations, and
probably tied up in more of the soul
less combines than any other pretender
that ever carried Democratic creden-
tials to Washington.
"Arkansas'' Jones himself was deep
into that protectionist combine in the
Senate from the day of its inception.
He was fetching and carrying for Cor
man and Harris all the while. Next to
German influence in that little band.
indeed, probably the most capable of
| all of them in practical management
was Isham q. Harris. There is no.
| body in Tennessee old enough to re-
member when Harris first went into
| public office, but from that day when
ever it was-until the introduction of
| the Wilson bill he had made the welkin
| ring from "Carter to Shelby" as the
| Tennesseeans say, with denunciations
| of the protected interests; yet, when
| the Democratic party got chance at
| these tariff robbers, there was Harris
| joining German to protect the biggest
robbers of them all. When the Chicago
| convention met, there was Harris,
| again pushing Jones to the front, shap-
| ing up fake campaign against trusts
and pledging his energies and his
crafty stump oratory to any sort Of war
| cries that might win victory for 80
! cent dollar and put big dividends into
| the pockets of stockholders in the silver
syndicate, the most brazen combine Of
| all.
That for some time there has been a
| close deal between the silver leaders in
| the Senate and the protectionists-bot
| the Jones and German sort, and the Re-
| publicans-is an open secret. Why
should they all not work to the same
| ends2 Their professed principles have
| the same socialist starting point-the
alleged duty of the government,
! through the taxing power or coinage
power or what not, to do something
for somebody who is not doing well for
nlmBolf. naturally enough, Gpe peO-
pie are thinking that these pipe layers
are not just the men who would be in
| tho lead If there was any real honest
purposes in their conglomerate party to
serve those interests of the people
which are jeopardized by the tremen-
dous combinations of capital.
beginning with Carlisle and William
L. Watson and Henry Watterson, it is
an impressive fact that the bulk of the
| influential Democrats of the country
who intelligently and conscientiously
took part in the great Democratic
movement for tariff reform are support
ing the Indianapolis ticket. A very
| logical conclusion. which is now show
| ing itself very plainly in tho professed
| intentions of the voters throughout tho
middle West, is that the rest of the
needed reformation in restraint of the
money power will have to be done by
| the sort of Democrats whom Palmer
and Buckner will be fastened by an
| impressive vote cast IN November for
| those earnest old Democrats.
There are those who find Significance
| in the fact that Chairman Jones and
| his committee have declined with
| thanks the offer of William II. Morri-
| son to make speeches for Bryan. They
said they were afraid he was not
sound enough on the silver question to
| help BRYAN. Is il possible that he was