The herald., 1896-10-20

lion Oh IL That 10 UAcklu8 tuc mcRiutey
campaign, is in the hands of men who
are prepared. and are preparing, to go
any length and resort to any means,
however disnonorable or desperate,
rather than relax their grasp. on the
reins of that government they
have so long used as an instru-
ment for the enrichment of them
selves by the impoverishment and ruin
of the people. In order to retain their
power they are today spending millions
of money. They want no fair and honest
election. They realize that the honest
people of this country are agaEst them
and that their only hope lies in the COM
bined use of fraud. corruption, intimida- :
tion, oppression and coercion.
Should Mckinley be elected, knowing
that he owes his Office to these corrup-
tionists and their money, he would not
resist their Vaccinations IL he could,
and he could not if he would. He could
no more run his administration in oppo-
sition to their will than the lifeless fig
ure-head on a ship could give direction
and speed to the ship. And what will
these corrupt syndicates do with the
government should they get control of
it for the next four years?
This is a most momentous question,
and I wish from the bottom of my heart
that every true patriot in America
would seriously consider it. What would
elected to power at such an enormous
cost of money. by the use of such appli-
arces, against such a tremendous Oppo-
eition on the part of honest thinking,
patriotic, liberty loving voters, and in
the face of such absolute certainty thar
such a people as ours would never vol
unfairly perpetuatc such an administra-
tion-wnat. I repeat, would such an
administration do under such circum-
stancec? I can only say what I sin
cerely believe it would do. l believe
firmly that Just as soon as McKinley's 5
administration Is installed in power
If that time shall ever come-his cab
met will be filled by the representa-
tives of the money power. who will
stand as ready to do it's bidding as Mr..
Mark Hanna now does. If the free and
untrammeled will of the people should
ever again resume its sway in the coun-
ellis of this government, the rule of the
corruptionist5 must cease, and they
know it. Therefore. If once installed
in power, they will take good care to
amply guard agairrt the possibility Of
any mare free elections. Nay, more
thev will guard against any more such
costly elections as this is proving to be,
where 1t requires so many millions of
their precious dollars to carry an cleo
tion in defiance of the peoples will.
There is just one method in which 1t
may be possible, when once seated in
power. for such an administration to
perpetuate its authority indefinitely. and
in my deliberate opinion that method
will be invoked In the event of McKin-
ley's election. 1t is the same method
by which tyrar>j have usually subvert-
ed free governments and planted des-
potisms on their runs: and that method
is the substitution of the bayonet in
place of the ballot. / am no prophet
nor the son of a prophet, but 1 have
read some history and have made some
study of the relations existing between
the motives and the actions of man,
and judging from the signs Of the times
and the present movements of the mon
ey power of this country and Europe.
If Mckinley should be elected president
in November. 1 shall never expect to see,
nor do I expect anybody else to see,
another fair election for president of
the United States until after another
and more terrible war than that be-
tween the north and the south that desc
lated our country for 1861 to 1865. Per-
haps I may be asked how it will be pos
sible for one administration in the short
space of four years to overturn our con-
stitution and subvert the liberties of
the people.
When once possessed of the entire
machinery of the government, with the
money of the world at its disposal, with
most of the corporations and
syndicates at it's back. the
army and navy subject to it's COM
mand with all the railroads, telegraphs,
telephones and the press under its con-
troll I confess I do not very well see
how constitution (not self-executing)
could prevent its own overthrow. or
ehield from the iron hand of tyranny
the PROSTATE liberties of an unarmed.
disorganized. poverty stricken and
starving people If Mckinley Is elect
ed. good by to our long boasted rebub-
lie. Before the time arrives for an
other presidential election q do not
know the fact, but I firmly believe IT.
we shall have a standing army in or
convenient to every city. and an armed
national guard at every polling place to
see that the people vote. not as they
wish. but as they are ordered.
Perhaps the question may be asked.
what reason the federal government can
assign for establishing such govern
ment In time Of peace. inasmuch as the
people, in their usual patriotic spirit.
would doubtless submit to the authori-
ties in power for the time being, looking
forward to the next election to set right
their wrongs. My answer is that 1t can
give no reason, but 1t can find pretexts
in abundance. Already every American
citizen who proclaims himself as op-
posed to the single gold standard Is
dangerous man. With Mr.. Mckinley
in power, whenever 1t is thought ad-
visable to quarter a standing army in
a given locality, how easy 1t will be, by
a preconcerted arrangement. to inform
the president. or the military COM
mander by telegraph or otherwise, that
the anarchists are arming and the gov
ernment property is in immediate dan
ger and will require an army for It's pro-
lection. Every fist fight between two
drunken loafers can be magnified into
battle between the anarchists and
loyal citizens. Every argument in IA
vor of bimetallism and every condemna-
tion of the corrupt methods Of syndi-
Gates or of governmental misdeeds can
and will be tortured into treasonable
utterances.
Whenever despotic governments de-
sire to suppress the liberties of the peo-
pie they never lack for a pretext
In conclusion do beseech every true
hearted American citizen who loves his
country and its constitution and the lib
critics of free republican form of gov
ernment to study we'll the issues now
involved, and on election day cast his
vote according to his own best judg-
ment; but do not, for honor's sake, for
conscience sake, for country's sake, and
for Gods sake, do not let US bring both
ruin and dishOnor on ourselves and on
our children and on our children's chill
dren, by using our ballot, the only
Shield a peaceable freeman has for the
defense of his liberties; do not let us
use that ballot as a mallet to rivet for
ever the chains Of slavery on ourselves
and our descendants, perhap to the end