Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-10-14
BRABSTER VESTS LETTER.
Republicans on the Run-Thefr Lead
ers Victory in Sight-The
East No Longer the Enemy's Country.

erS Scared-fictOry in Sight-The
East No Longer the Enemy's Country.
Special Correspondence.
In this great battle between those
who produce the wealth of the country,
and those who claim the right to take
1T from the producers without giving an
equivalent it is no longer proper to
speak of the east as the enemy's coun-
try. 1t is true that in part of Manhat-
tan Island and in the New England
states the enemy of American civiliZa-
, ton is entrenched, but, as is shown in
cartoons sent out by the People's party
committee, the New England section is
but the tail of the American mastiff
which has licked England's soldiers
Twice and does not now propose to be
bitten and tormented by England's fl
nanciery. Mr.. Bryan has been into the
East, and the people of the East are
awakening to sense of the Justice OF
the principles which were first publicly
expressed at Omaha in 1892 and which
were Endorsed this year at Chicago by
the democratic national convention.
Tammany Hall invited Mr.. Bryan TO
speak. and one hundred thousand peo-
pie stood without the building in the
midst of tempest. regardless of the in
clement weather just to catch glimpse
or even to be able to go home and
proudly tell their wives and children
that they had seen the carriage III which
he was driven. at Newark, n. j., he
was given salute of one hundred can
non, and the people gathered to hear
him from all parts of the state, which
the organs of the Wall street usurers
have always delighted in depicting as
the dwelling place of fools and suckers.
AT this writing it appears as if the peo-
pie of New Jersey have determined to
join with the people Of the West and
South in showing the money changers
that they will be fools and suckers no
longer.
Until two weeks ago the republicans
and dear dollar democrats in the city of
Washington were very eager to bet
money on McKinley's election. Now
they are as quiet as the man who was
pursued by bear and laid down and
felgned death, knowing that a bear ,un-
less very hungry, disdans to mangle a
dead body. The Hanna outfit are not
yet corpseS, for the labor crusher of
Cleveland, Ohio, is still administering
some galvanic shocks TO them from his
Rothschild- battery, but afterNovember
they Will be such defunct lot of dis
graced politicians that they will never
be heard of any more in the public life
Of America.
The Washington Post, which last
spring was bitterly opposed to the free
silver movement and which after Mr..
Bryan's nomination crawled upon the
fence, is now sliding down on the Bry-
an side and hanging by one hand, with
its toes nearly touching the ground.
Judging from its editorials in the last
two days, it will be sitting comfortably
among the Bryan forces before this
letter reaches your readers, and will be
adjusting its mouth in readiness for
bite at the pie of the Bryan administra-
ton. Pulitzer, of the New York World.
who is one of the keenest newspaper
men In America, hears the rumbllng
which presages the coming landslide
for Bryan and his agitated frame of
mind is shown in his editorials. This
week he has been plaintively calling
upon Mckinley 10 follow Mr..
RrUanfC evonopIo oo1
his intention to suppress all trusts and
monopOlieS, but the muzZled mummy of
Canton cannot do it, for his campaign
funds have been supplied by those bri-
gands. His manager is one of the
greatest OF the crew and his running
mate, Hobart,is the man who engineer
ed the coal trust deal, which has raised
the price of coal all over the country
one dollar a ton, without raising the
wages of the miners, but on the con-
trary having closed down many mines
and thrown many thousands of men
out of employment.
The case of the republican crowd is
desperate. Your readers will remem-
Der dispatch from St. Louis, under
date OF June IL, signed John j. Ingalls,,
In which the words were used:
Mckinley will be made to sup de-
feat"
Elk Senator ingalls, afterwards denied
the authenticity of the dispatch, but
the prophecy was true. There are 447
votes III the electoral college, 500 of
which are already certain for BRYAN.
and he has excellent chances of getting
more. The Hanna crowd are whistlinp
to keep up their courage, like a bow
nearing graveyard in the dead of
night, and whispering amongst them
selves that they may yet stem the tide
by pouring ont millions of money in
the last few days before the election.
but their game will not work success.
fully. The people of the United States
nave this year made up their minds. SO
far as can judge from the correspon.
dence which comes to the several ma.
tlonal committees, and to the Silver
Knight Waterman, of which I am an
editor, that if the necessities of their
wives and children force them n
accept moiety of the gold which the
gold gamblers have flched from them