The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1896-10-02
Communicated.

ed platform aud nominated a Llcke1
at Chicago, did its work III scrupu-
lous conformity TO the will of the PEG
Pile.
The man who was the nominee OF
the party for the Presidency is OF the
people and for the people, and is prov
ing his faith and his devotion by en-
ploying his best mental aud physical
gifts in behalf of the people.
The Democratic party is not party
TO stand still and rust, and vanish
from existence. The source that in
fused life into it meant that it should
live forever.
These are principles that will never
die, because they are built upon the
eternal truth, and it is such principles
upon which the Democratic party Is
built, and that makes it indestructlble.
Parties may come and parties may
go, but the Democratic party has lived
for nearly one hundred years, and its
vitality increases with its age.
1t is the people who are in the front,
in the middle and in the rear in the
great crisis now confronting the coun-
try. and they are crying out TO those
not in the ranks to ''fall in"
Why?
Because again great question looms
up that concerns every human being
on American soil, no matter what his
condition is III life.
England by force of arms tried to
compel this country to monarchial al
legiance, and was vanquished ooth
times.
What has England been doing ever
since?
To get us in her financial clutches,
and rule us in way that will event
ually make our Declaration OF lndepen-
dence an absurdlty.
There is no man keeping the run OF
the times, but can see even with hall
an eve that English interests are be-
coming stronger and stronger every
day. Can there be named i'll this
country every day. Can there be
named great trust or syndicate that
is not either directly or indirectly
headed and controlled by British gold
barons, through their representatives
here?
But it will be said: 1--WE must get
help from somewhere, or we cannot de-
velop great enterprises, and keep the
wheels of progress moving, and why
object TO the help coming from Eng
laud?"
Must we sacrifice body and soul that
We may live? Shall we surrender con-
troll of our American enterprises into
the hands of merciless foreign specula-
tors, and must we fall back upon the
money of British capitalists and Shy
locks, that the credit of our govern
ment shall be sustained?
Would it not be wiser to keep on the
track at slower pace, and depend
more upon our own resources for
our position among the nations of the
world?
assert it upon the fullest accumu-
lation of proofs, that England is at the
bottom of this whole movement favor
ing an exclusive gold standard; and l
further assert that there is not an
American citizen favoring such a
standard, but is doing that much to
destroy the liberties OF his country and
aiding England to win by money what
she could not win by war.
desire to ask your readers to SER
iously and intelligentIy ponder over
this last paragraph, whether they be
Democrats, Republicans, Populists, or
any political brand.
Some may boot at the idea of such a
thing, say it is all fudge and only the
conjurings of diseased mind.
But | contend, and the facts bear me
out, that England is gradually getting
this country by the throat, though the
hand is now so velvety that we cannot
feel its pressure. Money is power and
the head of the gold God we are kneel-
ing to is most visible on Lombard
street, London, but casts a strong shad-
ow in Wall street, New York.
This campaign is GOdsend to the
American people. 1t is awakening
them to sense of duty to themselves
and their country. There never was a
time that bid them TO more serious
and dispassinnate thought than now.
Let them look in whatever direction
they may and they must see that the
present movement is a desperate fight
of the money changers to perpetuate a
system of finance that is to add to
their wealth and power, and at the
same time drag the industrial and ag-
ricultural classes to a condition of SER
vitude and impoverishment.
The Democratic party has always
stood by the toilers of the country, and
is doing so IN this campaign. Its can
ddate is visiting the people begging
them to protect themselves against the
tricks and appeals and Vaccinations of
an enemy that threatens not only their
prosperity, but the very liberties of the
country.
Millions of people have fiocked to
his presence and agree that he is a
spokesman of marvellous power and
eloquence. an apostle of new and
grand epoch, and whose burning
words mean redemption from the
thraldom of native and foreign merce-
naries.
The Bryan standard is the true
standard of Democracy, and the fear
less bearer of it, is reaching into the
heart and judgment of the people in
nearly every breath he breathes ev-
cry day He is making heroic fight
and he will win.
What about Maryland? Will she
give her vote to Bryan?
She will
The Republican managers, when
they claim Maryland by 10000 major