The Sussex Countian and Laurel gazette., 1896-10-24
HERE'S rHS TRUE RING.
What A Former Dell. @nre Boy Has to Say
Sa,.a. on the Issae-ilis APPEAL to Delaware

What On .ss Frrsr poy nS s
Voters.
Being by birthEDelawarean and
by choice a Democrat and fully
believing in every plank whichcon-
stitutes the Democratic platform as
enunciated at CEcago, | would like
to submit a few thoughts to the
voters ofdear old Sussex.
We are in the midst of one of the
most hotly contested campaigns in
our country's history, every pulse
of party machinery is in action,
|everynerve is strained to its utmost,
the tension is great, we are all
aware OF great struggle and we
are to day more thoroughly CON
versant with thu, issues before the
people than ever before. Even that
class of our citizens who few years
ago would refrain from discussing
politics, because Politically speaking
they were unedyEated, are now full
ly alive to the position of the two
great parties. Tliy feel the need of
taking a hand in this campaign,
they have educated themselves to
know what they are talking about,
they know that the trusts, the
bankers and the brokers are arrayed
in all their power against Bryan,
they know that these same trusts,
bankers and br1 1ers are working
not for the colhtry's sake, not for
the toiler's sake, not for the poor
mans sake btlS1faI the sake of their
own pockets. now have their
hands deep iT% porkets Of the
masses but theywant them deeper.
They now hold in their deft fingers
the purse strings of the raw pro-
ducer and the labor which makes
raw products marketable, but not
content with that they want to
wrest from us OH very souls, or in
other words they would have us
vote their way or we shall lose our
positions, those Of us who are EN-
ployed by corp5fations
Are we not MEN; are we not as
free as our foretathers who wrested
from England tfteir liberty; do we
not boast that we were born on
freedoms soil' Then let us again
declare our liberty; let us claim and
protect our rights as men; let us
follow our gallant leaders to the
very polls and there shoulder to
shoulder with them help to suppress
the threatenedlplutocratic reign.
Have we notFainds as well as the
moneyed kings have we not reason
as well as the millionaires; have we
not hopes as fond as gloated bond
holders dare have; must we be the
plodding toiling mass and they to
rule, with iron hands in country
where the ballot is sacred, where
every man should be a sovereign.
That liberty for Which our predeees-
Sors fought and died, from that they
would deprive US? Give us the
manhood, the courage to defend our
rights; let us array ourselves a solid
phalanx against that which is CON
tinually "crown Of thorns upon
our brow" and "would cruelty us
upon a cross of gold"
oh Delaware you have in time
gone by justly and proudly boasted
of your Democrcy, but by means
without your bounds shadow has
been cast across your unblotted
page, but again 1t is your privilege
to efface and re6laim what is BY
right and lust ik(your own. IDo it!
BY all meanl i! In doihg that
Frosperity Of Versions and daugh
, tiers.
Never beforehn the history of ou
glorious countrNwerelin so plainl,
drawn betweenI capital and labor
Blind indeed iihe who cannot dis
cover them, u e oppression of tn
laborer for thebenefit Of the rich.
Hannaism prevails the yoke vii
tighten, and where it now gals
, will then ruptuff.
! Your. state ticket is one to b.
. proud of, theI are men of grea
, intelligence, off sterling qualities
/, peers of our co9ntry's best. You
nominee for Cdgress was at on
time native ofmy town and wer
he here in the position he is il
} Delaware he would not only re
. ceive the solid Democratic vote bu
would also capture the silentvote Q
, this campaign. Tf1e is man whor
] everybody praissS, fit Congress
/ man to serve thf toiIers' interests
a fit co-workef with Presiden
Bryan to Uphold every promis
, made and to saw our country fror
t the tightening gasp of the Europea
money power.
, E.1PONDER ELzEY.
LoU. S. SenatoH Bacon at LdnYe