The Madisonian. (Virginia City, Mont.) 1873-1915, 1896-08-08
D. B. BARBER'S RETURN
BACK FROM THE EAST AN
SANGUINE
As to the Election of Silver's Young
Champion-The Currency Question Up
permcst in the Minds OF the People
of the East.

Mr.. Bryan will sweep the country
with a majority that will simply
astonish his most ardent admirers.
Were a vote taken to-day he would
stand forth in all the shining glory of
the peoples choice: Il man Of destiny
p~rovidentlally appearing on the scene
as did honest Abraham Lincoln from
the ranks of the American people with
a great and righteous mission to per-
form Thus spoke O. Is. Barber to q
MADISONIAN reporter the other day in
Sheridan.
Mr.. Barber still claims Madison
county as his home, although having
accumulated a handsome fortune and
so arranged his affairs as to be able to
spare. as much time abroad as fancy
might dictate in his declining years.
After taking in the recent sessions
CT congress he attended the Chicago
convention and travelled extensively
in the Atlantic and middle states. Il
pretty thoroughly diagnosed the poi
itical situation in several states"
continued Mr.. Barber. land rwas
astonished with the rapidity in which
the teachings of bimetallism are pro-
mulgated. All the lugubrious tears
and winnings, the sneers and ranting
Of the INSCRIPTIONS gold bug oracles
count for naught, for the intelligent
masses + thinking for themselves.
In Michigan and many parts of New
York the people are focking to the
Bryan standard with the political wal
cry Of free silver as the paramount
issue. Unless something unforeseen, Or
unthought of as yet, happens, all the
speculative wealth of England and the
Atlantic seaboard combined will have
availed nothing in the prodigious effort
TO establish an American peonage."
What influence will the big political
papers have in the campaign"
THE stock in these big paper syn
dicates is mostly held abroad. or else
the influence is bought up, and the
American citizen is cogniZant of the
imposition-the intelligent voter re-
fuses to be bulldozed in any such man
ner' For instance, the declaration
that the recognition of silver is only
agitated by silver mine owners from
Interior motives is an argument already
obsolete and buried with other cam
paign lies"
Mr.. Barber did not seem to have a
very exalted opinion of our national
congressional departments. So intent
was each representative to secure
appropriation Doodle for his particular
district, that he swaps his congressional
franchise until an available three
hundred millions must be forced to bal
ance with demands of our six hundred
millions. Mr.. Barber concluded that
for some time two classes might be said
to exist, that of the tax producers and
tax consumers"
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they say we are too lazy to write. If
we remain in the Office we ought to 60
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then we are d heather. If we do then
we are a hypocrite. If we wear old
clothes then they laugh at us. II we
wear good ones then hey say we have
a "pull." Now what n we going to
do? Just as likely as not some one will
say we stole this item from our ex-
changes, and so we die. Pro-
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