Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-07-16

the patriotism of the American people,
the treaohery of high officials cannot
thwart the power and usefulness OF the
party that was born at the birth Of the.
nation and will live as long as the re-
public survives, nor deter it from its
purpose to establish in this country
government that shall be for no section,
nor class, nor creed, but for all sections,
classes and creeds, a government based
upon the broad foundation principles of
true democracy-the greatest good to the
greatest number equal justice to all.
special privileges to none; for while a
few slaves
Whose treason like deadly blight
Would come DER the councils of the brave
And blast them in their hour of might"
are DESERVING the standard of liberty
there are thousands and hundreds of
thousands of brave and loyal American
citizens rallysng from all quarters and
all parties to its support, determined to
bear it to victory over PROSTATE forms of
plutocracy, paternalsm and corruption,
the legitimate offspring Of republican,
ism.
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MIR. MCKINLEY WAS NOMINATED
AT ST. LOUIS ON A PLATFORM
w Il1CI1 bt1Cl1AfbI1o FOIl III MAIN
TENANCE OF THE GOLD STANDARD
UNTIL IT SHALL BE CHANGED INTO
BIMETALLIsM BY INTERNATIONAL
AGREEMENT. MIR. MCKINLEY WAS
THE MOST POPULAR MAN AMONG
THE REPUBLICANS, AND THREE
MONTHS AGO EVERYBODY IN THE
REPUBLICAN PARTY PROPHESIED
HIS ELECTION. HOW is IT TODAY?
HE WHO USED TO BOAST THAT HE
LOOKS LIKE NAPOLEON SHUD-
DERS TO-DAY WHEN HE THINKS
THAT HE WAS NOMINATED ON THE
ANNIVERSARY OF THE BATTLE OF
WATERLOO. HE FANCIES THAT HE
HEARS IN THE DISTANCE THE
SOUND OF THE WAVES AS THEY
BEAT ON THE LONELY SHORES OF
ST. HELENA.-W j. BRYAN.
SNEERING AT HONEST PLAINNESS.
A staff correspondent of Pulitzer's New
York World (Hessian) takes pains to in
form the readers of his sheet that Mr.
Bryan received the news of his nominal
tion for president by the unterrifed and
unpurchasable democracy of the land
"in stuffy little 81 room in the Clifton
hotel, dressed in a black three-butt
cutaway coat, which belonged to a suit
which may have cost $50 when it was
new" This quill driver evidently thinks
manhood is nothing in comparison with
money, and goes into these particulars
with a view to belittling the elect cham
pion of the people by sneering at the
plainness of his garb and quarters. Had
Mr.. Bryan been rescued from his cred
itors by the bosses of corporations and
tusts for their future use, and had ne
mortgaged his manhood and hopes to
them to secure their patronage and back
ing, as one William Mckinley has done,
perhaps he might have received infor-
nation OF the unbough. honors conferred
on him by his fellow citizens-every one
of them an unmlXed Caucasian-in the
gilded parlors of the Palmer house and in
bran new suit of fine clothes, paid for,if
at ALL by some one else's money. How in
fnitely does William j. Bryan, the man
of the masses, in his well worn coat, in
his plain little room, all paid for by him.
self, rise and tower above Mark Hanna's
man, the tool of those who Cypress and
grind the faces of the poor and who, in
their greed, would forever press crown
of thorns down on the brow of labor
and nail all humanity to "cross of
gold,' there to agonize through the ages,
that they might grow rich and fat and
fare sumptuously every day?