The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1896-06-19
LET US GO IN TO WIN.

The following contains some good
advice to the silverites by "A True
Silver Man." which we copy in the
hope that it may do some good in
these exciting political times:
SUMMIT, MISS, June Is. 1895.
Editor Times Democrat.
l presume it took but a few days for
our forefathers to agree upon and
write out and adopt the Declaration
of Independence, yet IL took years OF
time and great quantities of blood to
sustain and uphold it,.
When our national party meets in
Chicago next month, perhaps in one
short day they will declare Tor free
silver" yet the thoughtful mind will
well consider that then u labor has
just begun. A declaration by a party
is Of no avail unless that party takes
such steps as to have the declaration
sustained and carried through by the
rational government. l am a silver
man, and like st. Paul, | am a Hebrew
Of the Hebrews, a Silverite OF the sill
| y~eritcs; yet l fear | can see defeat of
our plans by a clanish feeling among
our silver men. The blood of party
victory, or rather victory In u party,
seem TO make them furious, and We
hear them say to u goldbug friends,
''You may ride, but you shall in no
sense help. drive. Ii you come to
stand on our silver plank you must 90
a-fOot. This is our victory, and you
have no part in it," They seem to
despise any man who even in the least
sense voted independent, aud call him
a Populite, and tell him that he too
must go On foot and there do penance
for his sins.
Now, all this might be well enough
had We already won the real victory.
But while our silver leaders ire push
ing the gOldbugs and Populists out of
our party and away from our fold,
Bill Mckinley is getting in his work.
While the goldbug and POpulist have
the Democratic COW ly the horns, and
the silver men have her by the tail,
Bill Mckinley has the milk pail be-
tween his knees, and is milking the
Cow with both hanks.
1t does seem to seem that when the
Democrats declare for "frce-Silver"
then "thc occupation Of the POpulite
Is gOne," and we should invite them
back, and all them who truly feel for
their country's good will come back
to their old fold. Our silver friends
in their great victory should show to
the world that they are not made wild
by the taste Of first blood, and we, as
victorS, can and ought4 to be very
broad and liberal, and especially so. as
it will take the combined forces Of all
the friends Of Democracy to prevent a
Republican victory. Ii Mckinley Is
elected, high tariff will follow. and
temporarily great prosperity will
come, and thousands of our silver
voters can be led to believe that,
after all, it was the tariff question,
and not the silver question, thai We
must look to for relief. Heretofore
the silver question has been a Il ueS-
tion in our party. 1t will now be the
question between our pa ty aud the
Republicans.
Let us 60 into the fight to win. and
surely in order to do so we want every
help, even to the ''prodigal son." be
he a Populitc or Il goldbug. If VIC go
into the fight united, we have Il
chance to win, but if Brother Crisp
pushes Brother Smith" off the free
silver plank, or hurts his feelings by
telling him to go a-foot, then Brother
Hoke Smith may stay at home. and
Bill Mckinley will wipe up the floor
with Brother Crisp.
So let US do those things that will
fond tn upItn ,l1 ptIr nrni1,lIo fnroo