The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-02-26
4 DEMOCRATIC BANQUET.
DESIGNATING A GREAT OCCA.
SION.
Honoring Cleveland in the Name
of Washington.


tons Birth Day, to hold banquet il
St. Paul, in honor of the Father of his
country, and to eulogize Cleveland
and advocate the wiping-out Of thu
greenbacks and turning over the re
public to the unlimited power of thu
national bankers.
1t was funereal occasion. Everyone
recognized the incongurity OF talking
of Washington and Cleveland in thu
same bre ath. The one liberated hi
countrymen from the British yoke
the ether is laboring to subjugat'
them to it.
The assistant Secretary Of thu
Treasury, an unknown nobody, wa
imported from Washington,t to convert
the outlying Democratic barbarian!
of Minnesota to the Rothschildiar
policy OF government.
J. Adam Bede was to respond tt
the toast THE President of the
United States;" for Adam is famous
wag, and it was thought he might say
something funny and enlivening
about Grover. But Adam felt that a
funeral Grafton would be more in
keeping with the solemnities of the
occasion; and SO he took off his birch
bark pants and STAYED at home.
Mr.. Hamlin had at least the merit
OF being out-spoken. Hear him:
"Let as declare auaeq,iyocally against the
further coinage of dishonest siluer dollars.
Let us insist that the dollars now in
circulation shall be recoined with
bullion unemployed in the treasury SO
that they shall be i,,tr,nsically honest.
Let us then divorce the government
from the banking business and leave
to the people Of the United States,
Through their fiscal agents, the banks, to
regulate, under proper national super
vision and control, all matters Of
credit, leaving to the national gov
ernment it's proper function of coming
the metal adopted By the greatest nations of
the ctUllazeG WORLD AS A Standard
GOLD.
This is the feast which is to follow
the Democratic banquet.
l. There must be no more silver
dollars coined.
2. The present dollars must be
melted up and recoined at twice their
present size. And if the Money-pow-
er can still further depress the price
of silver they must be recoined again,
and again, until they are the size Of
cart-wheels.
3. All the money IN the United States
must be issued by the banks, and not a
dollar of it can get into circulation
until somebody goes to the bank and
6orro,csit, on good security, at a big rate of
interestv Nine-tenths of the people
will not be permitted to do business,
or live, unless they pay an enormous
and perpetual tribute annually to the
other tenth
4. The banks are to be the fiscal
agents of the gove1mnent'' and to run the
whole machine.
5. The national government is to
coin gold alone, to be held in the
bank vaults, as security for their bust
ness, or to be fought over by the ma
tions, and shipped backward and for
ward from one country to another.
Is not this charming prospect for
liberty and mankind?
And then this advocate of Plutoc-
racy, in the name of Thomas Jeffer-
son, eulogises his great foe. Hamilton,
the aristOcrat, who wanted the differ
ent classes to dress in particular
CARDS, SO that the workman might be
u n q Inv l,o IL
and never be mistaken for a
gentleman! And never be able to rise
out of 1.-THE station to which God had
assigned him."
And then the Assistant Secretary of
the Treasury, declares that the green
backs must be destroyed and their
place supplied with bank-notes! The
great offense of the greenbacks being
that the people have the free use Of
them, while the bank notes bear in
terest from the hour they are issued,
levied on the people,!
And then that ancient and mustv
fraud, Judge Flandrau, an essential
and ostensible Democrat,
declared for Cleveland for a third
term. He said:
I'VE are not handicapped with the
third term tradition. / believe that
Grover Cleveland would be reelected
by the American people with the
same enthusiasm they exhibited in
1892; whether it is wise to run counter
to this deep-Seated resolve of the peo-
pie that two terms is sufficient, it is
not for ME to say; but desperate tao
tics are some times evolved from des-
perate situations, and our country is
in the throes Of crisis. If our party
should decide not to call on the pres
emit executive, or he should decline
such an overture, then the next best
road to victory is to let him write our
platform, and have his authorship pro-
claimed from the housetops Of the ma
tion."
1t is very evident that il Grover
Cleveland proclaimed himself king,
Flandrau would be found cheering
him on: and he would do it in the
name Of that great patriot, Thomas
Jefferson! He says:
"The day has passed for shuffles and
straddles. The Democratic party
must stand firmly on the philosophi-
cal principles which it learned from
Jefferson and Jackson, and it must
announce them SO clearly that the
meaneSt trimmer Of any party cannot
miS-read them Ii the finances OF tho