The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1896-07-20
WALL STREETS CAMPAIGN.
Organizing Bankers and Brokers
Mckinley Clubs

MCAlu1Sy OluDS.
From the New York World (lsoid organ.
The stock exchange has no Bryan. Sd
far as Is known. but on Saturday II work
ed itself into quite n fair imitation Of the
Chicago convention mysteries one OF th9
members frantically waved an American
flag. and there was a great cutlery and
uproar AGAINST bryan and populism." The
tumult ended with the organization Of
Bankers and Brokers' Mckinley Cam
nai.,n Club" consisting OF democrats and
republicans.
These men may mean well. but they don
seem 10. know that any demonstration
which they may make IS not calculated
to help the republican ticket They ought
to have received a strong hint from St
Louis and 20 have learned for certain
from Chicago that anything which Wall
street" wants is quite sure to be molly
opposed 10y immense bodies Of voters IN
other parts of thu country
Nor IS this feeling without reason. Many
of the wrongs and grievances complained
OF bv the voters who sent the wild two
thirds majority TO the Chicago convention
are real and just Utterly mistaken az
we believe these men TO be IN the remedy
they propose. and strongly IS we have felt
il to be our duty to resist and 10 plead
with them, We have never for moment
lost sfeht Of the fact that their grievance
IS great and their complaint in some part
Well founded.
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for which wall steet'' Is he symbol in
the popular mind that has made a monopoly
of transportation. that has brought all the
great prime uecessa aries OF Ife-iron. steel,
coal, oil, beef. sugar and a hundred 9th
ers-under the control of trusts and com
binatilns that Cypress labor at one -@ld
and rob consumers at the other.
It IS wall street" that has depleted
the treasury Of gold and exacted usurious
millions from the government in forced
bond sales 10 protect its credit"
1t is You. gentlemen of the gambling
exchanges. uanipulators Of money cor
ners, organizers of swindling trusts, wreck
ers OF railroads. shearers of lambs" tax
dodgers and absorbers of money that YOU
never earned. who have done more Than
all the ignorant laundering at Washing
ton and all the demogOgy at the south
and west TO raise the specter of anarchy
and populism at which you now stand al
frighted.
And it IS the knowledge Of these facts
that leads US to deplOre the laundering
and excuses at Chicago. The rulers Of
that convention protected Wall street far
better than the stock exchange can do it.
They did the work of the trusts far more
effectively than any debauched legislators
or complaisant attorney generals nave
ever done it For by forcing an issue in
volviug the integrity Of our currency and
the honor OF the government they have
rendered republican success certain. And
what that means the memory of the car
nival of spells and the revel of extrava-
gance, tariff for campaign contributors and
protection to trusts under the last republ-
can restoration viii family Indicate
AS a result of the Chicago crime and
blunder the people who suffer and com
plain viii have not more money but less.
not fewer mortgages but more. They viii
have more taxes, more trusts, more debt
more misery. Consequences are uupity-
ing" But if anything can help to avert
them it Will be the organization OF Wall
street Mckinley clubs.