Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1896-08-12

HAVE the millionaires no friends in |
the gold phalanx? We never hear
their names mentioned by them?
The Staunton Daily NeaCs IS now
advocating the cause of honest dollars.
From the bungling way it handles the
subject, one would conclude this to be
the first honest job of work, it ever
got mixed up in.
The NeaDs has been telling us What
Banks are, and what they do and can
do. Banks "can make a dying bed
soft as downy pillows are" Did the
ematiated form of the NeaCs ever rest
on one of these?
The very people who elected Cleve-
land are the people who are going to
elect Bryan. They we're disappointed
when Mr.. Cleveland refused to coin the
seniorage, and his best friends have
never been able to sufficiently apologize
for him for not SO doing.
The republicans have scored one on
us. They used to declare there wasn't
an honest man in the democratic par
ty. That was untrue when it was
said, but is strictly true now. All the
honest ones have gone over to McKin-
Hey.
Break, break, break on thy cold
gray stones o, seal"
Brake, brake, brake on my brakeless
wheel. o, me!
Is the sad song of the cyclist who
would like to cycle, since the city:coun
Gil made its last break.
A FEW of our old time democratic
friends, who have been telling every
body what democracy meant, are going
to swallow Mckinley this time. Al
strange too as it may seem, these same
,, persons we're against Grover last time
Have they not been hunting hole il
the fence for good while?
Mr.. Decatur Axtell denies that he il
trying to coerce c. & O. employees tt
vote for Mckinley. After his published
statements in regard to the number, h
would be obliged to dismiss in the even
the country went for Bryan, denia
OF the motive could hardly be doubted
no matter how much he denies the in
n tention.
Advices from Mexico this week SHOW
active railroad building in that repub
9 lie, and yet they are said to have none.
l. that nobody will have. Their stee
9 rails are coming from En gland the de
spatches say. What argument will tn
gold cornerers of this country wan
= next, when their strongest one is thu
e reputed?
o YOUNG CORNELIUS VANDERBILT,
n avows he will marry Miss Wilson not
withstanding his father tells him if h
d Vanderbilt has the beggarly sum o
:, 81, 900, 900 left him by his grandfather
If silver wins this plttance will b.
T reduced to one million, and how OF
q earth can they scuffie along on that?
A GOOD DEAL of commotion has beer
made by the democratic boilers ant
gold cornerers, about three student
of the University of Virginia Summe
;, law school not endorsing Bryan
Il There were 80 in the class and if thre'
4 were for gold, it keeps up. about tn
{ ratio. One gold man to every thirt.
. silverites.
The Chicago convention is called b.
a great many hard names. VIM. G
Whitney, D. b. Hill, W. E. Russell
= and great many more of their kim
were there, and helped constitute tn
y mob. Because they refuse to abide b,
what the convention did, may shoy
{ great patriotism. or it may show yer,
bad faith. 1t only depends on who i
looking at it.
A RECENT BATTLE is reported il
Cuba. 1t is described us 'hot fight
THE battle lasted five hours, and wal
ended by bayonet charge by thu
a Spanish troops, who captured tn,
: rebel stronghold. The rebels are sale
to have lost eight killed, and th'
Spaniards three lieutenants and min,
privates wounded. And they call tina
\ a battle, and say there is war going OF
down there.
81 AN honest dollar is a thing. nobod!
- has ever described so far as we know
y 1t is not gold dollar, it surely is no
paper dollar, and God forbid that i
should ever be a silver dollar. S.
# what kind OF dollar is it? When ar
!. honest dollar is made, by whom anG
p where is it made, and what does il
# look like. Would anybody who advo
: Gates an honest dollar describe one
a This is information we long have
a sought, and mourned because we
found it not.
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S Deep LAID Scheme.
There is deeply laid plan to defeat
the cause of silver even if Bryan
> should sweep the country. This pan
i has been foreshadowed in various
L newspaper statements and is begin.
ming to be put into effect in this dis
; trict as we verify believe. We shall
later on, inform our readers of the
3 influences which we believe are being