Birmingham state herald., 1896-11-20
A GREAT Y1croRY.

In the present congress the republican party has majority of 135. This con- gress was elected at a time when the voters of the country had a right to hold the democratic party responsible for Grover Cleveland. It was elected in 1894 when nearly every democratic congress- ional convention in the United States was checked full of federal office-hold- CTS instructed from Washington not to fail to place in the congressional plat forms a plank internationally indorsing Cleveland's betrayal of the party and his people,
 When the election was over and the smoke of battle cleared away in 1894 it was found that Cleveland had been in- dorsed to the tune of a change of 140 democratic majority in the house to 135 republican majority. But this result had no perceptible effect on the cuckoos and federal office-holders. They continued the cry that Cleveland must be indorsed. They began the fight the next day for the unconditional indorsement of Cleve- land by the next national democratic convention
 The real democrats of the country took a hand in the fight. They saw that if the democratic party was to poll enough votes in the election in 1896 to entitle IL to respect and give it place on the ot- fical ballots in the future 1t must De taken out of the hands of the men who appeared bent on aiding Cleveland to car " out his evident determination to ab- solutely blot the party out of existence.
 It was a hard struggle The true dem- ocrats were at a great disadvantage. III nearly every state the party machinery had been given over to the Cleveland heelers and the party press, with only here and there an exception, had gone into the absolute control Of the despollerS of our countrys honor
 Newspapers to which the people had for years looked for advice and guldahce' were actually lauding to the skies the men who had gone into back room ana in secret with home and foreign money changers trafficed off the countrys credit and the country's honor; newspa- pers claiming to be democratic were ask ing the democratic masses to indorse policy which had brought 7O,O00,00o or American people down on their Knees to A. banking syndicate and filched rom them ten millions of dollars for an agree ment on the part of the syndicate or money changers to take care of the coun- try's credit and the country's honor Tor six months.
 With the machinery in the hands or the enemy and the press in the control or the money changers, the true democratic leaders went to battle to save the party from the wreckers and the men who had brought the name of democracy into re- proach.
 The result was the national convention repudiated Cleveland and Clevelandism, If refused to say that the man who would barter the credit of this country to money changers and contract in dark rooms at A high cost with a few men to take care of the government, was a man whose policies and practices could receive the indorsement of the democratic party.
 The convention made democratic plat form and nominated a democrat Tor President In the crippled condition It found itself by reason of traitors, who had sought to destroy it, the democratic marty went to the people with the here tofore democratic press, with few excep- lions. still in the control of the money changers and the federal administration to fight. What was the result? Read the following table: