The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1896-10-13
The Great Political Battle.
Special to the MESSENGER

WASHINGTON, d. c., October
3rd, 1896.-The National Cam
paign has now reached what
might be called the stretch
in the terrific struggle going on
between the people and the ire
mendous combination of trusts,
monopolists and the gold power
Every man and syndicate that
profits by hard times and the
distress of the people, are com
bined to defeat Bryan in this
fight. A number of men and in
fiuences that in the past have
been most potent in the manage
ment of the Democratic party
are now allied with the Republi-
cans to elect Mckinley. In short,
the enemies of the people and
good government, who have
hitherto been divided into seper-
ate parties, are now combined on
Mckinley. Therefore, the pat
riots who have been divided into
different parties should now, for
the same reason, unite solidly in
the support of Bryan. The re-
snlts of this campaign are as i'm
portant to American institutions
and American prosperity as the
result of the Revolutionary War
over one hundred years ago.
Those who sulk in their tents,
or breed discomfort, at such a
critical and important crisis are
as criminal as the tories and gold
bugs who are openly at work to
surrender this government to
foreign denomination.
Bryan's invasion of New Eng
land has been a marvellous sue
cess. 1t may not result in car
rying any New England state;
but the boldness and the courage
with which he faced the agents
of organized greed at every step,
astonished and dumbfounded the
enemies of good government in
their strongholds, and has given
new hope, courage, and enthusi-
assn to the people everywhere.
AT Hartford, Conn, the head
quarters of number of great in
surance companies, he arraigned
them for their course in this
campaign in trying TO force the
gold standard upon the people,
and appealed to them to relent
in their heartless greed and sup
port such a course as would en-
able their policy holders to pros
per, at least sufficiently to keep
the premiums paid on their pol
icies.
The outrageous conduct of the
students of Yale in breaking up
Bryan's meeting at New Haven,
by disorderly conduct and rowdy-
ism, is a startling evidence of
the extent to which the gold
power and monopolists are gain
ing control of our educational
institutions. The young students
who are guilty of this conduct
are not themselves responsible.
They are the equals in every re-
spect to the young men to be
found at every college; but when
boys and young men participate
in such ungentlemanly and I'M
seemly conduct it is a proof that
there are older heads behind who
do not only approve of their
conduct, but who instigate them
to it. In this connection, it is
not out of place to note that the
teachers of political economy in
three-fourths of the colleges of
the country are today parrots of
the gold trusts and are teaching
a false and ruinous doctrine to
the youths of the land, in the in
terests of monopolists and organ
lied greed.
Republican headquarters are
becoming alarmed at their fail
ure to control or even divide the
labor vote in this campaign. The
great issue that effects the well
fare of our laborers and wealth
producers is so clearly drawn in