The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1896-08-01

lily, II they had to be led out by the cal
or persuaded to go with police batons,
There ought to be 4 place for every.
thing, and such assiduous democrats
as they were not in place IN "A populis,
convention. They were like the came
that only asked to get his nose in the
Arabs tent at first, but ended by get.
ting his whole body in and putting the
Arab out. Stone, if put IN the senate,
would make the yankee senators com
NIT suicide in despair at seeing their
yankee tricks lone so much better than
they can do them themselves"
Mr.. Wilson, you have been one OF
the o persistent and consisten
fighters for silver in the country. You
have given perhaps more of your time
to writing and speaking on it than any
other private citizen. You left the
democratic party on account of Cleve.
lands fight against silver. What are
you going to do nowP What do you
think the populists who want silver re-
stored to its place ought to do? What
will the southern populists do?
81 claim that | never left the demo
cratic party, but that it left me. In
the long black night of tragedy that
vi have been through 1 have been like
many another citizen, oppressed with
sorrow for the sufferings of the men,
women and children on whom the
heaviest of the blow has fallen; but 1
have had no remorse to suffer. It was
not my vote that helped put Cleveland
in Office. What the southern populists
will do is not easy to say but so far as
l am individually concerned | have
been working for the restoration of
silver and the destruction of the nation
al banking system. In the midst of the
shocking tragedy now going on In our
country, no man can afford to pout or
sulk or indulge himself in the gratifca-
ton of a owe for stubbornness. The
sunken cheeks of ill-fed mothers, the
despair of laboring fathers, the wall of
starving babies-these are before us,
whichever way we turn. Today 1 see
but one spot not perfectly black in the
whole political sky. l see hut one hope
of getting ever a little way towards
restoring silver and uprooting the
banking system that caused its demon
etIzation. l see no chance for progress
towards relief by putting higher tariff
duties on things that the low price of
farm products has already put out of
farmers reach. Nobody under
stood the slavery question until the var
was over, and practically nobody I'M
the money question now.
When it is settled in the only way it
a be, it will be understood by every
body. Every man now has to choose
between q man who is for silver and
against bank bills, or for a man who
in a national debt and the bills
based on it, and the perpetual demone-
lizatiOn of silver. This county will
never get out Of John B. Henderson's
or else a good many populists
must swallow their disappointment and
vote for Bryan and Sewall. Locally,
it is a question whether Mr.. Hender-
son is to have three bushels of wheat
and three bushels of corn where Lafay-
cite county owe him one, or whether
the peoples party men are going to
put him back to the one bushel that
belongs to him. 1t is a choice between
a pill that is bitter on the out
side, with a prospect of finding some
sugar on the inside; or of taking an
other that is larger and that is bItterer,
and that through and through. Mr..
Bryan is not just my choice, hut l do
know another democrat who would
suit me any better. Then it is u tre-
mendous point to get a man from the
freedom-loving west. He is young for
a president, and 1 am shy of these men
who talk so pretty; but he is a pretty
man."
What do you think of Mr.. Sewall,
and how the populists ought to or will
act towards himp
1.-THE cause of silver ought not t. be
endangered on his account, in my
opinion. So far as his being a national
is concerned, it is so much more
to his credit, that being a national
banker, he is gong to give it up for his
country's good. Those who have not
followed the matter closely do not
know that the old established banks of
The east fought against the return to
federal banking most bitterly. In Maine
the most determined stand was made,
and the case of Veazie Bank against
Fenno was a battle against the national
that was fought to a finish in
The supreme court / do not know all
The points ia the oass, yet the populists
may see some advantage in keeping to
but as between Sewall and
they must prefer the former. "
Do you not think this a critical time
the life of the republicP
ssIf l did not feel it to be I should
certainly go hunting on election day,
IT go into my library, shut myself up
and spend a delicious day buried in a
book that treats of nothing newer than
i've thousand years ago, and in some
language that nobody else in the state
put Prof. Blackwell can tell from
chicken tracks when he sees the letters.
Two of the greatest in the world
we're the PhBnicians and Romans.
When Hannibal was after the Romans
ne would have wiped them out, had not
/ Jealous senator back in Carthage
'oted against supplying HIM generously.
That vas the cast of fortune that
caused Carthage to go down and Rome
o become the master of the western
world. If men will today strip from
before them the tangled mass that
hangs between us and the ends sought
in this contest, they will see that
hey are forced by circumstances to
make a choice between two courses
either to make this country again in
dependent and its people happy and
lrosperous; or become the slaves of
he Rothschilds, who are already the
masters of the part at the English
Ipeaking a 0 that we have left behind
Is over the sea. Irritated and griev-
lusly disappointed at the venality and
loltroonery of some of the populists, !
'an nevertheless see clearly beyond the
'haos of today to the only end that is
n sight, and the only Q to that
nd now in reach 1t is going to take
he votes of every man in the Union
Who believes in American independence
o keep from turning the country over
o the R~othschilds. And l would much
ather be turned over to the Gar of
Russia if we are going to give up our
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