Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-06-22
THE CHICAGO CONVENTION.
June 17.-Time pssse

i ri u CB1CAOO COTt V Elm 1lON.
WASHINGTON, June 7.-Time passes
quickly and important events come
tbronging upon us-even's which are to
write anew the pages of history. The
q ~estest event Of all and one which
snail gladden. toe hssrt of every patriot
. ne wouderfni uprising of the people
FOR the restoration Of free silver coin
age. That the msSses OF the democ-
racy favored t1is policy hes been known
along, bu5 gle t is TIE power of fed
e-ei patronage among an Impoverished
re1f,c, great tie r"wer Of five thou
nd na,ioral banks moving as one
mss. and great the power of money
Il d al the forces Of corrupt influence.
A s1ese upheld the gold Standard and
i. wss feared even by the bravest cham
pins of he panpe that these corrupt
ard corrupiie forces would ne able to
coptroi primarie. ,d's'r ct ard State con-
vertian- sIffic entity 10 stif1a the voice
{ he people and 10 make the Chicago
conv5n ion ike the s.. Louis convex
ion ne mere echo of Wall street. But
tae people nad suf red long enough.
They awoke and rose like Samson with
the strength Of despair. They did not
sea why in a land so blessed as ours is
with every natural gil, tpey should
continue to erovel in poverty, bank
ruptcy and iuin in order to swell
the Golfers of B itiSh and New
York bankers. They had been
toG to wait for the action OF
Europe, that is to say, for Great Bri-
sa'u ,and they had waited and waited in
v>in with increasing want and misery.
| Th" democratic Molock in the White
hvu-e presented for them in their suf-
fenng new bond issues, increasing debt
| aud yet more severe contraction of
the currency, thereby involving
e sill greater fall of prices.
The republican doctor, Mr.. Sherman,
prescribed more geld for the bankers,
more taxation / nd more misery for
the people.
The people have rejected both these
quacks ard cha,laians. They demand
ed the money system of their fathers,
the restoration of free coinage as il
s.ood under Jefferson, Madison, Jack
s1n aud Polk. Stale alter State de-
cared for fee coinage and sent free
coinage delegations to Chicago. Ala
b,ms, Gsoraia, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana
and kentucky-States Whicn the gold
aov)cqtes had Hoped to control have
spoken overwhelmingly for free coinage.
OHIO and Vrg "ia join the chorus.
All the administration and Wall street
plots, the schemes of fraud and perver-
ION Ut The popular will have broken
down. Tne Cnicsgo convention is as
coed as elec ed to-day. A large ma
jority of the delegates have been Sc
lected. The remainder can be predict
ed with almos6 exact accuracy. II IS
an assured fact that the silvermen viii
hsva a majority in the convention OF
$50 vo, es, aod many believe it will be
ov two-thirds. They will run this
convention ffom start to fuisn-p'at-
form, candidates and all. The GAZETTE
long ago pred cted this result and its
predictions to-day are recorded history.
The republican leaders had expected
| to make the tariff the main issue of the
| Presiden al campaign and to have a
walk over. But IS the silver uprising
began smong me people and continued
| 10 spread il soon became obvious that
| in all the States wast of the Allegheny
mountains there IVES very large per
centage of free silver republicans who
fully symparhiz with the free
silver democrats in regarding the
money question as the one of great
est iaportaace to the people. States
like o 10, Iadi %, Michigan, Illinois
aud Iowa were exanoles of this senti-
insrt among republicans. Tne know
ledge of this feeling alarmed McKin-
ley's friends and it particularly alarm
ed McKiuley himself. He feared that
ne would lose his owl Safe, if, as he
foresaw, the Chicago convention de.
clared for free silver. He preferred to
hedge.
Hence the struggle we have just seen
at St. 1nis-Mckinley's nomination
assured aud his friends trying to win
him on stradile or compromise plat
form, which would enable inem to hold
the silver republicans Of the Mississippi
| Valley and the great west. Mckln-
ley's enemies could not defeat his NOM
ina on, hut they resolved if they could
70 .arce him oIto gold platform: The
probability to-day is that they will sue.
ed. 1t will he very unpleasant medis
ciue, hut Mckinley will have to take
it, probabi without the smallest bit OF
sugar 10 lesson the tartness of the
dose.
Mothers will fod Chamberlain's
Cough Remedy especially valuable for
Group ard whooping cough. 1t will give
prompt relief aud is safe and pleasant.