The Penn's Grove record., 1896-09-25

Of peace. And ] will tell you further,
here and DOW, that II you get q new
charter from Congress for that bank,
by the eternal | will veto that char
ter Then The fight began in earnest
Then the great money king set himself
TO work TO defeat the reelection OF An
drew Jpekson. And what think yog
was thu I'll st move be madsF Why. it,
was the very identical movs that u
friends, the gold bugs, brag and bo&ss
that they have made and are making
DOW, And here We see how true it is
that History doth but repeat ITSELF /
read lhe other day In tbe TTftaEat and
in the Times Herald that the gold bag
party had one thousand papers and Gnd
only knows how many writer's Of FIRST
class ability to send hot shot INTO the
ranks Of the silver men. ] don't doubt
it. The very frst thing King Biddle
did was to buy up or influence all The
great Democratic papers that were for
sale from Boston to New Orleans
They even bought Jackson's home or
gan, the old Washington Globe, edited
by Jacksen's personal friend, General
Duff Green. When Jackson saw them
using the government money to buy up
Democratic papers, editors, etc he
said TO his Secretary of the Treasury:
"Mr. Duane, / don't want you TO put
any more government money in that
bank. 1t will blow up. The money is
not safe" But Mr.. Duane was him.
self a banker and q very rich man for
that day. OF course be was in SYM
patty with the money power, and he
said: az can't obey that order" Then
he was told to take an indefinite fur
Tough Tor the benefit of his health, aud
jackson put Roger B. fancy in his
place, the man who afterward became
Chief Justice Of the United States.
Clay, Webster and Calhoun we're
then all in the United States Senate
and all candidates for President against
jackson. These great men hated one
another, it was said, with a hatred of
800 horse power each. But they hated
Jackson with a combined 1500-horse
power animosity. Clay was then q
Democrat and had for many years been
Democratic speaker Of the House. Cal.
houn vas the Democratic Vice-Presi-
dent under Jackson. Webster was q
Wing. We had no Republicans In
those days; it wac long before that lar-
ty was born. jackson was President
and these great men wanted 10 be. Too
many lions in one cage won't do. So
these great men agreed TO bury their
own ieuds in order to combine to crush
General Jackson. Benton, Jackson's
great defender, called them ''tbe great
triumyirate." AT the proper time
these great men made ''great cobstitu.
tional arguments" to show how Jack.
son had turned Cromwell and was
traDpliDg on the constitution and the
liberties of the people. OF course all
the great Democratic papers they had
bought printed those grea. arguments
Rni endorsed them, saying that they
did 80 with great reluctance, for they
were Democrats and upheld Jackson In
his first election and would like to do
50 DOW for the sake of the grand old
party; but, as Jackson had turned
Cromwell aud was crushing the liber-
ties of The people, they could not as
honest Christian men uphold him any
longer. No, their conscience would
not permit, etc. Oil the tender con.
sciences of these men who always cling
to the money power-that is where the
trouble comes in. No doubt the Wall
Street gold bugs have conscientious
trouble as they gloat oyer the ten mil
lions In gold presented to them by their
good friend Grover in that little bond
! transaction not long since, when lie
kindly gave them 100 millions in gov
eminent bonds for ten millions less
than their market value. Oh, yes. they
might just as we'll have had TWEEN.
ty ~milfions-but for conscience sake.
Only think of these great and good
men saving the Republic for the trif-
ling sum of ten millions, when they
might just as well have had twenty
But that is just what King Biddle used
to do, for he told us so himself, as !
will show. The next move. King Bid.
dies henchmen made was to get up
"honest" Democratic meetings-shon.
est" primaries, you know, to denounce
or head off the President. 1 remember
very well a meeting of this kind that
was held in Williamsport, Pa, near
where 1 was born and lived. Judge
Anthony, then democratic member
Of Congress, presided and made a speech.
They passed resolutions setting forth
that it was q libel on Andrew Jackson
to say that he would veto the re-char.
tering of the great bank, or that he
would remove the deposits. These
good people thought they could head of
General jackson In this way. But,
thanks to God, Andrew jackson was
made of sterner stuff. A great anti.
jackson, and ''honest" Democratic
meeting Of this kind was held In Phil.
adelphia, where the great bank was
located, at which they gave a free din
ner to eighty thousand men-all paid
for by the great bank. Benton, in his
great works, "Thirty Years In the
Senate" gives an account of this great
meeting. John Sargent, with 300
Democratic vice-presidents, presided.
All the speakers, speaking from twen-
ty stands, were anti.Jackson Demo.