Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-09-07
| ARE THEY 2
 Lp LprHDRayoLUrIoNIsrs'
||...a the Present Distressed
 ,;.;oo If Our Country?

m ot the Graphic: .
 U i rom the insistent tone of
 a to,n press, the south and A s s.ovolutionists in support
 ah,caeo nominees.
 mi mi the delegates from each
 the accredited agents of said
 aaa did they not meet under
 alar s call of the authorized
 |.n mol of said party, and did not anyaption nominate Bryan ' mal hy the usual two-thirds
 ity? ,,. ] l that?
 doos the Democratic party's
 rn claim? Do they not claim l. Drpsent the embodiment of
 to the interests of the people, I'd people and for the people; and -iV marty are the opponents or
 principles and doctrines sVEl ed on the Jeffersonian idea of rlehts 10 all, special priyil-
 In none; at the same time, de. A 1Ing strlcs adherence to the snp-
 cf sail party nominees?
 ve not bolters and kiekers " |ys been regarded as revolution
 Who. then, are the revolution
 IsIt is not the Eastern boiling
 Bocrats? Have not the Southern ,M, les. since reconstruction, been
 hone and sinew of the Democratic
 hys
 7he point which was the prime { { se of onr distressed condition can \ hot point 10 the decision of one breme Court in it's declaration of
 income tax as nneonstitntionaf' z ! ad not Congress met the deficit I passing the income tax bill? Since opened the ball, who were the Es that paid for the measufe { How. be 1t remembered the pulse Industry (the iron and steel inter- x)were advancing and confidence Is being restored. mills and facto-
 were re-opened, giving employ Int to Thousands of idle men, until pre appeared a combination of rich n who Saw a profit in eornering ld by heavy withdrawals from the easnry. What was the result? A Fcement pf bond issue which they, their astute business methods, ere prepared to take at a profit of lllions of dollars. A grand coupe! ow they chuekled at their astute lsiness method.
 Others saw the field ripe. so that ney might feather their nests, then ngh and get fat at the govern Pents calamity, but the press of De country called halt.
 The people ta little dull, perhaps, teomprehending such smart finan- feflhgh finally awoke and became harmed, and their alarm precipi- ated fear and loss of confidence in ne government; this, in turn, caused 
 "atloh In Investments, until the aoie country was prostrated by ecfease of values, until today we S''hess the result of the acts of those Fn'aft mems astute financeering.
 "ho' ask, were the revolution. s's 'hat brought our country to the verge oi ruin? Did they forget tha; "e' securities would be effected mneh retribution turned on them9 p'a they not in reality lose more |,',s sarihkage in values than than s"es Ralned by their sharp practices '" 'ne bond deal? Too late to avoid a'''lAage, for the people had become alarmed beyond the power of the N'p''a'lsts to stay the panic.
 ca p.u'us was and honest man. was sa was and honorable man. Sc l' "e'e the other conspirators. But asar was slain by those honorable '''" Apply the acts of the oold .sau'cate Y ,. tp the government corpo- .a.lon. Was she not stabbed f, tbt quick? " s'"''ea U 'ht tho ""o arc the men furthering WI nap1 appofe of Mckinley? Suppose masX ule a few. Hanna. his whip a,,ent assisted by the following Wspa 'a'a artists: Elkins, Clayton. wha h1a',amaker and a host of others Nho have, figured in the mast and