The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1896-08-27
WHY HE WILL VOTE FOR BRYAN.
Judge Robert w. Hughes Tells Why He and
Others Will Support Bryan

Judge Robert Hughes writes as fol-
lows from Abingdon, Va, to the
Fredericksburg Free Lance. Judge
Hughes has been lifelong republi-
can, but he will vote for Bryan and
Sewall, and he gives some excellent
reasons why he will do so:
Dear Sir-I have no objection to |
known through your columns
my feelings in regard to what was done
at Chicago in the late national demo-
cratic convention That action was
the natural corollary measures that
have been in operation for twenty years,
and the necessary results of present
financial conditions. 1t twas q surprise
to the gold class and to its newspapers,
political managers and city, town and
village proteges, who have SO busily
voiced its ideas, measures and policy,
for SO long time unopposed.
The Chicago platform is criticised
for its alleged embodiment of some of
the ingredients of communism. There
is, in fact, but one issue before the
country, and that is whether or not
there shall be gold only as the stand
ard of value and money of redemption.
All other declarations at Chicago were
mere distractions. The voting masses
are thinking of nothing but the money
question and the presidential election
will turn singly and solely upon that
issue. The majority in Chicago were
deeply in earnest on that burning sub
iect, and gave little heed to other pro-
visions of the platform. TWAS natural
that in the intensity of their feeling on
the main question in vast hall crowd
ed with ten thousand spectators they
should have given little attention to
any Objectionable expression which
got, probably by fraud, into the plat
form.
The radical and revolutionary policy
of gold money only, which was secretly
and stealthily inaugurated in the Uni
ted States twenty years ago, had pro-
duced the most profound discomfort
throughout all classes of society, ex-
cept the gold class? The discomfort
was angrily demonstrated in the con-
vention at Chicago. No wonder the
indications of incipient communism
cropped out. If the radical and crush
ing policy of gold money only contin-
ues long, this country will be filled
with moderate communists. / albion
communism in every form and degree
but / much more abhor the agencies
that produce the exorable thing, The
most potential agencies is the policy Of
gold money only for the gold class
practice communism in its most dan
gerous form. There is very little o.
the gold in the civilized world that ii
not syndicated. 1t is put into affiliated
pools in all the money centers and il
owned as common property by thu
syndicates. The gold trust was formed
in London long before the STANDARD
! Oil and sugar trusts were formed IL
America.
The example set by the. gold syndi
cate is as pernicious as the practice i
contagious. It makes other classes o
people think of pooling their propert.
of all kinds, and the seeds Of commun
ism are thus planted in American soil
What is communism but the desperat
effort of the small property holders t.
! protect their possessions from the all
grasping power of syndicated money
4 The Rothschilds alone control two
thirds of the worlds gold, yet the gol'
class who thus set the example of com
r4unism is the loudest in decrying tn
alleged adoption Of their own policy b.
those who seek protection from it, AM
who are stigmatized as incipient com
munists.
The voting masses OF this countr
abhor communism in their hearts an
though they may sometimes give ex
preston to communistic ideas, the
will never SO far adopt the policy Q
, the gold class as to syndicate their owl
property.
The intelligent people of our countr.
will never tolerate the long continu
ance of any policy put upon the coun
try by any~class for its own especia
: ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Every such policy i
necessarily ephemeral here, and vii
sooner or later fall to pieces under tn
popular frown.
The proceedings at Chicago were PIE
nomenal but grew naturally and ne
.cessarily out of the radical and revolu
tionary policy of gold only, which wa
secretly, stealthily, and without tn
popular knowledge or consent institu
ted by the gold class in 1878, and ha
been quietly, diligently and remorse
lessly enforced ever since. 1t has pre-
, duced an all-pervading indignatio
among all classes of our people saw
, one. It has sown some of the seeds {
: communism in our republic, which ha
heretofore been free from the abominf
= ton. The growth of communism o
this side of the Atlantic would be dis
astrous in the extreme and humiliatin
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