The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1896-11-07
T PRESIDENT AND VICE PRESIDENT.

made, and TO prevent their making
others in the future unless they were
made payable in debased money. The
right of free contract was 10 be taken
away from free Americans.
The issues involved were not exclu-
| sively financial or moral. The very sta
bility of the government was drawn
into question. The civil war was fought
to destroy the doctrine of the suprem-
acy of a state. That doctrine raised its
head again in 1896. and IL was an
nounced once more that national laws
cannot be enforced without the assent
OF state authorities.
Social as well as governmental issues
were jnvolved. An effort was made to
array the farmers against the towns
people, and 10 split the Inter into two
hostile factions of employees and en-
ployers, so that industrial peace might
depart forever,
Understanding fully these issues, and
how utterly their own fortunes and
those OF their posterity depended on
dealing with them rightly, once and for
ever. the American people, at the close
of campaign OF unexampled excite
ment and intensity, have buried Bryan
under an avalanche of electoral and
popular votes. The crimes and follies
he championed will not lift their heads
again.
The east and the west have clasped
hands 10 sustain the menaced honor of
the republic, and the south, partially
breaking loose from her old political
mornings, has made common cause
with them.
The American people have preserved
their honesty and their self-respect
They have defeated Bryan overwhelm-
ingly, and have shown the world that
they are not a nation of cheats and an
archists.
They have voted that they will not
swindlc foreigners and will not swindle
one another. They have repudiated the
regulators, and put the ineffaceable
brand of their condemnation on the
brows of Bryan and his accompllces.
Tho people have stood by the com
mandment "Thou shalt not steal"
which desperate coalition OF cranlxs
and crooks has been endeavoring 20 re-
peal.
IL has been settled that the savings
bank depositors are not to be robbed of
their earnings and that the laboring
man is not TO be cheated out of half the
reward of his labor.
II has been determined that the ar
engagements men have made for the sup
port of their families by means of life
Insurance policies shall not be inter-
fered with and those families deprived
Of half the provision made for them.
The sanctity of contracts has been
upheld. and the infamous attempt TO
put in effect a policy which would vio-
late millions of them and destroy bill
lions of credits has been trampled un-
der foot.
The men who would have Mexican
lied the money of this country, and
given the people, instead of stable
dollar, a deprecated and fluetuating
dollar, whose value would have been
fixed In foreign market, have met their
Waterloo.
That wretched currency which would
have cursed the country had Bryan been
elected, would have been succeeded by
an avalanche of inconvertihle scrip
That is another affection the people
have escaped.
The gold standard is to be retained
and the 70,000,00O people of the United
States will keep monetary company
with the civilized nations of the earth,
and will not herd with Asiatics and
Grcasers.
The fears of n change having been
dispclled by Tuesdays triumphant
vote. prosperity will return TO bless the
country Capital, no longer timid, viii