Semi=weekly graphic., 1896-09-02
Mckinley and tie Trusts.
To Editor of the Gfaphict

public halls, as well as those seat tered broadcast in millions on mil lions of copies in pamphlets, letter, and newspapers, do they mol, us rule, eminate rrom one source, aut is not that source distinctiveiy ; selfish one? Boru and rourfShed bg and through tho combined efforts Grrespective of parties) of rings combines and trusts, who see ol think they see, the entering wedge which will eventually sander further footing of the Government treasu- ry? If not, then why ihis aggrega tion of combined wealth in these corporate bodies, dictating to their employees such ultimatuns as give us your money and support, CT our factories, coal mines. railroads aud hundreds of such other rich corpo- rations will not give you employ ment." So they think free Han- hood and patriotism dead, or a Sleep to their past forcement Of 'ond issue by the said ring-masters2 How humiliated our Secretary of the Treasury must have felt when brought down to his knees in a pleading, supplieating attitude, ask ing for a six months guarantee as protection against their footing the same gold for which they forced said bond issue.
 Will the people still be hood winked by the same power. and up hold their hands, or will they still lick the hand that smites? What strange love are these Democrats asked to gush and slobber over McKinley-he is the god who will save. Is he?
 Democrats, men who were thought to be the foremos+ aud staunchest advocates of the masses now join hands and pocket books with said classes, determined to crush, if pos sible, what little spark of patriotism there is in the people, forsooth, be- cause man was nominated for President who came from the West, and had no strings in said Eastern hands to jerk him down or bind him to their powerful back-pull" in running the Government.
 Place-hunters and ambitious men of the East have controlled our gov ernment so long that they feel az grieved that there could be found a man with brains and patriotism enough to get the nomination with out their consent or assistance.
 They now seek to kill him with cartoons, eontumelY and ridieule. They brought out their juggerhaut car (Bourke Cockran), rolled him through the streets of New York in great pomp and placed him on the platform in the same building, fol lowed by an immense pageantry of "cats-pa Democrats, for the pur- pose of grinding to dust the boy orator. Matchless epigramatic orationl But, alas, what a disap- Ye gods and little fishes, what an answer; even poor old Arkansas has school boys by the hundreds who could have done bet ter.
 Mckinley, remember Mark Hanna and the forces under which and by which he is controlled are diametric- ally antagonistic to the peoples in- terest. Is he not the partisan rep of the aggressive close element of the Republi- can party who in the past are known to have been high tariff protection ists, heaping burdens on the masses in order to pay said classes cam paign funds subscribed and used for such vicious legislation. Has he not been waiting for months in or der, if possible, to sum up which side of the fence the bugs or beetles are the most numerous. on which to feed, for feed is what he and his must have in order to re- place fortunes spent in securing his nomination.
 Friends, you have cause to feel for if by chance Mckinley is elected, the fiat" already fried and that still in the kettle will have to be replaced, and that, too, with interest, and we, the people, will be the ones whose necks will be wrung in order to furnish the fluid called syndicate extract.
 Mckinley, in his letter of accept ance, shows duplieity when he as serts that the Democratic party is responsible for our present de2res- sion. l will dispute such brazen charge in your next Sunday issue.
 N. B. TRULoCK.
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