Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1896-09-18

that il You can control the election Of
any state in the Union, that is too
much power in free country in time
OF peace. And | will tell you here and
now that j; you get a new charter
from Congress for that bank, by the
eternal, will veto that charter"
Then the fight began in earnest.
Then the great money king set HIM
self to work to defeat the reelection
OF Andrew Jackson. And what think
YOU was the first move he made? Why,
it WAS the very identical move that
our friends the goldbugs. bray and
brag that they have made and are
making now. And here we see how
true it is that history doth but re-
peat itself" | read the other dav in
the Tribune and TimeS-HeraM that the
goldbug party had 1000 papers and
God only knows how many writers Of
tirst-class ability to send hot shot into
the ranks OF the silver men. | don't
doubt it. The very first thug King
Blddle did was to buy up or influence
all the great Democratic papers that
were for sale from Boston to New Or
leans. They even bought Jackson's
home organ, the old Washington
Globe, edited by Jackson's personal
friend, General Duff Green. When
Jackson saw them using the govern
ment 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"
Mr.. Duane was himself a banker
and very rich man for that day. Of
course he was in sympathy with the
money power, and he said: az can't
obey that order"
Then he was told to take an indefi-
mite furlough for the benefit of bis
health and Jackson put Roger B.
fancy in his place, the man who after
ward became Chief Justice of the
United States.
Clay, Webster and Calhoun were
then in the United States Senate and
all candidates for President against
Jackson. These men hated one an.
other, it was said, with the hatred oil
5OO horse power each. But they
hated Jackson with combined 1,5OO
horse power luminosity. Clay was
then Democrat and had for many
years been Democratic Speaker OF the
House. Calhoun was the Democratic
Vice President under Jackson. Web.
ster was whig. We had no Repub.
licans in those days; it was long be-
fore that party was born.
Jackson was President and those
great men wanted to be. Too many
lions in one cage won't do. So these
men agreed to bury their old fueds in
order to combine to crush General
Jackson. Benton, Jackson's great de-
fender, called them "the great trium.
virate." At the proper time these
great men made "great constitutional
arguments" to show how Jackson had
turned Cromwell and was trampling
on the constitution and the liberties
of the people.
OF course all the great Democratic
papers they had bought printed these
great arguments" and endorsed them
saying that they did so with great re-
luctance for they were Democrats and
upheld Jackson in his first election
and would like 10 do so now for the
sake of the grand old party; but as
Jackson had turned Cromwell aud was
crushing the liberties of the people,
they could not, as honest Christian
men, uphold him any longer. No,
their conscience would not permit,
etc. Oh! the tender consciences OF
these men who always cling 10 the
money power-there is where the
trouble comes in.
No doubt the Wall street goldbugs
have conscience trouble as they gloat
over the $4,000 900 in gold presented
to them by their gold friend Grover in
that little bond transaction not long
since, when he kindly gave them one
hundred millions in government
bonds for $1O,OOO,OOO less than their
market value. Oh, yes, they might
just as we'll have had $250,OOO,O0
but for conscience sake. Only think
OF these great and good men saving
the republic for the trifling sum OF
100000, when they might just as
we'll have had $2OOOO,OOO!
But that is just what King Biddle
used to do. for he told US so himself,
o. I will show. The next move King
Biddle's henchmen made was to get
up "honest" Democratic meetings-
"honest" primaries, you know, to de-
nounce or head off the President.
remember very we'll meeting of this
kind that was held in Williamsport,
Pa, near where he was born and lived.
Judge Anthony, then a Democratic
member of Congress, presided and
made speech. They passed resolu-
tons setting forth that it was q libel
on Andrew Jackson to say that he
would veto the rechartering of the
great bank or that he would remove