West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1896-07-16
A STRONG ENT.
From The clarssburs Tribune.


liver the laboring and producing
classes into the grasp of the
English syndicate and the bond
brokers of Wall Street. The Con-
vention, two thirds of which at
heart was and is opposed to siu.
gle gold standard, but which was
completely in the power of the
agents of the English gold standard
syndicate, Wall Street, Armour,
Pullman and associates, was forced
to swallow a dose that will prove to
be as fatal to the Republican party
as dose Of strychuine is to ro
dent.
The st. Louis Convention nomi.
mated Mckinley. 1t declared for a
single gold standard. 1t de
nounced silver. 1t denounced
Cleveland and Carlislc's admins
tration and then adopted all that
Cleveland and Carlisle have been
fighting for. 1t branded the pres.
ent administration failure and
then adopted the very principles
that brought about It's failure.
The deathlY pallor that overspread
the faces in that Convention when
Carlisle's financial policy was
adopted has spread over the entire
party throughout the length and
breadth of the land. Six months
ago the bloom Of promised victory
mantled the Republican cheek.
To day there is not an intelligent
Republican on earth who sees
aught but defeat and disaster
awaiting his party in November.
1t is openly charged within his
own party that Mckinley has been
bought and his managers corrupted
with English aud Wall Street gold.
1t is now openly charged that So, :
| 000,00 corruption fund was sub.
scribed in advance with which to
corrupt the voters of Illinois, In
diana, Iowa, Maryland, Michigan
and Minnesota and carry those
States for Mckinley and the Eng.
llsh gold standard. In 1900 this
same British gold was used to cor
rupt the Irish Government and
abolish the Irish parliament. 1t
was necessary to buy majority of
the members of the Irish parlia-
ment to effect the overthrow and
destruction Of tho Irish Govern
ment. A corruption fund OF Co,
100000 or $25, 100000, was ad-
vanced from the British treasury
and employed to corrupt the Irish
legislators, who sold their independ-
ence, their country and their pos
terity to England. The f5, 200, .
900 that it cost to buy the Irish
hearthstone and impoverish a ma
tion of noble men was assessed on
the poor Irish people and the Irish
taxpayers we're forced to pay for
the debauching of their own leeis-
latiye independence and the de-
struction Of their own Government
and nation.
What was true in the case with
Ireland one hundred years ago is
true in the case with America to-
day. British gold purchased Irish
independence, and to-day British
gold is preparing to purchase
American independence. The East
is entirely within its power, made
so by the acts Of Cleveland and
Carlisle's British gold policy. now
indorsed by and made the promi-
nent feature Of the st. Louis plat.
form. The web Of corrup ption ~
now 10 be woven about the West,
and the work is accomplished the
nations overthrow and ultimate
downfall complete.
The onormity Of the crime to
which tho Republican leaders have
become a party, just now begins to
dawn upon the honorable voter Of
the country. They realize the
enormity Of the crime to bo at
tempted, and with its accomplish
ment they see the doom Of a nation's
independence. Once, completely
within the power Of British gold
means always 70 remain within it's
grasp.
No graver error was made by tho
| Democratic party in 1860 than the
error made by the Republican party
| ia 1896. The folly Of one nearly cost