The Van Buren press., 1896-07-25
INGALLS, ON SILVER.
4 Letter Written A Month Ago Which
In the Light Of the Democratic
Convention is Particular
Iy Interesting.

! saVdReS OF SILVER are leaving IHe
reservation for the war path. Their
great medicine man, Teller, has set up
the war pole, and the young bucks vie
with one another as to who shall be the
first to strike his war axe into it, as
proof of his enlistment. The mutiny is
on. Rebellion is afoot, and the silver
West with its own candidate and its
own platform will wage war on gold
and the East
This means the defeat of Mckinley,
possibly the death of Republicanism.
Not the least significant of the signs
of the hour is the steady confidence
with which the silver forces march
away. They leave their fellows of gold
as Dundee left the whigamores of
Edinburg their feathers tossing, their
banners wide flung and free. They
nail their gauntlet to the gates of gold
and the East stands defied to the utter
most of war. They have remembered
what the East forgot. They, too, have
aeountry and cause. There is a West
as we'll as an East Silver has its clans
as we'll as gold it's people. The allied
natives of the East forgot, the West did
not.
And so the silver fighters go back to
| their tribes. Hannaism, McKinleyisi1i
an over reaching East playing the hog s
part in its golden selfishness have split
| the party. The last chance of success
for the Republicans has disappeared.
There be hills beyond Pentland,
| And friths beyond Forth.
| If there be lords In the Lowlands
| There be chief in the North
The East can laugh at these people.
The East should laugh at people less
and study them more. The Eastern
policy of the tip tilted nose has already
cost it the South. That region glowers
at the East across its borders, and the
fires of its hatred never die. Today
the West arrays itself against the East
and begins running out its lines of
battle. The West has become ally to
the South, and the ally will be found a
harder, more indomitable enemy than
the original foe.
| 1t is pleasant and easy for the East to
come from its baths and its gardens,
| its games and its houses of marble and
gilt to idle about the forum and malign
the West and call its people Cloths and
| Vandals. But it may hardly prove
profitable. The East might better
recall what the Cloths and Vandals did
to Rome.
The silver people are the Swiss of
America. They are poor in all save
courage. They have heard their war
horns sounding and the battle is on.
They will fight with the cool yalor of
buccaneers. When the East goes
against them, pride blown, purblind in
its conceit of riches, yet really weak
with the possession of that which it
relies most upon-its money-it will be
the old story of Charles Burgundy over
again. The Swiss will win, and where
as Just terms might once have been
made with them in their hour of might
and wisdom the West will grant as little
as it got What was done to the West,
the West in its turn will do.
These silver men have already made
captive the Senate of the United States
there they appear the veriest Spartans
of legislation they fought the DINGHY
bill to its death they boasted that you
should never have protection until they
had free silver they made good theil
boast in the session of Congress JUS
ended, and the DINGHY bill left unburie(
on the field testites not only to thei1
plans, but their power to carry then
out. What they did to the DINGHY bill
they will return in December TO d.
again to any legislation they may lev,
silver against war.
| Mckinley is beaten and now | vii
tell you how. The silver revolt will
sweep the West between the Missouri
and Pacific. You may buy gold planl
in Dakota and again in Oregon, but You
can t buy the people you can't brib'
the public in the wide region named
from the coast to the Missouri, from tn,
Rio Grande to the English line. Silvel
will sweep all before it, Teller will ge
most of them, but at least McKinle,
has lost every electoral vote after you
leave the Missouri river. They will g
to Populists, to Democrats, to silver
Republicans, but they will none of then
go to Mckinley, that candidate hand
made by Hanna on platform TO which
in his heart of hearts he is false.
Heaven hates a coward, and Nc
Kinley has not been brave. The people
are against him and the gods will no
fight on his side. Give the West tt
silver, California, Oregon, Washing
ton, Montana, Idaho, Nevada, Utah
Colorado, Wyoming, the Dakotas
Nebraska, Kansas and Texas. Silve
has already conquered them all. An'
the South-McKinley cannot win o.
hold foot of it. Every former slav
state, bar Delaware, will go Demo
cratic. There is no doubt in nationa
war with the Democracy for free silve
of such states as Missouri, Kentucky an
Maryland. Even West Virginia woul
be hard to hold. Mckinley may kis
hope good bye so far as Missouri
Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi
Alabama, Tennessee, Kentucky
Georgia, Florida, the two Carolinas
Virginia and Maryland are involved
He II get none of them. Count up tn
Others, and see if he have enough
he would carry them all. He'll b
made to sup defeat. But even wer
they enough. faith has not decided tina
! Mckinley will carry them. He cal
carry Maine, New Hampshire
Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Islant
and Connecticut, the FIVE New Englan,
States. Reed, the Republican Achilles
will sulk in his tent, but his region will
go for Mckinley. Unless split occur
at Chicago, and it well may happen
. and gold Democrat do in the Eas
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