The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1896-12-24
GeoA Advice from Democatic Journal

The Ohio State Register, Democratic,
pOblished at Washington G. H., offers
4he following timely advice to the fol.
3owers Of Bryan:
lt IL rumored, and from what we can
5UArn 10 probably true, that perman.
mt free silver club is to be organized in
yAis city. It il not probable that any of
10 eontlemen who will take the inlitiye
~ this movement can be deferred from
|thoir purpose by any influence what.
4sor, and Il is not with the hope OF in
4uoncing them that we speak with dis.
fav0f of continued political agitation at
this time. To insist that the country be
kept in ., state of turmoil over the tinan-
cial question is, We believe. unwise,
dangerous to the peace and happiness
OF the country, and last and least, the
very worst kind OF politics. The Amer.
icwn people have said in uhmistakable
tones that they desire the policies SIT
fourth in the St. Louis platform adopted
fn the management of the public busi
ness, and they have chosen Mr.. McKin.
ley e. President in order that those
policies may be carried out. Every
sensible man knows that Mr.. Mckinley
will do all in his power to make his ad.
ministration success by making good,
If it be possible, the Republican cam.
paign promises that we should have an
era of prosperity. If the principles of
his party are right, and Mr.. Mckinley is
given fair chance to carry them into
effect, no amount of agitation will keep
the silver cause alive. If, on the other
hand, the Republican theories are wrong
the easiest and best way to prove it is to
give them full sweep. If that be done,
then it cannot be said in behalf of pro.
lection and the single gold standard
four years hence, Constant agitation
and opposition has cheated the country
of the full benefit Of our policy. 1t is
your fault and not ours that we have
not succeeded" It is the duty of every
citizen to do all in his power to make
the Mckinley administration success.
The situation that confronts US is grave
one. We have been promised an hon.
est dollar and chance to earn it. That
10 all an honest man wants, but if the
chances to honest men to earn honest
dollars are not better when the new ad-
ministration shall have the reins of gov.
government we'll in hand, and if the
chances of the nail trust, the sugar trust,
the leather trust, the beef trust, the
J. ateel trust, and the hundred and more
other trusts to rob the people are not
practically destroyed, then there is
trouble in store for us such as we have
never had in this country before. One
of the surest ways to precipitate such
trouble, in case of continued hard times
under the next administration, is to
,tkeep up the agitation of the silver ques.
,ltion. If prosperity does not come it
bevill take all the prudence and forbear.
Il, nee of this people to escape one of the
cost serious dangers that has ever
threatened it, and the question will be
not who caused it, or what caused it, OF
how far are extravagant Republican
promises responsible for it? but show
can we best weather the storm until the
next Presidential election and then try
the policy and the President we rejected
| In 49," If the Mckinley administra.
tion is not success there will be no
need of permanent free silver clubs to
revive the silver issue, and William
Jennings Bryan will be there the only
real live presidential candidate in the
J field,