Semi=weekly graphic., 1896-10-21
DEMocRAeYs BATTLE
It Is Fighting For Equal Rights For All
 Privileges For None.

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 Privileges For None.
 The Democracy of the United States knew what it was about and knew what st would have to face when in national Convention it declared fnr free coinage af gold and silver and B stable dollar tt knew that 1t would have to meet alf She tremendous power of the whole privileged class, who have come to be. aeVe that they possess a divine license 10 prey upon the masses. A nation of %, O00, 900 was taxed to starvation to maintain the 2,000 or 5000 aristoerats who glittered around Louis XVI and Antolnette at Versailles, and those eor- geous gentlemen and ladies were not more profoundly convinced that Provi- dence had created France for their bene- lit than are our own money grandees that thelr special interests are para mount to all other considerations. That they should rise in body against the Democracy when it has the courage to declare war upon their unjust privi- leges Is only natural. It is only natural. too, that all the faithful retainers of the plutocraey should draw the sword and charge upon the Democracy with tury superior even to that of their mas ters. 1t has ever been so with retainers. As there are Catholics more catholic than the pope, " so there are multitudes of dependents on the wealthy who are more eapitalistic than capitalists. Such of these dependents as have called them selves Democrats obey the law of their parasitic being by going over to Hanna, advance agent of the plutocracy, who is wallowing i'll money.
 But as the United States happens to be populated chiefly by men, not coo- lies, the Democratic party asks with con fidence for the support of the plain peo. pie whose battle it is fighting. The contest, as contributor to The Jour nal's fund for the education of voters happily put it, is between those who make things and those who take things. The issue is too clear to be obseured. On the Republican side are ranged all the men whose hands are habitually in the peoples pockets, all the men who seek ouse the power of the government to further enrich themselves. all the shearers of the wool of the labor sheep, all the men who understand and prac- tiee the art of getting much for little These are the kind of enemies the De. mocracy is and ought to be glad to fight. They are the natural foes of the Dem- ocratio idea, and their success in this campaign would advance prodigiousIy the movement for turning the republic into all oligarchy.
 The plain people are not to be de- eeived. They know with which party their interest, the interest of the eoun. try, lies in this great struggle for the supremacy of manhood over money. As for the leaders who have gone, let them go. Generals who deem it wise polly to be friendly with the enemy are not the sort of generals who win victor that tell for Democratic principles and the welfare of the masses. The party is better off without them.
 Every American who owns himself and stands by the doctrine that the ma jority of it's citizens should rEla the re- public for the common good will vote for Bryan. Equal rights for all, privi- leges for none; that is true Democracy. New York Journal.