The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1896-07-24
The Situation.

do not comprehend the present condi-
ton of political affairs or conditions of
the country, and attempt to forecast the
future from a political state of affairs
which no longer exists. The nomination
of Bryan by the Peoples party they view
as surrender to, or absorption by the
democratic party. This is an entirely
erroneous view. There no longer exists
democrat party as known in the history
of the last thirty years That political
organization rested on no well defined
principles. 1t was an opposition party,
existing solely for the purpose of antago-
nizing the republican party. Those who
incline to doubt this will be satisfied of
the truth ofthis view by attempting to
define any tangible principle or policy
other than opposition-which the demo
cratic organization stood for or contended
FOR in the last thirty years.
The only cement holding the organiza-
ton together for a long time was the
prejudices and hatreds engendered by the
war. When these had died down till
nothing was left but few embers or
cooling ashes, Cleveland was elected, and
in search of some principle on which to
| hang out as land mark tariff reform"
was suggested to his rather cloudy mag
nation, and the party which had been so
long without definite cause or object
they could grasp, hailed the discovery of
their prophet and seer with the joy of the
/ traveller in the desert, who sees in the
mirage beautiful lake, with trees, YER
dure and habitations of men on its shores
When tariff reform" was approached,
like the mirage, its beauties vanished. 1t
was simply the old tariff with more or less
change of schedules. Only that and
nothing more. The same desert of burn
ing sands and parching drought of the
gold standard was all that met the weary
eyes and throbbing brain of deceived
people.
No, that tabled democratic party, whose
machinery was all in the hands of the
gold conspirators, has passed as troubled
dream. 1t withered in night The call
which assembled the peoples delegates at
Chicago for the purpose and with the
hope of continuing the deception, was the
summons of doom to that political organ
ization.
The people, the great plain people, the
bone, Drawn and honest brain of the
democratic party of thirty years, left their
false leaders and in body marched over
to the Populist camp, formed under its
banner, adopted the Peoples party prin-
ciples, and sent their old leaders adrift,
who are joining their goldite comrades in
the republican party.
There is a breakup of old parties equal
to that which preceded the great slavery
rebellion, and new alignment taking
place out of which is destined to arise
conditions. further reaching and more
momentous to the American people, and
through them to the civilized world, than
grew out of the overthrow of African
slavery. This moral and political contest
into which the American people are
entering is of vastly more Importance to
mankind than that which abolished
chattel slavery.
The aristocracy of money which has
overrun all Europe and tranpled the
laboring class in the dust, has crossed the
Atlantic and is extending its conquests
rapidly on the soil of the New World On
the death of Lincoln its insidious power
seized by stealth and bribery the govern
ment of this country, and has made fear
full and rapid progress in its conquest over
the American people. But the alarmed
people have sprung to arms as it were i'll a
night. They have been aroused as by a
fire bell and are pouring forth with i'm
petuous speed and hastily joining in the
ranks of the Peoples party.
1t is the struggle of the aroused Amer
lean blood to recover their almost lost
liberties from the old British enemy to
American freedom. AS their armed
power failed against the weak colonists,
so will their gold conspiracy, led on by
the pawn-broker Jew, fail in the war for
American rights which is now on.
Had Cleveland, in place of his foolish
tariff REFORM" raised the banner of
financial reform, a nation would have
answered the call, and the English bank
and moneyed aristocracy which had EN-
trenched itself on these shores would
have, ere this, been eradicated and he
have been the idol of an admiring and
grateful people. But Cleveland is crea-
ture of. low moral instincts and sordid
avarice, and the bride offering Jew found
him willing subject. He will leave the
White House the most despised, union
ored and disgraced, of any man of mod
ern times, the whirly-gig of fortune has
thrown into position of great respon-
sibility and public trust.
Great was Clevelands opportunity;
great was the mistake the American peo-
pie made; great was the cunning Of the
willy Jew that imposed such man upon
confiding people, and great almost
inconceivable-is the damage he has
wrought. None but the indominable
spirited American people could have re-
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