Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-07-03

REVOLT IN FULL SWING AND HosTILITIEs
OPENLY DECLARED UNDER TELLER's LEAD.
ST. LOUIS, June 25.-Two months ago l
wrote from Washington that the west would
bolt Mckinley and gold at the St. Louis con-
vention AS this is written the west, the silver
west is marching out The revolt is practi-
cally accomplished. The white savages of sill
yer are leaving the reservation for the warpath.
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 en-
listment. The lnutiny is on. Rebellion is
afoot and the silver west, with its own candi-
date 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 Edinburgh; their feathers tossing, their ban
ners wide flung and free. They nail their
gauntlet to the gates of gold and the east
stands defed to the uttermost of war. They
have remembered what the east forgot. They,
too, have country and cause. There is
west as we'll as an east Silver has its clans,as
gold has its people. The allied natives the
east forgot; the west did not
And so the silver fighters go back to their
tribes. Hannaism, McKinleyism, an ever
reaching east playing the hogs part in its
golden sel6shness have split the party. The
last chance of success for the Republicans has
disappeared
There be hills beyond pentland..
And hrtls beyond Forth
If there be lords in the Lowlands
There lie chiefs in the North
The east can laugh at these people. The
east should laugh at people less and study them
more. This 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 it's line of battle. The west has become
ally to the south, and the ally will be found
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 lnaign the west and call its people
Goths and Vandals. But it may hardly prove
profitable; the east might better recall what the
Goths and Vandals did to Rome.
These 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 valor of
the 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 of Burgundy
over again. The Swiss will win, and whereas
Just terms might once have been made with
them, in their hour of might and wisdom the
west will grant as little as it has 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 ap
pear the veriest Spartans of legislation; they
fought the Dingley bill to its death; they boast
ed that you should never have protection until
they had free silver; they made good their boast
in the session of congress just ended, and the
Dingley bill left unburied the field testifes
not only to their plans, but to their power to
carry them out. What they did to the Dingley
bill they will return in December to do again
CONCLUDED ON EDITORIAL, PAGE.