The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1896-07-03
LIVE ISSUES.
THE SILVER SECESSION.
A Revolt i'm Full Swing and HOStilities
Openly Declared Under
TeIIer'S cad

A Revolt i'm Full Swing and HOstilities
Openly Declared Under
Teller's Lead.
ST. LOUIS, Mo-, June 1.-Two
months ago l wrote from Washing
ton that the West would bolt Nc
Kinley and gold at the st. Louis
convention. AS this is written the
West, the silver West, is marching
out. The revolt is practically
accomplished. The white savages
of silver are leaving the reservation
for the warpath. Their great med
icine 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 it's own platform,
will wage war ON gold and the East.
This means the defeat of McKin-
ley, possibly the death of Repub-
licanism.
Not the least significant of the
signs of the hour is the steady con-
fidence with which the silver forces
march away. They leave their
fellows of gold as Dundee left the
Whigamores of Edinburgh; 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 remem-
bered what the East forgot. They,
too, have country and cause.
There is a West as well as an East.
Silver has it's clans, as we'll as gold
its people. The allied natives the
East forgot; the West did not.
And so the silver fighters go back
to their tribes. Hannaism, McKin-
leyism, an over reaching East play
ing the hogs 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 chiefs in the North
The East can laugh at these peo-
pie. 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 it's borders, and the fires
of it's hatred never die. To-day
the West arrays itself against the
East and begins running out its
lines of battle. The West has be-
come ally to the South, and the
ally will be found harder, more
indomitable enemy than the orig
inal foe.
Tt is pleasant and easy for the
East to come from it's baths and its
gardens, its games and its houses
of marble and gilt to idle about the
forum and malign the West and
call it's people Goths and Vandals.
But it may hardly prove profitable.
The East might better recall what
the Goths 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 valor 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 of Bur
gundy 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
got. What was done to the West,
the West in it's turn will do.
These silver men have already
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