The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1896-10-09
TO THE FRIENDS OF B1mErALLIsM.

lOT6CdbC, VI any h6lu III 'CnO OOuuIiJ
in many years. The bolts from all
the parties, old and new, have made
it so. To what extent this disaffec-
ton exists, and where that effect
will be felt; whether the Republi-
cans will lose more from their ranks
in the rural districts than the Demo-
Gratis will lose oddities in the city;
whether the Democratic slump in
the East will be offset or more than
Offset by the Republican slump in
the West; what the net result will
be in its effects upon the electoral
vote, of all this breaking away from
old party lines, no man can with
any accuracy and certainty foretell.
The HERALD does not propose, in
this article at least, to try. 1t is not
our purpose just now to make
figures and estimates, and speculate
on the general result. We have a
purpose more practical, and an aim
nearer home. Or.
Our purpose is to present to the
friends of bimetallism, that very
large majority of our readers who
believe in the free coinage of gold
and silver at a ratio of l6 TO 1, a
practical side of the voting question.
We wish to suggest to them that
those of us who think alike, should
vote together. --a F Is
IA house divided against itself,
cannot stand.'' No more can the
silver advocates, voting against each
other, win this election. ain union
there is strength !" in division there
is weakness. 'iIIs f
1t seems to us that every silver
Democrat, every silver Populist and
every silver Republican ought to
vote their principles. What is Bry-
an or Mckinley or Palmer? Who
are they? Upon what meat hath
either of them fed that this great
country with its teeming millions Of
people should be disturbed by them
or for them?
Bryan, peerless as he is in his ora.
tory, grand as he is in his courage
pure as he is in his private life, i:
but an atom in this great fight fol
human liberty. But the cause he
represents, is the hope of the people
and all those who believe his cause
) is just, should rally to his standard
t The HERALD shall not lose any
more time arguing the question. Tt
t argue the cause of the common PEG
3 pie before a jury of soulless corpora.
I tionists, is like casting pearl before
: swine. We have no hope to CONVEX
3 the money changers and corpora
ton managers, who grow fat OIL
fixed salaries, from the error of thei
ways. 1t is impossible to max
some men see further than the en'
of their noses, and these self salts
! fed salary grabbers are too seren
: in their selfish existence to think o
care for the future. 1t never occur
to them that they may lose thei
: present jobs and become "Wear,
WILLIE" like many another as goot
I, and as competent as they. An,
they have as little compassion TO
~ the enforced idlers of to-day, as the.
l have thought for the future of them
. selves. Therefore to argue wit
them is a waste of time, and to con
n vert them hopeless task.
f But more unreasonable ma
Il than the gold-bug, is the man i
q Tennessee who will vote the Brya
n and Watson electoral ticket. 1t
+ an even bet whether Watson
~ knave or fool, and his most intimat
# friends have been unable to tel
" which. He is either a sorehead,
+ traitor or an ass, and is scamperin
W over the country abusing Chairma
J. Butler, than whom there is not
w brainier and purer man in the Popu
m list ranks. In doing so he has {
= course alienated the better an
20 more thinking men of his part.
,r among whom is Mr.. James T. Mile
N one of his electors for this stat
~ who has withdrawn from that tick,
n and proffered his services to til
NJ Democrats.
Nv All of Watson's supporters al
ia Bryan men, and Bryan is as muc
40 their nominee as Watson. If the
Sc lived in state where Watson had
~ hope of success, we would not blan
10 them for staying with him to tt
last; but here in Tennessee, whe,
Bryan aud Watson electors have l
at more chance than Palmer and Bucl
is ner, why sacrifice Bryan simply
ne compliment Watson? A vote f,
to Bryan and Watson electors, coun
lis no more for Bryan than if it w
n cast for Mckinley or Palmer. Ha0
lg we votes to throw away as compl
re ments? Is there any patriotism {