The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1896-07-04
THE SILVER SECESSION.
A Revolt IN Full Swing anu nus
tilIties Openly Declared Under
Tellers' Lead.

,b;to savlOeS of silver are leaNlnS the
,asprvotiou for the warpath. Ihelr
medicine man, Teller, has set up
war pole and the young bucks vie
with one another as to who shall DE
he first to strike his war axe into IL,
proof of his enlistment. Inc
is on. Rebellion is afoot ana
he silver west, with its own candidate
and Its W platform, will wage war
on gold and the east.
This means the defeat of Mckinney
the death of republIcanlsm.
Not the least signiiicent OF the siS"s
of the hour is the steady confidence
with winch the silver forces march
They leave their fellows OF
oold as Dundee left the Whigamores OF
Edinburgh; their feathers tossing
their banners wide flung and free.
They nail their gauntlet to the gates OF
cold and the east stands defied TO Inc
Eitermost OF war, They have remem-
bered what the east forgot. They, too
rave a country and a cause. lhere Is
a west as well as an east. Silver mas
us clans, as well as gold its people.
The allied natives the east forgot; the
west did not.
And SC the silver fighters go back to
their tribes. H~annaism, Mcklnleylsm'
an overreaching east playing the hogs
mart in its golden seltishness have split
the party. The last chance tor the
republicans has disappeared.
There be hills beyond Pentland'
Aud friths beyond Forth:
III there be lords in lowlands,.
There be 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 S has aireaoy
cost it the south. That region glowers
at the east across its borders, n the
fires of its hatred never die. Today
the west arrays itself against the east
and begins running out its lines OF
battle. The west has become ally to
the south, and the ally will be found
the 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
oilt TO idle about the forum and malign
the west and call its people goth and
vandal. 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 thei wal
horns sounding and the battle Is on
They will fight with the cool valor o.
buccaneers. When the east goes
against them, pr~ide-blown, purellne
in its conceit of riches, yet really wear
with the possession of that which
relies most upon-its money-it will b'
the old story of Charles of Burgundy
over again. The Swiss will win, ant
whereas lust terms might have ono
have been made with them in thel
hour of might and wisdom, the ives
will grant as little as it got. VIVA
was done to the west In its turn Will 40
These silver men have already mad
captiye the senate of the United States
They appear the veriest Spartans o
Legislation. They fought the Dingle,
bill to its death. They boosted tina
Won should never have protection unit
they had free silver. They made goo
} their boast in the session of congress
r lust ended, and the Dingley bill lf
: unburied on the field testlfies not onI
to their plans, but to their power t
> carry them out. What they did to tn
! Dineley they will return in Decembe
to do again to any Legislation they ma
t levy their silver war against.
? Mckinley will be beaten, and nov
. ri tell YOU how. This silver reyoI
, will sweep the west between the Mis-
! souri, and the Pacific. You may bu
r a gold plank in Dakota and again j
5 Oregon, but you can't buy the people
r You can't brlbe the public in the wa
region named from the coast 70 tn
Missouri, from the Rio Grande to I'll
S English line. Silver will sweep a
before it. Teller will get most
# them, but at least Mckinley has 10
every electoral vote after You leave tt
Missouri river. They will go to POI
II ulists, to democrats, to silver repuI
is %licans, but they will none of them E
If 10 Mckinley, that candidate hand-ma'
by Hanna on a platform to which
his heart of hearts he is false.
= Heaven hates a coward, and M
~ Kinley has not been brave. The Peep
S are against him, and the gods will n
fight on his side. Give the west
n silver. California, Oregon, Washin
\ ton, Montana, Idaho, Nevada, Uta
!" Colorado, Wyoming, the Dakotf
ST Nebraska, Kansas and Texas-silv
in has already conquered them all. Al
err the south-McKInley canno win
hold a foot of 1t. Every former sla
= state, bar Delaware, will go democrat
y There is no doubt In a national W
- with the demoracracy for free silly
ig of such states as Missouri, kentuo
and Maryland. Even West Virgin
Il would be hard to hold. McKlnl
=. nav kiss hope goodby so far as M
IL sonri. Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississip
he Alabama, Tennessee, Kentucky, &c
Ier 0ia, Florida, the two Carolinas, '
MS ginia and Maryland are involved. H'
=, get none of them.
Count up the others, and see if h
have enough should he carry them /;
TIL He'll be made to sup defeat. |
tic even were they enough, faith has
,at decided that Mckinley can carry
Others. He can carry Maine, n
HAMPSHIRE, Vermont. Massachuset
an Rhode Island and Connecticut, the
IN New England states. Reed, the rep
his lican Archilles, will sulk in his tie
40 but his region will 60 for Mckinl
Unless a split occurs at Chicago,
it may well happen, and a gold del
III crat do in the east what Teller
ect dong in the west, Mckinley will ca
fe. New Jersey and Delaware.
do Mckinley is sure, too, of Penn'
yania, despite the cloud of Came
y" and his silver lining. Steve Elk
oil adept, may steal him West Virgin
is There is u streak of solemn Dutch
nd through Wisconsin which may saw
Mckinley that sober commonwea
For the decency of the thing co
Lhe Ohio for Mckinley, albeit, should
he democrats name Campbell, McKiI
ted would be driven to the Buckeye wal
nc a moment. Count all those states
Mckinley. But the others OF the ne
minnesota, Iowa, Illinois, Mlchle
Indiana and New YOrk-are debata
mo. fghtable ground.
Mckinley is not sure OF any OF TN
lie. In the doctrine of chances, he's sur
I'm, lose onp-third of them, Illinois,