Semi=weekly graphic., 1896-10-14
DEMOCRACYS BATTLE.
It Is Fighting For Equal Rights For All,
 Privileges For None.

# Ts Fighting For Equal Rights For All,
 Privileges For None.
 The Democracy cf the United States knevv what it was about and knew what tt would have to face when in national convention it declared far tree coinage ,s gold and silver and stable dollar ft knew that it would have to meet ali the tremendous power of the whole orivileoed class, who have come to be- lieve that they possess a divine licehSe 10 prey upon the masses. A nation or g6. GOO, 0O0 was taxed to starvation to maintain the 3, 900 or 5000 aristocrats who glittered around Louis XVI and 4ntoinette at Versailles. and those gor- peous gentlemen and ladies were not more profoundly convinced that FroVl- dence had created France for thelr bene- fiji than are our own money grandees that their special interests are para mount to all other considerations. That they should rise in body agalnst tne Democracy when it has the courage to declare war upon their unjust prIyl- lepes is only natural It is only natural, too. that all the faithful retainers of the plutOcracy should draw the sword and charge upon the Democracy with a fury superior even to that Of thelr mas ters. It has ever been so with retainers. As there are Catholics more catholic than the pope, so there are multitudes of dependents on the wealthy who are more capitalistic than capitalists. Such of these dependents as have called them selves Democrats obey the law of their parasitic being by going over to Hanna, advance agent of the plutocracy, who ls wallowing i'll money.
 But as the United States happens to be populated chiefly by men, not coo lies the Democratic party asks with con- fdence for the support of the plain peo= ple, whose battle it IS fighting. The contest, as contributor to The Jour- nal's fund for the education of voters happily put it, is between those who make things and those who take things The issue is too clear to be obscured. On the Republican side are ranged all the men whose hands are habltually Ill the peoples pockets, all the men who seek to use the power of the government to further enrich hems. Ives, all the shearers of the wool of the labor sheep, all the men who understand and prae- tioe the art of getting much for little These are the kind of enemies the De- mocracy is and ought to be glad to fight They are tile natural foes of the Dem, ocratio idea, and their success in this campaign would advance prodigiously the movement for turning the republic into an oligarchy.
 The plain people are not to be de eeived. They know with which party their interest, the interest of the coun- try, lies i'll this great struggle for the supremacy of manhood over money. As for the leaders who have gone, let them go. Generals who deem 1t wise polly to be friendly with the enemy are net the sort of generals who win victor that tell for Democratic principles and the welfare of the masses. The party is 1 better off without them.
 Every American who owns himself and stands by the doctrine that the ma iority of it's citizens should rsis the re- public for the common good will vote for Bryan Equal rights for all, privi- leges for none; that is true Democracy. New York Journal