The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1896-10-29

The beginning of the end is at hand.
Wall streets effort to make this Il gov
ernment of money instead of Il govern
ment of men will fail, and so signal will
be it's defeat that not within the life
time of any child now living will plutoc-
racy dare TO lift its head as Il separate
force in American politics. The people
have been called upon, during period
of almost unprecedented hard times, TO
resist temptation and nobly they have
met the issue They have refused to
barter away their liberties for Mark
Hanna's pOttage, and now, almost upon
the eve of battle, they are lined up for
the conflict as uncOrrupted as the SOL
diery of Sparta, as incOrruptible as the
patriots of Valley Forge.
From the date of William Jennings
Bryan's nomination to this good hour
he has grown steadily in the esteem Of
his fellow citizens. He has made no
mistakes; he has dickered with no fac
tion and has fearlessly refused to tenn
porize on any question. Every voter
knows where he stands, and all men
who have studied his character believe
that his purpose is as fixed as the north
ern star.
Immediately after the convention
which nominated him ''he threw his
shining lance full and fair against the
enemies of his country and the defam-
ers of her honor, and he is to-day total
stranger to defeat" An American to
this great nation, and does not believe
that it requires the Endorsement Of
Rothschild or a Morgan to make her
obligations good. 4 man Of fixedneSs
of purpose, he stands to-day where he
has always stood-for the money Of the
constitution.
Knowing the law, and daring to up
hold it, he opposes trusts and combines,
and his election will be quickly follow
ed by the dissolution, under process Of
law, of every organization whose pur-
pose it is to restrain trade and bleed the
people.
Mckinley is also an American, but he
has yet to learn the A b of patriot
ism, for he has Ito place the most chari-
table construction on his recent change
of hearD come to the conclusion that
this people cannot ''coin money and
regulate the value thereof" as declar-
ed in the constitution, without Eng
lands consent. Mckinley has no fixed
ness of purpose, as is shown by his rec
ord on the money question, and his at
titude toward the trusts is notoriously
against the people.
At the outset the Republicans claim
ed everything. They were not only
going to carry all the States of the At
lantic seaboard, the middle west, Ken
lucky, Tennessee, Missouri and Louis
lana, but they promised their candidate
the electoral vote Of Texas. These prom
ises were based on Mark Hanna's
money bags, and not on the then trend
of sentiment throughout the United
States. Slowly but surely it dawned
upon the Republican boss and his sub
ordinates that the American people
were not cattle, and that they could
not be bought.
Texas was abandoned as something
Of n joke; Kentucky, Tennessee and
Missouri were left to their fate in the
effort to save Ohio, and to-day, after
all their boasting, they admit that
without Illinois their cause is lost. Illi-
nOis will cast her vote for Bryan. AS
Illinois goes SO will go the election. If
the election should be held tomorrow
the Democratic ticket would be elected
by a tremendous majority, and every
day between now and Nov. will give it
lustier strength. Victory is in sight
Chicago Dispatch.