The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1896-10-31

he campaign of 1896 is now about to
lose, either in s glorious victory to
make glad the carts of our people or
4 melancholy defeat, to sink this ma
ton in still deeper gloom and sore dis
tress.
The signs of the times all seem to
portend glorious victory to the
Democracy on the 3rd day of Novem-
Der, IL they are true to themselves, /
their children and their country.
That day is fraught with all the
consequences politically for which
all tine days of the preceding four
years were given us, as a people. The
skirmishing is now almost done; and /
the final and crucial battle is about to
be fought to a finish. The contend |
ing hosts are being marshalled-the |
masses against the classes. The peo- |
pie, the common people, against the
rich and the lordly. The stake is no |
less, than: shall this government re-
main government Of the people, by
the people and for the people; or shall
it lapse into plutocracy of the wealthy
few, over the toiling millions ? Fell
low countrymen, this language is not
too strong. Give this lordly few the
purse and the sword, and the iron
heel OF despotism is upon us in all its
fury. Now these autocrats 5enounce
it as crime for a natural born citi-
zen to dare to eriticise in a mild, re-
spectacle tone and manner an official
act or declaration of one of their num-
Der; but let them fasten themselves
upon us by the coerced suffrages of the
people, and then the head OF the hon
est critic will fall as in Autocratic
Russia, and liberty will have fled from
this land of the free.
Thanks be to the God of the OPP
pressed, this battle has to be fought
at the ballot box; so long as freedom
lives and reigns on this continent.
There the poor and the lowly have the
same right, the same might and the
same powers as-the rich and the lord
ly; and all this is guaranteed by law.
Fellow countIymen; remember that
the right TO vote in this country is
sacred boon, given you not to barter,
sell or trade away, but as freeman's
armor in the defence of himself and
his country; and that to use it i'm
properly is a crime.
Then rally, my countrymen to the
polls on the morning of the Sd of No
vember, clad in the whole armor of
good, true and vigilant citizens. Go
early-work yigilantly, and cease not
until the polls are closed. See that
your friends are all there, and that
their tickets are properly made out
and deposited. eternal vigilance is
the price of liberty
And don't forget that the money
question is the chief and only mater
ial issue before the people in this
election. Mckinley and his party and
Palmer and his small cohort, stand
before the single gold standard of
money; while Bryan and his party,
stand for the gold and silver, both; as
we always had it in the days of our
prosperity, to 1873. Remember. there
| is about the same amount in money
value, of gold and silver in the coun-
try, and that to strike down or destroy
silver money, will lessen the amount
of our metallic currency one-half, and
that gold, (the other half, is now and
will be kept out of circulation, hoard
ed in the banks to buy bonds with,
when the government is again driven
to the stern necessity of borrowing
gold to pay its debts. If you can't
fully appreciate the condition other
wise, run your hand in your pocket
and see how much gold you have; and
then see if you can remember when
you had a gold coin in your pocket;
and what hope or expectation you
have of getting any ? Then call to
mind your wants for money-see how
many children you have, and how
much money you owe and greatly
need to pay your taxes and store bills.
And then ask yourself the question,
if we had no other money than gold, and
SO very little of it, what would became
of me, and my children and that
simple operation will convince you
that the single gold standard of money
will not suit you.
Then again, before you reach the
polls reach your hand down deep in
your other pocket, and see how much
silver money you have, and ask your
self again, Is this enough money TO
answer my urgent necessities, and set
me free of debt? Then ask yourself
where neighbor lives who has $500
or $1,000 in silver that you can borrow,
or to whom you might sell your sur
plus crops or stock at as much as they
have cost you. Can't you find one !?
At this time you will be convinced
that something is wrong in the money
world. Money must be too scarce,
and it must be that it is either hoard
ed up or locked up in the banks, where
it can't get into general circulation.
The secretary of the treasury at Wash
ingtOn says there is about 5000, 900
of gold and as much of silver in this
country. Where Is it We must
have more money-that is plain. The
oddities want to destroy silver and
have no money but gold, and that
boarded up or locked up in the banks,
the common people will have no money
left except the small remnant of silver
floating around because it cannot be
got in and locked up. And therefore,
we can't vote that way. The regular
Democracy, headed by Bryan and
Sewall, stand for the free and unlim-
tied coinage of silver at the old and
tried ratio of 16 to l, with gold; and
to make both metals alike standard
money, and legal tender in the pay
ment of all debts public and private,
as they always were up to 1873, when
silver was stricken down; and hard
times set in. We must, therefore,
| vote for Bryan and free silver. We
want more money and better money
Silver always was Will" it was treated
like gold at parity with gold, and we
cannot see why it will not be so again,
when treated like gold.
One thing more, fellow citizens and
voters, we would remind you of, and
that is, Gas you doubtless know al
ready,) that you do not vote directly
for the President of the United States,
but for so many electors in each state,
the voters of each state voting for its
own electors. A majority of all the
electors, elect a president, so that the
set of electors of this state having the
highest number Of votes given on the
3rd of November will cast the whole
! electoral vote of this state for the
candidate that ticket represents
Thus you see that one single vote may
change the result of the election in
this state, while the electoral vote of
this state might elect a president that
you stay at home voters or Indifferent
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