The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1896-07-11
The People Won.

Inc R0Oplo WOA.
The campaign now on will be the most vig-
orous. the most exciting and the most mo-
mentous of the century. None in the hrst
half of it will compare with it, nor will that
of 1860. when division of the Democratic
party made Republican success possible, with
war and then a period of thirty years, nearly,
of vicious tariff and financial legislation that
has very nearly bankrupted the country. In
its two temporary leases of power the Demo-
cratic party has been able to only partially
STAY the extravaganza inaugurated by the
Republican party, only partially reverse the
ruinous policy of taxing the many for the ben
eft of the few, and in its financial policy has
followed that of the Republican party, for the
money power and strange leaders controlled
il. The policy of protection, the extrava-
gance, the multiplication of offices, increase
of salaries and the cutting off of one-half OF
the money has brought ruin and desperation
The people are now determined that taxation
shall be for revenue, not to still further take
of their substance to build other fabulous for
times; that there shall be an increase OF the
currency by return to that monetary system
that prevailed through three centuries IN the
enlightened countries of Europe and from
the establishment OF this government up to
1873: that there shall he a remodeling OF our
banking system, and that there shall be an
entire reversal of the policies and practices OF
the las, thirty years. Nothing can withstand
their wrath. their indignation and their deter
mination. The South and West have suffered
most. and there the great tidal wave of pop
ular uprisin began. The wave has reached
the East, and the storm will gather force and
power as it rlshes on. The East has been
too closely dominated by the money power,
trusts and combines to rebel to any great ex-
tent. but now that the great agricultural West
and South have joined hands for deliverance,
the Fast will join them and day of deliver
ance is at hand.
The people are in the saddle, and the
money power and corporations and trusts and
combines, aided by the combined power OF
monopolistic press of the large cities of the
East, will be poyerless to stop their triumphal
march.
The Republican convention would have
declared for bimetalhsm had not the promise
of Office and cash caught those who are in
politics in the South and West for gain alone
The Democratic convention was true repre-
sentative of the robbed and oppressed farm
ers. mechanics. laborers and honest business
classes. Neither persuasion, dire predictions
of calamity nor threats of boiling could pre-
vail against the determined and resolute men
who composed the Chicago convention. And
there is going to be more disearding of party
lines this year than ever before in this eoun-
try. The occasional revolts in Massachusetts,
PENNSYLVANIA, Maryland and other states will
be nothing as compared to what is to happen
throughout the country this year. There will
be some in the Democratic party here in the
East. but it will be nearly Offset by the revolt
IN the Republican party in the East, while
thousands of Republicans in the West and
Northwest will be found voting for the Chiea-
90 nominees. In those sections it is TO be
tidal wave. aud when the farmers, particular
". and the laborers of the East learn the
cause of their oppression and well nigh ruin
there will be great surprise at the election re-
turns an November. 1t will be campaign of
education east of the Ohio. TIE South and
West will be practically solid for the Chicago
nominees, and the desperation of the money
power will find itself confronted by deter
mined and intelligent opposition in the East
The money question is no intricate subject.
It will be easy to master, and every fallacy of
the Gold Standard Combine will be made so
plain that every farmer, mechanic and laborer
will readily perceive it. There is hut one
sound side to the question. The contest will
be one of the masses against the classes, fight
against the thraldom of the money combine,
fight for liberation, and a contest of right
against wrong.
The people have won at Chicago. They
will win at the polls. Then the wrongs of
the last twenty years will be undOne, unjust laws
will be replaced by just ones, a new era
will dawn and the people will be contented
and prosperous again. Agriculture will
thrive, the workshops and factories put ii mo-
ton, mines opened, forests felled, new rail-
roads built and waterways improved, Com
meree will be stimulated and American Ships
be found in every port as before the reign of
greed, avarice and oppression
New York city is governed by Reformers t?1
and as result of the change the tax rate has
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