Birmingham state herald., 1896-08-22
HANNA's H1REL1Na BLACKGUARp.

III n4S tlfade on Tuesday evening in Madison Square garden New York, paid for by Mark Hanna, and which was in- spired by and so delighted Perry Bel mont and his vice presidential array of 1900 money-mongers, w. Blatherskte Cochran, just spued out by the old coun- try, which he wanted to represent in parliament as loyal subject of Queen Victoria, and recently purchased at high figures for such work, used the following language in speaking of the democratic party, it's members, principles and pol- cies:
 "Will you submit to this scheme be- tween the professional farmers, who cul- tivate the quarrels of their neighbors, farmers who labor with their jaws, popu- list agitators of the west and the merci- less shareholders of the south? (Ap-' plause) This is a conspiracy between professional farmers who want to pay low wages and the unreconciled slave holder who would like to pay no wages (applause)-here is the real conspiracy. Here is the explanation of this populist movement. The popul.st move ment is the attempt of those profes- sional farmers-of these men who are unwilling to share with the laborer-to appeal to his greed in support of their doctrine; he is an enemy of public or der; he is an obstacla to progress. He is a conspirator against the peace and prosperity of the industrial masses of the country"
 It is eminently fitting that such vile scurrility as this should come from lips which solemnly, on oath, renounced all allegiance to all foreign authority and power and especially to that of Great Britain, in order to be naturalzad as citizen of the United States, whose owner then, after sitting in our congress, sought place as a legislator under that re- nounced allegiance, and, failing, now comes to our shores as Hanna's hireling, to vomit forth his vulgar billngsgate and falsahoods about American citizens, the meanest of whom might well scorn comparison with him.
 Let the people of the west and the south remember that, these villalnous de- nunciations of themselves by a merce- nary slanderer were prompted and ap- plauded by a convocation of all the ele- ments that make up the so-called Sound Money league of America, towit: the panic breeders, railway wreckers, bond syndicates, corporation leeches and para sites, stock gamblers and market cor nerers, corrupters of legislatures, off, cials and courts and other such gentry who are banded together without regard to past party relations in opposition to the rights of the people and to the demo- cratic party and it's candidates as their champions. They are not merely the foul breath of venal word-monger; they are the expression of the settled diabolic hatred and purposes of his mas ters, and indicate their contempt for our entire agricultural population, for their rights and for our free institutions.
 This hireling blackguard was intro duced to his piebald audisn by Perry Belmont, one of the heroes and bene- ficiaries of the infamous midnight bond deal, by which he and his pals made mill lions of dollars out of the United States without expending one-the American agent and tool of Rothschilds. The qual- ity of this creature's democracy is shown very clearly by the following words used by him on that occasion
 But even if every state convention in the union, including our own. should de- clare for the Chicago candidate they would lose their democratic character"
 In other words, this upstart insolently arrogates to himself and his sort abso- lute political infallbility and autocracy, and the sole prerogative of defining what democracy is and who are democrats, even against the unanimous voice of the democratic party itself in all its conven- tions assembled. In this assumption he does not stand alone, but is aligned with all that class which, having grown fat and rich and besotted by the dishonest absorption of the wealth produced by other mems labor now undertakes by the force of that wealth to Wrest from the people of this country the right and pow CT of self-government, and to convert this democratic republic of the people into an oligarchy ruled by and in the in- terest of parvenu millionaires and finan- cial buccaneers.
 This Madison Square garden affair shows that the issue now before the peo- pie is not merely the free coinage of sil- yer or a just tariff for revenue only. True, these are issues, but the greater one, which involves and dwarfs these and all others, is whether the United States shall be hereafter governed by free-born citi- zens or whether Rothshild and his sa- traps shall dictate policies, laws and in- stitutions for them as a herd of cringing, low-browed slaves.
 We think the people are getting ready to settle this issue in November, not by orders from London or New York, but as becomes freemen in a free land, worthy of freedom and determined to be forever free.