Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-07-05
BAND OF BLOOD SUCKERS.

Thursday evening Hon. George Fred
| Williams of Boston, delegate at large
| from Massachusetts to the national DEM
ocratic convention and probable candi-
date for governor of that state, made a
most forcible declaration of his present
position in favor of free coinage and
| against Hannaism and Iobartism
which have become Synonymous with re-
| publicans. Hannaism, Mr.. Williams de-
clares. represents an organized band of
blood suckers, and Hobartism stands for
organized capital and Illegal combina-
tions against labor.
Mr.. Williams, after expressing his will
| ingness to take his chances with free
silver coinage, says:
THE time has come for a great pop
ular uprising, and L propose to be in 1t.
In taking this step of supporting a sill
| yer democrat l realize that L am doomed
| politically in Massachusetts, and that |
shall never be forgiven by men who
| claim to democrats. [ realize also that
| these men can punish me socially and
| financially, but invite persecution with
| the conscientious feeling that / am doing
right by voicing the sentiments of an
outraged public. 1 shall feel happy in
the coming campaign, as it will be
fought out squarely on free coinage
platform. The representatives of the
money power are going to Chicago to de-
feat the will of the delegates, but think
Mr.. Whitney and his agents will meet
their Waterloo. The west and south do
not meet in Chicago as malicious body
of people. They go there as honest
Woodworking, robbed people, looking for
this alienation of their wrongs. i con-
fess that l did not realize until three
years ago, when we began to issue
bonds, in what a partisan spirit l had
looked at the silver question. l began
to study it, and have changed my mind
considerably, until l am now convinced
that for every 81 900 damage done by
the alleged evil of free coinage the peo-
pie of the country would be robbed of
$500o,000 by Hanna and his trusts If they
get control of the country"
These are the wise and courageous
words of brave and honest man, who
had rather be right than to hold the high
est position in the gift of his people.
They ring out like bugle call to all
brave and honest and patriotic men
throughout the republic to stand by the
eternal principles of right and justice
and give aid to the people in their con-
test for financial freedom and relief and
from the domination of the organized
band of blood suckers trusts, combiDes
and monopolies, bond pirates and money
gamblers now represented by the repub-
lican party, its candidates for president
and vice president and the managers of
their campaign. They voice the senti-
ment of the great, honest yeomanry of
all parties in the country, who for more
than two decades have been sowing the
seeds for harvests of prosperity and hap-
piness of which they have been ruth
lessly robbed by the inequalities and ex-
actions of Ubiquitous republican legisla-
| tion--harvests which, leaving only the
chaff and husks to the sewers, have been
| reaped by the money power of this coun-
| try and Europe and their shylock agents
and representatives in Wall and Lom-
| bard streets.
| Mr.. Williams rightly says that 'the
| time has come for a great popular up
| rising" and that those who are engaged
! in an effort to defeat the will OF the peo-
| pie will meet their Waterloo, for the vast
majority of these same people were never
in more deadly earnest than now to over
throw the band of blood suckers and
financial pirates that have gorged and
fattened themselves upon the life cur
| rents of the nation and unjust tributes
extorted from the industrious, toiling
millions of producers and wealthmakers
|
| will be ended only when the great prin-
ciples of true democracy and a genuine
republican system are again and fully
re-estabished as the permanent policy
and Institutions Of the government
But we believe Mr.. Williams is wrong
in his beief-not fear, for fear is un-
known to such natures-that he is politi-
cally doomed in Massa chusetts for the
stand he has taken on the great political
issue before the people. Such men as he
must be are never doomed politically or
| otherwise, while they hold fast to great
| principles and sustain the people in their
struggle for emancipation from injustice
and wrong. There are always places of
| honor and trust in the temple of justice
| and freedom for brave men and patriots
| none for towards and trimmers and
| straddlers. For a time, 1t may be, in
justice may prevail and its victim prob
ably be made to feel the mailed hand of
unrighteous persecution, but eventually
the stone which the foolish workmen
would reject may become one of the chief
corner stones of the temple of liberty.