The silver star., 1897-08-05
A TRIUMPHAL MARCH.

1lotoIy repeats ltSeli. ne king
is dead. Whitney is 10 more. Long
live King Hanna. He has risen to
fall. The march of King Whitney
from New York to Chicago, in 1892
to use the moral force of Wall and
Lombard streets to nominate Cleve-.
land and augment the power of gold
monopoly attracted the attention of
two continents. No such magnif-
cent train of Pullman cars, with liv-'
cried lackeys and gorgeous equip
ments, ever before moved on the
American continent. The moral in
fluence of that gorgeous pageantry
was successful. Cleveland was
nominated and elected president,
loaded the country with more than
two hundred ard sixty-two millions
of bonded debt for the benefit of
herd of thieving and night-studying
stock jobbers, wrecked the finances
of the country, and brought on uni
versal panic which still continues to
increase in most rapid manner.
In 1896 King Whitney made an
other march to Chicago. The dis
play of wealth, of grandeur, snob-
berry and 1nagniocence surpassed the
ini1nitable array of 1892. The NOR
al influence of Wall and Lombard
streets, which we will not insinuate
was financial, met Waterloo. Mr..
Whitney was thing of the past.
His scattered forces either sulked
in theft wigwams or deserted to the
goldhug camp of the republican
party. Hanna was crowned king
of all goldbugs both Of high and
low degree. He counted among
his henchmen the Whitneys, the
Hills, the Clevelands, the Carlisles,
the Watsons, the Van Dervoorts,
the Palmers, the Buckners, and all
who rely on the mother country to
control the finances of the great re-
public.
His pilgrimage to St. Louis was
less grand and gorgeous than was
warranted by his future greatness.
Five extra Pullman cars were suffi-
cent to convey himself and his ser
wants from Cleveland to St. Louis.
Whitney still wore the gold crown,
and the coming ruler of all the gold
ties was not allowed to shine in all
his glory. The republican conven-
ton, amid uncertainty, anointed
their chosen leader, and on the de-
mise of Whitney at Chicago, few
weeks later, the goldites of all men
and all parties proclaimed their ale
glance to Hanna the Great.
The gorgeous march of King
Hanna from Cleveland to attend the
republican state convention at To-
ledo on June %, 1897, surpassed in
regal magnificence the splendor of
all like performances. Flags, BAN
ners, music, liveried lackeys, borne
on train of Pullinan's best, over
whelmed northern Ohio and struck
terror to the enemies of imperial
power and gladdened the hearts of
pie-eaters, sycophants and toadies
everywhere. The convention bowed
itself in the dust before the mighty
conqucrcr, after the manner of the
Asiatic Manchurians before the al
mighty Ii Hung Chang. The
chosen battle ground for the year
1897 of the conquering hero of the
gold standard is Ohio, but the sol
diers of avarice and greed from two
hcmispheres will be there to do bat
tie for the cause ofgold monopoly
and to add new laurcls to the crown
of their conquering hero.
A Waterloo in Ohio for Hanna
the Great would be disaster to the
parasites of Wall and Lombard
streets which they could not hope
to repair in either 1898 or 1900.
Governor Bushnell, the nominee for
reelection, conferred with King
Hanna, and proclaimed that the re-
publican platform Of St. Louis would
be the guiding star OF the campaign
in Ohio. He pledged Ohio to fidcl-
ity to the gold standard so long as
England desired it, and vigorous
continuance Of the OF the promises
OF prosperity so successfully cm-
ployed in the campaign of 1896. He
even intimatcd that prosperity had
really overtaken the country, and
that by continuing the process of
contraction a flood of prosperity
would surely come. The fidelity Of
the convention and its nominee for
governor to Hanna as king, and the
gold standard as gospel, cannot be
questioned. If the people of Ohio
like falling prices, stagnatior, want
bankruptcy and ruin, they will vote
for King Hanna and the perpetual
rule of gold monopoly:
The Sun that shincs for all in Grand
valley remarks that "thc biciclc girl
usually has n 'bcc' IN her bonnet, but
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