People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1897-07-01
The Gauge Of Battle.

irlenos oil LABOR and production
against the parasites, extortionists,
and absorbers OF wealth is formed for
1898 and 1900. The candidate OF
the people is already nominated by
unanimous consent, and his name is
William J. Bryan. The platform
upon which the battle will be fought
was promulgated at Chicago in the
convention Of 1896. The advocates
Of the coinage of silver and gold at
the ratio Of 10 to / by the United
States, independent Of all other
countries, were compelled in the
last campaign to organize the re-
generated Democracy, the Populists,
and the free silver Republicans, in
face Of we'll organized army COM
manded by veteran corruptionists
and supplied by the money Of two
continents. The organization Of
the people under such circumstances
seemed impossible. But they did
organize, and they gave battle in the
open field, while the enemy with all
its wealth and power was compelled
to abandon legitimate political war
fare and resort to bribery, corruption
and intimidation.
The advantage Of perfect organi-
cation and fraud placed William
Mckinley in the White House by a
majority which would have been
overcome BY change Of $4,000
votes in the proper states. The
improvised army of the people polled
about six and a half millions of votes,
which included a vast majority Of
the native born citizens Of the
United Srates, and was only over
come by the colored vote and
foreign vote congregated in cities and
controlled by capital. The enemy
promised prosperity, with intent to
deceive, because every intelligent
man knew that nothing short Of
more money by the restoration of
silver could relieve the country
from the miseries Of gold standard
contraction. The Republican party
promised prosperity on the very day
Mckinley was elected. They said
his election would bring prosperity.
Neither confidence nor prosperity
came. Both have been postponed
at the instance Of the leaders of the
Republican party from time to time,
and still the day Of relief is more
remote than when the Republicans
gained power.
The intolerable miseries of the
people, the false promises and the
utter inability OF the Republican
party to give the country prosperity
by anything that the gold syndicate
of Wall and Lombard streets will
allow them to do, is causing universal
distress. The Republican party is
now sinking ship. The desertions
from it daily are strikingly numerous.
Recruits are coming by the
thouands to the standard OF the
party Of the people. The Repu5li-
can leaders see the handwriting on
the wall, but their gold masters will
not give them permission to retreat.
They must march on against the
people and inhict new wounds, how
ever dangerous it may be. They
see that Bryan and the Chicago
platform are sweeping the country,
that there is no division in the ranks
of the reform movement; that the
middle of the-road contingent which
Hanna or other Republican bosses
can control is TOO triAlng to mention,
and that the solid phalanx Of Ameri-
can voters is moving forward to
victory, and they are helpless to
stay the tide. The appointment Of
Gage, Roberts and Jordan to re-
sponsible posts in the treasury
department shows the tight grasp in
which the inner circle of the money
power of Wall and Lombard streets
hold the Republican party. The
pretense that the Republican ad-
ministration is in favor Of inter
national bimetallsm is refuted by
these appointments. All that is
left for the Republican party is to
make hay while the sun shines and
rival the wealth and prosperity OF
the devotees OF the stuffed prophet
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