The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1897-05-07
Trying to Get Back on the Old Tariff
Line,

There is a quiet but earnest struggle
going on to place the Democrat party
back on its old lines which were ruptured
and almost demolished at the Chicago
convention. A supreme effort is being
made by the old leaders and all of their
daily papers to bring the tariffto the front
and make it, in place of the money
question, the leading question for the
the campaign of 1900 shall be fought.
If the tariff question could be made to
side track the money question, all the old
leaders who left the party in 1896, ard
assisted to elect Mckinley, with their
goldbug papers would at once fall in and
take the lead.
Bailey, who is the Democratic party
leader i'll the House, has taken Reeds
side of choking off all legislation in the
House while the Senate is engaged with
the Dingley bill, which is being made
UNANIMOUSLY high in some schedules for
the purpose of counting democratic oppo-
sition. To this idle session which is COM
PEELED by Speaker Reed refusing TO
appoint committees, the Populist men,
bers have organized protest against,
while the Democratic members under
Bailey's lead have agreed to submit,
Bailey saying by way of excuse that all
Republican legislation is bad legislation
1t is manifest from symptoms which
are cropping out in other places that the
scheme is to unite, or bring back the
goldbug monopoly element Of the Demo-
cratic party which arrayed itself under
Palmer and Buckner last fall and helped
to elect Mckinley. and place the party
again under the lead of the Hills
Whitney's, Cleveland's, ct. al. and go
into a sham battle with the Republicans
over the old tariff humbug. The Popu-
lists give notice in advance that they
cannot be led into any such trap, and
that they will be found on the Chicago
and st. Louis platforms, with Bryan or
some other true mau unfolding the BAN
ner of equal rights to all and special priv
ileges to none. The Peoples party has
always championed the cause of human
ity and rights of the people against the
British money power, monopoly and
Toryism, and they propose to continue to
do so, and call the people to battle for
their very hearthstones, which are en-
daugered by such usurpers of power as
Tom Reed and other tools of monopoly.
If there can be diversion made from
the money question back to the old tariff
chestnut. and the gold bug element that
was stuffed off last year placed in control
of the Democrat party with all of its old
mercinary newspapers, any sum of money
necessary to carry on a campaign of noise |
would supplied by the millionaire class
With this object in view the Baltimore |
Sun is working to the extent of its ability !
to lead this State and place the party
under the gold ring element of the old
party in Baltimore, and on this move
ment the Peoples party of the State
should keep an ever watchful eye. The
SIM is monopoly paper and goldbug
paper. To that element of society and |
wealth class its owners belong and can
never be anything else. If it fails to
make the deal it is playing for it must
range itself alongside the american
1t cannot make its play to the galleries
longer by tossing the tariff tub to the
popular whale. at which it has been so
successful performer for these many
years.