The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1897-05-21
The First Gun.

The first gun of the real revolt which is
heard with loud and clear boom i'll the
Republican party, was fired by ex-Post-
master General Wananaker on last Fri
day night at the banquet of the Business
Mems League in Philadelphia.
After commenting OH the failure of
promised prosperity to appear in conse-
quence of President McKinleys election,
Mr. Wanamaker said in part
"The country is not prosperous. Since
the outset of the last Presidential cam
paign the party, press and political lead
ers, generally fixed the November cleo |
ton of 1896 as the date of the beginning
of good times, A full half of the year has
expired since the will of the Republican
party was declared Thus far but one of
the important issues of the campaign is
nearing settlement, and hardly any notice
able improvement Of the wretched times
is manifest The tide will soon set in
strongly against the Republican party
unless the depression of business is alter
ed. Idleness and want breed a bitter
discomfort which will never be overcome
until there are ample enployments.
PEOPLE ADRIFT FROM THEIR PARTY.
1.-The foes America has to fear are not
| the savage Turks nor the insurrectionists
of Cuba nor the territory-grasping British,
| but they are our own patient and heart
tired people, our own suffering, much
promised people, who, betrayed and
disheatened, no longer have faith i'll their
party, and will turn to any leaderships
that offer promise of better times believ
ing that worse times can never come than
those now existing. 1t is terrible thing
to observe public sentiment adrift and
unexplained and the people sweeping
away from their affection to the old party.
The young men are growing up indit-
ferent to Republican principles, with no
respect for parties of broken platforms,
who use national and State patronage i'll
payment of election contracts. The polit-
ical religion of the nation is falling lower
and lower under insults to intelligence,
violation of law, reckless daring of un-
scrupulous bosses. There are immeas-
urable depths ofmisfortune for this nation
and State if the continued use of corpora
ton and public moneys and the dispersal
ton of Federal and State patronage
continues to be controlled in the interest
of ofhceholders to hold Office for them
keep government contracts or maintain
particular projections through the money
given by which elections are decided.
NEW PARTY BOUND TO COME.
"There will most assuredly come day
when there will be a mighty revolt and
| resistance, resulting in revolution that
will give birth to new political party.
Laws continually despised aud disregard
ed, legislation conceived for matchmaking
purpose, speculation by public officials iii
| trust and other stocks, while tariffs and
/ other financial bills are pending, must
surely and irrevocably ALLEVIATE the people
from their party and awaken disposition
and desperation to substitute almost any
| wild and untried leadership with the hope
of possible relief"
We advise our Republican friends TO
read these words of Mr.. Wanamaker
thoughtfully The tide has already set in
against the Republican party which Mr..
) Wanamaker warned his hearers would
come if times do not speedily improve.
) The speaker is one Of the foremost bus
iness men i'll the country and sees only
) ruin for his class if conditions continue as
they are. His language is above that of
party. 1t is the warning of danger to his
own class and all others engaged in every
industrial pursuit, except protected mo-
nopolies, trusts and money lenders.
No one dare fout Mr.. Wanamaker's
emphatic alarm of danger Immediately
ahead. The Philadelphia Press, that
most servie servant of the bank and
London-Wall street gold monopoly, did
not so much as mention the meeting of
the League. 1t dared not resort to its
customary abuse of all who speak of the
iniquitous policy the Republican party
has pursued in the last twelve years, now
more openly than ever before. When
men occupying so commanding position
as Mr.. Wananaker in the party, speak so
einphatically in condemnation of the
party's course it is high time honest Re.
publicans began to take their reckoning
and ascertain whittier they have been
drifting.
The Dingey tariff bill which is the last
cable the leaders are trusting to for
safety-all the others having parted-is
being denounced by large numbers of
their own party as one of the most infam-
Gus trust bills ever framed, as it is laid
before the Senate by the Republican
members of the committee, Senators
Morrill, of Vermont, Ald-ch of Rhode
Island, Platt of Connecticut, Allison of
Iowa, and Walcott of Colorado.
The drift from the Republican party is
already so strong that it is being noticed
by the most casual observer. Mr.. Wan
amaker describes the situation so clearly
that no comment is necessary TO enable
the blindest partisan to see that the party
is hopelessly swamped in its Mckinley
administration II is utterly impossible
for it to go on in its present course.
Laws continually despised and disre-
garded, legislation conceived for black
mailing purposes, speculation by public
officials in trust and other stocks" is the
language Mr. Wanamaker uses in
denouncing the leaders and their acts, Of
his own party
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A Formidable Battery in the Citadel
OF the Enemy.
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