Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-07-01
With Silver We wiz Conquer.

Republican papers eveTyghe here are
pattiDg the gold Democrats of Ken
lucky on the back because they have
concluded to call convention and
nominate a candidate for the apparent
ly unimportant Office of clerk of the
Supreme court. The boilers do this
because the regular Democracy of
Kentucky. at the recent meeting OF
the State executive committee, reaf-
firmed allegiance to the Chicago con-
ventiou and laid particular stress on !
its determined adherence TO that plank |
which demands the free and unlimited |
coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to |
without waiting for the action or con- |
currence of any other nation. There
were 1000 gold Democrats who voted
for Palmer and Buckner in Kentucky
last fall. There will be fewer who
vote for the Boltocrat candidate for
Supreme court clerk this year.
Everywhere bimetallism is growing
Silver is in the air. 1t is the sign by
which the Democracy will conquer in
the Congressional elections next year
1t is the resplendently white cloud by
day and the pillar of argent flame by
night that is leading the millions on
to the overwhelming triumph that will
surely come in the last ides OF Novem-
Der that this nineteenth century shall
see. Let the traitors, the rainbow
makers, the trusts and the gold wor-
shippers raise their false cries once
more. They will be vain. The peO-
pie Who heard them before and needed
them will not be deluded by them
again.
The hum of industry that was to
make vocal the whole land from Can
ada to the Gulf and from Martha's
Vineyard has not yet awakened the
silences. Voiceless mills still stare at
closed minis. Discharged men have
increased the army of the unemployed
since McKinley's election: wages have
been cut, and the farmers with abund-
ant crops answering their toll, find
that the prices for their products are,
with few exceptions, lower than ever.
Citizens of all classes outside the
commercial combines that control the
Republican administration understand
that high tariff will not bring relief
They comprehend that this method of
producing prosperity is as feasible as
attempting TO lift themselves over a
fence by their boot-straps. Money is
approaching in value. while property
and labor are depreciating daily. The
chasm is widening. There is but one
way to bring its edges together.
Open the minis 10 silver. Put it
where it rightfully belongs. Restore
it to its stolen birthright. Give it
back its fraternity with gold as the
primary money of the world. This
is the demand made by Democracy as
the condition without which prosperity
can not come to all citizens who are
honestly and iudustriously striving for
the necessaries and the comforts of
life. The Democracy is party OF
principles. 1t is not an aggregation
of opportunists. There can be no
compromise in its ranks. 1t asks no
quarter and will give none. There
will he no trading or traf1icking for
temporary advantage in the Democracy
that voted for Bryan and bimetallism.
1t has enlisted for the war. There
will be no turning back till the battle
for silver is won.
To this cause the Times is proud to
have dedicated itself. In its advocacy
all its zeal. energy and resources will
be blended into a stronger and broader
enthusiasm as the days extend. The
flag of bimetallism is nailed to the
mast of Democracy, and that grand,
glorious, staunch old craft that was
launched by Jefferson, captained by
Jackson and has survived the political
storms. cataclysms, and hurricanes oil
an hundred years viii, ere long carry
that flashing standard into the harbor
of national prosperity, peace and
progress, while happy millions of free
men greet it with acclamations of joy
and gratefulness.-K. C.. Times.