The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1897-09-03
MaryIand's Gold Silver Democratic
PartV

ward course on the lines LAID down by the
Chicago convention as the shibboleth oil
the party in future. That movement took
despond where it had been houndering
for years under such corrupt leaders as
Cleveland, Hill, Whitney, German ct al,
who kept up sham battle against the
Republican party which signifed little
else than uproar and noise, and whose
work was always on the side of the
money power, corporations and exploit
ting cliques. That departure was forced
by honest, earnest men who were led to
see the auti-Denocratic position the party
had long been pursuing by the light
thrown on the trend of political parties
by the Peoples party movement.
The honest, earnest men of the Demo
crat party, saw by that light the Populist
movement was OH the lines laid down by
Jefferson and advanced by Jackson, and
they threw off their false leaders who went
over to the Republican party whose Ham
AieOh "a llSS hdll NSpOIlSCu Oll TIC
death of Lincoln. Some of those false
Democrats in order to help the Repub-
lican party to advance the Hamilton prin-
ciples of government, which is govern
nent taking care of the rich and the rich
taking care of the laboring class, which
means for the latter wage slavery, set up
claim to the organization, and attempted
to found new Democratic party on the
old corporation lines which had for two
or thee decades, held the party down to
the Hamilton policy, by calling their
rump organization the "National' DEM
ocratic party. The most of the gold, cor
poration and trust leaders who had been
thrown out voted direct for Mckinley
who embodied the principles they had
been all along supporting under the garb
of Democrats.
German was one of this crowd, but he
saw it would be fatal to his personal am
bition and to the policy Of the gold STAN
dard and corporation trust rule in Mary
land if he went with his heart and mouth
both the same way at the same time, so
he Wrapped over from the policy of gold
standard he had so vigorously proclaimed
month before and blosson1ed out a
strong Bryan advocate and member of the
new Democratic party. He kept his heart
in the goldbug Mckinley camp while he
shouted with his tongue in the Bryan
camp.
The Bryan party lost by the force of
bribery, intimidation and the use of
money, and in the year 1897 German
proposes to bring together his mouth and
heart which he had kept separated in
1896, as he had when the "force bill" was
being fought through the Senate and
German was one of the strongest advo-
Gates of free coinage, voting for the meas
ure. The next fall he took it all back
and told it from the stump he had voted
free coinage in order to get silver Senator
votes against the force BILL" remarking
i'll his speeches in justification of his vote
for free coinage that he would have
voted to coin Lead in order to gain votes
against the "force bill"
The whirligig of time has again brought
Mr.. German face to face with his old
plan to smother imetalisn-except of
the Sherman sort-in the party in Mary
land and elect a neutral, kind of enuich
silver legislature, who will put Mr.. Cor
man back into the Senate on the strength
of his silver speeches in the Bryan
Mckinley campaign, but on a secret
understanding with the goldbug trust
coterie whom he has always run with.
Last year Mr.. German howled among the
loudest with the silver hounds. This year
he is preparing to hole with the gold hare.
The German dog whippers tells us that
the candidates for the legislature are all
free silver men. These same candidates
all with one voice declare German stands
for free coinage and that silver is kept in
the back ground for the purpose of hood
winking the gold Democrats Any leg
islative candidate who is such a simple
child as to be fooled so easily is not fit to
go toi the legislature to elect United
States Senator and enact laws.
If German is to be sent to the Senate
by the votes of the Democrats now nom-
mated for the legislature, the National
gold party is satisfied, and they will not
spend much money to defeat the party in
the State, but will let Wellington and his
laundering botch boss work go to the
dogs.
The simon pure silver Democrats are
not going to submit quietly to be sold out
and delivered to the enemy by any such
dark lantern bargain. If goldbug is
to be sent to the United States Senate
from this State let the Republicans bear
the responsibility and future odium. Cor
man would be a more dangerous goldbug
Senator under such conditions than
halfdozen Republican Wellingtons. Cor
man is base coin, plated OH one side
with gold and on the other with silver,
and he turns either side up to suit
circumstances.