The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1898-11-25
The Outlook for the Future.


Guiding Maryland, excepting Sibley, lis
goldbug, who will either openly or secret
ly be controlled by the gold or banking
money trust, which added to the Repub-
lican majority of over all gives large
majority for the money power. Official
returns may vary this somewhat, and
allowing few to be proof against the
bulldozing, blanishments and bribery that
will be used to carry its point when any
issue bearing on the money question is
before the House, the money power will
have large majority OIL the test question.
Where the party in nominations didn't
jump the Chicago platform they put up
gold candidates, the proselytes of Cleve-
land, Carlisle, Palmer and Buckner,
Whitney, Flower, Hill, ct al. That gold
wing of the party has been completely
enthroned in power in the Democratic
party in the eastern and middle States,
while the silver Democrats in the west
have lost members by we'll concerted
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without stint its main arm of warfare.
The gold element of the party has been
greatly strengthened beyond what it was,
in 1906 and will be able to defeat two
thirds vote in the national convention,
and successfully resist the nomination of
Bryan. There will be no stampede in the
Democratic national convention of 1900.
The tactics of the gold Democrats, assisted
by the Republican party have demoralized
the machine element of the Democratic
party north of the Potomac and north
west of the Ohio river. The leaders have
gradually but steadily moved away from
the Chicago platform as the party
shibboleth.
Next year when the elections will be
State elections the silver issue-the money
question-will be ignored in the northern,
the northwestern and the middle States
by party leaders and the plea that local
politics should be separated from national
issues urged. Nothing but scramble for
petty offices will engage the supreme
efforts of the party. This will nightly
strengthen the arm of the gold element OF
the party, who will be supplied with the
sinews of war by the money power to
break down the Chicago platform and
create rupture with the line of cleverage
dividing the northern and middle-western
States from the southern and silver States.
That this is the plan of campaign, the
elections this year so plainly indicate that
he that runs may read.
The Democratic party, primarily, is not
party of principle but of office getting.
At the end of Van Buren's term there
was split in the party and large
northern wing went off as free soilers, "
while the slave power captured the party
machinery and ran it successfully by
nominating northern men with southern
principles as national candidates. When
the shareholders rebellion broke out, the
machinery of the party being in the hands
of the conspirators it was committed to the
cause of the South. Thousands of patri-
otto individuals chose the Union, but the
men who led the party espoused the side
of slavery. When the slave power broke
down and was annihilated, the Demo-
cratic party as political party was scat
tered to the four winds. The opposition
to the triumphant Republican party were
known as "anti-coercionists, "conserv-
atives' and by other local applications, but
properly classified they were an opposi-
ton, an obstructionist party.
When reconstruction was accomplished
and the States again became nationalized,
the slavery party preserved its distinction
by taking the old name of Democrat, and
from 1865 to the fall of 1896 it simply
fought the Republican party without a
principle to rally on. Its elocutionists
formulated platforms of glittering gen.
eraltes without substance, mere straw
and chaf affairs, heaping abuse on the
opposite party which laughed in its sleeve
while going on to perfect its money
oligarchy.
When Cleveland was elected the SAN
guine spirits who had been wandering in
the wilderness almost as long as Moses
and the Children of Israel, went into
spasms of ecstasy thinking they had
found an idol worthy of worship. They
declared that Cleveland was the grandest
and greatest man who ever cat IN the
Presidents chair, and the Republicans
laughed in their sleeve. They had bought
him and knew he was the embodiment of
grossness and greed The Republicans
encouraged him till they got all out of
him possible and cast him aside. He was
ambitious like all of his kind are, and
tried like Andy johnson to form a party
of his own. The men who put him in
the White House scorned and cast. him
out from among them.
And thus the Democratic party drifted
without chart or compass till 1896, when
the young patriots seized and hurled the
old Chinese joss leaders out of the party,
drew set of living principles from the
Populist platforms, captured the conven-
ton by storm and nominated Populist
for their standard bearer. This bold dash
came very near defeating the Republican
party, and from the most authentic in
formation cost the party fifteen or twenty
million dollars to save it from defeat.
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