The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1898-10-14
FROM 1896 TO 1898
CAMPAIGN OF 1896 A NOTABLE
EVENT IN AMERICAN POLITICS.

Huge Corruption Fund of the Republic
glands Interest In the Welfare Of the
United States Not Entirely Unseifsh.
VIII lie No Division Of Democrats In
Indiana This Year.
The campaign Of 500 was in all re-
CARDS notable event in American poll
tics. Ii was practically single Issue
campaign. which may be variously
stated without doing violence to history.
1t was a campaign Of bimetallism against
monemetallism. campaign OF Democ-
racy against plutocracy, campaign Of
the silver dollar against the single gold
standard and campaign of America
against England and all foreign nations
which seek TO shape the financial policy
of the United States of America.
1t was anotable campaign in other re-
CARDS. To defeat the honestly expressed
will of the American people. huge
corruption campaign fund was created
by the liberality of tru sts and placed in
the hands Of Marcus Aureius Hanna.
a political knave, for distribution
"whore it would do the most good. :"
That is TO say, where its debauching in
fiuence would secure the largest num-
Der Of votes for Mckinley. And that
its potency was all that was expected
by those who Supplied the money. goes
without the saying History repeats
itself. The campaign OF 1898, though
not national" in the sense that the
campaign Of 1896 was national, is never
the less, national. because it is cam
paign in which bimetallism-silver and
gold. free and unlimited coinage Of sill
yer vs.. demonetization-and the Unit
ed States against dictation from any
foreign power relating to our financial
policy is up for debate and decision at
the polls.
We have heard much of late Of Eng.
lands anxiety to form some sort Of an
alliance with the United States. upon
the theory that the two nations, banded
together. would be able to sway scep-
ter of universal empire. England cares
nothing about our form Of government,
nothing whatever. whether il is demo-
cratic or plutocratic; she simply wants
to know il tho financial policy of the
country is in consonance with her views
upon that important subject. If the
United States, under the sway Of Brit
ish influence and British gold, creates
and maintains the gold standard, Brit.
ish statesmen discover in that one fact
that the United States has yielded to
her superior will, and that being ONE
on the gold standard question. the chief
obstacle to some other form of alliance
is removed, and evidently looks for
ward with serene complaicency to a
time when our Benedict Arnolds will
stand forth AS the chiefs of our trusts
and syndicates when they ex-
plot their views in and ont Of
congress, and British spies, in.
stead of being arrested and hung, will
continue their quest for American girls,
the daughters of our Arnolds, and carry
their matrimonial swag to England to
build and repair castles and bring the
two nations into such harmonious rela-
under the gold standard. that in case of
an election Of a president. the Roth.
childs and British lopds. barons and
other titled aristocrats will contribute
as literally to corruption fund AS any
Of the pards of Hanna, or any of the
pets Of the Dingley law.