The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1898-09-16
Friday, Sept. 1G, 1898.
General Miles is on the warpath for
McKinley's and Ayers scalps.
Opposition to the German Gold Ring.

Opposition to the German Gold Ring.
The congressional convention ofthe Ist
district met in Ocean City, August u.s.
1t ignored the Chicago platform and nom
mated Col John Walter Smith, all advo-
cate of the gold standard, president of a
national bank and vice president of a
bankers association, unanimously and by
reclamation for congress.
This nomination is forerunner of the
purpose of the German machine which is
still intact throughout the State and ready
for work whenever the Doodle oil is ap-
piled to its running gears. This act of
the first district is to be followed i'll every
district of the State and such men as
Smith, Rais;n, ct al put up for congress,
under the name of the Democratic party,
the Chicago platform ignored and the
organization in this State handed over to
that nondescript political "what is it."
named Gold Democrat. This is the Cor
man scheme to hold on to the organiza-
ton, receive assistance from the banks,
corporations and other financial sources
that keep up and control the Republican
party, and make his way back to the
Senate when Wellington's term expires.
The true men of the State and the
party, the Populists and what is known
under the general name of silver men,
met in Washington on last Saturday at
the Metropolitan Hotel and then and
there resolved to call mass convention
to meet in Baltimore on September 81 and
nominate candidates for congress, who
are Democrats under the principles enun-
ciated by the Chicago platform and who
also supported Bryan in 1896, and are in
favor of his nomination in 1900.
The candidates that convention repie e.
sents will demand the position on the
ballot as the true Democratic party of
Maryland, and the gold party which has
possession of the German machine in this
State will be asked to take the name
which was chosen by the Palmer and
Buckner boilers Of 1896, National Dem.
ocratic" party. That is the title these
German machine candidates should be
sent to the polls under and will be if the
authorities at Annapolis do their duty.
The following resolutions offered by S.
S. Field were adopted by the meeting,
which lays down the plan of action for
placing candidates for congress i'll nomi-
nation opposed to the German goldbug
nominees who have been put up:
RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED
And whereas, The Democracy of the United
States in convention assembled at Chicago in 1885,
did incur the everlasting ha tired of the bankers
trust and the 157 other trusts and monopolies
which are founded and nourshed thereon, by
declaring, in accordance with the precepts and
examples of Jefferson and Jackson that Congress
should provide the money for our country and
that banks should go out of the governing bus
mess and be confined to their legitimate functions
of deposit and discount; and,
Whereas, The .."bank mongers' thereupon as.
sembled themselves in convention at Indanap-
oils and nominated a ticket which poled .134 900
FOleS Ill lue Uulteu SldIeS uSdlnSt O,oUU,uUU lot
Bryan, and in Maryland, with the aid ofall the
daily papers, polled $500 votes, against 100000 for
Bryan and the Chicago platform; and the bank
ers' trust, thus foiled in their efforts at open
opposition, have ever since shown their enmity
to Democratic principles by endeavoring to sneak
their partisans into positions of importance and
power in the Democratic party to the end that
they may betray it into the hands of the money
bags
And, whereas, They have succeeded in getting
one OF their number, president of a national
bank and vice president of the Maryland branch
of the bankers trust, an advocate of the single
gold standard and bank notes, nominated for
Congress in the First district, and it is apparent
that the supreme boss and petty bosses who con-
troll the nominations whic hare labeled d emocratic
in Maryland are about to nominate in the other
five districts men of the "bank-monger" India
napolis platform stripe, and to issue their orders
to the 104 900 who voted for Bryan in 1896 to vote
in 1898, upon pain of being read out of the party,
for the enemies of Bryan and the Chicago platform;
Now, therefore, we declare our adherence to the
Chicago platform, both because it is the law of
the Democratic party. duly enacted by the
supreme tribunal OF the party, and binding upon
all Democrats unless and until it shall be changed
by succeeding national convention and because
it is a correctlexposition of the true principles of
Democracy ms taught and practiced by jefferson
and Jackson, which every Democrat, every lover
of liberty should desire to see perpetuated; and
we note with satisfaction that from Maine to New
Hampshire. in the Northeast, to the great Middle
States OF Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Michigan;
from Wisconsin and Iowa to Oregon and Wash
ington, from California to Missouri. and from
Texas to Virginia. every Democratic convention
so far held this year has expressly reaftirmed the
Chicago platform except in the First district of
Maryland and in Pennsylvania; and in Pennsyl.
vania, while no mention was made of any
national issue, the nominees are advocates of the
Chicago platform.
We express our undiminished admiration for
and confidence in the great leader of Democracy
the worthy successor of Jefferson and Jackson
who so eloquenty vindicated its principles in his
magnificent campaign, and who, in peace and
war alike, has faithfully fulfilled every duty of
And we respectfully suggest to the Democrats
of Maryland to assert their manhood and throw
of the autocratic system of bossism which rode
the party to its defeat in 1896 and which still
bestrides it, and not allow themselves out of de.
Votion to the name, to be driven into voting for
men who are enemies to the principles of
Democracy.
And we hereby call upon all voters who believe
in the principles OF the Chicago platform without
regard to past party ailliation, to meet in their
respective districts and in each Congressional
district select Ia delegates to convention to be
held in Baltimore City on September u Mt II
O'Clock a. m, with power to nominate or indorye
candidates for Congress pledged to the principles