The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1898-09-23
That r1oney Plank.

One Of the delegates from Cecil to the
congressional nominating convention that
assembled at Elkton last week complain
ed that we had not published the money
plank as reported by the committee on
resolutions. We published it in the MID
LAND JOURNAL as it was published in the
Baltimore papers whose reporters were at
the convention, and as it was published
in the Elkton papers.
The delegate contends that the resolu-
ton was not published as it was submit
ted by the committee. The resolution as
published reads as follows:
81. That we are in favor of sound and
honest money, the gold and silver money
of the constitution, and the coinage of
both metals, without discrimination
against either, into standard dollars of
final payment and redemption, at such a
ratio as shall breServe the parity in 0alne
6etaOeen the tao metals"
The delegate who objects to the read
ing of the plank as published afirms that
the concluding clause which we put in
italics is all Interpolation by some gold
democrat The Objectionable clause was
offered by gold Democrat i'll the COM
nlittee, but objections were made by the
silver men and it was stricken ont. The
goldbug seems to have gotten his work in
through the reporters, if the silver man is
correct in his impressions. 1t matters but
little, however. If the convention meant
to be strictly honest the Chicago platform
would have been endorsed. 1t never has
been endorsed by any Democratic con-
vention i'll the State of Maryland. If the
convention was an honest Democratic
convention, sailing under its national
colors as laid down by its last national
convention at Chicago, what did it mean
by sending gold delegates from some of
the districts, who had sufficient influence
to interpolate the weak resolution on the
money question with goldbug clause !?
When Germans name was once mention
ed on the floor the uproar and sta nping
was fairly deafening, which .old what
kind Of stuff composed the conve ltion.
When ]. Fred c. Talbot was the first
name before the convention and the iu-
dications were that he would be nominal
ed, we heard one of the members say, 81
am gold Democrat and Talbot is good
enough for me.''
Mr.. Steele stumped for Bryan in 1896
but so did German. We do not know
what Mr.. Steele's true sentiments on the
paramount question are, nor does it much
matter. No man is bigger or as large as
his party, and that the Democratic party
of Maryland is gold party and in per.
feet harmony with the Republican bank
party of the nation, the evidence is strong
as proofs from holy writ
Whenever "sound money" is found
mixed up in little tangle Of gold and
silver in little paragraph composing the
money plank of a platform it is very easy
to tell the color of the cat in that NJ al
tub. 1t is invariably "yaller" cat.
German is the back -bone, heart and
lungs of the Democratic party OF Mary
land, and German is goldbug, in partial
disguise. He has studiously kept an en-
dorsement of the Chicago platform out of
every convention in the State, great and
small, and is making his constitutional
still hunt to get back to the Senate when
Wellington's term expires. He holds the
cord that works his machine in the State,
while he makes fair weather with the
gold oligarchy. and sows confusion in the
Republican party in the State.
If the candidates for congress that have
been set up by the German machine in
the State are elected they will help the
Republicans to put the infamous bank
bill through that is now in the House, or
else every sign i'll the political sky will
prove false. Republican members of
course would do the same, but nobody
would be deceived.
There will be no division of parties in
the next congress worthy of notice on
anything but the money question Ma
chine politics is becoming very obnoxious
to the people all over the country, and
a wide revolt is taking place against it.
Both old parties are rotten with the polit.
ical gangrene of the machine.