Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-08-25


erty to every creature.
1.-THE spirit and genius of Democ-
racy were present at the birth of this
grandest republic of the world and Of
the ages and they have attended every
step of it's wonderful progress and de-
velopment. Its first great apostle was
Thomas Jefferson; its latest great ex-
FOUNDER and leader is the peerless
Bryan.
The spirit of Democracy meets alike
the political necessities of the highest
as we'll as the lowest conditions of
mankind. 1t is the natural enemy of
tyranny, despotism and monopoly. 1t
is the safest conservator of liberty,
labor and property. 1t is the senti-
ment of freedom, of equal rights and
of equal obligations
Labor and capital have always
Travelled together hand in hand in the
creation and distribution of material
blessings, and this should always be
so, and the best results have been re-
allied when labor and capital success
fully practiced the Democratic vir-
tues of equality and fraternity. Labor
is of the present and is endowed
WITH IMMORTAL YOUTH,
and it is contented with its lot when
employed Capital with its twenty
ode years of whiskers in this country
is inclined to pride and forgets that
it is the creature and labor its creator.
Capital has no rights, natural or 9TH
erwise, to require labor to fall down
and worship it. Let labor and capital
in concert sing the Golden Rule with
the good old-fashioned 16 to l silvery
accompaniment and all of our hill
tops will soon be crowned with gold
en- music and our valleys and plains be
flooded with silvery song.
TRUSTS and combines intended to
forestall markets and thereby rob the
people under color of law should be de-
clared outlaws by statute so that on
application of any injured party the
property of such trusts might be plac-
ed in the hands of a receiver to right
the wrongs upon which they had fat
tened And these cunningly devised
trust schemes to rob the people should
be utilized to benefit all by their pecu
liar powers of cooperation and make
the very many beneficiaries instead Of
the very few. And if the rapacity of
the trusts cannot be curbed and con-
trolled by our present legislative and
judicial establishments the great SOW
ereign people will achieve for right
eousness and justice bloodless revo-
luton by means of the initiative and
referendum
The grand old Democratic party has
stood manfully by the administration
in our war with Spain. but, at the same
time, we commend our representatives
in Congress for the resistance they
made to the war revenue measures.
The gold men had their wrongful way,
and an
ENORMOUS BOND WAR DEBT
has been saddled upon cur people,
which the wealth producers of our own
country must ultimately pay. The
honest patriotic legal tender greenback
without the exemption clause, should
have been utilized to meet all expenses
growing out of our war with Spain so
! that our currency could not have been
withdrawn from our ordinary business
and commercial pursuits.
The little war with Spain will fur
nish the gold men with desired ex-
cuse for increasing our standing army,
and this must be discouraged. We
should resist any permanent increase
when soldiers in large numbers are
needed in this republic, our president
can give one blast upon his bugle and
call million of men. But our splen-
did navy should be maintained on ac-
count of clements of political disturb
ance and resistance in all parts of the
world. And this resistance must be
met and overcome until Democratic
repubicanism is so universally en-
braced. and the fatherhoOd of God and
the brotherhood of man is so generally
recognized tt at the thousands of indie
pendent republicans shall learn war no
more and the last gold bond shall be
cancelled in Is to l silver, and slavery
will be a thing of the past.
But while travelling towards this
desired and destined contamination
we must develop along the lines of
Christian civilization, recognized by
the fathers, the very corner stone Of
which Is
T1IE FAMILY AND THE HOME.
A nation of home owners can seldom
be conquered and never enslaved.
The Spaniard was the original gold
bug; he came and plundered IN search
of gold but our fathers came in
| search of homes and they brought our
| mothers with them.
The only hope for a political mill
lenium dawn lies through a triamph
of the people over monopoly. De-
mocracy alone offers the correct soiu-
| ton Of the troublesome questions
| that confront us. Let the liberty-lov
| ing, constitution-loving trust-ard-piu
| tocratic-hating citizens Of this country
rally around the flag of Democracy on
the Chicago platform, with proper adj
ditions touching the Spanish war Ques-
| lions, and successfully conduct the
| successive advancing skirmishes until
| 1900 when 100000 of American free
men will triumphantly sweep through
| the grand arch of victory singing
praises to Almighty God for our great
| deliverance and shouting for brother
| hood bimetalism and Bryan"
Resolutions were adopted, reaffirm-
ing the Chicago platform. 1t says 1--WE
particularly endorse the financial plank
| therein declaring for the free and I'M
limited coinage of silver and gold at
the ratio of Is to l independent of any
and all nations. We are proud of the
patriotic conduct in peace and war Of
that brave leader of Democracy
WILLIAM ]. BRYAN
| and We favor his denomination for
proci1oOf in 1Ql0