The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1899-08-11
THE FIGHT IS on.
Money Power OF the East Pitted Agains
Democracy.

~. Whitney went to the national
Democratic convention in 1892, he
found 1t easy to use the money ol
the money power among the dele
gates, and so Cleveland was nomi-
mated on the first ballot. When
Whitney went to Chicago in 1896
he found he could not buy a dele
gate. The lesson thus taught has
not been forgotten. The money
power knows that if the rank and
file are left free to act, its representa-
tives will always defy the Rothchid
combination, as they did in the
Democratic convention OF 1896.
For three years this oligarchy have
been endeavoring to displace the
money issue and to get control OF
|, the Democratic organization in the
various states. They are more de-
termined than ever to do this, be
cause they realize that with this is
sue to the front, all the gold of the
\ Rothchilds and all the methods OF
Matt Quay and Mark Hanna will
not avail the handwriting on the
J, wall.
RUMBLINGs OF A STORM.
The strikers in New York and
Cleveland are seen to be the rumb-
lings of the coming storm more por-
'tentous for us in the fight of 1900
than were the Homestead riots ir
1.-THE fight of 1892. The failure to
conquer the Filipinos at the first
outset; the certainty of a long and
bitter contest in this "criminal ag-
gression" Of foreign conquest and
the sacrifice of life and treasure il
will entail the uprising of the peo-
pie against the trusts; the panic that
must inevitably follow the bursting
! of this South Sea bubble of indust-
rial stock investments the contin-
ued demands Of the money power
upon the administration for the Legal
commitment of the government TO
the gold standard basis of currency
the refusal of the Republican attor-
ney generals to enforce the anti
trust statutes; the colossal theft of
the Carter conspirators, whose powel
and influence are sufficient TO hold
up the judgment against Capt. Car.
ter uutll the statute of Limitation
will prove bar to the principle
offenders; the weakness, corruption
and favoritism which signalizes the
administration Of every department
OF government, including the war
department itself; the wastefulness
and extravaganza in public expendi.
lures the weight of taxes and odious
stamp duties the growing influence
of Bryan and the opening of the
eyes OF the masses to the fact that
the Chicago platform, instead of be
ing anarchistic, is profoundly con-
servatlve, its purpose not being to
destroy, but to save, not to do in
justice but to preserve Justice
these things have forced uDon the
leaders of the rich the realization OF
the truth that if in 1900 the issue
be the Chicago platform, then no
power on earth will be able to with
stand the uprising of the people
against the monstrous wrongs under
which they are suffering.
DANGER IN KENTUCKY.
Hence it is that all the ingenuity
of the Wall street crowd is now be-
ing directed to the effort to elimi-
mate Bryan and the money plank
of the Chicago platform, and if not
both then one or the other. Wheel
er, Of Alamama, has been seduced
with office. Morgan of the same
state has had his eyes blinded by
patronage and commissionerships.
Other Democratic congressman have
also been beguiled and the trap set
for others. Meantime German is
busy and Croker is at work. SO
are the Harrisons, Of Illinois, the
Morss', of Indiana, and the Goebels
and Haldemans, Of Kentucky.
While the husbandmen sleep the
enemy are sowing tares. Outlines
the conspirators work under mask.
They pretend to be for Bryan and
the Chicago platform, but they are
backed by the enemies of both, who
know their real purpose. When
Will Haldeman and Zack Phelps
and the office seekers and a corrup-
tion fund from the east succeeded
in making Goebel the nominal
standard bearer of Democracy in
Kentucky Watterson wrote ian op-
portunity has come to Us of which
we did not dream" Even the gold
men of the east had not dreamed
that the Kentucky Democracy
could be duped, until the June con-
vention.
GIGANTIC CONSPIRACY.
Whether the conspiracy to betray
Rryan and fha oh hicavo plaffarpa Ia