Gloucester County Democrat., 1899-10-12
CHAMP CLARK LETTER
Republicans Show Their
True Colors.
sUBsERVIENT TO TRUSTS.
Treat the Wishes of the People
With Contempt.

Treat the Wishes Of the People
With Contempt.
CURRENCY TO BE 00NTRA0TE2
Not Content With Foisting Imperim
ism and Miiitarism ON the Repu
lie, They Now Aim to Retire Gree
backs and Place the Power to Iss,
Money In the Hands of the Nation
Bank Ring - Thurston's Note of
Warming.
Especial Washington letter.
Whether it be true, as asserted by
Lord John Russell, that "a proyerb is
the wisdom of many and the wit of
Dne.D to the present actions and tend
encies of the Republican party there is
an old Latin proyerb which is peculiar
ly applicable and which runs in this
wise, "Quos Deus vult perdere, prius de-
mental" Whom God wishes to destroy
he first drives mad. Little by little Re-
publican leaders are throwing off the
mask and showing their utter contempt
for the principles of representative gov
ernment and for the interests, the
wishes and the welfare of the Ameri-
can people. Day by day they are dem
onstrating their complete surrender
and servility to trusts, Imperialism,
militarism and the single gold stand
ard-the inexorabIe moloch of the nine
teenth century They are growing
rapidly, not in grace and good works,
but in disgrace and bad works. In
1896 they went to the people on a
platform proposing to secure bimetal-
lism by international conference, and
by that trick they elected William Nc
Kinley, if they ever elected him at all,
which / most seriously doubt They
have no more idea of securing bimetal
lism that way than you have of being
translated this moment in a chariot of
fire after the manner of Elijah, but it
was "a good enough Morgan" for that
eIection-that is, if the evidence of that
palpitating and ambitious patriot of
Nebraska, Hon. John NJ. Thurston, can
be believed He sOlemnly asseverates
that that promise of international BIZ
metallism, and that promise alone, land
ed William Mckinley in the White
House; that enough silver Republicans
were thereby induced to remain in the
party to give them the victory. Sen
ator Thurston forgot to enumerate
among the things that made Mckinley
president the cruel and unparalleled
buIldozing of the wage earners of the
land and the ten million dollar Repub-
lican slush fund He says the inter-
national bimetallic plank did it and
warns his partieipes eriminis that If
they persist in ramming the single gold
standard down the throats of Repub-
licans they will ALLEVIATE these honest
but deluded silver Republicans who
voted for Mckinley in 1896 and there
by imperil party success.
Gage For Gold.
Nevertheless and Notwithstanding,
the process of ramming the single
gold standard down the throat of the
Republican party goes merrily on, with
Lyman ]. Gage, secretary of the treas
ury, who rated to the Republicans for
cabinet portfolio in the role of ram
mer in chief One virtue doth Lyman
possess is a candid, out and out
goldbug. In his philosophy might
makes right, and, having the power to
establish the gold standard, he proposes
to do it without delay, without palaver
and without mercy. In the end Lyman
and his coadjutors win have their way
and viii play ruthlessly and heartless-
ly the part of Juggernaut for such TIM
orous souls as Senator John NJ. Thurs
ton of Nebraska, who go about moan
ing piteousIy about that abandoned
plank of 1896 in favor of international
bimetallism.
This summer certain Republican con-
gressional magnates have been incu-
batting money bill at Atlantic City, in
the state of New Jersey-the breeding
ground and favOrite habitat of trusts
an ideal place, it must be confessed,
for not ascertaining the will of the peo
pie. This bill is built on the lines of the
Gage-McC Cleary bin, which Lyman hon
estly and courageously declared before
the house committee on banking and
currency was intended ito more thor
oughly establish the gold standard in
this country" That is the bill whose
passage Senator John M. Thurston so
much deprecates and against which he
lifts up his lugubrious voice in warn
ing-a warning which, to use one of
Joseph w. Bailey's graphic sentences,
ssfaIls on the leaden ears and hardened
conscienees of the Republicans"
Thurston's warning has about as much
effect on the Republican managers as
did the warning of John B. Coughs
sober man on the bank who frantically
shouted to the intoxicated man floating
down the river: "Ahoy, there! The
rapids are below your This Atlantic
City bill not only proposes to more
thoroughly establish the single gold
standard, - but to retire the greenbacks,
provide for a new issue of interest
bearing gold bonds and turn the SUI
preme function of government. e.,
the issuing of money and regulating
the volume tfereof-over to the tender
mercies OF the national bank ring.
would Contract Currency.
They are in such hurry to have this
outrageous and unpatriotic bill enacted
into law that the latest press dis
patches inform us that the house man.
ayers do not intend to even submit it
to the consideration of a committee Of
the house, but intend to have it con
sidered in the Republican caucus and
then railroad it through the house be-
fore Christmas under whip and spur,
under those gag rules which are a
shame and a disgrace to the congress
of the United States. That's the pro-
gramme They can carry it out il
they SO elect, for they have 13 major
ity-the fatal Is.
But IL they whip in all their men and
carry 1t out, while neither prophet
nor the son Of prophet, | make bold
to predict that another Republican con-
gress win never sit in the capitol at
Washington, for the bulk of the Amer
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