Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1899-12-10
LOOKOUT FOR 1900.

\ Ours the sin, and we the sinners! be.
cause we dare to tell the truth and
shame the devil!
All. gentlemen, you are not half the
fools you look, when you thus attempt
to make us the 'scapegoat of others
iniquity You know we'll enough who
are the dlsloyalS men, who, are false to
Democracy and the people, and who
have caused the existing discord and
dissension, and you know we know it.
The people know 1t; everybody knows
it, except born fools and idiots.
1t is only to aggravate the disorder
to ignore it. or to seek to hide its true
origin, or to impute 1t falsely. They
who do either of these are accompllces
after the fact, and are equally guilty
with the actual criminals. The case is
too plain to plead ignorance. and the
offence is too great to be overlooked. or
borne quietly. They who tmidly sub
nit to the irnpositions Of 1898. repeated
with agsravations In 1899, will be OPP
pressed in 1900 by still greater wrongs
and usurpations; and no free and in
telligent people can mcekly submit to
such outrages without inviting other
and greater ones and accepting SER
vile degradation the more humiiiating
and the more difficult to shake off with
every added day.
To cry peace when there is no peace;
to join in the demand of treachery and
usurpation for loyalty to them. when
l,afro Il
Democracy; and to shout for unity and
harmony ut the heels of seditlon,-none
OF these devices can but augment the
real evils of the condition that con-
fronts the people of Virginia, and in
which it is impossible for us to be self
respecting citizens of a State where
Henry and other Nirginans once
would have brooked
The eternal devil to keep his State
among u.s.
Nor do we believe that this mon
strous perversion of the Democracy Of
Virginia is to stop at putting its men
in the U. S. Senate. No! Successful
this year, next year it will attempt to
misreDresent Virginia in the National
Democratic Convention by antl-Bryan
and antl-silver delegates. Martin him,
self is no more for Bryan and silver
than he Is for Hoge Tyler and Senate
rial election-reform. That is, he and
his cabal, and his organs and support
ers are for these until they get into
power; and then they are against them
and also In sympathy with trusts,
monopoly. the money-power. the bank
ing-monopoly, currency Contraction
territorial expansion, imperialism, mill
tarism and sponsorship.
The Virginian-Pilot had called at
tention to The significant fact, that
while the true Democrats of 1896, who
had stood In Virginia over 154, 900 strong
for Bryan and the restoration OF silver.
were in revolt against the party ma
chine of this State and the Martin
cabal. the boiling goldites of 1896, who
voted a little over 1000 strong for Pal
mer and Buckner, were now curiously
loyal" to the machine and strong
friends of Martin. In this the Rich
mond Times corroborated us, by n lead
Ing editorial on the same fact though
1t is a goldite and q supporter OF the
money-power. trusts and monopolies.
Not only so, with some faithful ex-
ceptions, the Office holders, for the most
part. as we'll as the office-scekers, are
check by-jowl with the golditcs in sup
port OF the machine, and do not scruple
to declare their antl-Bryan and anti
silver sentiments! What does all this
forcbodc for 19OO.-with some of our
leading newspapers trimming their sails
for any breeze that may spring up?
Beware! Virginians.