Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1899-05-25
UNION and VICTORY.

lis Will stend tOgetneF IN sup
port of the republican party and
its candidates. They got together
in 1896 when the Cleveland, Whit
ney, Palmer and Buckner combi-
nation joined with Hanna to secure
the election of Mckinley. On the
other hand, the genuine democrats
Of the country are fast learning
the lesson that is being so effec-
lively fought by events.
The gold combinations and
monopolies in 1896 determined to
SO chastise the democratic party
that that party would forever
afterwards humbly yield to its con-
troll. Hence the combined money
ed interests made a desperate at
tempt to so reduce the democratic
vote as to make it appear that the
platform and candidates of the
party we're repudiated by the
people. To this end money with
out limit was furnished to the
republican committees who prose-
cuted shameless and brutal cam
paign, resortlng to every device
of wickedness and corruption
known to the lowest politics. The
banks and the moneyed classes
threatened the business men and
debtors of the country that in
case Of Bryan's election they
would demand the payment of all
outstanding obligations. coupled
with the further threat of locking
up their money and setting in
motion destructive panic. The
manufacturers threatened their
operatives with the shutting down
Of their factories if the democrats
should win, thus holding the ter
rors of idlenass and starvation
over the poor toilers, who are de-
pendent on their weekly wages for
the support of themselves and fam
lilies. In fact, little less than a
reign Of terror was inaugurated by
the moneyed classes to intimidate
the business men. debtors and
toilers into voting the republican
ticket. But Notwithstanding the
brutal tactics of the moneyed
classes, which beyond question in
auenced many thousand votes for
Mckinley in the states Of the east
and middle west, the democratic
candidates received 946,0G7 more
votes than we're ever cast for any
candidate for the presidency by
any party prior to that year.
The result of the election of 1896
was sorry disappointment to the
plutocratic classes, and furnishes
the strongest assurance that the
people will score signal victory
in 1900. Plutocracy has cherish
ed the hope that the line so
distinctly drawn in 1896 separting
the interets Of the people from
those Of their financial masters
and oppressors could be obliterat-
ed by restoring the rule of the
Cleveland Whitney gang in the
democratic party. But events are
proving that their hope is vain;
that the people are determined to
take no backward step, but to
press forward on the lines of 1896.
In fact the genuine democrats
of the nation number more than
Is per cent of our population, and
since the republican party has fall
len under the undisguised control
of the banks, trusts and monop-
olies, and the masses of tho demo-
cratic voters have expurgated the
party, an irresistible force seems
to be drawing all democrats into
the party. The democrats of the
country now recognize that in 1896
their fathers house was renovated,
eleansed and thoroughly disinfect-
ed; that it is now in sanitary
condition, and, seeing health
beaming in the countenance of all
who sit around the old hearthstone
and the flowers of hope blooming
at her gates, thew are taarinp