Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-08-14
BRYAN DEMOCRAT TALKS.


WHEELING, W. Va, August II, 1899.
To the Editor OF the Register
Sir: What fools we morIals' be. The
gold Democrats in particular, what are
they trying TO do now? Fool the Deo-
pie? Have they forgotten the old adj
age Of Abraham Lincoln about fool
ing all the people all the time? Cor
man, Harrity, Whitney and their ilk,
throwing in Cleveland for good meas
ure. Don't they know that they amt
the Democratic paRty any more? They
can meet and plan AT Saratoga to NOM
mate Van Wyck, OF New York. Harri-
ty, OF Pennsylvania, German, of Mary
land, or Grover the First, of Buzzard
Bay. for the Presidency on the Demo-
cratic ticket in 1900, and it will only
be meeting OF the above quartet and
their satellites. who have no power
in the Democratic party, as neither one
of the above named quartet could poll
as many votes as Palmer and Buckner
did in 1896. and / Will leave that TO
Ran Sfainaker. Their battle cry is,
Silver is dead and so is William j
Bryan and if silver and Bryan were
half as dead as the first quartet and
their satellites, you would hear from
neither in 1900. and Mckinley would
be the first king crowned on Ameri-
can soil on the 4th day4of March. 1901.
They have enlisted few renegades
of the South to sing their song, Silver
is dead and so is William J. Bryan.
Let US see how dead they were in 1898,
when the Democrats IN twenty-four
States were making their State plat
forms. Twenty of the twenty-four
,foff
allegiance TO the national platform of
the Democratic party adopted at Chi
cage in 1896, and nearly every one of
the twenty said IN their platforms, I'VE
are in favor of the free and unlimited
coinage of both gold and silver at the
existing ratio of 10 TO /, without the aid
or consent of any other naCion." This
is American. you know. The other
four States declared their allegiance to
the principles and policies of the Dem
oeratic party on national issues as laid
down by Thomas Jefferson, the father
of the Democracy. which means the.
same as the other twenty States. Does
the aforesaid quartet and their satel-
lites, all mugwumps, think that they
know more than all the people repre-
sented instwenty-four State conventions
who approved the aforesaid platforms?
l would call the peoples attention to.
the meetings addressed by William J..
Bryan, that dead man, who always
speaks a kind word for that dead issue,
silver, at the ratio of 16 to l The
people never tire of it or him. for
wherever he goes all parties go to hear
him, and the crowds of Republicans as
we'll as Democrats cheer him to the.
echo for the reason he is not kicking
that poor old dead issue, "Silver and
Bryan" and the more you gold Demo-
Gratis and Republicans screcch and howl
at dead issues like silver and Bryan"
the stronger they will get for the ma
jority of the American people will not
stand by and see dead people abused,
and if that quartet don't have a good
door-keeper at Saratoga that knows all
their gang of satellites and renegades,
that Hogg from Texas will get in and
spoil their meeting by having them en-
dorse William Jennings Bryan for the
Presidency in 1900 on a platform of
16 to as the leading issue. The name
and the ratio is infectious. as you will
see by that Texas Hogg getting into
that New York meeting that was to
boom Van Wyck, but didn't.
What little prosperity we have had,
and it has not been general, came from
lust what the Democratic party claimed
in 1896, and not from the principals adj
vocated by the Republican party in that
year. The Democratic party in 1896
advocated the reconciliation of silver