The representative., 1900-10-25
BRYAN's MISSION
To Destroy the Peoples Party-Old
Democratic Chiefs Back In
the Saddle.
Capt. John HI. Cherry, Of Little Rock,
an Old GFeenbacker, Makes the
Case Plain.
(FrOm the Missouri Worldly

(FrOm the Missouri Worldly
In the early part Of the year when
Bryan posing as reformer or the only
friend OF the toiling poor. also in some
unexplained manner securing the sup
port Of Tammany and Boss Croker and
other representatives Of the Demo-
cratic wing OF the money power, some
OF us said There is something dead
up the creek" But now that he has
Cleveland's running mate for his run
ming mate and Cleveland and his former
cabinet minister, and Dave Hill and
the ice trust, and Van Wycks and, in
fact, all the corrupt plutocratic chiefs Of
the party are openly supporting him, it
| must be apparent to the most stupid
that the old time Democracy is openly
in control again.
A brief glance over that party's play
| in the few years last past seems TO
| make 1t clear what Bryan's mission at
the front has been.
In 1866-'68, when the Republican par
ty, following the advice of Secretary
McCulloch, was rapidly burning up
the greenbacks and other treasury
notes.-the war money-and issuing
bonds instead, pulling down prices and
building bond aristocracy, some OF
us old Lincoln boys viewed the pro-
ceedings with alarm; and when in 1868
Grant was being nominated on a plat
form declaring that the 500 bonds
should be paid in coin, changing the
| contract from "a greenback debt to
coin debt, many of us left the party
| and espoused the cause of Pendleton
and greenbacks The West and Mid
| die West were afire for "Pendleton and
Greenbacks." Wall street was alarmed.
Pendleton must be headed off. so Sew
mour OF Wall street was set up to oppose
Wall streets other candidate. Next
came Greeley of Wall street with .shak-
ing hands across the bloody chasm" as
the diversion. Then came Tilden. Han
COCK, Cleveland and Cleveland all from
the Wall street nest set up in seeming
opposition to Wall streets Republican
candidates. Thus Wall street PLAYED
the toiling masses a game of "heads T
win, tails you lose''
IN 1876 the Greenbackers began a Wig
orous organization and elected some
half dozen brainy, earnest congress-
men and threatened to break up the
game. To head them off, to stop the
stampede to their ranks, Wall street
eased up a little. In February 1873.
congress passed the Bland-Allison act
restoring the partial coinage of silver
giving the people a "half-loaf;" and
on May 81, 1873, another act prohibit
ing the further destruction of green
backs. And to more effectuallv head
OH the greenback movement the Demo-
cratic state conventions of the West
ana South especially, declared very
strongly for greenbacks The Demo-
cratic platform of Arkansas was as
good greenback platform as the
Greenbackers themselves had pro-
GAINED. Thus they held their voters
from fiocking to our standard Rut
after that election we heard No mora
OF their greenbackism. On the con-
trary' we see them in 1882 uniting their
votes with the Republicans in re-
chartering the national banks. and IN
1885, under the leadership of Dan
voorhees,, giving the final death blow
to silver.
In 1892 the Greenbackers rallied again
under the name of People's marty ord
developed enormous strength. To on
pose them with two Wall street candi-
oates again might not stop the stampede
OF the voters to their ranks. II was
deemed better play to let BRYAN have
the nomination and load him down witt,
SeWell and elect McKinley-Bryan TO
play the goody-goody among the PoD-
ulists and dissolve their organization
Believing that he has accomplished his
mission Wall streets chosen leaders are
resumlng their control of the party.
Why can't everybody see that for the
Rs~~S ~ yOoAo Tic ulOucy EOWor mas
dominated both the old parties; that
In fact the twain have been one in tho
flesh, how they have contrived to keen
the people nearly equally divided be-
tween two gangs of INSCRIPTIONS politi-
clans; and how, when the Democratic
wing being kept out so long they were
becoming discouraged, were allowed To
belly up to the pie counter for two terms
under rugged honesty Grover"
Reform Democracy Old Green
hackers will not be deceived by the pre-
tense. A few OF our old comrades,
worn out with battling so long against
such odds, went over to where there was
campaign fund. But very few of
these will remain when they view their