The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1900-08-10

MoUNT-THE GOLD DEMOCRATS ABAN-
DoNED THE NOMINATION OF A TICKET
AND FALL IN LINE-THE QUANTITA-
TIVE THEORY OF MONEY INDICATED.
Notwithstanding the formal notifi-
cation and acceptance of Mckinley
and Roosevelt, the coming great cam
paign has as yet taken on no SEM
blancc of life. Everything is in abcy-
ancc until Bryan and Stevenson shall
be formally notified at indianapolis on
the 9th inst. and shall have made their
speeches of acceptance.
The Democrats are, however, even
in this incipient stage Of the campaign,
manilesting purpose not to "allow
the grass to grow under their feet"
Temporary headquarters have been
opened at the Metropolitan Hotel in
this City, in charge of that thoroughly
democratic Democrat, Hon. James D.
Richardson, of Tennessee. Mr.. Rich
ardson has already made heavy as
sault on the Republican ranks by the
discovery of anti-Boer literature being
franked all over the country by the
Republican Commissioner of Educa-
ton, in open collusion with British
Association. The Germans of this
country, whose votes have hereto
fore been practically solid for the Re-
publicars, are sympathizing thorough
ly with their kinsmen, the Beers in
their struggle for liberty; and this
further evidence of Republican collu-
sion with the British government in
crushing the South African Repub-
lies, added to the German apprehen-
sion Of the Republican policy of Mill
tarism, from which they fed in the
old country, will not help the cause of
Mckinley and Roosevelt.
The forthcoming speech of Mr.. Bryan
at indianapolis is expected to be the first
big gun of the campaign. 1t will set
the pace in the matter Of keyno,ing
and paramounting. A Lincoln dis
patch represents Mr.. Bryan as having
foreshadowed that he will accept the
declaration of the Democratic conven-
tion, that Imperialism is the para
mount issue of this campaign, and will
make this manifest in his Forthcoming 9
speech. Bryan has a great gift OF
putting important political truths
forcefully az rpi3rammatically, so as
to impress the popular mind; and at-
ter he shall have delivered himself, the
plain pcop.e may he expected to open
| their eyes upon the real magnitude
and vital Importance OF imperialism as
an issue.
But the general impression among
the Democratic leaders here, is that
Imperialism as an issue will paramount
itself rs the campaign progresses, re-
gardless of the efforts of the Democra-
tic standard bearers to put it forward,
or of the Republican standard bearers
to avoid it. The extraordinary scheme
of foreign land grabbing, into which a
weak and vacillating Republican Ad-
ministration has been forced, as an in
cident of the Spanish war, by the
money kings who always controlled
that party,is SO Numerically opposed,
they say, to all our American tradi-
tioEs. and the safety of the Republic,
that it cannot fail to arouse the appre-
hension and indignation Of the people
to a Eigh pitch, when thoroughly un=
derstood. The sprcad-eagle allusion OF
! Mr. Mckinley to not "taking down the
FLAG where once planted" and the blum
dering audacity of the impetuous "Ted-
dy," in his reference to the ''populistic
democracy degrading the flag" will be
laughed to scorn, when the people un-
derstand into wha. perilous places the
flag is being carried i'll search of pelf
10y the money powers that dominate
the Republican party. One thing in
the weak and commonplace acceptance
speech of Mr.. Mckinley is regarded as
| helping the Democrats-whereh he rein
states in its full force the Imperialistic
policy of his party, which the astute
Lomuel Eli Quigg, inspired by the
long head of Tom PIatt, bad edited
ont of the Philadelphia platform.
The action of the Gold Democrats,
in unanimously deciding, at the recent
convention, not t" put a ticket in the
field, is regarded rs simply q verifica-
tion OF the prophecy made months ago
by prominent gold Democrats, like
William l.. Wilson, Don. Dickinson
Perry Belmont and IIoke Smith, to
t which reference has heretofore been
made in this correspondence that
Bryan, in the coming campaign, would
have the support of united party.
Altogether there is every manifesto
tion at the temporary headquarters
here that the campaign on the part Of
the Democrats, will be an aggressive
one from start to finish, and there is
: every confidence that with united