Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1900-08-18
The Changing "TenOr

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rs "a gold democrat paper or gold re-
publican paper, nobody knows which. ~
The JOURNAL is neither democratic
nor republican.
1t is an independent paper-a leaf
from the only tree which in very truth
shelters this beloved land from the
screenings of Imperialism on the one
hand and the showers of free coinage on
the other.
But the Boy" announces that free
coinage i'll the Nebraska resolution did
not to Bryan mean bankruptcy in 1895
and it doesn't now"
Without asking the boy" how he
| kDO"S this, it must be re-affirmed that
| the State convention of Nebraska kucn
something, too.
Mr.. Bryan, however, can afford to
| disagree with State conventions about
what things mean to him, but he is the
only democrat who can.
The boy" states also that
Resolutions have been passed previous
to 1896, and in some places since, that have
been abandoned because they were not true.
People who have been looking for the
discOverer of ''the philosophers stone
need look no longer. Here's fellow
who can transmute the whole business
backwards-gold to silver
And SO on. But
The InITRNAI = ike 1ot
papers. 1t tells the truth but not the whole
truth as it knows it. The JOURNAL is like
republican papers when they are short of
convincing argument they go back and get
some of Clevelands administration hash and
dish out and call it the work of democrats,
when they full well know that the masses,
the democrats who are not catering to the
public crib have repudated and condemned
Cleveland democracy.
If there is one thing the JOURNAL
prides itself upon it is the fact that it is
not zone sided" 1t is and has been the
friend of every good, consistent man and
measure of both parties. Indeed, it is
the friend of all statesmen and policies
NO long as they IRE good, their enemy
when they become mixed or associated
with evil.
Hence. it is never "shOrt of convincing
argument, and it never hears the state
ment that Mr.. Cleveland was ''repudi-
ated' that it does not reflect that Mr..
German, the boss Cleveland repudiator,
is also ii cast-away.
1t never hears the work of Mr. Cleve-
lands administration derided that it
does not suffer with the suspicion that it
was most often "repudiatcd' because
the wrong men got the post offices,
Once more:
up-todate democrats got in control in
Nebraska as they have in nearly every other
State and are setting matters straight. In
many places in Maryland the tenor of the
resolutions has changed and some more will
change in the very near future.
1t is a remarkable fact that there is
not ii democratic argument extant against
militarism and imperialism that was not
furnished by Jefferson, Madison and
other democrats of their era All that
Bryan, Stevenson and other so-called
"up-to-date democrats" can say of these
issues is, thel efore, Il mere echo of demo-
cratic wisdom 100 years old
But when it comes to "16 to - the
democratic fathers are heterodoX.
TOwne, Altgeld and "Philip's Boy
these three-populist, anarchist and
go, Don't Think''-are it.
Question-when that "tenor" changes
i'll Maryland again, will it be to an as
sault on the Supreme Court, government
by mob and ~. S. mails be DID,"