The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1904-04-15

to s'hurrah" for Mr.. Cleveland?
Did Cleveland do so for him? But
they say he must yield to the be-
hests of his party. Did Mr.. Cleve-
land do so, even while he was exer-
cising the functions of the chief
magistrate of the nation? Well,
you might say that was the reason,
put did he in 1900 when he stood
for himself only? Now, if Mr..
Bryan be guilty, Mr.. Cleveland is
doublY sc on that score. What is
there SO obnoxious about the Kan
sas City platform that democrats
should be ashamed of it? The
present-administration is trying to
expand the currency in every CON
ceivable way outside of free silver,
by giving greater scope to the bank
ers, by issuance on the U. S. bonds
deposited of national currency to
the amount of their face value, by
the assistant currency scheme, ETC.,
for its pet money barons. Any
thing except the bug bear free sill
YER to give volume to the currency
sufficient for the demands of trade.
Shame for the democratic party
that it should thus retrench ! Be-
cause it had been beaten once,
twice or forty times, if the dictum
be right stand to it though the heav-
ems fall. Or Is Imperialism right?
Do we have 10 confess that the
nlted States has a right to subju-
gate every petty kingdom or repuo
lie far and near that is weaker than
she? Are there good and bad
trusts, and shall we give way to
their encroachments until all com
commodities of the world, for fear
we might Strike down one of the
good trusts? Is tariff for revenue
only a subterfuge, introduced mere
ly to catch votes, injected into our
party to render us different from
the republican party? No, it is
right; 1T is for the protection of the
poor and needy against the pamper-
ed manufactures and monopolies.
Government by Injunction? Is it
a thing to be desired, not to be adj
judged by our peers, but to be es-
topped by the restraining force of
one man., if we are legion? These
are some of the planks inserted in
the Kansas City platform, enunciat-
ed by the democratic party in ma
tional convention assembled: Anti
imperialism, antitrust and monopo-
lies, free silver at ratio of Is to l.,
and tariff for revenue only. These
or at least some of them were what
frightened Cleveland so that be
aligned himself to another party
and threw the force of his admins
tration in 1896 against the free sill
yer plank, and in 1900 himself
against all, as set forth In the Kan
sas City platform. Now Mr.. Bry-
an must kiss the feet of the vice
gerent of democracy in the person
of Grover Cleveland and ask his
forgiveness for his presumptious
sins and for the sins of the six mil
lions who followed him astray. Oh,
take us back under your fatherly
wing, for you are the personi6ca-
ton of tru democracy We have
been SO undutiful and churlish to-
ward him who knoweth the right
way! We believed free silver to
be right il 1896 and talked it and
preached it as well as Mr.. Bryan.
If we were wrong then, we may be
wrong in any of u deliverances.
Then what is the use of aligning
ourselves to any party if we advo-
Gated a thing SO absurd and foolish
as some say free silver is now. If
free silver be absurd and foolish, |
have no hope for the democratic
party any more: nor any respect for
my political opinion on any tenet,
for We had more light by the best
debaters of erudite craftsmanship
on that one subject than any other
in the scope of my memory. SO if
[ were mistaken in that instance, |
surrender 10 the powers that be aud
contend no longer.
P. III. MCKINNIE.
Hickory Valley, Tenn.