The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1904-06-05

can party to lay the hard times on the
folly of the people in turning Repubh-
cans out and putting Democrats IN:
The worst of 1t is that thousands and
thousands of short-sighted and unre-
fiecting voters would believe them and
1t was in 1893. 1t cannot be too
often insisted on that the disastrous
panic of the year and the business
prostration that Immediately foliowed'
were due to the legislation of the Re
publican Fifty-first Congress ana 70
things there is some doubt about, but
this is one of the things there is no
doubt about. The Harrison admins
tration got ready to sell bonds TO
restore the public credit that had been
impaired by the Republican legislation
of the Fifty-first Congress, but when
Cleveland sold bonds to save the coun-
try from the single silver standard, all
the Republicans In Congress and out OF
Congress, big and little the knaves and
the fools cried out that that was what
the country got by going Democratic In
1892, when the fact was that was what
the country got for going Republican
in 1888.
That prosperity is tired and intent on
rest is certain. Grover Cleveland
made the prosperity and William NC
kinley got the credit for 1t. The pros
perity was no more due to the Dingley
law than 1t was to the practice of
polygamy in Turkey. and came in spite
of the Dingley law and would nave
been greater and longer continued UNI
der the despised Wilson law than 1t
was under the Dingley tariff. The Re-
publicans are the only beings | ever
heard of. who were supposed to be ra-
tional, who discovered an effect before
there was cause, have heard Re-
publican Senators and members make
powerful argumentsN in Congress to
show that the panic of 1893 was caused
by the Wilson law, which was not en-
acted until 1894. The panic of 1888
1890 and to nothing else. Before 1t
was enacted 80 per cent. of the customs
revenues was paid In gold and the
treasury was full of gold: when Cleve-
ed 80 per cent. of the customs was
paid in silver and gold was pouring out
of the treasury In one continuous
stream Financiers, especially, for
prevent the treasury from going to the
silver basis and greenbacks were pre-
! sented and gold demanded Had the
| treasury refused gold payment and paid
in silver It would have demonstrated
gold That is what Mexico was doing.
Gold would have been at a premium as
It was during the war. This situation
was due to the Republican legislation
Of the Fifty-hrst Congress, to the
Fortunately for the American people
a master was at the helm. Grover
Cleveland. In the face of clamor and
Islander, pursued the one policy to pre-
| serve the public credit He bought
money of the country on a parity with
the gold money. AS an act of states
| manship II Is unsurpassed in American
history, though Steve EllSins says he
| could have done 1t better and cheaper.
This Dingley tariff is doing just like
| the Mckinley tariff did twelve years
| ago-putting a deficit in the treasury.
| For months that department has been
| taking from the surplus to help pay
| daily expenses. 1t is evidence that
business is in retreat and prosperity
! Is getting ready to take u nap Thou
sands OF Republican, see this and 1t Is
| with heap of satisfaction they would
| look on the defeat of Colonel Roose-
Welt Then they could lay their own
shortcomings on the Democratic party,
as they did in 1893. The Wilson tariff
did not have a friend in the world 1t
was the child of treason and folly. But
| 1t had some good traits and was a vast
| improvement on the Mckinley tariff.
| Indeed prosperity was in It's wake bust
ness felt the pulse of life. the iron in
| dustry lighted the fires of a thousand
furnaces. Everything betokened a
| glorious era of prosperity, free trade,
sound money, home rule and Democ-
| racy
And now 1t was that Isham G. Harris
and a fellow named Buck Henderson,
from Illinois, convened a silver con-
| ference at Memphis, and that confer
ence put the Democratic party on the
silver basis. Here was the devil to
| pay and no hot pitch on hand-only
| hot air. Prosperity turned back and
awaited the advent of Mckinley. Bust
ness folded its arms and went to sleep,
| with orders to be awakened when the
silver question was settled, and glory
departed out of the house of Democ-
| racy
| Grover Cleveland, who had done more
| for the Democratic party than all the
| Democrats together since Andrew Jack
| son, became the most unpopular mem
Der of the party. The Democratic
| Senator the Democratic candidate for
President and the only valuable ser
vice William Jennings Bryan ever rem
| dered his country or his party was his
defeat of Henry M. Teller in the Chica-
| go convention of 1895. The party went
| from folly to folly. 1t abandoned the
idea of tariff for revenue only. 1t
| demanded the abolition of the writ of
Injunction, one of the glories of the
law that had stood the test of centuries.
| 1t proposed that the Supreme Court go
into politics. 1t demanded a demone-
tization of gold. 1t repudiated the
public credit and reversed the multi
plicatton table Then 1t nominated
school boy for President and put on
the ticket with him high protective
| tariff man from Maine. a millionaire,
whose fortune was due to the tariff.
The party has been a prodigal ever
since 1894 and with the inevitable re-
| sult-a time came when II had to make
! its way back to the fathers house.
! The father welcomed It, and so did the
| brother. and what did It do? Why, its
| plan is to throw the elder brother out
| OF doors and the old man, too 1t pre-
| tends to be without sin and without
| fault and at the same time 1t declares
| that the father and the brother who
refused to participate in its Populist
| debauCh. are not to be trusted, and we
! are not certain that we are even to be
| tolerated We are told that nobody
! who did not support Bryan in 1895 is to
| be given honor. Judge Harmon, Judge
! Gray, Mr. Olney and men of that char
| erter, who never had any Pop. fleas on
them, are invited to elect a President
| but they are ineligible to the office of
! President. They treat Grover Cleve-
! land like the Ben Buffers, the Ben
| Wades and the lack Chambers treated
Jefferson Davis.
You can't run a party that way. You
can't have a Democratic party II the
mouths of certain Democrats are to be
| closed, and honors are to be withheld
! desert Democratic principles to take up
with Populist heresies. Are these men
to do all the voting and somebody else
10 get all the usufruct? Not by a id
| sight. That is something for the
! Democratic party to learn also. What
are 10000 Democratic votes worth in
| Nebraska or Kansas? Nothing. abso-