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At Louisville, Ky., The Sound Money

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Day
29
Month
July
Year
1896
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Public Domain
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demócrata have perfected an orgánization to wield its influence againstBryan & Sewall. In Miuuesota the anti-Bryan democrats have met and organized and have announeed "no support for a populist nominee and platform." John D. Rockefeller, the oil millionaire, of Chicago, has presented the city of Cleveland with $600,000 for park purposes. Good for Cleveland and good for Rockefeller. The Coxeyites, at Washington, D. C, held an euthusiastic ratification meeting, and deelared unequivocally for Bryau & Sewall. Cari Browne, tiie famous Coxey lieutenant, was the leader. At Graud Rapids a conference of antipopulistic democrats was held last Thursday, and a manifestó issued repudiating the Chicago platform and ticket. It was sigued by ninety of the most prominent democrats of that city and county. Once again ; the only advocates of monometalism in this country are the free silver advocates. The republican party advocate and believe in the free use of both gold, silver, copper and paper as money. Don't be deceived by the glittering generalities and silvery assertions of the Bryanites. You who have worked and saved an3 struggled to keep your life insurance paid up so tli at you eau leave your family soinething in the event of your death, or have something in later years for yourself, do you want the amount to be paid shrunken to one-half of wha you have been paying for? If so, vote for free silver. Four years a:o the democrats fooled the people by the ery of dear tin dinner pails, aud the dinner pail has been ernpty ever since. Now the cry ha changed from taxed tin to free silrer, and if they fooi the people again it will be even worse than before, for the country is not as well prepared to stand disaster as it was four years ago, when things were prosperous. The silver mine owners have bought up a job lot of traveling street fakirs and sent them out around the country to preach free sih'er to the crowds they attract on the street corners. Quite appropriate to have a fake advocated by fakirs. Butour people will reinember the tin peddler fakirs of four years ago, and be slow to bite on another such "head I win tail you lose game." A Germán from Wisconsin, who attempted to speak in the so-called silver conventinn at Pt. Louis last week, was h'iwled and hissed down, and insulted. He was iiiven to understand that his room was bPtter tlian liis company, and tliat "all (rprmans were gold-bugs anywny." They are nearly all sound money men, that's tiue, and this fellow got served just right for going off after strange gods. The total coinage of silver dollars from the first coinage in 1792 up to January 1, 1S73, was $8,045,838. The total coinage of silver dollars from January 1, 1873, to January 1, 1895, was f422,426,794! And a good many silver dollars have been coined since the latter date. And this is what the free silverites cali "demonetization," is it? It is, and it is uo more ridiculous than most of their otlier contentions. He who won ld array any one class of American citizens against auother ia i traitor to his country. The great men of our nation almost universally come f rom the farm or work shop, and il s the only great nation on the face of the earth today where such a thing is possible. ïlie masses rule the nation by furnishing its great leaders. McKinley and'Hobart are each specimens of what the masses give this natiou, and it is altogether probably that Bryan boasts of no "blue blood in liis veins, though his running mate Sewall may do so. Therein lies the safety of the republic. When a war between classes is forced on this country it will result as history tells us ithas resulted everywhere else. The common people will be the sufferers. He who advocates a war of classes is an enemy to the republic. Forty of the most prominent deunocrats of southeastern Iova have united in a declaration of liostility to the Chicago ticket. They say: "The action of the reeent convention of our party at Chicago has proved a great disappointment. It nominated for president a man who in sentiment is more a populist tlian a democrat, and who has used nis voice and influence in Nebraska to destroy the democratie organization tliere, and to merge it into the populistic party. For vice-president it nominated a well-known lobbyist at Washington for bounties to ship builders and an outspoken protectionist." After reciting the fact that the platform repud iates the public debt, and seeks to place this country on a basis of China am Mexico, it asserts that "it is the plat forin of populista," and not democrats and refuses to support it. Sec'y Hoke Smith, the man who lias so íelentlessly pursued the union soldier peusioner for the past three years, s;iys tliat although lie believes tbat free silver coiniigo would work nntold ruin upon the people of the nation in all sectionsj vet he líate tlie republican party that whipped the rebels so mercilessly in tlieir great rebellion against this union of states andagainst humanity, that hia paper, the Atlanta Journal, will advocate Bryan's eleelioiij although "protesting again.st the platform." A great hater, is Hol; e. Those wbo credited him witli bel"iiging to the new South, didn't knnw him. Who are the leaders of this silver oraze? Tilhnan, Daniel, Jones, Harris, Vest, Cockerell, Blackburo, Mills, Jland, of the South, encli and every one an ex-confederate; aud Altgeld, iinrichsen, Pennoyer, AVaite. of the orth, and othersof ihat soit. On the other side will be found such men as VlcKinley - whose name the world over s a synomyn for stalwart Americansm; Harrison - one of the very best presidents the United States ever had ; Seed, Depew, Allison, ïhurston, Alger, Foraker, and so on among the republicans ; and amoug the democrats sucb men as President Cleveland, Secretary Carlisle, Senator Hill, Hon. Don M. Dickinson, and hosts of others of the best element of that party. Into the hands of svhich set of men mentioned would you care to trust your interests?

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