Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 October 1896 — WHO ARE THE ANARCHIBTBI [ARTICLE]

WHO ARE THE ANARCHIBTBI

Bepnbllean Threats to Disrupt the Govern meat >f Mr. Bryan Should Win. Edward Lauterbach, chairman of the Republican county committee of New York, said in a public speech, delivered a few days ago, that if Bryan and the Chicago platform should obtain a majority of the votes in the approaching election, “we will not abide by that decision.” Lauterbaeh is not an irresponsible nobody to indulge in idle chatter. He Is Boss Platt's right-hand man in New York, and was a delegate from the state at large, along with Platt, Depew and Warner Miller, to the national Republican convention which met at St. Louis and nominated McKinley. This is, therefore, a threat to overthrow the lawful result o< an honest election, made by a responsible representative of the Republican party—the chairman of the Republican committee of the richest and most populous county in the United States. Two nights later, Senator Palmer, the assistant Republican candidate for president. made the following declaration in a speech at Detroit: “For myself, I would prefer to live under a righteous monarchy rather than submit to such principles as those declared by the Chicago convention.” If Bryan . and his principles triumph, of which there is every indication, Senator Palmer will not go elsewhere to seek “a righteous monarchy” under which to live. He would find It more convenient to join Lauterbach in an attempt to establish one of that kind in this country. On the very day on which Lauterbach declared the determination, under the contingency mentioned, to overthrow the government, Dugald Crawford, a leading merchant of St. Louis and a large employer of labor, made a thorough and systematic search of his list of employes to find if any of them were in favor of free silver and Intended to vote for Bryan. He found such, and summarily dismissed them—in violation of law and every principle of manhood. These three occurrences are met* specimens of what is going on eveM day among the plutocratic supports!* of McKinley and the gold standarm Who are the anarchists? The Chicago platform contains not oven the sugnene tion of the violation of any law. Thy men who are opposing it so bittorig are not afraid the laws will not be enforced, if It should win, as Mr. Bryan has said. They are afraid the laws uag be enforced. ; Who are the anarchists?

Here is a. fair ilustration of the qpe eration of the gold standard: In MH the average value of the farms in the United States was 83,430. In 1880 tIM average value had been reduced to IV 488, and in IMO to 81,620. All prosperity must come from the farm. How oaa prosperity come from farms like these! If the icreased demand for silver doog not raise its price, why is it that j| August, 1890, silver advanced to BLM an ounce here and 81.19% an ounce &| London because it was anticipated that congress was about to command heavier pure|yses of it? No panic was ever ceased in this or ether coeatey by any ■ryelee es tA eurreaegu When McMfhTey was governor of Ohio, Hanna was his guardian. Therefore, in criticising Bryan’s we look not at the servant, but at the muster—not at McKinley, the moat pitiable figurehead in public life today, but at Hanna, his owner and ty-rant.-Rev. Herbert Casson aj Bynn, Mass.