People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 March 1895 — Sold for Pieces of Silver. [ARTICLE]

Sold for Pieces of Silver.

I The campaign of 1896 is already begun. It is sure to be the most bitterly fought contest •ever experienced in America. j'The time has at last arrived when jthe money power can maintain but one of the great political parties and the order is being passed down the line for the faitltful to unite under a single

banner. The republican party has been chosen the natural sur, vivor, and the democratic organization will fall of its own innate weakness. And this is the price the Dictator pays for his victory, the bargain he so faithfully keeps, the destruction of his party. But in this crisis of parties the people are the ultimate gainers, for in this disruption of this corrupt old.political machine the new and clean movement of the people receives its fertilizing body to, stimulate its growth. The der.th of silver was th e death of democracy. The masses of that party have always be»en true friends of'the white metal, and when Grover Cleveland signed the infamous act which cast it unreservedly aside, they quitiy, sadly, witndrew from the treacherous leaders who had stolen the party’s principals and disgraced the fair name of democracy.