People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 July 1896 — Fallen! Fallen! [ARTICLE]

Fallen! Fallen!

Populists are sometimes twitted with being a set of financial ne’er do wells, who, having miserably failed to get rich themselves, naturally grumble at the fellows who have been luckier. Now the shoe is on the other foot. The Republican party, that tremendous machine controlled by the Money Power, will soon put a candidate in the'field, Maj. McKinley, who failed in business a year or two ago, and came out of the catastrophe owing SIOO,OOO more than he had cash to meet. A number of wealthy manufacturers kindly made up a pony purse to put the major out of debt. These men, together with others of the same class, have been furnishing funds to help Mr. McKinley secure the nomination for the presidency—as Senator Wm. Chandler boldly charged some time ago. Soon we shall have the humiliating spectacle of a bankrupt candidate who is to cure hard times, and whose nomination has practically been bought by a set of men who expect to be greatly benefited by the particular kind of legislation of which said candidate, te the avowed champion. To such a depth of degradation haa the party of Lincoln fallen!—Nevada Director.