People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 September 1896 — FROM WORLD-HERAL [ARTICLE]

FROM WORLD-HERAL

BRYAN SENDS THUNDERBOLTS INTO ENEMY’S CAMP. Tb* Chicago Convantioa Reprearntatlve of the Whole American People, Democrat*, Popallat* and Republican* —The Sleeping Lion. Omaha World Herald, July 12: The Chicago convention has passed into history. In numbers, in purpose, in spirit and in its proceedings it is worthy to be called a remarkable gathering. It has been called heterogeneous. It was no more so than our country. It was truly representative not of one principle only, but also of the antagonism to that principle. Silver coinage triumphed, but only after a fair and open fight with the gold standard.

The west and south, assisted by the great middle states, controlled the convention, and were represented by the ablest free coinage advocates in the land. But their domination was resisted by as distinguished a lot of eastern representatives as ever united in line of battle. New York sent men some of whom enjoy international reputations Massachusetts was there with a delegation which represented the wealth and intellect of the great Bay state. Vermont and New Hampshire, Maine and Connecticut, Rhode Island and Pennsylvania were on the floor with creditable delegations. All these were present to do battle against silver, and they reflected the sentiment of those who sent them, just as the silver men voiced the demands of four-fifths of the states and territories of the country. The convention was representative because each delegate in it, with few: exceptions, stood for the sentiments and expressed the demands of his state and section. In this respect it was in most striking contrast with the republican convention—a gathering controlled by bosses who moved their men here and there at will and forced then* to stifle their convictions and repudiate their recorded opinions. The republican convention was a body of men who gathered greedily to carry out the decree at their masters in order that they might share in the spoils of political plunder if their masters won success. The democratic convention was a great tumultuous body of earnest men, who fought for their convictions and either triumphed in glory or fell struggling, unconquered to the last. The one was a cut and dried affair: commonplace and conventional. The other in nevf leaders, new expedients and new spirit; although pledging itself to the restoration of an old principle. The one was a market place, where principles were bartered and sold and nominations put up at auction. The other was a battlefield where oc-curred’-the conflict of great ideas and where men met to fight for their convlctions. Republicanism was inert, suppressed and lethargic in its last convention; while democracy was electric and responsive to the public demands. St. Louis was a graveyard. Chicago was a cradle. The old republicans died. The new democracy was born.

Th. Sleeping Lion of th. East. Omaha World-Herald, July 14.—The political autocrats and goldbug arlstocrata of the east may well hesitate to put a third ticket in the field to divide the goldbug vote in eastern states. Confident as they feel that New York and New England will give republican majorities, they hesitate to do anything that might Imperil those majorities. They have no scruples, but they do have fears. They fear the sleeping lion. Heretofore the lion has been docile, recognizing his keepers, obeying their commands and taking from them such food as they supplied. He has been lulled to sleep in political campaigns and put forth his great strength only under their guidance. This sleeping lion is the labor vote of those great populous states and the time is at hand which may witness the arousing of the lion. He may turn against his keepers, and if he does their arrogance and their Insolence will not avail them. The great cause of the people, ably advocated In New York and New England, will produce results which may well cause goldbug bolters to falter.