People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 April 1897 — THE RECENT ELECTIONS. [ARTICLE]

THE RECENT ELECTIONS.

By Senator Stewart of Nevada: Wal. and Lombard streets are too parsimonious In local elections. They did more on credit at the last election than they did on ready cash,, although cash was abundant. They promised every laborer a place at high wages, every boss a political job, every merchant ready sales at higher prices, every farmer a good market, every manufacturer a demand for his goods at any price he might fix, and generally they promised everything good to everybody. It now appears that they have broken every one of these promises, which were contracts as sacred and binding as any other contract, because upon these promises they received ample consideration. The people who relied on them performed their part, and voted and worked for the gold combination.

Now, the election is over, Wall and Lombard streets repudiate their contracts. We warn them that this repudiation will be a costly job, and if they keep on repudiating their contracts to give good times they will be thoroughly discredited before the next general election, and It will take a great deal of money to supply the place of credit which they will have lost. If they cannot give good times and there is any doubt about the supply of money at the next election, they might as well throw up the sponge and quit. It Is true they have got four years more of the services of the government and all the pickings connected with it, but they have got a great many to feed who are very hungry and the people have got sick of the bond deals of the last administration. They will have to contrive some other plan of highway robbery to accumulate enough money to supply the place of the credit they had at the last election and leave enough over to make times lively for the month before election.

We have no doubt that they will be very active in robbing the government, and will play it foi*all it is worth; but so many of their games are played out, and will not stand repeating, that it seems to us they will have a difficult time, unless they have really studied up some new grabs which surpass all others. That they are at work on schemes everybody knows, but it will take a great deal of money to take care of the elections. They can not run them again on lies. The elections in Ohio, Michigan, Indiana and everywhere, else as far as heard from, show that the people are not satisfied with McKinley prosperity. A strong reaction has already set In, and is certain to continue, because the promised good times cannot come on the gold standard.