The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1892-10-20
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FROM THE CHAIRMAN OF
{ THE STATE COMMITTEE.
{ This is aDemocratic Year. Says Chair
e man Simmons. and He Proceeds t.
h Give the Reasons for the Faith Thai
3 is in Him---A Vigorous Paper to the
s Voters of North Carolina.
I Rooms STATE DEM. EX. Com. |
! RALEIGH, N. c., Oct. 6, 1892.
TO the People of North Carolina:
| Evidently this is to be a Democrat tic
!, year. All the September and October
elections so far held have gone strongly
iii our favor. In Vermont we have re.
, duced the old time Republican majority
; "a per cent. In Maine, tue home of Mr..
Blaine and Mr.. Reed, notwithstanding
, tremendous efforts to increase the Re.
publican majority, for it's effect upon the
country, we have, with comparatively
small efforts cut down that majority fully
33 per cent, and thrown that little Re
publican stronghold almost, if not alto
gether, into the column of doubtful
States.
In Arkansas, where the Third party
claimed to be especially strong, we made
a clean sweep, carrying that State by
the largest majority we have received
there in twenty-five years, and polling
more votes than the Republicans and
Third parties combined.
In Alabama we overcame by hand
some majority the fusion between the
two opposing parties, and that despite
the fact that the Republican National
Executive Committee is said to have
furnished the kOlb faction, representing
the Third party, $4,000 with which to
defeat the Democracy.
In Florida the Republicans did not put
out a State ticket, but indorsed the
ticket put forth by the Third party. For
weeks past the atmosphere has been
laden with rumors and predictions that
this strange and unnatural combination
would sweep the field in that State. On
the 4th inst, the election in Florida was
held, and small as is its aggregate vote,
our majority reached the modest but
comfortable number of 5000.
And now the wires bring US the glad
tidings of overwhelming victory in our
sister State of Georgia There, as in
Florida, the Radicals and Weaverites
| uHl CtHu III Olcu SIlitlc dH
unhOly wedlock, but the wrath of an in
dignant people has happily cut short
their honeymoon of great expectations.
Seventy thousand Democractic majority
is q very satisfactory answer to the
boastful predictions with which the allied
| followers of Harrison and Weaver have
for days past taunted us.
Nor does the Empire State of New York
any long languish in the doubtful column.
A few weeks ago the electoral vote of
that great State was boldly claimed for
Harrison and Reid, but today those who
study the political situation as they do
the stock markets freely offer to stake
10 to upon Democratic victory in that
State, and find no takers
In Indiana, the home of HARRISON the
Republicans, demoralized and dispirited
by the rising tide of Democracy, have
almost abandoned hope, and the shrew-
dest and wisest observers of the drift and
capitalization of sentiment there conf |
IDENTIFY assert that not even Dudley's |
"blocks-of-fve' system can swing it's
electoral vote from the Cleveland column. |
Nor is this all. The situation in at
least four other Western States, hitherto
Republican, gives unmistakable promise
of Democratic success in November
The farmers OF these States, many of
whom contemplated independent action,
are beginning to see clearly the helpless
ness of the Weaver movement, and that |
their interests will be best served by the |
election of Mr.. Cleveland: and, under the
leadership OF Judge Gresham, who was |
recently, with remarkable unanimity and |
enthusiasm, rendered the nomination |
for the Presidency by the Omaha conven-
tiOn, are rallying to the Democratic stan
dard by thousands. The wires yesterday |
brought US the gratifying intelligence |
that this great and trusted leader OF the |
Western people in an interview has ad-
vised his friends who are in the Third |
party movement that there is no posi-
bility of electing Mr.. Weaver, and that
the only hope of saving the country form
Plutocracy lies in the election of Mr.
Cleveland, and with solemn emphasis
predicts that "four years more of Nc
Kinleyism will ruin the farmers and the
wOrkingmen and place the country com
pletely under the control of the pluto
Gratis through the creation of trusts and
combinations which would control the
industries and markets of the country"
All this is but the food of the great
tidal wave of Democracy which in 1890 |
swept the entire country, submerging the
party OF special privileges AMI class legis-
lation beneath a majority of 14S in the
lower House of Congress. These unmis-
taxable and overwhelming evidences of
its constantly increasing momentum
make it all but certain that its mighty
sweep will not subsde until it has safely
landed in the White House him from
whom it received it's first inspiration and
impetus.
Evidently, l repeat, this is to be a
Democratic year, and now with entire
confidence predict when the roll il called
on the morning of November 9th, North
Carolina, with her usual majority swOolen
by the influence of this tidal wave, will
take her accustomed place in the front
rank of the victors, her banners bearing
high the triumphant ensigns OF Demo-
cracy.
This is not the vaporing OF mere fancy
nor vain and idle prediction, but a plain
and unyarnished statement of the facts
and results already evolved; what has
already been accomplished and what will
inevitably follow are but the logical out
come OF the influences and forces now
operating in the entire country in favor
of our party.
Mr, Cleyeland's nomination at Chicago
was Enthusiastically the result OF peo-
pies movement, extending throughout
the length and breadth of the country.
His nomination was made against the
protest OF the politicians, and despite
the solid opposition of his own State, be-
cause in him the people recognized their
ablest and boldest champion, who, in
his great message of 1887, had drawn
clearly and boldly the lines of battle be-
tween the favored classes and the op-
pressed masses, and sounded the tOcsin
OF alarm which, like the blast of the war
trumpet, had awakened the sleeping mil
lions who constitute the great army of
the oppressed to a realization OF their .
wrongs, and to the remedy as pointed
out by him in that great declaration of
their rights.
1t vas this message which defeated him
in 1888, and it is this message supple
mented by his recent letter of acceptance,
expressing profound sympathy with the