Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1892-05-12
That Twelfth Plank of the St. Louis
"Demands " is There: Face it Fairly
and Bravely as You Did Yankee Bull
lets, Men of the South, and Say What
You Will Do With 1t.
IT is NOT MERELY A RESOLUTION .

he next important pOlltlcal event
in North Carolina with no politics
in it -, is Mr.. President Buffers
great Star Chamber Conference,
called to meet in Raleigh on the 18TH
inst, to consider the st. Louis man
ifesto " for the purpose Of adoption y.
This conference promises to be
even more secretly interesting than
that great silent conclave of Mr..
Folks that has just adjourned in
Birmingham. We oplne it will be-
come particularly interesting when
the conference comes to discuss a
lplank in the St.Louis platform that,
although prominent, Mr.. Butler
" forgot +" to put in his call. We
refer to the Twelfth section, which
says:
IweyM-We demand that the
Government issue legal tender notes
and pay the Union soldier the differ
easce betaCeen the price of the depreci-
ated money IN achich he acas paid and
go1d".
This would mean the expenditure
of two thousand million of dollars to
be raised by taxation of the whole
people for the benefit of single
class in one section of the country
The South would have to pay
about one-third Of this enormous
sum.
| The Third Party promoters in the
South cannot leave out this section.
They may assert that it was ''only a
resolution and not part of the
platform That will not do. 1t
stands out as plain as language can
make it, an essential part of the
platform itself. 1t IS just as much
in the platform as the government
Ownership of railroads, telegraph,
ETC., is, and we want those of our
friends-the honest yeomanly of the
Alliance who attend that conclave
on The 18th to be heroic enough to
grapple it and kick it out of the
Alliance " demands
| It Is found in the hand books Of
| the Third Party, and in certain Sec
tions where it is meant to catch
votes the Third Party orators howl
over it as energetically as they dodge
it in the South.
l Is Mr., Butler prepared to saddle
this debt on the South ? If SO,
/ although he is a young man his
youth will not be acceptedaas an ex-
cuse for such an act, and were he to
| live a thousand years he could not
outlive the odium Of his even cham
pioning the effort to saddle so nefa-
irious measure upon the people OF
the South.
Il IF Mr.. Butler thinks that the
people Of North Carolina are going
to be lulled to rest, Or that the Dem
ocratic press of the State are going
to be cowed to silence, while he calls
| his secret conclaves and star chamber
conferences with the view to sad
ding upon the people of this State
and the South, by secret wire-pulling
and high-handed chicanery, such
odious measures as the 18th plank
of the st. Louis demands, he is sadly
mistaken and wofuIly blind.
i "You may fool some of the people
all the time, and all the people some
of the time; but you cannot fool al!
the people all the time"
Il Mark 1t, Mr.. Butler, while the
i time goes by. The reckoning is in
the future-and it will be between
you and the people.
/ The wife of Thomas Buchanan
Reed is buried in Spring Grove Gem
etery. Cincinnati, and he, we believe
0sleeps the dreamless sleep" in g