The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1893-08-24

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The Richmond Dispatch COM
menting upon the platform adopted
by the Virginia Democratic State
convention last week says:
"The platform adopted en- Thurs
day night by the Democratic State
Convention was prepared with great
care. The language employed indi-
Gates clearly that the members Of
the committee endeavored to put
forth creed which would be ac-
ceptable to the silver men as well as
the antI-sllyer men-to Mr.. Cleve-
land as well as to the Democrats
who do not agree with him on the
silver question. In reaffirming the
utterances-no, "the principles" of
the Chicago platform on that ques-
ton the convention left the Nir-
glnla Democratic members of the 2
houses Of Congress free to vote with
Mr.. Cleveland's friends or the other
side on this question of the repeal of
the Sherman bill and Oh all the bills
for the relief O. of the people which
may be considered by Congress"
Yes, prepared with great care SO as
to really do nothing and promise
nothing. The Dispatch boasts that
the platform will please the goldbug
Democrats as well as the honest re-
form Democrats. 1t may please the
former but it can never please the
latter. There is to-day more differ
erence between the two wings of the
Democratic party which that plat.
form tried to straddle and please
than there has ever been between two
different political parties. The plat.
form adopted is an Infamous strad
die and a meaningless jargon of words
| And the above editorial is shame
less admission that the party has NJ
principles which it dares to express
in positive terms, but is simply trying
to patch up truce to save the spoil!
of office for the politicians.
Further on in the same editoria
the Dispatch boasts "we put an in
come tax plank in our platform
which will take the wind out of tht
sails of the Populists. This is an
other shameless and contemplate
admission. An income tax planI
put in the State platform and wher
it can do no good, but to dishonest.
catch votes with. yet the delegate
from Virginia to Chicago did no
try to put such plank in the Nation
al platform. The Democratic Stat
Convention of North Carolina pu
the sane plank in its platform las
year, yet the delegates elected by tn
same convention to Chicago did no
try to have the plank inserted there
How much longer do the politician
think they can deceive the people b
such treachery and demagoguery
There is kind of eternal fl
ness about the closing paragraph
the Dispatch's editorial. 1t is
proper climax to its hollow utterar
ces:
"Conventions are held to decid
J just such questions as were decide
= by the Virginia Convention. Let a
e good Democrats yield cheerful
+ what they have to yield and boa'
= not of what they secured"
What was decided? Nothin!
The convention and its platform
simply cumulative evidence to firm
ly establish the fact that the Dem'
cratic party is nc longer the frien
of the people, that it has lost /
manhood and is now controlled el
: tirely by politicians who are me
S tools and puppets of the money po'
: er and the monoplists.
It In striking contrast to this pla
y form is the Populist platform
e Virginia. 1t is clear, positive al
It manly. 1t needs no interpretatio
It We trust the people of Virginia W
J. have the manhood and wisdom to e
l. dorse it at the polls. We will pu
J. lish both platforms side by side
next issue.