The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1893-09-07
THE EDICT GOES FORTH
fContiuued froui Grst page. J

and Tracy, Rayner and Harter Dem
ocrats.
The amendment providing for free
silver coinage at ratio of II 10 !
was rejected by a vote of 100 to $40;
that for free coinage at ratio Of is
TO was Lost bv vote of 102 To 239,
and that for free coinage at ra-
ito of - to was defeated by vote
of lOj yeas to 237 nays. The vote
on the and last ratio proposed, 20 to
/, l19 yeas TO 223 nays, l05 Of the
latter being cast by republic ans and
III by Democrats and Popullsts.
With maj rity Of 1913 against them
on the highest ratio offered, the free
coinage men were in state of de-
spair, but they rallied bravely for
the last onset, the attempt to resur-
rect the Bland law Of 1873. A ma
jority of the Democrats and Popu-
lists supported this amendment,
which, however, was rejected by a
vote of 1876 yeas to 2l3 nays, a ma
/ jority Of Y. The affirmative votes
were cast by ID Republicans and 121
Democrats and populists, and the
negative votes by 40 Republicans
and 1903 Democrats.
The vote on the passage of the
bill to repeal the purchasing pro-
vision of the existing silver law re-
suited in IL majority of $50 for re-
peal, the yeas being 240 and the
nays 10. OF the former lOl were
cast by Republicans and 1879 by Dem
ocrats, and of the latter twenty four
were cast by Republicans and So by
Democrats and Populists.
No less than 80 Democrats who
had voted for free coinage at one or
more of the proposed ratios or for
the re-enactment Of the Bland law
voted in the affirmative, and IL Re
publicans who had voted for free
coinage at one or more of the ratios
or for the resurrection of the Bland
law voted in the negative.
ECHOES FROM THE SILVER DEBATE.
Who was hit? when the admins
tration champion, Tracy, scornfully
said. looking southwark:
1.-The Norfolk and Western has
many millions of bonds, nearly al
payable in gold; the Richmond and
Danvllle, the Savannah and Western
the Alabama roads, the Columbia
and Greenville, the East Tennessee
and Ohio, have millions of gold
bonds.
The Chesapeake and Ohio has q
very large number Of gold bonds out
standing. The Pennsylvania many
millions, and also the Jacksonville
and Tampa, and many others. A
silver basis will bring sure ruin tt
many of them, but that may be ne
reason fol- influencing the member:
who, suppose, do not like corpora
TONS"
| Somebody was hard hit, and they
WINGED under the lasning. Unwit
tingly it let out the secret of the
railroad lobby in Washington.
Wonder how Ransom relished Thu
unsavory suggestion?
The only negro in Cangress-Mur
ray of South Carolina uttered sen
tlment that puts to the blush thu
dodgers, hypocrits, and straddle
bugs. He said-and it will do for ;
scrap-book:
II shall vote for the free and un
limited coinag of silver, because
am for the betterment of the mlsera
BILE condition of my countrymen, AM
for America first and all the world af
terwards.'
Hatch, farmer and an earnes
advocate of free coinage sent up tn
vail, but it was in vain. Evidentl,
the Lord has very limited jurisdic
ton over this congress.
"What we want is more sand
t O Lord, give 1t to the Democrat
members of the House of Represent
atives. Applause and laughter.
Give us sand enough, o Lord, t
hold US on to the Democratic plat
form and to our pledges to the pee
pie in 1892. [Applause.]
The answer shows that there is n
e sand in the Democratic gizzard.
q is gizzard for reveue only.
, And this is not "a bank PAM
l eh?" Vance didn't tell the trnt
), when he said SO, Ell? Hold you
breath. in readikg this item from tn
New York Sun, quoted in the dc
bate last week:
President Cleveland's advise,
1 have told him that the only way t
t induce the Western and Southwei
tern Senators and Congressman t
consent to the repeal of the Sherma
law, is to demonstrate to their COL
stituents that they are losing none
t every day that this law is in opera
r ton. The missionary work in tia
direction has been started by nun
Der of the banks in the solid commit
mites of the East. They are dali
o refusing credits to the South, South
: west and West, fearing the effects c
d the Sherman law.
n Now read the following in til
! same connection, in the light {
what has occurred in the way {
: bank assumptions since the Wllso
d repeal bill passed the House:
t ''The bank p esidents, replying
v Secretary Carlisle, cordially inform
ed him that they would be ready /
. all times to cooperate with him j
t the successful administration of tt
y financial policy of the govelnmen
It Everybody shook hands, and thel
y was harmony all round.'
And the "bank presidents ha,
!" kept the faith. They have co-ope
d ated with Carlisle. And they ha,
# established the damnable conspir;
d cy to rob the people.
% North Carolina cut the same Fl!
ure both in the debate and in tt
u voting on the Sherman bill in tt
y House,