The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1893-09-07
THE EDICT GOES FORTH
Rspgkl T-E S~gRuAS r.Eys
ERAEIE 1asGS-FF
fA~ TFtssas uA. res ssssasut ted, ..I
.'sssE ,ssswa~aa .. a.. sp~~.-s.
llr rHn FEoriE w pANNrn.

With famine both Of money and
food. the paralyEAIsou II indastIi~.
aud destruction If credit aud can.
fdenoc, amid the ie:nlSs, Of all thi.
comes the single aimunitiou frsm
the ihroSe Of polislea, I.o~rr
"kct~al the Sherman art'"
RePaI the Inisrrahlc nakesLift,
silc cat the legislative fraud. de-
struy the onls suurUe Of an iucruAsr
of our currency; administer one
more blow Ia slsrr coinage, INCREASE
The purchasing power II gold. make
money scArCrr and harder lo grt,
pull the millionaire aud the bond.
holder out uf the dilmmA brought
upon them by their own folly. And
III thunder tones SAY to the multi
tudcs of idle and hungry bread win.
ners throughout the lcngth and
breadth of The land, let the pcorle
be- damned"
The crime has been committed.
and Grover Cleveland its sponHir.
The l3a D,muCrats Who voted lo
Internationally rrpal the Sherman
Law have betrayed the people at the
behest of the money power.
CoNafds' traitors
Making the proper additions and
deductions, therefore, it appears on
the face of the vote cast TO-DAY that
l52 members favor either free or
limited silver coinage, while 10? are
opposed 10 it.
This shows the utter impossibll-
ty OF any independent or supplement
tai silver legislation by this Congress.
The vote IN the >cnate will empha-
SIZE this assertion.
The remedy is in the hands Of the
people. 1t is for them 10 say how
they shall be represented in the next
congress. Ii is "A war Of extermina-
tion, aud the people should be fully
aroused to the peril ahead. Ii is
wanton waste Of time aud breath 10
talk further about democratic party
platform declarations. Ii il non
sense and rot. Ii is worse than rub
bish.
just think Of il, the Government
of the United States 80 poor that il
has not got silver dollars enough tn
exchange for gold coin at any sui
treasury ia the United Statss, and
yet this dollar is "debas,d aud de-
graded" aud called u "54-cent dol
lar" New York bankers doing
everything 10 beat il down and de-
base IT for the last twenty years,
and yet they have been paving "A
premium of from 3 TO Z per cent.
for these despised and debased al-
yer dollars to keep them from going
to protest week after week.
HOW THE PEOPLE wEnE DECEIVED.
Down South and out West We said
the Chicago platform meant bime-
talllsn1. We said it meant bimetal-
llsm upon an equitable ratio. w.
said that Cleveland stood on that
platform, and we said that il the
Democratic party got into power in
the executive and Legislative branch
es OF the Government, the Demo
cratic party would enforce that plat
form to the letter.
| remember standing over in Ala
bama one day in Col. Denson's dis
trlct-and here he sits right behind
me. 1t was up on Sand Mountain,
a peculiar spot in Alabama. The
people are good people, plain people,
and he says all from Georgia They
are honest people, and YOU could see
it III their faces; but nine tenths of
them belonged to the Populist party,
to the Third party, and when arose
aud stepped out cn the platformtotalk
to them, you could see it in their faces.
| stood there that day in his district
with several thousand Of these peo-
pie in front of me, and / took that
chicago platform aud explained il,
and then read Mr.. Cleveland's letter
of acceptance and explained it; aud
although Col. benson told me the
morning entered his district that
he probably would he beaten by any
where from two to four thousand
votes, and although he or anybody
else would have gambled upon it,
what was the result!
| When We got through with the
district, pledging the Democratic
party in favor of the Chicago plat
form, that district came up and the
Third party vote vanished, and came
INTO the old Democratic party.
/ The above is from a speech made
in congress the other day by Living
ston, the great Georgia h'ather-
skite. The story is applicable TO
other places besides Sand Mountain.
Wonder what Livingston will tell
the Sand Mountain people next
time: The day of reckoning il not
far ahea1 for ich denagogues and
traitors as Livingston.
HOW THE GIGANTIC CRIME WAS cox
sUMsATED.
The Vote an the amendment pro-
viding for free coinage at the ex-
isting ratio Of l6 TO ], was la yeas
to 226 NAYS
The affirmative votes were cast by
thirteen Republicans and Ill Dem
ocrats and Populists, and the mega.
tive votes oy 10 Republicans and
ll6 Democrats. The Republican
majority against free coinage was 81
and the Democratic majority was
only six. 1t was noted that nine of
the seventeen members of the com.
mittee on coinage voted for free coin
I age. They were Bland, Kilgore
Epes, W. J. Stone, Allen, Bankhead,
and Cotfeen; AcKeighan, Populist,
and Sweet Republican. The eighs
r nnemf,ers of the committee who yot-