The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1893-11-16
W1y I-EY usREPRssssT THs PRES.
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or politician L. chargeing that con
press and the President have viola
ted the pledges OF the Chicago plat
form. They are unjust, or rather
incorrect. The Chicago platform
dad not promise free coinage "i sill
yer. The platform was carefully
woIded 50 a. 10 promise nothing;
" 4. a'coWarcIy make shit 'tprepartd
20 deceive the people. during The
last camualgu We read and desected
that platform on every stamp ana
showed that II wa, made to he III
one way North and an
other way South. 1t was made like
the old negro's tirsh trap, ito catch
'em coming and going. This charge
was bitterly denied by all the South
ern papeprs and politicians, esrecl-
ally by Messrs. Aycock and Glenn,
the Cleveland electors at large IN
the State, We read on the stump
extracts from speeches made by
Northern speakers to Northern au-
diences. Among the extracts We
read was one from "A speech ma be by
Carl SchurZ before the Cleveland re
form club Of Brooklyn, on Sept. the
18th, 'Y2. 1t Is a fair sample Of the
Northern speeches and is as follows:
Il regard the free coinage move
ment as gradually dying out on one
condition. that is, if Mr.. Cleveland
is elected to the Presidency. AS PresI-
dent he can render Il service to the
cause which Mr.. Harrison, (be his Ii
nancial principles and purposes ever
so correct will be incapable of render
ing. Under Mr.. Cieveland's leader
ship, the free coinage heresy will
lose its foot-hold in the party. There
is one thing, however, which may re-
store the free coinage movement to
new, hope life and strength. that Is,
the defeat Of Mr.. Cleveland in this
election
When with such proof as the above
quotation we began to make the by
p0crlsy Of the Democratic platform
evident, Mr.. Aycock (now United
States attorney in the Eastern dis
trict) grew eloquent in his advocacy
of free coinag, and tired to assure
the people that he had full faith in
the platform, and closed his appealsto
the people by declaring that if the
party was fooling the people, that it
was also fooling him, and that there
fore if the party did not give the
people free coinage of silver, that he
would denounce it and join the Pop
ulist party.
When we met Mr.. Glenn (the
other United States district attorney
on the stump and produced the same
evidence TO show the hypocrisy of
the platform, he got so alarmed at
the effects Of the exposure, that he
wrote to Mr.. Cleveland, praying
that he should send him letter,
saying. that he GrGEer, was for free
coinage of silver. Mr.. Glenn made
Il great ado about letter which he
claimed to have gotten FROM Mr..
Cleveland in answer, saying that he
was for free coinage, and assured
the people that he knew, and could
prove, that it was the Presidents
position by his own mouth. Now
unless the President did write this
letter he should not be abused by
Democrats vino stood sponsor for
him last fall. The speakers and
the papers who put all sorts of in
terpretations on the platform to fool
the people are those who are to
blame. They see this and feel it,
and are now trying to excuse them
selves before the people in making
false promises during the campaign
by charging that Cleveland is not
standing on the platform. Cleve-
land is standing right where we told
the people last fall he would
stand. Cleveland has interpreted
the platform just as we interpreted
- o,J NC M To,.1 Sob,,, Al -, l.;
speech as quoted above. The South
ern politicians and papers are either
very silly or else they have wilfully
fooled the people; the people will
hold them responsible. The people
blame Mr. Cleveland just as they
blame every goidbug for taking a
stand against them, but be has at
least been CONSTANT goldbug. 1t
is the men South who wanted Offices
and spoils who have hoodwinked the
people into supporting the goldbugs
so they themselves could get Offices.
Five hundred people are to-day
suffering from hard times caused by
bad Legislation where one person is be
ing benefited. OF course the one who
is being benefited wants the laws to
stay as they are or to be made worse.
Of course the five hundred want the
laws changed. These bad laws must
be changed by votes. Then why
don't the five hundred vote for a
change? Why don't they vote for
the party that will make the change9
Read in another column the great
speech made by Senator Teller, just
before silver was murdered by the
hands of its professed friends. head
what he says of the future. Read
what he says about how the money
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