The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1893-09-14

paig-n of last year. ain quit. sur.
Mr. cleveland would not have ear.
ned my State by $1,000 votes. and
believe he could not have carried !.
single, sofia y electoral vote south
OF the Potomac. River-not one
+ WILDCAT AND HUMBUGGERY.
Ransom squirmed and twisted and
and turned his head. II suggested
70 him what he might expect from
the people in North Carolina. if he
defied their protests and voted to RE-
peal the Sherman law. liz recalled
10 him the declaration he made at
j the Chicago convention wnen he
said that CieveMnd's nomination
/ would cost The Democratic party 10.
600 votes in North Carolina. For
one bewildering secoud he hest ated
between the people and the patron
age OF the administration. Quick
"a fash Vance saw the situation
Strengthening TO his full heighth.
with provoking sarcasm, he Goa
tlnued:
But 1t is said that there Is no
abandonment of the Chicago plat
form IN the unconditional repeal of
| the Sherman law. but only "A post
ponement, and that the bill itself
contains "A reaffirmation of those
promises.
wonder if in any of our political
literature, rich as II is IN ingenuity
and device. full as it is of eloquence
ana true genius, overburdened as il
rs with every inconceivable form of
wlldcatism and humbuggery which
hundred years OF free government,
wherein men of all opinions have
had chance to ventilate them, have
produced-l wonder, | say, if any
| thing is to be found on all its APP
preaching in absurdity to the ineor-
porating in this bill of a part Of the
Chicago PLATFORM Was there ever
a cat trotting through the tangled
thickets of the Alleghenies, or roam
ing over the barren wilds of the
Rocky Mountains, so wild and I'M
tamable as this cat! Laughter. |
Was there ever any bug discovered
and classified by science with hum
equal to the hum of thise bug?
HOW DEMOCRATIC PLEDGES ARE RE-
DEEMED.
For the first time in 33 wears the
Democratic party was intrusted with
the power of enacting laws. Now,
IN fultillment of these promises, the
first thing which is to be done is to
yield to the clamor of the capital
lists hostile to silver, and anticipate
the regular session of congress for
the sole purpose of stopping the
coinage of silver and nothing more.
DAMNABLE OUTRAGE.
But what about the remainder of
the platform? The same bill-al-
most the same strokes of the same
pen could have inserted an addition
al provision looking in the direction
of coming silver on equal terms with
gold, maintaining its parity, etc.
But instead of that we give the stock
brokers and the gamblers and the
banks by this bill all they want, and
we put Oft the American people with
another promise. We pay the gold
bugs cash and pay the people with
another paper promise redeemable
at the option of the makers.
HOW LONG WILL THE PEOPLE SUB
NIT,
how long are we to postpone the
peopleS How long dare we do it?
No one says what we are to give
them IN fultillment of our pledges af-
ter repeal. There is no intimation
that anything more is to be given in
the message which the President ad-
dressed to us; not a whisper. I re-
peat, If we are IN good faith, why
not do it MOVE Now is the accepted
time" and ':pow is the day of sal
vationi" :'to-day, if you will hear
the voice of the people, harden not
your hearts'-''here is water. what
doth hinder me to be baptized"9
WHY NOT THE BANKERS AND STOCK
BROKERS' Waltz
Is it to be done hereafter? Who
says SO with authority to speak,
Who says SO with authority to give
assurance that it can be done at all
If postponed. How do we know that
when some other bill comes up for
the benefit of capital these thread
bare and contemplate promises to
pay will not pop up again like Jack
IN box as substitute fol the per-
form1fance? If we let go what we
have before we get something else
IN exchange, how shall we Justify
ourselves to that portion of our con-
stituents who are supposed to have
common sense? Why can not the
bankers and stock brokers wait for
the repeal of the Sherman law until
the remaining legislation which we
have promised to enact shall be pre-
pared and ready9
SILENCE ANSWERS No.
Suppose, sir, that we to take
these promises in the bill that at
some day the remainder of the plat
form will be carried out, what as
surance have we that a bill to pro-
vide for either the free coinage or the
limited coinage of silver could be-
come law? Is there any indica-
tlon by any vote of the House of
Representatives upon the passage
OF the bill that such bill would meet
its approbations Is there ANYTHING
IN the message of the President OF
IN all its utterances, or is there apy
spokesman here authorised to speak
for him who can give US assurance
that such bill would meet his an
probation? We know that it woutd |
not become law.
ruE
THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY THE STIR
sERVENT TOOL OF COMBINED CAPI-
tai.
The great Democratic marty
which have always supported be,
cause | believed it to be not only
correct in its theories of government
but devoted to the interests of the
common people, the masses of the
land-if we pass this bill now I'M
con,,dltlonally, that this great party
Will then cease to be the peoples
T l1and ; /