The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1893-09-14
SIMON ?. D. JONES.
WRITES AGAIN AND ADMITS THAT he
IS BECOMING sHAsY

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down here | don't know what to do
seems like things are turning out
Just like you said when you made
that speech down here for us that
time. Well sir | never saw such
doings in my life, things have Just
got mixed up so, | have jam nigh
quit talking. While | was down to
Uncle Agnose's | thought everything
was alright except heard 'em quarl-
ing about the school committee, the
party fellows said they had turned
ont every third party school commit
tee in the county both black and
white, and one fellow said he had
heard they had put Mr.. Jno. Brock
white man there about Richlands
on the colored committee, and he
asked me if it were not so, | had to
TESS up, but | mortally hated to, as
soon as heard that, it hurt my feel
ings, for | thought our fellows had
gone too far, the third party fellows
said the Republicans with all their
meanness never got that low, and
they said they could further prove,
that some Of our fellows around
Rlchlands had been heard to say,
that nobody but Democrat school
teachers should be hired, and he said
II my party demanded the proof he
could give the man. Now Mr.. But
Ter you know how we felt just after
the election, we had gained the VIC
tory, and we cared no more about
your civil service reform then, cause
we were in power and did not need
it, SO we wanted to crush every fell
low that did not agree with us, but
that hiring of Democratic school
teachers was gong too far, the men
we specially wanted to crush was
them sort that spoke and talked SO
much about finance, that was about
all you could hear when
you got in reach of one, he
talked silver all the time and said
there was bad times ahead for We
poor farmers and laborers. | felt
right shamed for one poor third
party fellow one evening, he asked
Mr.. Ed Chambers Smith why he did
not tell the people the truth about
this here financial trouble, and Mr..
Smith he turned to HIM he did and
said that's yer howl money, money,
and he turned to us fellows and said,
boys I'll tell You where your trouble
is, it is the tariff on that old wool hat
you've got on, and as sure as you
reckon, we fellows made the welkin
ring, and he said vote for that great
and grand man Grover Cleveland
and the tariff would be reformed as
soon as he got in Office, for it was
robbing us millions every month,
said trust it all to him for he was
greater than his party and would
save the country. So we did, and l
expected by this time we would have
had the tariff off of all our stuff, and
we would have had them or State
Banks what were in our platform.
So that spring | wrote to you about
one we wanted at Richlands but we
never got it, and next thing | heard
the Banks were all er Dustin and
everything going to pieces and l
asked one of our fellows where Mr..
Cleveland was. Why did not some
of 'em tell him so he could reform
the tariff and give us them State
Banks, and they said hush, you must
not say anything the President was
gone to catch he and Mrs. Cleveland
some fish to eat 'er mornin's for
breakfast, so l kept quiet, hut when
| come from down the river, heard
some of our fellows say Old Zen
Vance had wrote a letter to one of
the Alliances of the State, and said
he was in favor of free silver, and
our fellows was scared near bout to
death, they thought Old Zeb had
gone to the third party, and we did
not know what to do, but bout that
time he wrote another in reply to
some of our paper men who had got
after him with sharp stick, and he
said he was standing on the Demo-
cratic silver platform and them that
did not see it like he did were either
traitors or fools, so as soon as be
said it was Democracy we squalled
hurrah for Old Zeb, he is always
right. What made us SO particular,
the party fellows had said our plat
form was two sided and we thought
if there wern't but one side to it
Vance was surely wrong, cause we
wanted dollars worth of silver in a
dollar, and Old Zeb was 'er standing
along with the J party on 16 to l.
and we had to go mighty slow.
But bless yer life as it stands now its
lust like the party said there is
two sides to it, for Vance and lot
more of our fellows are just chop
ping on one side and Cleveland and
the gold bugs are chopin on the
other side, our leaders says the Pres
ident has gone back on us, and be-
lieve he has, the third party seem to
know more about him than we did
and its just like the party fellow
told Mr.. Smith that day, its finances
Cause the President did not say a
| word about State Banks and just did
| mention tariff what our side talked
50 much about last fall when he
called Congress together, but said ii
was the silver bill that needed atten'
ton, and it did hurt me when ne
said that for knowed the J party
fellows would give US gass just like
they are doing. Some Of our fellows
say they were wright and if our SIDE
don't do something pretty quick,
they are going to 60 with 'em. Ii
does make me SO sorry for our Post
m,,4ar and b;u fathar-1n.laW. they