The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1893-10-19
I>TO 4 CAICI> WHERE THY CAS- ~
niZZLED A>D MADE AUNT
Rau.oin ~ Ills Old Gam.---B"ss IOp'n"nt-
tsp9ct-d at any Hour.
SIMMONS AND ELIAS STILL IN THE
sDtP.

The Cauca-ian'- Exposure of the CIeve-
Iand-Bob Glenn Letter May Cost Mr..
Glenn His OfnciaI H-ad---The Letter il
Canard---Nr. Cleveland Indignant
Vance shows signs Of Weakening.
WAaHINGTON, Oct. li.-The stat
us Of the silver question ls-what:
The unconditional repealers" the
Wall street crOwd-the administra-
ton democrats - at this writing,
head the funeral procession. Routed,
demoralized and vanquished by the
silver men in argument and contrO-
yer5y they appealed to brute force.
And IA sorry spectacle have they pre-
scented. After continuous session
of thirty-eight hours the dead march
was sounded and retreat ordered.
VICTORIOUS DEFEAT.
The administration has sustained
an ignominious defeat, through the
perfidy and treachery of its so-called
leaders. Voorhees, betrayed the dem
ocratic party at Chicago to secure
Cleveland's nomination, and he has
now betrayed Cleveland to save Voor-
hees in Indiana.
PERFIDY AND TREACHERY.
SO it is with German and Ransom
and the steering committee. Ran
som opposed Cleveland's nomination
and packed the North Carolina dele
cation to the national convention for
German. Cleveland was nominated
and, as everybody knows, by the votes
of republican States. Left to the
democratic States his nomination
was an impossibility. To defeat
Cleveland was question of expedi-
ency with Ransom. No one knew
better than he that public sentiment
in North Carolina was overwhelming
ly against Cleveland on the very ques-
tiOn now before the Senate. He pre-
dicted Cleveland's defeat. He said
at Chicago that his nomination
meant democratic defeat In North
Carolina. The prediction was not
even qualified by an eff" After the
nomination he said, "Boys, We must
elect him. ! don't like him; he is
not our sort of a democrat, but we
must all do our duty. The men who
are responsible for his nomination
are good democrats and there is a
possibility that they will control
him. Recurrence is made to this
past nomination history, not to an
noy Mr.. Ransom, for it IS said that
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he has become very sensitive to such
comment, but to show that he is in
the same boat with Voorhees,.
WHAT HE HAS IN VIEW.
10 control the North Carolina pa
tronage by posing as an uncondition-
al repeater, and save Ransom by eff
fecting some compromise legislation
exactly describes his attitute, and ex-
plains to everybody's satisfaction why
nobody knows where he stands. 1t
would be an awkward predicament
to anybody other than Ransom, but
the complacency he exhibits, under
the circumstances, suggests an hallu-
cination, which is sometimes mistak-
en- for sagacity. Ransom knows
what the unconditional repeal of the
Sherman law means to HIM and the
democratic party in North Carolina,
and the question is asked repeatedly
every day, "Why has he not the hon.
esty and manhood to say So If
lacking the courage of leadership,
why not follow Vance? The ques-
ton answers itself.
TO ALL APPEARANCES
Unconditional repeal is defeated.
From the domain of feasible legisla-
ton it is simply assuming the form
OF party question. Satisfied that
the Sherman law cannot be repealed
the democratic policy is to keep up
the struggle until the silver men are
ultimately corralled into some eau
Gus action, which will save the party
and put the republicans in a hole.
THE GAME DISCOVERED.
The republicans have been on the
alert, suspecting bad faith on the
part OF their democratic allies. The
discovery was made a day or two ago
that VOORHEES, was forced to adjourn
the Senate, is due to this fact.
THE DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM
Is to pass a compromise bill of
some kind. Nobody here is willing
to risk his reputation by even sur