The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1893-10-26

HooEr- buL WIN Otbcu ttstI>, fEcrtlUg -
. of ali the people If North Carolins
III when the farmers sholll pArtici.
pate. and had made thclf voice beard
every" here, how much good it would
have do..e me, how much GOOD
II would have done the cause ! Was
trying to represent You still lack
the element Of unity. my fellow citi-
zens. Don't let any one suppose
that this Indifference Of the farmers
To their Interests can be Oyercomrd
and benefited bv resolving them
selves into political party instead
OF into a farmers party. The very
moment you become political par
/ ty You lose your character as farm
ers and YOU deprive yourselves of
that respect and sympathy from the
whole community, at least of men
! Of all classes of the community
I which attends you as farmers and
/ feultivators of the soil. So long as
, YOU act together as farmers all DO
litical parties will seek vou and
your influence. Whenever You act
as political party only, all politi-
cal parties will fight you, and YOU
become as other political parties,
and moreover, when You do that, as
have already intinated YOU de-
prlve yourselves of good men, the
broad men and liberal men who are
your friends in all the other parties.
and YOU will not permit them to
serve you or to help you, but us po-
litical apostates, and that men do
not want to become. Let me advise
the people Of North Carolina, the
agricultural people of North Carroll
na, those who have already asSociat-
ed with political party devoted to
farmers interests, as well as those
who have not, but who have the
farmers interests at heart, let me ad-
wise You to make no new political
antagonists, but to hold yourselves
ready as a class of men to throw
your weight in behalf of any meas
ure and of any man and of any par
ty who agrees with you as to the is
sues which are to be decided by the
people of North Carolina. | have
hope tor the greatest issues which
are before us.
The silver fight is now nearing its
completion. 1t is so near that few
days ago | received belated peti-
ton praying for the passage of the
unconditional repeal of the Sherman
law, and | refused to present it, on
the ground that | belonged to a
church which does not believe II is
lawful to pray for the dead. We
will get a compromise, fellow citi-
zens. We are bound to have com
promise, and that is being realized
among all those who favor uncondi-
tioral repeal and the return TO the
gold standard. The constitution it.
self is a compromise of conflict
ing interests. There is not law
on the statute books of our State;
there is not statute of any State in
the American Union, that is not the
result Of compromise. All human
institutions are the result of d COM
promise. Even marriages are the
result of a compromise. If it had
not been, where would most of us
have been? That compromise will
embrace the continuance of the
coinage of silver. There are several
of them offered. | do not know
which one will be agreed upon; but
it was we'll ascertained when | left
Washington that there was strength
enough on the moderate side of the
question to pass one or the other of
them. Probably the compromise III
troduced by Senator Harris, of Ten
nessee, will be adopted, which pro-
yides for the coinage of all bullion
which is now in the Treasury and
the continued purchase of silver at
the rate of two millions and half
ounces per month for five years
During which time we can see bet
ter what to do,) and that the small
bills of the national banks and the
greenbackers under Ten dollars were
to be taken up and cancelled in the
Treasury, in order to give silver "a
chance to supply its place as mon
ey of the people. Some compromise
Of this kind will be undoubtedly
adopted, and that is bound to be the
result of the determined efforts of
men who profess devotion to silver
money as was done and has been done
at every convention in the State of
North Carolina for several years
past ana all over the Union. | say
that is SO, and 1t will have been eff
fected by the determination of those
who were in dead earnest when they
said so. Men who did not profess
devotion to silver money in order to
secure an election, and then went to
Washington and denied it thrice be-
fore the cock crew once.
| have had my share in this work,
fellow citizens. Although ii is known
to you that my health has not been
strong for year past, yet thank
God [ am improving and | have
taken my full share in this excite
ment about this contest going on i'll
Washington City, and but for the
private letters which | have received
from every part OF the country |
would not have known, so far as any
popular voice is concerned, whether
[ was serving you or not. Now yoL
should make yourselves known. You
ought to make yourselves often heard
and rest assured that in doing SO, and
in my advising you to do so, | am
not preaching anything like class
legislation, nor would you be follow
ing ANYTHING that would be denomi-