The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1894-05-24
SOMETHING FROM OLD ROCKINGHAM
BY ". II. sCHOOLFIELD.
ReldsyiIIe. Y. G.. Nav 81. 81


rolls on, but the Populist party ha
come to stay. The Democratic party
as 1t calls itself, is dead dead, bu
it refuses to be buried, and few o.
its ghOstly ruptures still live to die
tate politics to the uubelieving, anC
believe their game now is TO put al
anti" before Ransom's name, or tha
Is they will nominate what they cal
All ''anti Ransom ticket" Our bow
have cut their eve teeth and will not
be fooled by a little insignificant
word like ''anti." If it was "a whole
sentence like "give us "a chance
then some of our boys might oe led
astray, but ''anti" is too small a 20
tatO for us to bite at. Any bod,
knows, or they had Just as well te
know, that if the Democrats have
control Of the next legislature that
Mr.. Ransom will be reelected to the
United States Senate. There art
about five thousand registered voters
in this county. The democrats for
merly had twelve hundred majority,
now | will venture the assertion
without any fear of successful con-
tradlctiOn that there are not twelve
hundred bona tide democratic voters
in the county.
The democrats evidently want to
tight out the next campaign on local
or State issues alone. Their desires
will hardly be gratitied as far as this
county is concerned, as the next
legislature has two United States
Senators to elect. Every democratic
candidate in this county will have
both Cleveland and Ransom to tote
with good share of the hard times
thrown in for good measure. The
people will justly hold every man
who at1iliates with the democratic
party responsible for the hard times
and the short comings and misdo-
ings of the democratic party. The
scripture says, "Ye who yield your
selves servants to obey his servants
are ye to whom ye obey" And again
1t saws, "a servant is no greater than
his master" If man is nominated
for office by the democratic party he
is a servant of that party, and there
is no way we can shirk the response
bility except to get out of the party.
] don't see how the democrats can
have the cheek and audacity to come
before the people asking their suf-
frage again. They have defaulted
in almost every promise made to the
people, and have fastened upon the
country reign of hard times far
reaching in its effects and unprece-
dented in the history Of the country.
Some of the democratic journals
are out at sea catching at straws to
save the sinking old rotten ship, ana
they say if the Wilson tariff bill
passes before the next election it will
conciliate the people and elect the
next democratic tickets. Did any
body ever hear of such a preposterous
idea? What is the Wilson tariff
bill ? Let US analyze it or such parts
of it as mostly effects to people in
this locality. Take sugar for inst
ance, what does it do for sugar? It
puts duty of one to two cents per
pound on that article. When that
law goes into effect poor man when
he wants pound of sugar for sick
baby, he will have to pay s instead
of & cents per pound as he now pays
for it. The ad valorum duty on
carpets is reduced from forty to
thirty per cent. 1t will be a great
consolation to a poor man who lives
in log cabin with puncheon floor,
when he goes to town and has to pay
two cents more for pound of sugar
for his sick wife and baby to know
that his rich neighbor can get his
carpets for twenty-five per cent. less
The new tariff bill reduces the
duty on tin. Under the Mckinley
tariff law you can buy very re
spectacle tin cup for five cents. In
der the Wilson tariff bill if you buy
twenty cents worth of sugar you pay
five cents duty, enough on twenty
cents of sugar over and above what
you would have to pay under the
Mckinley tariff to buy a tin cup.
Now which had you rather do, let
the Mckinley law remain and go to
the store with twenty cents and buy
two pounds and a half of sugar and
a tin cup Cor twenty cents, or have
the good old democratic reform tariff
bill and 60 to the store with twenty
cents and buy two pounds and half
of sugar alone with no tin cup to
stir it up in, aud have to stir it up
and drink it out Of a cimblin she'll
Don't tell the democrats you are 60
ing to utilize cimblin shells, if you do
the Plutes might have a duty put on
squash seed. The sugar duty dom t
60 into effect until the first of Jan
uary, ostensible to let the Louisiana
planters get the benefit of this years
bounty, but in reality to let the su-
gar trust import large quantities Of
this years crop, SO they can get the
benefit of the duty. If we keep on
voting the democ attic ticket We will
get there after awhile-get where
either to Coxey's army or the poor
house, one or the other.
SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION
To Meet Next Year In Augusta, Ga. to
| Celebrate Its Semi-Centennial.
The Southern Baptist Convention
adjourned at Dallas, Texas, last week