The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1894-11-29
D1ZED DEMOCRACY.
THE BREAK IN TIE SOUTH ALARM
1t Is THE HAHD-WKITING ON The
WALL,

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I he Peoples Party the Young Giant in
Poiitic>--In Two Years il has More Than
Doubted its Vote--J he short Term of the
53rd Congress not Likely to be Inn
portant Se.sion--Democracy Between
the Devil and the Deep Blue sea.
Especial to THE CAUcAsIAx,I
l. WASHINGTON. Nov. 26 N ear the
eve Of the assembling of the short
session of the j3rd Congress there is
a dearth of news of any Importance.
Very few members of Congress have
yet arrived, and those few are un-
willing to discuss the situation. The
overwhelming rebuke to democratic
assininity and incompetence is treat
ed as a joke, OF the suppositlOn that
lit is better to laugh than to cry. B
meath the smiling exterior, however,
there is ID feeling of intense pain
Many breaking heart is hidden by
smiling face. In conversation
day or two ago with one of the lead
ers Of the House, he admitted that
the present status Of the democratic
party, was thing that could never
again be a realization. That the
break in the South, and especially
in North Carolina, was alarming.
While he was an ardent supporter Of
Mr.. Cleveland i'll his tariff reform
ideas, those ideas were at least expe-
rimental, and calculated to ergander
a spirit Of unrest. As to his tinan
cial policy it was dominated By Wall
street, and did not suit the genias Of
American institutions. The pro-
posed bond issue, lie said was a
throwing down OF the gauntlet Of
defiance to the majority of the dem
ocracy in Congr, SIS, and would be
taken into strict accountability by
the antI-CleveDand democrats,
The dazed condition of the dem
ocracy is very similar to the we'll
known query "who struck Billy Pat
terson," aud they are much IN the
condition Of that embarra Ssed indi-
vidual, and willie they see the effect
of the blow, they afe fearful in ad
mitting the cause. The anomalous
conditions Of affairs which has ex-
Isted for sometime bore in itself It's
own elements of weakness, and it
only needed apull aud "a pail alto
gether to snap it asunder. The
leaders knew this and were always
fearful of the awakening of the peo-
pie, and when at last it did come,
as all good things are bound to do
in the long run, they, IN fear and
trembling, read the hand writing on
the wall.
The political upheaval in North
Carolina is most pleasing to the
friends of the old North State, who
have her best interest at heart, in
one particular at least, and that is
the retirement of the Ran som claw.
For twenty-four years Matt W. Ran
som has pretended to, in part, rep
resent the State in the nations high
est legislative body. While hood
wlnking and hand shaking in North
Carolina, in Washington he has
been considered as ID humoug. Dur
lug the whole of his service, he has
addressed the Senate but once, and
that effort brought on "heart dis
ease" Last summer during the tar
If debate, he was anxious to take
mica off the free list and place %
per cent. advalorem duty on it. He
acquitted himself in the manner of
a poor debater in a country cross
roads debating society, and the
laughter which greeted his effort
was such as would have caused a
blush of she me to mantle the cheek
Of anyone who was friend of his
State His usual days work in a
session of the Senate was to come
into the Chamber, glance around
the galleries, pull his cuff down,
pose as an Apollo Balvidere, strut
like a turkey gobbler, and retire af-
ter such stupendous work done. How
it is possible for such Statesmen to
exist is traceable, not to the survival
of the fittest, but to the falling
away of the purer elements of poll
tics, and, in their place, substitute
ing corporation influence, and the
liberal use by those corporations of
ways that are dark and tricks that
are vain" Such fossils have caused
the South inestimable danger, and
the sun ray of penetratlve thought
is a harbinger OF good to North
Carolina.
Mr.. Taubeneck, Chairman of the
Populist National Committee does
not regard the defeat of the Popu-
list candidates for Congress in The
northwest as backset. There must
be several isms which must be elm
mated; but that as the party wa;
the only one which has stood up sol.
idly for a reform in the monetary