Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1894-08-19
North Caroline Notes.

we are sure that the Wilmington Mes
eenEer did not intend to misrepresent VI
but careiessly read our editorial upon
which Il was commenting when It charged
us n few days ago with holding that
North Carolina Is barren In material Tor
United States senators. Here Il what we
said that called forth tho Messengers
article:
.It is mono OF our business TO cham
MON Messrs. Jarvis and Ransom, and
we shall not do SO: but we would like
10 read the Messengers list OF good
material for United States senator's. 1t
Is not every State which IL represented
in the United States Senate by Its ablest
statesmen"
Strangely enough. our Wilmington con-
temporary read the above paragraph as
being a declaration that Messrs. Jarvis
and Ransom were the best, IL not the
only. senatorial material In North Caro-
lima. The Messenger drew the wrong in
ference. The last sentence might have
been made to read as follows:
1T Is not every Stale which is repre-
scented In the United States Senate by
its ablest statesmen, ard. therefore. North
1dTOllua may Uot NC tNfieothiON W 10
ablest statesmen"
So all OF the Messengers comments
upon an affirmation which We never made
must go for nothing" The Dispatch has
the highest possible opinion Of North Caro-
lima and North Carolina people. We
| firmly believe in their ability. and We
are confident that our Wilmington con-
xxrhav IN
ito this hour Virginia men have never
accorded fair and equal justice to North
Carolina in the great war"
Webster's Weekly. another North Caro-
lima paper reproduces in full our article
commenting upon the platform laid down
by the late North Carolina Democratic
| State Convention, and comments upon 1t
| as follows:
1.-THE Weekly Is proud OF the platform.
| IL means Just what 1t says. and cannot be
twisted to mean anything else. AS we re-
| marked some time ago, there Is nothing
| sacred about ratio, but there Is something
definite and tangible in l6 to l. Cut loose
| from II. and we are at sea. The vital
pojnt is open minis to both metals-rauo
| is only an incident. Begin at 10 10 j.
| II Il works all right, very well; II not.
we can then change 1t intellgently.
international agreement is too remote
| a possibility 10 suit the North Caronna
Democracy.
"The Dispatch's reference to Vance IS
well-timed Those who stood by MN IN
| his fight for silver last year are glad they
did so. We never doubted that the party
was behind him. Now We know II. lie
being dead, yet speaketh.
To change the coinage ratio Of gold and
silver would be TO convert all the silver
money in this country into silver bullion,
varying day by day in price. Either the
coinage ratio OF IS TO is the right ratio,
| or else there can be no right ratio. Either
international agreement will settle all
these questions or else they cannot be
settled at all.
We close our North Carolina notes by
reproducing once more the silver plank
OF the late North Carolina Democratic
State Convention 1t is as follows
Resolved. That we reaflirm the doc
trinos of the party as enuncidted by inc
Chicago convention Of 1892: and honestly
desire to signify as follows what is the
construction placed by us upon the Sec
ton thereof relating 10 silver-viZ.,
1--WE hold that il is the duty of the
Iaw-mal;ing department of the govern
ment. now in the hands OF the De-
mocracy, to take immediate steps to re-
store by legislation the equal privileges
OF silver with gold at the mints, by the
free and unlimited coinage OF both gold
and silver at the ratio of 16 to l, such
being the ratio Of coinage which here
tofore has held in the United States"