The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1894-02-22
THE PEOPLE THINKING.
They Have Begun To Reason and Act fOI
Themselves on Political Matters.
Wilmington Messenger.
To THE EDITOR


Fayetteville, n. c., Feb. s.
How do the plain country people
get so well posted on the pohticai
questions Of the day? In times past
they seemed to have paid but little
attention to these matters, only be
coming interested a few weeks be
fore an election, and then, accepting
the Democratic party and its candi
dates as all right iD every way, they
would vote and seem to think no
more on the subject. Not so now.
These plain farmers and working
people have done great deal of in
dependent thinking on their own ac-
count these last two OF three hard
years, when all the world seemed to
terests. And it is safe to predict
that if our leaders, who have been
elevated to the high positions by the
votes of this very large and inhuen-
tiaI portion of our fellow citizens, do
not take heed they will find them
selves without a constituency and
the Democratic party minus thous-
ands Of votes it can lily spale. Es-
pecially in North Carolina, will any
large detection from the party be
most disastrous, for the inevitable
result will be to throw the State un-
der the ruinous rule of the Radicals,
and to take it from its proud position
among the States Of the - Solid
South"
SO far as the writer knows. up to
this time, the dominant party and
administration has redeemed but ONE
pledge of the Chicago platform. Is
it surprising that complaint bitter
and widespread should be heard
Talking with plain old farmer
yesterday, the writer, while trying
to urge HIM not to become discour-
aged under the slow methods our
party seemed to be employing, used
the following argument:
My friend, give the Democrats
time. You cannot reasonably ex-
pect the wrongs of thirty years to be
righted in a few months of Demo-
cratic rule. If you had come into
your fathers estate receatly-an es-
tate that you knew had been wretch
edly mismanaged for years-if you
had found the fences down, the
bitches filed, the barns and houses
dilapidated, the stock run down
would it be reasonable 70 hope to get
everything in order and prosperous
condition by the frst.crop ?"
The old farmers eyes twinkled and
he rolled his tobacco from one cheek
to the other and quickl y replied:
mo, certainly not if | should en-
ploy the old Overseer and mana ger
to be my chief adviser And neith-
er can we hope for any change for
the better IN the condition of our
country when President Cleveland
| takes to his council the former lights
of the Radical party-includiHg old
Sherman hImself--and sets his face
| against our Vance and other lifetime
| Democratic statesmen :"
This was an unexpected reply and
somewhat spiked my guns. So |
| shall leave you, or some one else, to
explain political matters to the farm
ers and other people who are so dis
satisfied at present with the Demo
cratic party and its leaders.
Yours, INVERNESS.
We would like to ask the above
writer who signs himself "Iverness'
to name the GONE PLEDGE" that the
| Democrats have redeemed. He pre-
tends that he is afraid that the Re
publican party will get control o.
the State. His real fear (as showr
by his argument to the farmer), il
that the honest Democrats will leay'
the machine, join the Peoples part,
and that thereby the State viii ge
into the hands of the honest Demo
Gratis. That farmer is a better Dem
ocrat than "Iverness" and will vot
the Peoples party ticket.-ED. CAU
CASIAN.