The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1894-10-18

same speech now | did then, and it
would be true, except that the Dem
ocrats have done twice as bad as |
told You they would do.
| stand now for precisely the same
principles | stood for then. We are
faced by the same evils, except that
the evils have grown worse.
M. Simmons and his party cannot
stand now where they stood then,
for their actions have belied their
Words and according to the News
and Observer, all honest men can
have nothing but contempt for
them
But, my friends, | am not going
to make a set speech to-day. | am
going to reply to Mr.. Simmons. |
will take up his speech just as he de-
lvered it and show that every claim
that he made for his party was either
fallaclOus or untrue, and that every
charge he made against the Peoples
Party was either untrue or bold
demagOguery.
FNlMMONS ANU M EN- lS hlDDLED.
Mr.. Simmons started out by trying
to tell you what kind of Democrat
he was. But could not understand
his definition. Can any man in this
audience (either Democrat or Popu-
lisD tell me if they understood his
definition. Is he a free silver Dem
ocrat or gold bug Democrat? Is
he monopoly Democrat or is he a
Democratic Democrat9 Is he a
Cleveland Democrat or is he Thos.
jefferson Democrat? Is he a Ran
som Democrat or is he Vance Dem
ocrat? In his speech he said
he was like Vance in some respects.
What. Simmons like Vance? In
what respect, Mr.. Simmons? (No
answer). Mr.. Vance said that if the
Democratic party bowed down to the
gold trust and repealed the Sherman
law without putting something better
in its place, that the best part of
the party would walk out of itself
and leave nothing but a smell of
birthstone and Wall street behind
Silver has been killed in the home of
its pretended friends, and like Vance
said the best part of the party has
walked out of itself and left the
birthstone and Wall street behind.
Now we can see what kind of Dem
ocrat Mr.. Simmons is. He is Matt
Ransom Democrat. He is Wall
street Democrat with the smell of
birthstone on him.
WHICH PARTY IS GROWING.
Mr.. Simmons says that the Demo
cratic party will live long after the
the Peoples Party is dead. But
the Democrats are bad doctors and
bad prophets. Two years ago they
said the Peoples party wasdead. They
even preached its funeral. But the
Peoples Party did not die. It is here
to-day, it is bigger an1 stronger than
it was then. In fact the Peoples
Party is the only one that is growing
to-day while all other parties are
gradually losing ground-gradually
dying. | can prove this. (Turning
to Mr. Simmons he saiO, Mr. Sim
mons, for every man you will name
who has gone to the Democrat party
from the Peoples party, | viii name
ten who have left the Democratic
party and come to the Peoples Party.
(No answer). This is proof of the
pudding.
THEY DEFY THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE.
He says that if the will of the peo-
pie is to rule that the Democratic par
ty must live and the Peoples Party
must die. What an astounding
statement Mr.. Simmons is the last
man | ever expected to hear say any
thing about the will of the people
ruling He represents the element
in the Democratic party that has no
respect for the will of the people.
He and his class think that they
have right to cheat any man out
of his vote if he does not vote the
Dem ocratlc ticket. The vilest and
most damnable frauds that ever dis
graced this State were practiced two
years ago, when you, Mr.. Summons.
were chairman of the State Execu-
tive Committee and were directing
the campaign for the machine. How
dare you to talk about the will of
the people when there are right now
men in this audience who had voted
40 years i'll this county under the
same registration, yet who were de-
frauded two years ago by your heel
ers acting under instruction in that
Infamous secret circular of yours.
WHAT THE THREE PARTIES REPRE-
SENT.
Mr.. Simmons said that the Repub-
lican party represented one extreme
in government and that the Peoples