Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1894-09-02

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| We rscsatiy Quctsd NJ. wattsnoa -
sayins that from reading the average
slIver-coinass plank you couldn't tall
whether Il belonged 70 . pemoesxtic OF
1 Republican platform. We also quoted
him ~ saying that the crownins achieve
meut Of fusion was the platform offered
to the virginia Populists BY the virginia
| ProhlbitionistS These remarks may now
| bs applied to the North Carolina fusioniats
end their silver plank. This plank might
- we'll have been laid down BY the Re-
publioans - by the Populists, or rather
| Il IL out Of place In the platform Of
either . Republican convention Or .
Popuiist convention. II may. therefore.
DO said Of II that II 10 one Of the crowning
achievements Of fusion.
We accept this fusion movement on
the part Of the North Carolina Republi-
cans ~ indicating that the Republican
party in that State is too weak to stand
alone The vote In the Republican State
Convention Of ~ to q on the question
Of fusion can have no other meaning.
The Tar-Heel Republicans are already on
the run.
But It was not simply their creed or
platform that the Republicans Of North
Carolina surrendered to the Popuiists. but
their candidates for the various State
offices, seeing that they nominated only
half ticket and endorsed the Popunst
nominees for the other half Of their
| ticket.
Let US see what the fusion platform
| says We quote:
ut reaffrms devotion to the national
platform, endorses protection, favors In
ternational bimetaIlism. and coinage Of
the entire product Of American mines
at the 16-to-1 ratio: favors q protective
tariff; denounces the new tariff bill,
and also the placing Of southern products
on the free list; demands the repeal Of the
revenue tax on whskey and tobacco"
Surely, that is a platform which will
| astonish the Democrats as well as the
Republicans of the Old North State. 1t
| reafirms devotion to the national plat
| form-that OF 1892, OF course-and then pro-
ceeds to declare for things which that
platform declares against. 1t favors "in-
ternational bimetallism." though its
trainers we'll know that the Republican
party, as a whole. has all the time been
| In effect advocating a gold standard, See
| Ing that that party has always kept up
an alliance with Wall street. In the
Republican National Convention Of 1892.
| the platform adopted demanded that every
aotiar oaner or coin issued nv the govern
| ment should be as good as any other.
That Is to say, the Republicans regarded
paper and silver currency as inferior to
gold.
The fusion declaration for coining free
the entire product Of the American silver
| mines is ludicrous as coming from the
Republican half Of the fusion faction.
As to making the coinage ratio Of the
precious metals 16 TO /. the Republicans
would scout the proposition. The North
Carolina Fusionists well know that It Is
"Buncombe" proposition.
The North Carolina platform demands
also the repeal Of tho revenue tax on
whiskey and tobacco. Not one Republi-
can in O. dozen In the Northern States
favors the repeal OF those taxes. The
Republicans might as well declare for the
repeal Of all tariff laws.
On the whole. the outlook In North
Carolina must be regarded as better than
some Of the political pessimists represent
1t to be. "All that the North Carolina
Democrats have got TO do is to get to-
gether"