The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1895-10-17

land will be nominated il inhuencss
now actively at work can nersnads
nim 10 accept the nomination. 9th
erw;se 1t will be Whitney, or Russell.
OF Massachusetts.n
lnis clear, candid and unvaru-
isneo statement Is made by a Demo-
crat OF national prominence and
VINO, by reasons of his relation with
the administration, speaks by au
thority. There is not lacking cor
ioborating opinions. Indeed, a con-
trary opinion is a very rare excep-
tion. "A most embarrassing condi-
tion and not a passing theory con-
fronts silver Democrats, The hn-
initiating alternative of uucondi-
uonai submission to the Democratic
gold policy is their inevitable course.
Inc sobering. second reflection will
soon dislllusion honest silver Demo-
Gratis. Their cause is hopeless; sill
yer is dead In the Democratic par,y.
ana Democratic policy henceforth
VIII condemn it. What will they do
about itf How will the honest man
mood OF the country answerf
sILrER DEMOCRATS MISTAKE.
A prominent Tennessee Democrat
speaking of the North Carolina IN
cident said:
The absence of Democrats from
the silver conference, albeit the
scheme was a Democratic concep-
ton, does not surprise me. Silver
Democrats made a fatal mistake at
Memphis In not then and there in
augaratlng an Independent silver
movement. 1t was the only honest,
sane course open to the silver inter
est. 1t is unnecessary to advert TO
the Influences that prevented it. 1t
was a fatal mistake. Since that
event silver has lost Democratic ad-
herents by the thousands, until now
the honest silver Democrat main
tains his convictions at the peril of
party disloyalty. AS
DEMOCRATIC POLICY
the silver movement is dead, and its
adherents have the option of seces-
sion and alliance with the Popullst
party or self qualification and sub
mission to the gold policy, aggra-
waited, if successful, by four years
more of Grover Cleveland. We are
between the devil and the deep
blue sea-" shall follow Mills, of
Texas, and try the "deep blue sea"
soundlngs rather than risk the peril
to American institutions involved in
a third installment of Clevelandism. y
CLEVELAND A THIRD TERM CANDIDATE.
Cleveland's ambition for an honor
refused by Washington, denied to
Grant and condemned by the un-
broken traditions of century, is
not a myth. He wants third-term.
His friends are working for it. In
the inner circles of the Democratic
party this is an admitted fact. The
Democratic convention at Syracuse
last week started a third-term cam
paign. No doubt now exists that
Perry Belmont, in the first draft OF
his speech as temporary chairman
of the convention at Syracuse, set
out to attack the proposal of. third
term for Grover Cleveland, and the
night before the convention saw
good reason to expunge this passage
from the speech as he delivered it
Democratic "leaders" with here and
there an insignificant exception
will do next year, after Cleveland's
nomination for a third term, just ex
actly as Belmont has done now be.
fore such nomination. They viii
accept it. They will pocket present
principles and protests and
SUPPORT THE NOMINATION..
They may not like it. 1t may bt
opposed to all their convictions nov
and all their utterances in the past
| This will make no difference. Tb.
party nomination of Grover Cleve
laud tor a third term will command
party support.
WHAT Ex-CoNGREssMAN BUM SAYS
1t will be done even in North Caro-
lima, says postmaster Bum, wher'
the very name of Cleveland is almos
universally execrated, The "peopl'
of North Carolina" says Cleveland
Rocky Mount postmaster, "do no
seem to be giving the Importance t.
the opposition to third term that i
shown in other sections of our coun
try. They do not seem to think tina
the mere sentiment against thir'
term is of Importance compared will
practical matters relating to tn
principles which they wish carrie'
out. Mr.. Cleveland is extremel
popular in North Carolina, and, as
have indicated, the question of hi
having served two terms is not con
sidered there in connection with hi
! chances for denomination. The me
} who are fighting him are men VIII
do not agree with his financial policy
} and they would fight hum if he wer
to come up as candidate for frs
term"
1t may appear later that Bum
application for additional clerk hir
, in the Rocky Mount postofice e1
, aggerates Cleveland's popularity
: the State, but the fact will not b
disputed that the Ransom machine
, has been oiled for the third ter
. campaign. 'The State delegates
= the National Democratic convention
since the farce at Raleigh last weel
,, Bum says, will not be instructe
! for silver"
g "And so it goes"
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