The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1895-06-20


out of the party such men - Ran.
som, when Ransom il the head and
brains of the party machine in the
State, and says that Ransom should
be requested to resign his place as .
member of the National Democratic
committee and "cease his blighting
sfRlistion with u.s." and if this is not
done "the rank and file of the Pop
ulists without whose recovery We must
remain in the minority, will simply
laugh at this as a repetition Of last
gears tactics, unless We prove our
faith by works."
The Charlotte Observer does not
like this. 1t doesn't want to lose
any more. 1t seems to be intelli-
gent enough to know that the Dem.
ocrats will never, no never be able
to recover "the rank and file of the
Populists," and it ironically objects
to losing Mr.. Ransom in the follow
ing language:
"The only objection to the proposition
is that it does not go far enough. Not
only should the party throw overheard
the ablest and in all respects the most
powerful man in it, for the gratifca-
ton Of the Populists, but the logic of
Of the situation requires, that being
done, that all his friends and support
ers, all the sound money Democrats
and all those who decline to accept
platforms Of executive committee max
ing, be turned out along with him.
Then you will have nice little party
to which the POpulists will have no
objection whatever, because there will
not be enough Of it to ever give them
any more concern"
For this sarcasm the Charlotte pa
per gets the following little, logical
lecture from the Fayetteville paper:
Our contemporary refuses to learn.
Fifteen months ago we did our best to
persuade it to accept the axiom that
the inertia of minOrities was valueless !;
and that il action be taken it must,
logically, be in the direction of recOv-
ering those whose desertiOn had con-
verified majority into a minority. We
have since been beaten out of our boots
for our stubbOrnness, and yet our once
bright contemporary clings to its
bourbon notion that minority can re-
convert itself into a majority by pur-
suing the course that had made it so.
And this little lecture is aptly
pointed and we'll delivered. If the
action of the Democratic party had
been such as to have created conf
dence, there would have been no de-
parture from it by the people of the
Southern States. If the Republican
party had pursued a course calculat-
ed to inspire confidence it would
never have been disrupted in the
Western States.
Both have had splendid chances.
Neither have fulfilled pledges. This
is the view held by Populists. The
vainest hope the Fayetteville Obser-
yer can entertain is one that Popu-
lists will 60 back to the Democrats.
How would they know where to 20?
What is Democrat? Let the merry
war 20 on. Let the disruption be
complete. Let the gold standard
Democrats flock to the Republican
party. Let the free silver Democrats
help the Populists if they will.
Democracy has been weighed in the
balance and found wanting. It is
not sound within itself. An apple
half rotten can never become sound.
1t must all rot. Putting sound ap-
pies by it and all around it will not
check the process of decay. On the
other hand the sound apples would
the more quickly rot by reason of
the presence of the unsouud one.
Therefore the Populists can never
voluntarily return to the unsound
Democratic organization. Neither
can the people have any confidence
in Democracy until it is united and
shows some confidence in itself.
WHAT DEMOCRATS DID AT THE UN-
| YELLING.
The Goth Of May, 1895, was a great
day for North Carolina. 1t was the
occasion of the unwilling of the Con-
federate monument. It ought to have
been a day of patriotism without de-
secration. And it would have been
but for an organized machine calling
ltselt Democracy.
Thousands Of people assembled in
the capital city from all over the
State. The machine" deemed it an
suspicious occasion for some of its
dirty work. 1t had prepared what
it calls "History of the Legislature
of 1885," The authors name does
not appear therein. If there is any
credit in the fact, We will give the
machine" credit for not forcing any
individual member to father the
document. It may be that no in
dividual member would father it. It
so II L.