The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1895-08-29
A Deadly Arrangement
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iNDhthhCu toh hoe abe.t
(b) why are fifteen Republican Con
suls still in office two years and a half
after the Inauguration II Democratic
PresidentY
(c) Is il true that Republican Sena-
tors have used their influence with a
Democratic President TO retain said
Consuls?
90 Has the negro Postmaster at
Fayetteville been turned Outy
(e) Why did the Democratic Senate
confirm::the appointment Of the four ne
gro United States Consuls appointed
by Grover Cleveland? Didn't Ran
som vote for their confirmation! Has
he denied itY Was he afraid the Pres
Ident would refuse to let him control
the patronage Of this State unless he
supported his appointments and pol
icyr
A negro, Chas. j. Taylor, was ap-
pointed Recorder Of the District OF
Columbia
AGAINST TUE BITTER PROTEST
Of its citizens, at "A salary Of 81, 900 per
annum, and confirmed by Demo
cratic Senate while hundreds ara
thousands Of the best Democratic work.
ers OF this and other States were in
suited and ignored, and hundreds OF
others, glad To obtain insignificant po-
sitions in the Departmet at Washing
ton and in the Revenue service Of the |
Government. |
The Washington Post, an admins
tration paper, stated that this same
negro Recorder had
PROSECUTED WHITE WOMEN
holding subordinate positions under
him by demanding that they submit
hemsclres to his will on penalty of
dismissal from office, and demanded to |
know why his resignation was not re-
quired by a Democratic administra-
ton,
Have these things been done. Have
these changes been made by the Dem |
0cratic administration; and il not,
why not, fit Is expected to make pO- |
litical capital of the Fred Douglas |
resolution episode?
What has Mr.. Cleveland left the |
Democrats to say on the color line?
Angl0-saxOn supremacy is mighty |
political slogan, but will not the many
negroes remaining in the Democratic |
service of the government, under a |
Democratic administration, the ap-
pOintment and confirmation of negro |
COnsuls, the retention of the negro |
postmaster mt Fayetteville and the ap- |
pOintment and retention i'm the serv-
ice Of the negro Taylor 1T Washing
ton,
PROVE FATAL HANDICAP
to the color line argument and rele-
gate the leaders, to the principal issue
now before the people, to wit: Gold,
or gold and silver? /
9th. Has Ransom resigned his MEM
bership of the National Democratic |
Committee since he betrayed his peO-
pie by voting with John Sherman |
against the further coinage of silver? |
! 10th. Will not ex-senator Ransom
continue to
boss THE "DEMOCRATIC MACHINE"
in North Carolina? If you think not, |
please state the basis Of your opinion. |
18th. Was not RansOm's vote against |
silver bought with patronage by Grover
Cleveland who is hand and glove with |
capitalists in Wall street,
18th. In cOercing Congress by with
holding patronage, by issuing his in
famous letter to Governor Stone,
threatening in substance his 100000
OtfcehOlders with loss Of position if |
they failed to support his administers
ton, and to disseminate gold stand
ard arguments against the money of |
the constitution, and by sending his
cabinet junketing over the country at |
the
EXPENSE OF THE TAXPAYERS,
to attack their views and to jeOpardize
their welfare, has not Grover
Cleveland shown himself tyrant and
has not centraliZatiOn, heretofore de-
nnIInpal Inv thn hnmnnrotic |
reached its zenith under this sO-called |
Democratic administrators?
18th. Does not Senator Morgan de-
clare that the repeal of the Sherman
law caused the issue of 100000, 900
of bonds which were sold at 1.N15
when they were worth l.20, involving
a loss to thetax-payers of the country
Of more than $9,O0O,OOO?
18th. Has not this bond deal of Cleve-
lands been denounced as Infamous
throughout the cOuntry2 Was it not
infamous? Was it not done i'm the
INTEREST OF BoNDHoLDERs,
capitalists, and gold monometallism?
How can IL be defended?
18th. This is the richest and most
powerful country on the globe.
6Why did Mr.. Cleveland give the
MOrgan-Rothschild syndicate, i'm that
bond transactiC n, an option on any
further bond issue of this government
until October, 1895? Has the credit of
the republic sunk SO low under a
Democratic administration that it
must, in order to sell its bonds, pay a
bonus by way of granting an option to
New York and London bankers? I'll
not, is it not clear that there is
some corrupt, concealed motive behind ,
that option? Is
10th. What hope is there that the
Democratic party will be purged of
Shermanism and Ran
somism?
IL you entertain such hope, please
state the foundation for the same?
18th. What hope is there in the /
Democratic party for free, unlimited
and independent coinage of silver? t
Please give me the grounds of such !
hope il you entertain 1T?
18th. Has not the Democratic party
in State after State, declared for the i
gold standard, and has not large part {
of the party and its press in North
Carolina rebelled against the silver {
resolutions lately adopted by the
State executive commit {
tee? c
10th. Why has not the Democratic I
party of North Carolina, if it is true
to the people, and not dominated by a | !
gOldbug machine-in State convention t
protested against, denounced q
and repudiated the treachery and t
methods of Cleveland and Ransom, c
and demanded the ex-SenatOr's resig- 7
nation from the national committee? !
goth. Will not Mr.. Ransom continue
his grip on the "machine" in North
Carolina? And if the legislature
should be Democratic i'm 1896, would it .
not return Ransom to the United i
States Senator
2lst. What scandal has been un-
covered in Republican administra- '
ton, not barring Credit Mobelier, De-
lano, Babcock, Star Route, Whiskey
Rings, &C., that equalled or at least
surpassed that of the sugar scandal of .
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