The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1895-08-01

tive, apparently, because the INA
hine" politicians and their infamous
Methods we're defeated by the honest,
courageous manhood Of the State.
Senator Jarvis says he served in |
he legislature OF '6S, and remem-
bers how the State suffered from the |
,poliation Of men who composed that
body. and certainly he ought to re-
Let us ask the Senator a
question or two: Did he not vote for
the issuance Of ten million dollars Of
infamous special tax bonds" which
the Democratic party afterwards SO
vshemently denouncedi
We recall also that his "disinterest-
ed craftsmanship prevented full
settlement of the back taxes due the
State, when that question was
brought before the legislature of
1893. Thousands Of dollars would
have gone into the State treasury if
this matter had not been compro-
missed by that body, and Senator
Jarvis admitted that he represented
the w. & w. K. R., and at the same
time advised the legislature to COM
promise the tax with the railroad
company.
Evidently the Senator has learned
something since the last election. fol
he says 1.-THE farmer has studied the
money question with more care and
independence than any political ques-
ton with which he has had to deal
since the war, and an observing man
will find the country people well 10
formed and determined on the silver
question: To whom is the fact that
the farmers are "well informed" on
the money question duet Certainly
not to Senator Jarvis, for in the last
two campaigns the force of his argu
ment and that of his "crowd" was
directed to the tariff, as the solution
of the ills that affiict the country anG
at the same time belittllng the silver
question. Why has he so recently
learned that the money question il
the issue7 He must have been "edu
Gated" by reading the Populis
papers.
Further on he says: Gin 1S9:
there was not breath of suspicion
that we were not in earnest in ou
advocacy of silver, and the peopl'
stood by the party; but, unfortu
nately it was not the case in 1894.
Senator Jarvis makes a mistate
ment when he says that 1892 "ther
was not q breath of suspicion" tina
the Democratic party was not "il
earnest in its advocacy of silver,
for the organization of the People
Party was a solemn protest agains
the action of the party in congress
in the spring of 1892, when Their
was las Democratic majority.
Furthermore the national platform
was straddle on the silver ques
ton, and intended to deceive tn
south and west. The subsequen
action Of the party in and out of tn
State justified the revolt of 1892, an,
the landslide in 1894.
Says he: 1.-THE people are wise
than many men give them credit TO
being" That is true, but Senate
Jarvis has in no manner added t
their wisdom or enlightenment OF
the money question, and other grea
questions OF the day. He continues
They are not so easily fooled a
some of our leaders suppose" Thi
is an admission that in the past som
of our "leaders" have prospered b.
fooling the people. We thank tn
Senator for this frank bit of infor
nation, and promise him that Lii
"crowd" won't fool the people an,
more.
| While the Senator and his "crowd'
denounce Fusion in the past he nov
advocates it. Hear him: ~ woul,
bring every Democratic Populist int
the folds of the Democratic party
and seek their aid in saving tn,
State, and I would not impos
upon them any humiliating terms.
| We would suggest that the onl,
way the democratic Populists" Cal
be brought into the fold again
would be by fooling them, and thi
the Senator confesses that tn,
"leaders"-he among them, how
ever willing, can not do again
"Humiliating terms!" The Senate
has never been taken for q humor
list. although his quiet demeanor ha
been mistaken for piety; but thi
sort of thing is enough to "shak'
the midriff of dispair with laugh
ter" as Tennyson says.
MORE INGENIOUS STEALING.