The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1895-08-29
HON.W.R. HENRY'S SCATHINC REVIEW
OF an Organization With Which He
Sewers Long Connection.
Will STAND FOR COUNTRY vs.. GOLD CONSPIRAlORS
The Record Of Grover CeveThe Character and Career
Matt. w. Ransom.
FATHLEsS
the PEOPLE AGAINST PLUT0cRATs

Partv Before Principle 10 Political Pc
Arc Mightier Than MOparchs or 4
Protection In the Bosom Of tho Your
Others withdrew from the Demo-
cratic party long since because they
thought it would prove corrupt and
false to the people. l have remained
with the organization, and to the ex-
tent of my ability have helped to fight
its battles, until
IKNow THAT 1T Is FALSE
until it has shown itself false-until
there is no longer room for doubt or
hope.
So confident was 1 of the integrity
and fidelity of the Democratic party
and its intention to convert the pledg-
es Of the Chicago platform into law,
that l, together with other Democratic
speakers, told the people in the cam
paign of 1892, that if the Democratic
party did not keep its promises, would
leave the party.
The Democratic record is made up !;
and it is a record Of incOmpetency or
corruption. and largely of both. 1
now
SEVER MY CONNECTION
with the organization called the DEM
ocratic party, and think it proper that
l should state at some length the rea-
sons that impel me to this course. 1t is
not without regret that 1 part politi-
cally with many of those who still
cling to the sO-called Democratic par
ty, for know that the rank and file
and many of the leaders of the party
are men of the noblest type and pa
triots of the loftiest impulses-but
they have been unable to "break" "the
machine" and to convert party pledges
into law, so much needed by a suffer
ing people.
In taking this course ] am fully
aware that part of the Democratic
press, especially some miserable pen
ny-a-liners of the towns and cities and
scribblers with CROSSROADS environ
temporarily from Obscurity by assail-
villifcation and misinterpretatiOn OF
motives.
So far as integrity and char
acter are concerned, l stand on a pin
nacle built of the Democratic endorse
ment of
THREE GREAT COMMONwEALTHs,
far above the falsehoods and unscrupu.
lOus partisan endeavOr of such con.
temptible creatures. So far as politi.
Cal work is concerned, l will simply
say, have sweated enough for the
! Democratic party to drown some OF
fmy calumniators. feel that it is un.
necessary for me to assure those who
know me that I would in no even,
leave the Democratic party if it had
KEPT ITS PROMISES
to the people, or if saw any prospect
of its doing so. This l wrote to prom
inent leaders of the party as far back Al
fourteen months ago. On the 18th da,
of June 1894, wrote one of the mos
prominent Democrats in this Stat,
these words:
"When l find that the Democratic
party is false to the people, then, ant
not until then, will there be occasion
for supposing that l will leave tn,
party. Should l, in the future, se
cause to change my party .affiliation
neither the hope nor proffer of cffic
can influence me one way or another
| believe in the Democratic principle
that were formulated and made glori
Gus by Thomas Jefferson, and tina
have been
DEsPIsED AND BETRAYED
by Grover Cleveland"
The effort will be made to obscur
the facts and charges of my address
by an unjust and cOwardly attack up
o0 my motives. The voters of thi
State are not concerned about my pei
l ho
al wrongs aught to do with my pOliti
cal course. The people desire infor
E nation. They demand truth and nc
3 falsehOOd and vituperation. The
will wish the Democrats and th
, Democratic press to
q ANSWER THE FACTS
/ of my paper. 1 defy them to do 80.
o Ihave asked many of the most prom
I nent Democrats in this State to civ
8 me satisfactory answers to the follow
ing questions. l have told them of ID
present views on public matters, an
q begged them to justify. if possible, tt
j. deeds and omissions of Cleveland an
= his
: CoTERIE OF CONsPIRATORs.
!. They have one and all declared the
i could not do so. am satisfied that
i cannot be done. The following, amor
It others, are the questions l have ask,
l. prominent Democrats, which have lie
l. them in every case, with all the sym
n toms of political paralysis:
r, SOME QUESTIONS.
First. After criminal delay, resultiI
in the passage of an inadequate Al
undemOcratic tariff law, why did moi
Democratic Congress, rs pledged
the platform and promised by the re
D. resentatives of the party, still furth
n. reduce the tariff during the short 81
]. sion of Congress?
End. Why did not 4 Democrat
Congress pass a free coinage bill
10 promised by the platform of 1892?
p 3rd. Why did Democratic Pre-
dent'vetO the Bland seinorage b
which would have put in circulate
re about So, ,OOO, 600 in silver?
Id 4th. Why did the Democratic CO
h gress fail to repeal the 10 per cent
in on State hanks to which the party v
ut pledged?
IN 9Th. Why did Democratic Ch
IS, Justice Fuller, of the Federal Suprel
nd court, and Democratic Associate j
he tice Field vote against the income I
ts. law, when either of their votes WO,
to have saved it?
d. How do you justify the spectacle
Die the Democratic Chief Justice writ
the opinion that