The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1895-08-15
PEOPLE VS.. MACHINE.

PEOPLE VS.. MACHINE.
1t looks just this way. When the
people of the country assemble
spontaneously at any place and give
expression to their sentiments, they
invariably declare for the free coin
age of silver. When the political
committees or conventions meet, they
prove to have been packed ana ma
nipulated by the machine" and they
declare for the platform of 1892 and
endorse Cleveland and Carlisle. Let's
see the record up to date.
The masses of the people in Ken
lucky, Maryland, Iowa. New York
and Ohio are known to favor silver
and financial reform; but the Dem
ocratic committees and convention
of all these States have endorsed
goldbugism and whooped up the
great STUFFED prophet of Democra-
cy-Grover Cleveland, and his man
Friday, Carlisle, in face of the fact
that they have mortgaged the credit
of the country to the greatest Jew
pawnbrokers on the globe. S.
These endorsements are the result
of the scheming work of office-hold-
ers. They bowed to the order of
Cleveland when he sent out that ia
nous manifesto, declaring that all
opposers of the administration need
not be surprised if they were summa-
rily dealt with. They scattered
themselves here and there, and man.
aged to get themselves and other
pie-hunters sent to the conventions.
And of course they ''endorsed" the
administration. In all non-political
meetings, or in meetings where no
candidates were to be nominated and
no platforms to be made, the people
have passed resolutions favoring the
silver issue and financial reform.
This has been the case, in Texas:
and Missouri. But IN every
State Democratic convention held
this year, hut one, when a
ticket was to be made and a plat
form adopted, the gold machinators
have won.
So it seems the old line machine
politicians are still thinking they
have the country by the tail and the
people in a sling. They still think
that what the machine says is bound
to 60. They are not conscious of the
fact that the people are disguised,
and that at the peoples spontaneous
meetings they are talking among.
themselves. The people are not ask
ing what Cleveland wants. They are
not caring what the machine"
wants; but being the support, the
stay-the very life of the country
they are asking: "What is best for
the country" And they will decide
what is best and they will have it.
Our offer to send The CAUCASIAN
three months for ten cents each in
clubs of ten, holds good for thirty
days only. Send in quick.
PARrY-sERvER FLOPs TO THE GOLD
BUGS.
Hon. U. S. Hall, who is now a
Congressman from Missouri, has just
gone over to the gold bugs. This
Hall was President of the Missouri
State Alliance when Gov. Elias Carr
was President Of the n, C. State
Alliance, when Congressman Liv-
ingston was President Of the Geor-
gia State Alliance and 80 on. All
these men denounced the monopolies
and the money trusts as the great
cause of the scarcity of money and
the hard times. They taught the
people that they must put allegiance
to principle above allegiance to
party. They taught the people that
they must vote for free silver and
financial reform and vote against
any man who was not for it, before
they would ever get any relief or see
any better times
/ But these men went back on their
own teachings and Topped to the
Democratic party when an Office was
offered them by the old monopoly
ridden, Democratic machine. They
lgot their Offices and called them
selves "Alliance Democratic" These
same men have now begun to flop to
the gold bugs. We don't know how
much they got this time, but We
suppose they will now call them
selves "Alliance gold bugs" They
might with equal propriety call
themselves ''Chlistian devilan
| This shows how evil associations