The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1895-08-22
Sibley and Silver.
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with gold instead OF bayonets. May
God bring us together that we may
drive the gold tories and British shy
locks from our great land"
Mr.. Buffers speech was received
with long and enthusiastic applause.
Dinner was ready, and the next hour
was spent in dealing with II in sum
mary way.
MR.sIBLEy's SPEECH.
After dinner the people thronged
to the stand to hear the address Of
Mr.. j. e. Sibley, who was the chief
speaker of the day.
He was introduced to the assem-
blage by Senator Marion Butir
Among those to whom he spoke were
persons Of every shade OF political
opinion. Mr.. Sibley's very appearance
commends him to any person or audi
eDce he may face. He has frank,
open countenance from which beams
sincerity, honesty and philanthropy.
His forehead is high and broad and
denotes the reign Of intellect, while
mild, gray eye tells Of kindly and
generous spirit which guides and con-
trolls the man. After few preliminary
remarks by way Of acknowledging the
kindly references made to himself by
Senator Butler, Mr.. Sibley said:
am one Of those POLITICAL mission
aries who are come to try to educate
the people. President Cleveland has
said that the people only needed edu-
cation to persuade them to shake of
the follies Of free silver, and our anti
free silver friends who have sought to
educate the people without educating
them have been kind enough to desig-
nate us as advocates Of "insane" va
carries.
On going through the country and
viewing the faces Of the audiences be-
fore whom ] have stood | have often
wondered il it were not possible for
the
PRESIDENT TO BE MISTAKEN.
And il the facts are in accordance
with the evidence as it appears, we
may well afford to say that ina jOrity
Of the "insane" people are outside of
the insane asylums. / am pleased to
stand in the old North State where
the
THE FIRST DECLARATION OF HUMAN
FREEDOM
WAS made on this continent. Over in
Nashville Tennessee is the tomb OF
Andrew Jackson, who is doubtless q
product Of the Old North State. South
Carolina may make her claims to the
honor of having given him birth, but
very near to this State, if not within
it-somewhere on the border line
somewhere in this immOrtalized land
Is the source from which comes the
power and source of pure Democracy
1t seems to me that speeches and pa.
pers should not be necessary to q more
extended spread of the silver sentiment
and ! do not believe they are. think
you have already shown that you un.
stand the Importance of the situation
and have already reasoned up to it.
This silver question, as it is known
and those who advocate it come to
you with no new problem of govern
ment. We ask the people of this ma.
ton to make no
UNTRIED EXPERIMENT
nor to enter into any wilderness OF
darkness nor to plunge into the depths
OF any fathomless sea, but to come tC
the prosperous harbOrs of commerce
and the safe shores of wealth.
For two years the ship of state has
been pounding against the rocky
headlands of Buzzard's Bay; humping
her nose into Hog Island, and strand
ing ut intervals in the shallow, dirty
waters OF Muddy Bay-not a safe har-
Dor of refuge on all that coast nor one
fairly good trading port on all their
shores-drifting in the breakers and
the shadows, with the deep blue sea
Of safety, the favOring winds and the
harbors of commerce but q league tC
the windward. [Applause.l
The time has come to leave the
tortuous, dangerous channels, the un.
explored, unsOunded and unknown
waters, and to hold her course in a
track whose channels and currents
have all been marked; where beacon
lights by night and monuments by
day so plainly tell the way in which
sailing for eighty years, she has beaten
on no rock, stranded on no bar, beset
by no breakers on lee shore, and
touched the grandest ports on the
coast of prosperity.
1t is to return to this and get the
old ship of State afOat that and
many Others are at work.
The trouble is, my friend, that your
uncle Samuel and mine owned team of
horses which yoked to his gig, regular
ly carried him pleasantly and safely
along. One dark night q crowd OF
thieves raided the stall and after get
ting possession of one of these ami
mails fed with him. We have located
the missing animal and by this we
have located the thieves and knew
where to go to get at them. When
they were caught and Uncle Sam de-
manded OF them a restoration of the
property they said the horse would not
pull the buggy but pitch you over into
the mud and run away and smash the
whole concern. When we had him
we drove him every day and
HE DID BEAUTIFULLY,
and We never had any such expe-
rience with him as the thieves said
he would create.
We want back that of which the
american people have been defrauded.
We ask not reparatiOn for but the cor
rection and undoing of great crime-a
crime that was committed
UNDER COVER OF DARKNESS.
In the Horr- Harvey debate at Chi
csgo one thing was fixed as firmly as
1t was solid. That is, the bill that
passed congress demOnetizing silver
went through both houses without a
general knowledge of what it con-
tanned or meant. That dill as passed
by both houses of congress went to the
committee on the second reading and
when that bill come back,
BUT TWO MEN
on the North American continent
knew of the crime perpetrated. You
cannot read the Horr-Harvey debate
in any of the goldbug papers-they
started 1t with blare of trump ets-they
had picked out great champion in
their cause and he was going to over
whelm the little school master with
confusion, shame and disgrace. The
first days debate was published. The
second days debate was published. The
third days debate was criticised. But
after the third day neither love nor
money could induce the goldbuR pa
Ders tn puhlish the prOcao6;p 40 TVho,