Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1895-06-06
DODGING REPUBLICANS.
THEY SEEM TO BE AFRAID TO MEET
I've ISSUE
What Senator Carter a ys He Be1iev'
the in Favor of Free Col
age.

THE SILVER ISSUE ID
What Senator Carter Says. He Believes
the N~orthwest in Favor of Free Coin
age.
If silver is to be the leading
issue in the next presidential
campaign, there is but one party
to which those interested in
sound money a turn, with any
degree Of certainty that the
pledges made are to be here
after respected. No one can
doubt, in spite of the assertions
of Democratic silver leaders,
that the Democratic party at the
present time is the sound-money
party of the country. The over
whelming sentiment of the
Democracy that forced the nom
nation of Mr.. Cleveland in 1892,
in spite of the politicians, is still
the directing force in the party
organization, and it is becoming
clearer every day that this senti-
ment except in a few scattering
States, with Illinois the most
prominent, heartily indorses the
financial policy the administra-
ton has enforced. and which
Mr.. Cleveland urges should be
continued. While the republi-
cans are waiting timidly for
events to shape themselves,
ready to take sides with the fac
ton that seems to promise most,
the Democracy under Nh. Cleve-
land is engaged in a campaign
which has for its purpose
the maintenance of values and
the continuance of prosperity.
There can be no doubt of the
sincerity of this fight. There
has been no equivocation or hest
tation. From the beginning,
when Mr.. Cleveland pointed out
to Congress the necessity OF
preserving the credit of the
country by guarding against the
danger of a deprecated currency
until the oppression of senti-
ment by the Southern business
men in the Memphis convention,
there has not been a moment
when there was room for doubt
as to the meaning of the cam,
paign.
SILVER CRAZE SUBSIDING.
The issue has been made and
the Democracy is lining up to
meet it. 1t is, therefore, with
every reason for believing in the
accurancy of their predictions,
that the sound-money Democrats
are promising success in 1896.
In the fight for a stable currency
and against the adoption of
cheap money, with all the dis
astrous consequences that would
attend, there can be no doubt of
the result. The reports from
every section of the country, eX-
cept where silver mining is the
chief industry, there come re-
ports of a growing sentiment in
favor of sound-money and a
gradual subsiding of the silver
craze. AT the same time the
prices of farm products are adj
vancing, wages are on the in
crease and the country is ap-
preaching a condition where a
change Of policy could only work
general harm. Amid such cir
cumstances the Democrats are
much better prepared for the
coming campaign than their ad-
versaries, and only senseless
divisions. which all should seek
to avoid, can prevent their sue
cess.
AS an indication of the gen
eral reaction against the silver
craze, it is being commented upon
hat Vice-President Stevenson,
who has been talked of as a pos-
sible candidate for the presi-
dency upon a silver platform,
has assumed the attitude of
some of the Republicans, and is
having nothing to say regarding
free coinage.