The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1895-05-23

ANYTHING TO fool you. BY MAX
...a little raise for the few people
they have at work, they hope to ere.
u. ue impression that good times
500. coming back. All right. If
,,J are fooled, it will be your own
au.t.
some folks whistle to keep up
.yuIage. The Democrats have actu-
allg zone back to the twaddle that
ropulism is dying out. They said
This when the Populists were just
1cIinning their organization. They
-ud it when the Popuists cast over
one million votes for Weaver. They
said it when the populists cast nearly
lwo million votes in 1894. They
are saying it now wheh everything
IS looking to the Populists for na-
uIoual salvation. Just let them keep
ON dying" and they'll sweep this
country in '9G.
lIoke Smith, like all of Clevelan DIS
Office holders, is gold bug. In
recent interview he declares hatfoot.
cdIy against the free coinage Of silver
or any financial reform. Mr.. Jose
phus Daniels, who was given a small
piece of government pie by Cleveland
aud lIoke Smith, has come out in
his paper fo Hoke FIR President.
But at the same tine the editor Of
the News and Observer says that he
is in favor the free coinege Of sill
ycr aud tinanc~ reform. iiow does
the News aud Observer reconcile
these small inconsistencies?
The country is being sown down
with gold bug literature. 1t is being
sent out free to those who get it.
The gold bugs can afford to pay for
it and give it away. Say, you old
sleepy Iunkhead! Don't you see
what they are after. Ae you going
10 be fooled and hoodwinked by the
oId parties again? It so there's
nothing too bad for yOU; but how
about the misery and oppression
which your support Of the old gangs
will bring to other people? Are you
thinking?
It begins to look as though the
gold bugs will make bluff on the
financial question by inaugurating
another international conference
scheme There have been several of
these conferences, and no sensible
man on earth can think of them with
amy other emotiors than those of
rdicule or disgust.
When the old partyites and pluto
Gratis can't meet anything with argu-
ment, they resort to abuse. They
have failed to make an impression
on Coins Financial School," by
argument, although they have writ
ten dozen replies to it. Now, they
have begun 70 "cuss it ut.' That's
all they can do.
We told our readers some time
since that the Reform Clubs,
Honest Money Leagues &c would
buy up the old Demo- Republican pa
pcrs, and have them sending cut 'gold
bug" literature. About one thous-
and Of these papers have ben fixed
You will begin to see them III this
State soon.
Out of 729 delegates TO the Cook
county Democratic convention in
Illinois, only 23 voted ae ainst silver
Yet, well bet that there will be big
fight in the National Democratic
convention batween the gold bugs
and s'verites. with chances in favor
of tbe gold bugs.
What is sauce for the goose i:
sauce fer the gar der" is net a pro
verb hich 6rds favor with old
moss back Democrats neither II
North Carolina, nor South Carolina
II they can not rule and -gobble ~
the spoils, they would like to destroy
While the old gangs ave split al
to pieces on the financial question
the Populists are moving along uni
'edIy and harmouiodsly. They ar
gaming recruits every day, and i
every man will do only half duty, tn
country is theirs in '96.
he total amount of gold in th
world amounts to about $3.50 pc
mead for the worlds population
Just .hiGk Of this, ard you'll begil
TO 81. where the gold bugs (who no,
Nave II g y want to put the people
II people would brush the cob
Wei" II prejudice from their eyes
theJ Would srn from events now oc
cum 3, hat the orly principle c
.grgcy is ,llice holding an
"sPpIs'
silver lunacy" is the new teri