The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1895-07-18
DEMOCRACY
IS DOOMED
In the Blue Grass State--So Saw
Those Who Were Born There
and Know.
THE STRONG LANGUAGE

- ~~S A~SSs~ ~~As - - - - - |
OF Veteran Newspaper Man Who Re. |
beIled A gainst the Fred Douglass Inei- |
dent-sick MIR. Ransom Mentions the |
Name Of God In the Same Breath With |
Democracy::!
Special Correspondence Caucasian
WAsHINGToN, July 12.-"What Kan
sas did i'm one night and what North |
Carolina did in 1894 Kentucky will do |
in 1895" remarked prominent Demo- |
cratic OfiicehOlder to-day. 81 shall be |
surprised, ne continued, il the Peo-
pies Party do not win big victory in
that State. A Democratic revolt is in
evitable. 1t is only a question as to
what may be its proportions. 1t may
not elect the Peoples Party State
ticket, but it will defeat Hardin, the
Democratic candidate for Governor.
| predict overwhelming Democratic
defeat in Kentucky"
OF THE SAME OPINION
is Col. l.. q. G. Washington, the vet
eran Washington correspondent and a
distinguished kentuckian. He said
yesterday to your correspondent that
"three-fifths of the Democrats in the
State are unpurchasable and uncOm-
promising silver men. They cannot
be bought by the gold bond syndicate
and they cannot be intimidated by
Cleveland's officehoiders. | expect to
see the State turned upside down. l
am southern man, fought in the
southern army and up to the time of
Cleveland social equality innovations
at the White House, l was proud of
| my southern associations. He invited
Fred Douglass, his white wife and col
ored daughter to his marriage recep-
ton. They were present to the inf
mite disgust and annoyance of the
southern guests. | got the story
straight from those VINO were COM
PEELED to submit to the offensive con-
tact, or insult the President and his
wife. | wrote it up and appealed to
southern manhood to defeat Cleve-
lands nomination. TO my amaZement
the southern men who were loudest in
their denunciation Of Cleveland's So
cial miscegenatiOn were clamOring for
his nomination at the Chicago cOnven-
ton.
| ABANDONED AND BETRAYED.
found myself abandoned and betray-
ed by the very men who had urged
and aided me to make the fight. They
deserted me, stultified themselves and
championed Cleveland. l was not only
betrayed, but punished. Afterwards
| was a candidate for secretary of the
senate. Mr.. Ransom, who wept cOpi-
Ously at Chicago over Cleveland's nom
inatiOn, believing that it would end
Democratic supremacy in the south,
went to the White House and inter-
ested the President in defeating me.
1t was given out in the Washington
"POst" upon RansOm's authority. that
my election as secretary of the SEN
ate would be personally offensive to
the President. | didn't believe them
> and don't believe now that Cleveland
, authorized the statement credited to
Ransom. Without having any exalted
opinion of him | don't think him ca
pable of such contemplate meaness.
RANsOM-HARRIs IDEAL"
1t was said at the time that Cox's
7 election as secretary was the result OF
"deal." AS the senior Democratic
, Senator, Ransom should have beer
elected President of the Senate. He
, was VIGOROUSLY unfit, and it was ar.
, ranged that Harris, of Tennessee
should be elected President and Cox
: of North Carolina, Secretary. The
arrangement could not be consum.
} mated without the Presidents inter.
] ference. Hence my defeat, and al
because as a southern Democrat | had
, protested against Cleveland's socia
D equality predictions at the White
S House. Now if Ransom and the like
i are representative southern Demo
i Gratis | am no longer proud Of m!
southern lineage.
MONEY QUESTION IN THE SOUTH.
81 have said that in Kentucky three
fifths of the Democrats are uncOm
promising free silver men. The pro
: portion in the other southern State
is about the same. 1t doesn't seem t.
me possible that the southern people
betrayed in the past by false leader
ship, distressed as they are by pOvert
the direct result of Wall street.
=, shylock system of fnance-can b
misled or persuaded into AFFECT, hope
less bondage to the money power. l
-, that shall happen, though it may com
in the name of disgraced Democracy
all that is dear to southern manhOO
:, will be irreparably lost. ] have jus
u read in the papers that Blackburn De
- fies the State committee in Kentucky
,, He refuses to be muzzled. This give
u me great hope. A desperate campaig
IS is on in Kentucky. No man can sa
II what turn it will take. The cloud ths
appears no larger than ones hand ma
10 gather and spread and deluge tn
y State"
If DEMOCRATIC DEFEAT CERTAIN.
i Other Democrats here believe thu
r Democratic defeat in the State is Gel
n. tain. Allowance is made in their ca
" culations for the potent factors ths
controlled the Democratic State col
B. vention and that will direct and pro-
er ecute the impending campaign. Fet
o. eral otficehOlders and their power
Or full attorney, the gold bond syndica!
ne present a dangerous and fOrmldab
re Ipolitical combination. If its Overthro
ne does not cost a revolution the peOp
J. may be felicitated. The bond synd
e. cate, with sixteen million dollars
is pocket and the prospect of sixtee
zy more as gold victories here advan!.
iii American securities in England, wi
he flood the State with corruption fun
in A gold victory in Kentucky meal
,ir the triumph of the gold cohorts
d. every southern State. The Kentucl
a. campaign will be repeated in tt
on south. The incipient work has a
ready begun.
ly "sOUND MONEY" CONVERSIONS
rs are of daily occurrence. They come
~ multitndes. In communities Whe
e. "sound money" adherents were u
n known, suddenly they have become tt
~ dominating political element. It
or noticeably so in North Carolina. II
ms reaction is credited to Mr.. Ransom
er return from the enervating Mexic.
p climate. In this short period of b
ne home convalescence he has thri
travelled the State, and has visit
les Washington via the Virginia Viii
ys Sulphur Springs. Two days at the 20
mt White" put him in fine physical shat