The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1895-05-23
ALL SPLIT UP.
Little Diagnosis ofthe Condition ofThe |
Old Parties ON she Financial Question. |

w" fhpe- on she FINANCIAL Question.
Washington Post
Democratic leaders and organs do
not affect ignorance Of the paIpable
fact that their party is in the throe
OF a serious conflict on the question
of coinage. They do not claim that
there is peace where they know there
Is no peace, or that harmony exists
where they know that discord reigns
On the contrary, they recognize the
extent and seriousness Of the dis.
turbance, and they fully appreciate
the gravity Of the situation. Thus
situated the free and anti-free coin
age factions are each striving to get
in shape to control the Democratic
national convention next year.
The Republican leaders and organs
are lees frank than their opponents
In their treatment Of the similar but
probably less extensive disturbance
in their party. No fact il better
known than the existence of free
silver and anti-free silver wings or
factions in the Republican house
hold.
The Omaha Bee, one of the stron 9
Republican journals Of the South
west, appears to think that the Dem
ocratic situation 10 hopeless, and
that all is serene on the Republican
side Of the fence. 1t say:
"The silver fight in the Democrat
lc party threatens TO utterly demora-
LIE and disrupt that political orga-
nlzation, for whether the champions
of free silver or the friends of a
sound currency are successful In the
next national convention of the party,
there undoubtedly will follow a dis.
Indignation which will place the
party in hopeless minority for
years. This conflict in
the Democratic camp will grow in
interest, because the politicians VINO
are conducting the free silver cam
paign are firmly determined to com.
NIT the party to their policy in the
next national contest, and nothing
will persuade them to desist or to
abandon their purpose"
Having thus diagnosed the Demo
cratic situation and calmly decided
that the old party must be Gin a
hopeless minority tor years." all on
account of cutter decentralization and
disruption" on the silver que stion,
the Bee turns its attention to its own
party and soIemnly declares:
SCI here is no serious conflict in the
Republican ranks on this question,
and it Is not to be doubted that the
next national convention of the party
will take the same stand regarding
silver that the last one did, nor is it
at all doubtful that on such a plat
form it will carry the country"
"No serious conflict in the Repub-
hcan ranks on this question:" Let
us hear the opinion of another Re-
publican paper, an organ in excel.
lent standing in Missouri and Kan
sas, the Kansas City journal. That
paper IS very sure that the next Re-
publican convention will not "take
the same stand" &c. 1t believes
that sort of "twiddle-twaddle" is
played out. 1t says, and its mean
ing is PLAN, that
''The better the masses of the neo.
pie understand the deception that
has been praoticed upon them by the
agents of the gold ring the more
emphatic will be the demand for
straight-out party declarations in the
platform of next year. 1t will not
do to longer temporize with the cues
ton. The issue is to be the free
coinage OF silver as well as gold, as
against out and out gold monometal-
llsm. The candidate who hopes to
stem the tide that is now on by any
sort Of twiddle-twaddle about favor
ing silver provided one dollar shall
be made as good as another dollar
may as we'll step out of the race now.'
After explaining that free coinage
means 'honest money" Sound
money" and "safe money" the.
journal adds:
"Ihe candidate who undertakes
to temporlze with the question as
stated on these lines will find himself
loser in the race-and that is lust
What they are all beginning to see.
they are not ready just yet to come
out squarely and take sides for or
against the free coinage of silver, but
are waiting for further development,
IN the hope that something, will turn
up that shall relieve them of a meas
are Of the embarrassment that now
,onfronts them. But there will have
20 be square show down in the end" $