The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1895-07-11

said & have hunted wild turkeys
through the hills of Old Licking,
and jagged for catfish in the wan
dering Scioto, too often as a
boy to make an error now.
| know under which thimble
the gladstone pea is secluded.
| don't have to be caught in land
slide before l tumble; aud gentle
men, talking about making monkeys
Of people, let HE tell you right now,
first card to fall from the box; I'm
for gold. I'm gold bug from fore
lock to fetlock. and you can't shift
camp fast enough to lose me. |
don't travel 10y the path, but by the
smoke; and me and my Democracy
will never get left out over night.
"'Yes, gentlemen | continued,
striding down the floor like Patrick
Henry did in the Virginia House of
Burgesses, yes, gentlemen, my Dem
ocracy is founded not on sand, but
rocks. / will neither bite at the
Republican worm, nor rise to the
Republican fly. l was Democrat
in Old Licking when they hunted
them with dogs. Instead of hunt
ing coons and turkeys, and other
animals of chase, the Republicans
hunted Democrats. l was a follower
of Jefferson in day when the issue
upon which the candidates for sher-
if of Licking county always ran
was
"'Will you kill Ike Hill?'
"'Gentlemen, those were trying
times. No mans politics rests easier
when the first plank of the opposi-
tons platform chants of homicide,
with him as the victim. l mention
it only to show you that / am no
summer Democrat, no sunshine Office
holder, ephemera of politics, but
mean business-plain, unadulter-
ated Democratic business all the
year round. Business with the bark
on is what l want. Pm a party man.
| 60 with my party. In the silver
Democratic days now gone, John,
forever, l was a silver man. In this
golden season Of our organization,
when silver has sunk SO low in the
scale of respectable metallurgy that
a man of good political character is
not safe in its company, Pm for gold.
I'm party man; always was and
will be, and Pve no hesitation in
saying that should an hour arrive
when the Democracy of this coun-
try declare for diamonds as the unit
of value, I'll be a diamond man
like old John Harper's race horses
nsed to race, and that from e-end to
e-end.'
"Then," continued Col. Hill. 81
went on and told them what was the
fact, that practically l had been a
gold bug ever since the extra ses-
sion; all but the politics.
81 used to watch the Senate in
the extra session until I got scared.
| am not always inclined to take
chances on what you might call
Democratic action. No panic was
ever going to get a swipe at the
house of Hill. So one morning /
drew out every dollar had in bank,
lugged home the gold, and put it in
a couple Of jugs, Of which here are
always some empty specimens at my
house, and tied a clothes line to 'em
and hung 'em in the we'll. They are
there now, swinging to their rope,
a refuge in the day of adversely.
''That," concluded Col. Hill, els
about all there is to say about the
Democratic situation in Ohio. We
will return Brice to the Senate: we
will win the Legislature; we will be |
for gold, and we hope to carry the
State with Campbell for the Cover
norship. While we hope all these
things we are also ready for the |
worst. Every Democrat should al.
ways be ready for the worst, and a
man who cannot be ready for the
worst cannot be a Democrat"