The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1895-09-19
POLITICS AND POLITICIANS.
The Medley and Mess which the Old Pu
tIes are Making of "Princspls-"

Some weeks ago Hon. Mr.. Crisp,
OF Georgia. who was Speaker OF the
last Democratic House Of Represen-
tatives, declared himself sqnarely in
favor o. free silver.
But Mr.. Crisp has BEEN to Europe.
He returned few days ago, and this
is what We see:
"NKw YoEk, Sept. 7.-Ex-Speakes Crisp
was surrounded by newspaper men a soon
as the steamer New York, on which he was
. passenger. arrived At the dock. On the
silver question he was not disposed to speak,
and would not commit himself on financial
subjects any further than to sar that Eng
lish capitalists were fast buying up Ameri-
can bonds
Mr.. Crisp expressed himself in favor Of
the nomination of William Z. Whitney n
the Democratic nominee for President. His
record as Secretary of the Navy was good,
and showed him to be not only q capable
but a most desirable candidate at the present
juncture," said Mr.. Crisp
Now, Mr.. Whitney is . big gold
bug and a Standard Oil trust man.
But Mr.. Crisp can declare in favor Of
such q man after he has been in Eu
rope. Do you sect
Senator Roger q. Mills, of Texas,
is big Democrat. He has written
q public letter in which be says:
II advocated the unlimited coinage of sill
yer and gold at 16 to l as long as could see
a prospect Of keeping them both in our cir.
the progressive abandonment of it as \
standard of value by other countries has Sc
parated the two metals so far that the con.
clusion has been forced upon my mind that
the United States alone cannot bring them
to par and keep them at par throughout the
all the mints of the world open to the un-
limited coinage of both gold and silver at
10 to /, or 16 to l, but this IS a result that
cannot be produced bv any one nation.
No one country is able to control the de-
mand and supply of all the gold and silver
This is just what the Rothschilds
and the syndicate bankers want the
Democrats to say. It is what Cleve-
land saws. Do you sect
The atlanta Constitution gives this:
ut is now understood that Editor Waiter
sons visit to London is for the purpose OF
convincing II. r. II. Queen Victoria, that
the goldbug Democrats of Kentucky are in
line with the true British policy"
Watterson is editor of the Louis
vile Courier-Journal, the greatest
so-called Democratic paper in the
South. Not long ago he was a free
silver man. Do you sect
There is considerable talk going
on about a third presidential term
for Cleveland. Chauncey NJ. Depew,
d leading Republican, and president
of the New York Central railroad,
at a salary of $4,000 a year, re-
Gently said in Europe:
cleveland is as certain to be the Demo
cratic nominee as the National Convention
is to meet"
Seuator Gray, Of Delaware, a
Democratic goldbug leader, who has
stood close to the President, says:
II believe Mr.. Cleveland to be the logical
nominee next year of the Democratic
party"
The New York Tribune, big Re-
publican paper and goldbug organ,
says:
''There seems to be no reason to doubt
any longer that President Cleveland has as
pirations for a third term"
The Charleston News and Courier,
a big Democratic paper and goldbug
organ, says:
"Mr Cleveland is the best man for the
Democratic party to nominate as its candi-
date for next year"
General F. M. Cockrell, Senator
from Missouri, is an out and out
silver Democrat, and says;
For myself, I've no doubt of Cleveland's
intention to run. He believes he would be
elected: the question if any, exists in his
mind, turns on the subject of the Domina-
ton. If he's satisfied that he can get the
nomination, you may be sure he'll be a
candidate"
Senator Morgan, silver Democrat OF
Alabama, says he will vote the Ma
tional ticket, no matter who is nomi.
mated.
Senator Harris, of Tennessee, says
the same thing.
Congressman R. P. Bland, the
great Democratic silver leader OF
Missouri, was asked "in case the
National Democratic Convention re-
fused to adopt the free silver plat
form, what would be the resultf''
"There would be division between th'
Eastern and Western Democrats. It is. i
seems to me, inevitable any way. Th'
party is inharmoniOus. War issues, tn
tariff, and other things, have kept the party
sight of. The only thing the free sllve
Democrats can do is to keep organizing. 1
there should be another bond issue befor
long it would have a great effect. It wa
the issue of the last $65, ,OOO, 600 that set tn
people to thinking. The Eastern capital
lists know this, and will try to prevent an
other ISSUE"
"Js not compromise possible?'
'They tried 1t in Kentucky. They put q
free silver candidate there on gold stand
ard platform. What is the result? Why
they are in worse shape than they were be
fore the convention"
Ex-Congressman Geo. Tillman, o
South Carolina, is Silver Demo
crat, and will vote for it inside tn
Democratic party. He says:
.'Our people are desperate. We are al
preaching q war between the rich and th
poor, and loook for lots of throat -cuttin
between now and 1900. The millionaire
have oppressed the masses until the Latte
are like squeezed lennon. They are uI
able to educate their children, to travel an
improve their minds or to read books. p'
pers and magazines. They merely make
living. and scant one at that. They hay
grown desperate. The millionaires buy q
half the masses and pnt arms in their hant
with which to intimidate the other half an
thus keep them all in subjection.
The time is coming when these peop
!. will rise in bloody conflict. I look for
during the next presidential election or Il
one after that. Ali our writers Q
our government unite in declarin
that if this republic eyer goes
pieces it will be at the p
, riod of presidential election in q confli
, over the spoils of Office and the admin
tration of the facilities of taxation. Ca
houn told the truth when he said that Il
: tendency of republics was toward despo
isms-never toward aristocracies.
t so firmly do believe that this revolt
. ton is coming that am already prepariI
for it." declared Uncle George, II ha'
three sons. and to that end am givir
them ali q military education 80 that wht
the throat cutting comes they will not
i high privates in the rear ranks
/ We have presented a medley ,
!, Democracy above. Read it ar
:. study it. Whist does it meant
Goldbug papers and leaders of Il