The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1895-09-12

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reached is zenith under this so-calle ed
| Democratic administration!
| 18Th Does not senator Morgan de-
clare that the repeal Of the sherman
Law caused the issue of SioO.OO. o.
I Of bonds which were sold at l.o4h,
when they were worth 20. involving
loss TO thetax-pAyers Of the countr,
Of more than 100000
18th. Has not this bond deal Of Cleve-
lands been denounced as infamous
throughout the country. Was il not
Infamous: Was il not done in the
INTEREST OF BoxDHoLDKks,
capitalists, and gold monometalii.aa:
How can il be defended:
18th. This is the richest and most
powerful country on the globe.
Why did Mr.. Cleveland give the
AOrgan-Rothschild syndicate, in that
bond transaction, an option on any
further bond issue of this government
until October, 1896! Has the credit of
the republic sunk SO low under \
Democratic administration that it
must, in order 10 sell its bonds, pay a
bonus by way Of granting an option to
New York and London bankers! If
not, is it not clear that there is
some corrupt, concealed motive behind
that option?
10th. What hope is there that the
Democratic party will be purged of
Clevelandism, Shermanism and Ran
sOmism?
If you entertain such hope, please
state the foundation for the sameI
18th. What hope is there in the
Democratic party for free, unlimited
and Independent coinage OF silver.
Please give me the grounds of such
hope il you entertain it?
18th. Has not the Democratic party
in State after State, declared for the
gold standard, and has not large part
of the party and its press in North
Carolina rebelled against the silver
resolutions lately adopted by the
Democratic State executive commit
| tee?
18th. Why has not the Democratic
party of North Carolina, if it is true
to the people, and not dominated by q
| gOldbug machine-in State convention
assembled, protested against denounced
and repudiated the treachery and
methods of Cleveland and Ransom
and demanded the ex-SenatOr's resig-
nation from the national committee:
Goth Will not Mr.. Ransom continue
his grip on the "machine" in North
Cardinal? And if the legislature
should be Democratic in 1896, would il
not return Ransom to the United
States Senate?
2lst. What scandal has been un.
covered in a Republican administra-
ton, not barring Credit MObelier, De.
lanO, Babcock, Star Route, Whiskey
Rings, &C., that equalled or at least
surpassed that of the sugar scandal OF
the late Democratic Congress-?
22nd. Grant concentrated the United
States army at Washington to give the
Presidency to Mr.. Hayes and the Re-
publican party. But has not Clevelan nd
given his army of Otfice-hOlders cor.
ders" to help him deliver the pros.
perity of the people and the destiny
American and British gOldbugsI
23rd, Are mems party status fixed by
what they say, or by what they do? Il
a man claiming to be Democrat sing.
the gold bug song of John Sherman
votes for what Sherman has voted, anG
stands where the Republican party
has stood against the free coinage o
silver, what is he but a Republican;
If he is not Republican, what is thu
badge of Republicanism.
l agree with a great Democratic
journal of North Carolina, which Oh
June 18th, 1895, used these words in al
editorial:
Whenever Democrat declares that he j
for single gold standard, he is simply dc
claring that he has severed his connection
with the Democratic party. Gold bug dOt
trine is Repnblicanism, true and simple
The Republican party is its parent and ha
| ever watched over and cherished it durin
its growth to full maturity"
} Says the Atlanta Constitution
"Those who believe in Republican do<
trine
| CANNOT BIZ DEMOCRATS,
.and those who believe in Democratic do'
> trines cannot be Republicans. Those VIII
accept and endorse the Republican act Q
demonstration with all its consequence
can no more be called Democrats than q
Arab can be called Christian
, But the people now have before theI
> the singular spectacle of men high in offe
burying their heads deep in the bosom {
Republicanism and leaving their hind les
7 kicking and dourishing about in the Dem'
G cratic camp"
4 For years one of the principal argu
. mcuCS VI DcmOCI0lS 0S6luSV Luc a
D cendancy of the Republican party wa
D the "infernal revenue system" Sens
: tor Vance ridiculed and denOunce
= revenue officers as "red-legged gras.
: hoppers." The Democratic party {
this State was pledged to the abolish
ment of the system, or at least to
: mitigation of it's hardships.
Q have not heard of anything bein
! done to abolish the system, and as
whether there has been any decrea!
j. in seizures, illegal arrests &C, al
G prosecutions on shadOwy and insult
y cient evidence, the people are to
n heard from; especially the hundreds
)? our citizens dragged before the fede
n al courts during the past two yea
and more.
Have the people of North Caroli1
become less law abiding than in Il
+. past? How is it that Revenue Offic
n have doubled and trebled in val
st since the incoming of a Democrat
.r administration? Is it true as I ha
ii seen it suggested by the highe
authority, that Democratic Officis
b. have stretched the law, forgotten t
A. promises of the party and persecut
e. the people in mad scramble for fee
M 1t seems that the Democratic ere
if legged grasshOppers" are quite acti
A. and that many of them have been mt
d amOrphOsed into gold bugs.