The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-10-18
OCT. Is

44lI. 4uC the most of them say that
e...4 - LOT the question. 1hey all
.4e4 are for Mckinley, knowing
n4nit, is for gold. They have de-
cided, therefore, to let the people suffer
the untold horrors of a gold standard.
lie time will come if the gold stand
ard is kept on us when they will repent
in sackcloth and ashes for standing
with the rich against the poor and
friendless. The rich have rights, but
the poor have rights also.
Object lessons in complicated cases
are ALWAYS more convincing. As an
object lesson for the people OF Iredell
county | will give an instance of the
onerafion of the gold standard A Re
publican county officer in the last few
weeks has bought in a farm at public
auction at about 50 an acre, within four
miles of the town of Statesville. This
officer gets the same fees, and the
office Yields the same amount of
money it did when the same character
of land in four miles of town brought
five times as much. The officer spoken
of is a good one and popular, and II
he should keep the Office long enough
under the single gold standard and in
vest its proceeds il land adjoining this
purchase, he can have that whole
neighborhood tenants on his land. He
is a Republican and very strongly for
the gold standard.
If Mckinley should be elected and
the gold standard kept over us, he
will be reelected. BY that time the
country will be HannaiZed to the eX-
tent that he gold grip viii stick, with
the people unable to peaceaIbly un-
loose it. What portion of the county
of Iredell will it be that these salaried
| McKinleyites will not come to own?
Take the case of Judge Furches, for
/ instance, as an example in this process
of the elevation of the few and the
! destruction of the many. | ann in dead
earnest in this matter and want the
people to see their condition and the
/ remedy. The judge is prominent and
4 the mention of his name will attract
more attention to my argument. | did
not vote for him for governor, but it was
/ because | knew he could not be elected.
! / influenced Butler to put his name
on his ticket for judge when | knew
/ he could be elected. So there is no
spite in my use of his name.
/ The Judge gets a salary of $500 a
year. / believe his term of office is for
eight wears With each years salary
as much land in Iredell county as he
could have bought before silver was
struck down by Cleveland and the
Republicans. who helped him. Land
ought to be worth in Iredell county as
much as it ever was. No man can
deny this and bring any argument to
prove that il is not true. According
to the price of land then, this $500
salary is equivalent to $4,000 a year.
In eight years the judge could own
as much as an English nobleman, for
if the gold standard continues he can
buy land for the taxes. That is the
way the gold standard worked in Eng
land The Judge is a Mckinley man and
for gold. and his salary comes out OF
the take 1t is all right to hold an
office for officers are necessary. But II
is wrong for officers to uphold laws
which increase the purchasing power
Of their salaries and reduce the price
of land and the products of the land
Republican leaders who have been such
strong silver men say they cannot
vote the Democratic ticket. Cleveland
and his administration will not vote
the Bryan ticket. declaring it is not
the Democratic ticket. There are
thousands of Democrats here in North
Carolina who will not vote it, giving
the same reason. There is no fully
organized Democratic party any more
Tt is split wide open, and as a party
can elect nothing.
Bryan answers when called a Popu
list 1T makes no difference what yor
cali me, / viii die in my tracks before
] viii vote for a gold standard man."
God forgive these Republicans who
believe in the free coinage of silver fol
asking thetir followers to vote against
it because Democrats vote for it. They
know that no one party can give the
country free silver. 1t will require men
Of all parties to vote for it to get it.
These Republican leaders say, "You
vote for our men and we will vote for
yours, and this will keep the Democrats
from getting the State" What good
will the State government do you with
no money in your pockets, and no work
to do, anti your homes sold for taxes?
Besides, the machine Democrats OF
this State will never see the day that
they can control another Legislature
and change the election laws on the
ideas they have held to. There are toe
many rank and file Democrats against
/ IT, AttSN w iii liNt t7iltiIlEG Tie ettCNlOI
Of the county commissioners away
from the people again. But let the
voter pledge every candidate for the
legislature against it, and against the
disfranchisemeHl5o Of any honest citizen
white or black. Otherwise vote against
him. There are two things the people
of this country are determined to have
through their government: one OF
these lis money enough to facilitate
business in times of peace and plenty
and the other is clean and effectiv
ballot.
These Republican State leaders are
responsible for the position in which
the Republican voters are placed in
North Carolina in this emergency
There was no necessity for forcing a
gold electoral ticket on us. If the
fight as they say is for State govern
ment and liberty" why did they not
leave us free to vote for silver bv
having no Republican electoral ticket