The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-03-03
THE GOLD MEN CANNOT CoNIhob
THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY

kTD the DemocFdIIc NSbCIS VI NOI IN
carolina in which he advises them not
te send delegates to the National con
MENTION on the ground that the gold
men will be sure to control that con-
yention, and to make declaration for
gold. He thinks it wiser and safer for
silver Democrats to take no part, but
to nominate silver electors unpIedged
| to any Presidential candidate.
We think Mr.. Carter is unwise in
giving this advice. 1t is by no means
| certain that the gold men will control
| the National convention. 1t is abso-
lutaly certain that neither faction of
two7thirds to nominate a candidate.
two-thirds to nominate a candidte.
What then? Nobody knows, but it is
| certain that by staying in that.conven-
ton and standing together the silver
men, even il they should fail Ola ma
| iority, would be able to forever pre-
vent the nomination of any man who
would not pledge himself not to veto
q SILVER Dill. Iuc DC1IdUS 10 hSW AOA
free silver. The silver Democrats and
other silver men will be able to carry
the next House of Representatives and
by wise action can win the fight if
they can keep a man out of the White
House whose veto would override the
will of the people.
W. er.-,,~ 49, 0f
Boies, Vice President Stevenson, or
some other good man who will declare
himself earnestly and heartily for sill
YER. We believe the silver men can get
a majority of the convention and write
the platform, and nominate an out
and-out silver candidate. That is the
goal for which the silver Democrats in
all the States are eontesting. If North
Carolina silver Democrats should take
Mr.. Carriers advice, wouldn't they feel
apean when in July they saw that their
eellow silver Democrats at Chicago
lacked only North Cardinals twenty
tavo votes to hold the party true TO its
old traditions and honest bi-metal-
Iism@
lie tie silver Democrats stazad true
they can do one of two things either
Of which will prevent the capture of the
party by the men who would run it
as an annex to the Republican organi-
cation.
l. Elect enough delegates to write
the platform and nominate the candi-
date at Chicago. 1t is much more
probable that the silver men viii be
able to do this than that the gold men
will have the majority. IL another
bond issue is made. the silver men will
he certain to control the convention.
In a recent speech in New York, Mr..
Carlisle virtually declared that the
party could not win this year. He
said: u hope the Democratic party
viii enter upon the coming political
contest on a perfectly sound declara-
ton Of principles. If it does, it will
come oub or it with unimpaired
strength, with unbiemlshed record,
and with courage for the fight" That
is to say if the party writes Repub-
lican financial plank, there is no hope
of winning against the Republicans,
but the party viii emerge with cour
age for the fight" The silver Demo
Gratis believe that free coinage decla-
ration viii result in success, both be-
cause it is right and in response 10 the
demands of the South and West. Why
run after strange gods to certain de-
feat, when safety and success will come
II we abide in the ship, and keep the
rudder true? If there is going to be
any boiling, let the gold men who are
virtually Republicans on finance, do it.
2. If il should turn out SO disastrous
Iy that the gold men have a majority
of the convention, it is utterly impos-
sible for them TO have enough to nomi-
nate the candidates. What then? The
silver men will forever refuse
to permit the nomination of a
gold bug for President, and will
present the alternative to the gold
men of a split in the party, or Of nom
mating conservative man pledged not
to veto silver bill Either horn Of
this dilemma is better than for the
men who hold 70 the old-time princi-
pies Of Democracy to stay out of the
Tempe OF democracy t1ld ifttAt ~ 10 AIic
money-changers
The proposition to give up the Dem
ocratic party to the gold men in it
without a struggle is, TO our view,
most unwise. 1t would be folly for the
silver Democrats to walk out Of their
| own house, give up their household
gods, lose the glorious traditions that
enshrine the party and permit those
who who have little sympathy for the
struggling masses to carry it away
| from its mornings. This is not the
spirit that was in Andrew Jackson, He
| fought without yielding an inch the
| powerful influences that raised the
same clamor then that is heard today
| And he won the fight for honest money
/ against bank domination Financial
| troubles followed his success because
the manipulators Of money thought
| to reintrench themselves in power by
making a panic. But neither Jackson
nor Martin Van Buren, were moved by