The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-04-28
AS A LAST

If the Co bugs Fail to Control the Ma
tional Democratic Convention, They
Will Adopt Other Damnable Tactics
We are Warned in Time.
The New York correspondent of the
Denver Daily News gives that paper
the inside of a desperate scheme the
goldbugs are c~oncocting. We are glad
it has been exposed. No one need be
fooled unless he wants to be. This is
a partot what the correspondent writes:
The alarm has reached Wall street.
The money plutocrats have counselled
and laid their plans for the new and
unlocked for emergency. These will
embrace the unstinted use of money
upon delegates. l have it from good
authority that more than $500, 600 with
which to prevent the Democratic con
vention from declaring for free coinage
was pledged at a late conference.
''The meeting at which this was done
was held on Friday night in the par
lors of a New York millionaire, who is
a leader in yachting sports. He is an
intimate friend OF the president, but
hes held himself aloof from active 20
litical partnership. He has always
been a power behind the Cleveland
throne, and has been largely instru-
mental in the success of the govern
ment bond issues and in securing their
negotiations.
But more than money was discussed
at this meeting. These money pirates
seemed to comprehend that by the day
Of the convention the feeling of the
country for silver remonetization might
become so intense that money would be
powerIess to control it. How to win
by deceitful strategy was therefore
gone over, and plan was agreed upon,
which, for the present at least, finds
the greatest favor and Cff3rs them the
most encouragement for success. The
suggestion made a few days ago by
Chauncey Black, of Pennsylvania is
the basis of it, and it will be found that
from this time forward it will beurged
with great but quiet vigor and plausi
bility. The meat of the plan is as fol
lows:
AS soon as the Democratic national
convention shall be organized and be
fore the committee on platform shall
meet, some delegate who has not been
conspicuous in the financial discussion,
but is known toand commands the conf
dence of the sound money men will arise
and offer a carefully prepared preamble
and resolutions. They will recite the
wide and what may prove to be fatal
differences between the party on the
financial question, the necessity for the
existence of the parity if free govern
ment shall be maintained, it's glorious
record in the past and the grand work
that is reserved for it in the future,
with the absolute necessity Of some
common ground being reached upon
which both sides of the money question
may stand without the abandonment
Of convictions or principles. That
ground will be declared to be a mutual
and binding pledge by every member
ofthe convention that henominee fthe
convention that the president, if elected
shall approve any financial measure
that Congress may pass, even one for
the free coinage of silver at the ratio
of 16 to 1; with the further pledge that
the nominee in his letter of acceptance,
to be written as soon as possible after
the convention, will make the same
promise in the plainest possible Ian
guage.
''Such a declaration-fair upon it's
face, they assume, will win a sufficient
number of silver delegates to carry it
by a large majority, and that onca it is
adopted the convention will be easily
controlled. They anticipate that such
a resolution will be accepted in lieu Of