The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1896-04-02
DEMOCRACY VS..
FREE SILVER.
Why Free Coinage Of Silver Can
not Be Secured Through tho
Democratic Party.
RECORDS, FACTS, OPINIONS.

and what Trey mink.
DARDEs, y. c., March -, '9G.-
Why eanuot the free and unlimited
coinage of silver be secured through
the Democratic partyf
The first and most potent reason Is
that the party has had full power as
well as time TO have given 1t had
they desired to do so.
When man promises me that If
will put him in that position which
will enable him to do me a favor,
and when | have performed my part
of the contract and put him in that |
position, and he refuses TO do as he
promises and applies his time aud
money to some purpose entirely the
reverse Of a favor to me, and then |
proposes to promise me the same IA
vor over again, | refuse to accept
that promise as
COMING FROM AN HONEST MAN.
Again the Democratic party is
composed Of gold standard men as
we'll as silver men. That is, the party
is Heterogeneous in composition -dl
vided upon the silver question.
Suppose man driving along the
road with a loaded wagon should
get into whole and his team be un-
able to pull it out. Directly another
man comes along and is requested
to help pull the wagon ont. Now
suppose they differ as to the best
method Of getting the wagon out,
one wanting to pull 1t out back
wards and tho other forwards.
Would it not be foolishness for each
one to undertake to carry out his
plan! Common sense would teach
that they must both
PULL IN THE SAME DIRECTION.
| Standard Oil Payne and his SON
in-law, Whitney, Coal Baron Brice
and our Lord High Chancellor, Car
Isle, at one end of the wagon, and
Jones, Bland and Harris at the other
end. One crowd shouting for the
gold standard, the other crowd clam
, orjnc for free coinage of silver-all
inside the party.
; Says Harris, if ! can't get silver
i, President l will vote for the noml
nee if he is . goldbug or the chic
: of sinners Their motives may bs
all right, $50 were St. Paul's whe1
| he prosecuted the ChrlstlanS 4.,a Bu
motive miscarries when msrhod L
wrong. Could one believe their mo
tives pure9 With equal prophet.
one can see that their
q ACTS ARE TERRIBLY PERN1CIOUS.
! And the hope they hold out! Say
- MIR. Bland: We will reform tn
- party; we will remain in the part
- with these goldbugs and convel
= them to free coinage. We will pu
~ new wine in these old skin bottle:
10 We know that the lump has bee
good bread and has fallen, but "
are the leaven which will make
70 10 rise again. 1t is not at all probable
~. if indeed it is possible, to obtain fire
y coinage through the Democrat
~, ~ party. Because all the free colna&
~ mon now III the party
HAVE BEEN IN IT ALL THE WHILE
Then if they were powerless to gi'
it when in the zenith Of thcir pow
land glory, how reasonably hope
at 7 get it now when thousands of m
a have left the party and allied the1
,n selves with other parties and thel
"a by weakened any such weak hope
nix Hundreds have left the Democra
tn party recently and while some ha
or gone to the only true party for
MT YER, "The Peoples Party.' ma
III have gone (Which is more disco
ut, aging to Democracy's cause) to
for plutocrats. Men whom the peo
ids had thought were true friends OF
yer as we'll as LEADERS of the cA1
ain have suddenly
Dry DESERTED TO THE Peoples ENEM1
u No one spoke more forcibly
'nu silver than Carlisle, but new ale
nce with Sherman he is = prince
i pet of Wall street. Democracy c
not give free coinage because
silver wing of the party cannot c
troll tho national convention, M
" the platform CT nominate the Pr
dent.
Now let US see how free silver
tate and is defeated in those conventle
gan The delegates from the East
n a Northwest were, and it is a foreg
one conclusion that in all future {
The they will be, for whatever
,ted WALL STREET AND THE BANKS
,r a desire and they are supported by
20 g. Western delegates. The reason
'ss,d this is so the Democrats are not
49, representative party Of the '
:s .niS but are a minority party held
'inS gether by patronage. The mlnt
atch does not represent the people c
rab- section. It is politically at en-
ynx. with the representative people o
and section. The Democratic maj
The of tho Southern States presum
biect favor free silver. This apple
IT ~ the Republican majority of
" West. In like manner the Re
llican minority of the South, hel
u Tue gether by patronage always llk
I, ny Democratic minority OF the
that are easily induced to go with
Judge Northeast
cOun- FOR A SINGLE GOLD STANDAR
's the SO that silver leaders like Tel
n the the West may carry their sect
Van the Republican convention sol
nited silver, but the North, East
pport South Will defeat MN. 90 nay nay
abbits gan ana nalils caliy 10 oo1 ~
oxson, tno n0moo.ST h. 49, No,.h . EaSt .nd I
Mon slivoa' ;,, d.foa+ & T tbem Aoa;n the g
eader- @ at;on If the two old parties j
hit to Northeast on the financial gu
as the has been complete and exclusi
more than twenty years, a.
thoroughly united are they to
Q offer together for the gold stands
,ry re- against silver
le can. REGARDLESS OF PARTY
w. 49, y that Democracy as now organi
'p.e far as the South is concerned