The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1896-05-07
TIE WAY FOR SILVER MEN TO GET
GOLDBUG PRAISE.

port any candidate that the Repub-
lican convention might name, eves
though the nominee was a hirelir2,
q ge Ut. and tool OF the British Roths-
child. Every goldbug and monopo-
list paper in the United States is
highly elsted at this supreme utter
ance of self qualification. All OF
the Eastern goldbug papers are pat
ting Senator Wolcott on the back,
and saying to him, that, Though
you have TO vote for the free silver
heresy in the Senate, yet, you are
fine fellow for sticking to your par
ty, and helping us to elect goldbug
President" The Washington Post,
one of the chief organs OF the gold
trugt, copies copiously from Senator
Wolcott's letter, and then com
ments, in part, as follows:
DTdVc WOfuS. w lsS anu pat
riotic words" Senator Wolcott's
letter does him infinite honor"
"Here, at least, is one who holds his
country's good above all other
things, and who does not hesitate to
stake everything on the valiant dis
charge of honorable duty" "All
hailw
How can a man serve "his coun-
try's good" by supporting for Presi-
dent an agent of the British gold
trust7 How can there be any "hon-
orable duty" in voting against his
country's good''
This is the kind of fulsomo praise
that n sO-called free silver man gets
from the goldbug organs for betray.
ing his constituency and the cause
Of the people into the hands of the
British Shylocks and their American
tory allies.
But the position which Senator
Wolcott has taken has surprised ne
one in Washington who has watched
his course there. He is one of thu
kind of free silver men who vote TO
silver in the Senate simply because
his constituents are for it. 1t i
generally believed that he is a gold
bug at heart. At any rate, he run
with the mOnopolists and votes wit
them on every question except tina
of free silver. No man who is
true friend of silver and the peopl
can stand up on all occasions 70
the combines and monopolists
Every man who sides with the me
nopolists is at heart a goldbug, an
cannot be trusted by the people.
The other Senator from Colorad
is the Hon. Henry M. Teller, a ma
whose loyalty to the people, who's
devotion to the cause of good 60,
eminent, and whose unyielding OF
position to monopolies, trusts, an
the gold combine, cannot be que
toned. On last Wednesday he stoo
on the floor of the Senate, and i
measured and impressive words tol
his party and the country that b
believed that the continuation of til
gold standard meant lower price
harder times, and ruin to the Amer
can people. He said that, believin
this, he would desplse himself if k
any vote or action Of his he helpe
to place in the White House ms
who would use the executive of1ic
patronage, and power in the Sigh
est against the interests of the pc
pie in favor of the British gold trus
, He said that the time had come f
the people to take stand for the
rights and liberties. He closed
. impressive and patriotic speech wi
the following short, but impressi
, sentences: "Mr. President, as
speak, so will [ vote"
If there ever was a bold, hone
and patriotic expression, it was Il
one. 1t took courage and manic
to make 1t. yet the same hireli
gold press that is to-day praisi
u Senator Wolcott, are abusing, vii
flying, and slandering Senator T
u Ter.
Q Which kind of free silver m
9 shall the people trust7 The mono
olists and goldbugs praise Sena1
Wolcott; the people praise Senat
Q Teller. The moral is plain.
= EDITORIAL COMMEN'
I'll And now they are at it again-th,
3 Democratic papers. JnO. $. Hend
II son, the much Wanted and mu
II praised eX-COngressman from I'll
State has caused the row. A few da
/ ago he was sort of "straddlebu
10 Democrat. Then both gOldbug and s
10 yer Democratic papers praised him a