The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-07-08

trail them back to the Republican
party; thus, big Jack Teller and little
| Jack Dubios will soon start upon
| their long journey to the land they
renegaded from. There is not much
in current story that Teller is the
| favorite of the Eastern Democrats, as
| his tariff record would allow them to
bolt him If put up, on the ground that
Mckinley is no worse q tariff man,
and better coin man.
This convention will go a long way
to the extirpation of the Democratic
party throughout the East AS in the
years following the war, great mum
bers of Democrats regularly talked
Democracy and voted Republicanism,
so these people who expect to make
man shed his cloak by blowing a gale
at him will find themselves in bed
lamite minority. After they have Sc
| parted from good manners they will
know what lonesomeness is. Another
line divides this convention. Bland
| represents Kentucky and it's progeny
in the Southwest. Boies represents
New York and the Northwest. The
value of a good name is seen by the
scant information, loudly extended to
us, that Mr.. Bland had a brother in
the Union army. Mr.. BANDS illusions
in that direction have not been pointed
out with pride.
Meantime the number of Kentucky's
descendants who are figuring around
the Presidency is quite up to the usual
modesty of that State, where Henry
Clay was filled with wrath that Harri-
son or Taylor or anybody else should
take his preemption and run for Pres
ident at any time. From 1912 down
to his death forty years later Clay.
kept himself in nomination for Gener-
al of the Army, Speaker of Congress,
| Senator, Secretary of State and Presi-
dent. Every good Kentuckian follows
| the example. Here are Vest, Stone,
| Francis, Mcmillan, ETC., all Kentuck-
| ians, and Bland belongs to the band.
I said to Governor Francis that Ken
| lucky once had revolution on its
| hands on this very question of money;
| that about 1880 the Legislature passed
| a stay law making it illegal to pay any
private debts for three years; that the
| Court declaring this law in the light
| of is to was forthwith fired out by
| the Legislature, but it refused to GO.
| A new court was empowered and the
| two courts confronted each other with
| a mob behind each, until they had
| nearly destroyed the value of every
| dollar in Kentucky, when law and
order prevailed and the old Court was
| left seated. Governor Francis said that
| this was all new to him, and some day
the uresent convention will be forgot
| ten to his posterity. The sway of ir-
regular habits and abnormal vanity
such as the conditions of slavery pro-
NOTED invariably caused reputation
of debts periodically.
POTENT JONES, OF ARKANSAS.
Here we see Jones, of Arkansas a
potent man in the convention. He is
| quoted daily as saying that the Ma
| tionaI Committee shall not seat the
| temporary chairman. Mr.. Jones, while
| he showed in the compromise tariff
bin an accommodating spirit, repre-
SCENTS Mississippi, which, since her pc
pudiation in 1898, has not had cent
| of credit and has not grown single
| important town. The world knows
chiefly of Mississippi that it repudiated
| its bonds. irresponsible financierlrS
in which the lobby and the Legislature
united their powers, caused the sale
| of the States credit, and the ignorant
constituencies sided with reputation.
| To-day Mississippi is clamoring for
Northern settlers, while continuing
| her teaching of reputation finance.
South Carolina long maintained a
noble reputation as a debt payer, but
| TiIlman is knocking her out. Virginia
| tangled up her finances so that, until
| of late, she stood almost as dead in
| the money market OF the world as
| Mississippi. Kentucky, undes the
influence Of men like James Guthrie,
| had preserved good reputation, which
Carlisle desired to continue, but the
| free silver men call him worse names
than a dog.
The abuse of the word "free" has
gone the length of the gamut. First
free silver TO go everywhere; then
| free soil to be given away, and next
| free labor which drifte2 to trades
unionism. and now free silver Jones,
of Nevada, wants free money, genuine
| fat stuff. and he to be the fiat buster.
Meantime. an upright servant is in
danger of bei1fg as scarce in this land
as a king.
THE OFFENSE OF WHITNEY.
Whitney offended in nominating
Cleveland last time, and it was freely
1
be spotted who entered or left Whit
neys room, so Whitney has been
| cipher here, II would hardly appear
that he is a man of vigorous mentality.
Flower is both bolder and more origi-
nal, and Flower was a more success
fsll man by merit than any of these
New Workers A matchmaker in Wa
tertown. New YorlA he acquired finan
cial sense from his wife's brother-in-
law, Henry Keep, who was raised in
! the poorhouse through his fathers
degradation, Keep made fortune col
lecting the money of uncertain banks
| in the United States and Canada, which
he would send to their counters and
| compel reclamation, having puR-
chased it when it was deprecated. He
then bought railroad, and he left
| his widow with much railroad stock,
| which Flower once sold at the highest
| price, and then bought back at the
| lowest price TO sell again. Flower is
| the moat yirile man out here from
| New York