The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1896-07-16

ass1 leaders SEE tarUas it. : &C nnG~r-
stand The selfish motives tia; aox
move them.
covgEscE 1Low1z E&eo-ss zHEIR
.auE-
Governor Flower uf N~a fork -
Thoroughly on tn their g-sa~. Asfsr
visiting a mum Der a. dele aFious frons
the southern State a. Chicago. ~
came away with 1rr@, aisga>f. anl =
reported a. having sad:
81 have had al. Aloag ao oplnisu about
whasthis free silver bBsi ness n-SEt.
aud my surin.ses ATc new coa a'-Tast.
Those fellows doat care any
thing more for silver npss
than they have in tie past.
but there are nrw conditions a. the
South thai force them 60 take this po-
si,ion for Misrepresentation They sire
in danger OF losing the voters = isa
have folIowes: them 80 Ion Z. and made
the South solid for cur candidates.
But now the people are rsbellias
against their leadership. 30 u they
do not howl very loGd for free silver
the People, party Will carry their
States, and they will lose cuntr,i, even
in state affairs"
This is the whole story IN ! nut shell.
! These politicians We're willing tU
dicker ard trade with the gold men Of
the North and East as long a. they
could fool the masses of the voters az
the South and West into VI ting the
ticket straight, no matter who was
nominated. They see now that they
can no longer fool the people, so they
| flop over 3nd cry out for financial r.
| form and free silver il order to tty 40
hold the voters in the party traces.
and 10 secure their own reelection TO
the offices in their respective state.
WILL THE GAME or THFsE BOSSES sJC-
e. CEEp?
vii, they foo! the voters again No.
They will fool only those who want TO
| be fooled. The people know now hat
| they have been hasely deceived about
| this iinanciel question for the last
| twenty years by these so-Called free
silver leaders. They know that they
have been betrayed into the clutches
of the gold combine, and oppressed
and robbed, with the permission and
connivance of the very same men who
controlled the Chicago convention.
BLACK AND INFAMOUS RECORD.
| The people know that these same
party bosses have defeated eleven free
coinage bills in Congress while the
rparty had the power To pass them.
| They know that these same party
bosses assisted the Republican party
to recharter the National banks and
give the monopoly Of tie peoples
money.
They know that these same party
bosses charged all Of the evils from
which the country was suffering
against the Republican party, and
prom sed to give the people relief just
as soon as they could get one "chance.
These party bosses got every branch Of
government-the House, the Senate
and the President, but they not only did
not repeal a single one of these infam-
Gus Republican laws, but they did even
worse than John Sherman and the Re
publicans had done.In fact they repeal
ed the last law left upon the statute
books by the Republicans which pro-
vided for an increase of the currency
they not only failed to keep a single
pledge made in the campaign, but de-
ceived and betrayed the people from
beginning to end.
THE RAPE OF THE PEOPLES PARTY Plat.
FORM.
Thus divided and discredited par.
|
promises, makes a desperate effort t,
} hide its record Of "perfidy and dis
honor" in the past by making fairel
promises this year than ever before
For the first time since the war thes,
politicians have become frightened
, enough not only to declare for silver
but to declare also against nationa
, banks of issue. They also denOunc
, bond issues in their platform, but j
, is noticeable that the Democrats il
Congress-, with majority in bet
, Houses, sat perfectly idle while Cleve
, land made his famous secret bond deal
. with the Morgan and R0thschilds syr
dlcate. They passed no resolution Q
q condemnation, and passed no bill {
n prevent him from repeating the Grim,
+ which he did repeat ill February c
this year. Then it was that Popu
, list Senator introduced bill to pre-
= vent further bond issues, and pressed
to a vote, though not single Demo
crat in the Senate made 2 speech i
support OF the same.
S They also declare in their platforl
for controlling railroads by the govern
ment, and preventing the abuses tn;
: arise from railroad pools and comb
n nations. In this connection let iU /
: remembered that there is now a bi
n before Congress, reported unanimous
0 ly by a committee composed OF Dem,
i Gratis and Republicans, which prOpoS,
: to strike out of the Interstate con
n merce law, the clause which provide
n for punishment by i'm prise nment raj
<, road officials who refuse to obey IL
> law or testify before the courts
J. commission when their violations
j. the law are being investigated. Al
e the Democrats and Republicans in co
a gress would probably pass this bill we
t. there not Peoples Party Senators q,
G. congressman on guard to expose the
subserviency to the railroad corpor
NJ lions. Yet, if the people were tod;
aroused and awakened to the threa
ening dangers of the transportatit
II problem as they are on the financi
3 question, this great promising par
IS would have stolen another plank fro
y the Peoples Party platform, and bold
ie declared for government ownership
u railroads which is the only remedy {
'e these evils. They are so frightened
y the Indignation of the people again
Ut their own record, and so alarmed
y the rapid growth of the Peoples Part
~, , that they would declare for anythir
~ ~ whether they believed it or not, try
. make peace with the voters that tn
IL have so long deceived.
~ In their platform they also denou
81 ced government by injunction, q
IL Federal interference in State affair
- but in this connection, let il be
IL membered that it was 4 Democrat
nc Congress that passed 4 resCluti
VI praising and endorsing Cleveland a
" these Federal Judges for commit
II these same outrages at the time OF
D. Chicago strike.
They also put in plank endorse
the bill which recently passed the Sc
de ate guaranteeing to every citizen I
he right of trial by jury in Indirect C,
ce tempt cases; but they failed to st:
an that the bill, as unanimously report
w from a committee composed of Den
", cratic and Renuhlican Saratnr. {