The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-06-23
THE ST. LOUIS BOLT
1t Was as Significant as it Was
Dramatic.
AND MAY MEAN DEFEAT
1t Represents IL per Cent the
Convention.
VIEWS OFLA5OR ORGANIZATIONS
Mckinley was Nominated and the
Platform Framed by the Repre-
sentatves of Trusts and
Corporations.
VIEWS OF LABOR ORGANIZATIONS
Corporations,


| Viewed not so much from the stand
| point of the numerical strength of the
| recent bolt at st. Louis, but reflect
ing upon what it represented and
stands for in National politics, it was
not only dramatic, but immeasurably
significant and important.
On one side, and on the same ros-
trum with Senator Teller sat Senator
Thurston, the chairman of the Repub-
lican convention, representing, as at
torney for a great railroad company,
corporate power: next him sat Sem
ator Lodge, champion of the single
gold standard; the incarnation and
genius of the force bill. that but for
the influence of Teller and German
would have held the South to-day in
its iron grasp, and destroyed local self
government.
Lodge, from New England, the land
of notions and isms, made rich at the
expense of the South, by discriminate
ing, high protective, war-born and
blood-nourished tariff system. whose
chief exponent and champion is Major
Mckinley. whom the corporate and
the money power combined nominated
at the dictation of millionaire man.
ufacturer, who also had put upon the
ticket for Vice-President a man who
is director ond counsel for dozens upon
dozens of trusts, railroads and Nation
al banks. In a moment the traditions
and platforms of the party for 30
years. for bi-metallism. count for
naught. in that mad rush of greed for
gold; and gold, and gold only, is in
scribed upon the banner of the money
kings! Generous pensions" indeed!
Are not S15o,0oO,000 for pensions
yearly, generous beyond our ability to
pay?
protective tariff" Is not 40 per
cent on 5000 articles high enough to
make Clay, Lincoln and Grant turn
over in their graves, and hide their
faces for shame? Civil service!" Have
the Republicans not rs per cent of all
the high-grade good paying places, and
would they extend" this un-American
system. borrowed from England and
through England from China, that has
the most notoriously corrupt civil SER
vice in the world, until they get the
other 25 per cent of positions? Their
whole platform is in four letters:
GOLD; all else is tinsel. and ''all is not
gold that glisters."
Opposed to these influences of greed,
was plain man, poor man, who
helped to rock the cradle of Republic
canism, nearly 40 years ago. He came
up from lowly origin, and at 60 years
of age the United States Senate, with
his vast requirement and vaster SYM
pathy for the great suffering masses,
the producers. When he shook hands
with Senators Lodge and Thurston the
people-the mass of toilers in his par
ty, said: Goodbye" to that plutocrat-
ic aggregation of men known as the
Republican party
STRENGTH OF THE BOLT.
Though he only carried II per cent
of the convention with him, if they
lose a like proportion of their voters,
land it will probably be much greater)
the Republican party is defeated.
General Secretary Treasurer John
W HAYES of the Knights, of Labor said
yesterday that his order is "a unit in
| opposition to the present gold stand
| ard"
Mr. W. B. Martin, of the executive
| board said: 1.-THE working people can
| not get more work and wages without
an increase in the volume of money
| in circulation"
President Milford Spohn, of the Cen
| trail Labor Union, said: "No man nom
| mated upon a single gold standard
platform will receive the hearty sup
port of that class of voters who are
| xoraxyat1inCr financial
| system is largely the cause of our
business depression"
NORTH CAROLINA POLITICS.
Some Republican wrote from Raj
| eigh Yesterday, letter published in
| the Washington City Star, Logan
Harris, I suppose) in which he says
| that Congressman Skinner, James NJ
Mewborne and Cyrus Thompson are
working in harmony to undermine"
| Senator Butler.
| He also says there is great bitterness
! between the one and two convention
Democrats in North Carolina, which
| / don't believe. The two-convention
men will yield without frown or
| pang. if it is deemed best to have only
| one convention, and to ignore the Pop
ulists and silver Republican element
| This wise-acre also says the sound
money Democrats say 10000 of their
number, in North Carolina, will not
| vote for a silver President. | think
| this the worst kind of rot" for every
| single gold Democrat from North Caro-
| lima that / have talked with, says he
will support the nominee, unless he
| is Teller, which is very absurd, for
| Democrats, at Chicago will nominate
| for President none but a Democrat.
The universal protests to Gresham's
! appointment, among all Democrats, is
sufficient guarantee.
| EX-GOV. CAMPBELL'S SPEECH.
Mr.. Campbell's speech at River View,
| (near Washington, yesterday, was ev-
cry word written. The occasion furn-
ished a good opportunity for studying
the probabilities of compromise on
| the silvAr question, as he spoke of Inter
State Democratic clubs,a all sections
were represented, and he is compro-
mise man, with compromise views. If