The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1896-11-12

and controlled by the greedy Silver
Trust. He has carried Washington.
Kansas and Nebraska. three OF the
six purely agricultural States adjacent
to the silver States aid ruled by farm
ers who together owe more farm mort
cages than they own farms. He has
carried the twelve States that ruined
and impoverished themselves in the
Confederacy and that have SO large
an ignorant element that about one
fourth Of the white voting population
cannot even read and write. And
those twenty States are all ne has
carried.
THE SILVER LINING OF DEFEAT.
The gloom Of defeat in which the
star of democracy IS for a time OBJ
adverse wind and Earring elements,
there is still comfort in the old adage
"every cloud has its silver lining
Amid the general wreck of political
hopes tina, waited upon the election
Of Mr.. Bryan only to be consumed in
patriotic lump two Of the most in
tense and ardent desires of free coin
age adj vOCates Of this section have been
fully realized One of these is the
wping up on Hon. JOSIAH Patterson
BY CO... Carmack, in the tenth district
of Tennessee, and the other the defeat
of that tainted politician, Col. w. 4.
p Brt ckinridge, in the seventh district
of Kentucky.
With the stigma Of rebuke fastened
upon these two illustrious examples Of
demagogism and mugwumpery, the
Democracy can afford to accept the
result with serene composure feeling
that all is not lost.
Hon. Josiah Patterson has not only
made a fight against the organized De-
mocracy in his district, but he has
conducted such bitter campaign for
re. election as to make his name often
sive to all true and loyal Democrats.
In opposing Colonel E. w. Carmack,
he employed his utmost zeal to defeat
one Of the most courageous and pa
triotlc Democrats of Tennessee. In
league with the Republicans and
boilers OF the district, he sought to re-
tam his seat in Congress by making
something Of a national display Of
himself on the political hus,ings.
Next to the pleasure occasioned by
involuntary retirement of Hon. Josiah
Patterson is the agreeable satisfaction
which comes with the announcement
that Col. w. c. p. Breckenridge, Of
kentucky, has been defeated. There
VAS Il time when Col. Breckenridge
VAS the idol OF Kentucky Democrats.
His name was a platform in itself,
the ring of his eloquent voice had
power to summon a greater host to his
standard than the horn Of Roderick
| Dhu. Since that remote time, how
ever, the star of Colonel Breckenridge
has set and the record of his public
service is but d memory of the past, to
be followed by no sequel in the fu-
| ture.
Spurned by the self-respecting Dem
ocrats Of his district, Colonel Breckin-
ridge, in nursing his political aspira-
| tons had no choice but to affiliate with
Republicans and cutcasts who received
him into their ranks merely because he
had been rejected by the opposition.
Eagerly accepting the Republican in
dorsement in his district, he deliber-
ately made war against the party
whose principles he had besmirched by
his unseemly conduct in the past, and
whose fair name he had dishonored
with his own. 1t was better tina, he
should thus assume toward her the at
tltude of foe than without remorse
cndeavor to wrest from her hands tine
honor of a seat in Congress. Such
men as Colonel Breckenridge are less
dangerous as foes than champions, and
the Democratic party Of Kentucky has
no fault 10 find with him for raising
the standard Of revolt. In the over
whelmlng defeat of last tuesday Dem
ocrats and Republicans were both
made the instruments of heaven in
sealing the fate of Colonel Breckin-
ridge. 1t is doubtful if his political
ambition ever takes wing again.
1t is, therefore, evident, that all is
not lost to the Democratic party since
Hon. Josiah Patterson and Colonel
w. G. P. Breckinride have been so
openly Observation-Disclosures Constitn
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