The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-06-20

| is apparent the shrinking from giving
| offense, lest the vengeance of some Of
| Tended financial power should descend.
| The business man submits some por-
ton of his judgment and his will and
| the nation submits some portions of
it's international right, lest some
| mighty foreign creditor shall make
! destructive demands.
| "Where will this end if the people
shall decline to assert themselves?
| Where will it end if the older parties
/ in their determination to maintain
| themselves in power for powers sake
| alone. shall refuse to recognize the
right and the hope of humanity. This
country cannot much longer exist free
| and independent against all the rest
of the world nor can its people much
| longer be free in the noble sense of the
| term, if the United States. a debtor
nation, shall follow a policy dictated
| by creditor nations. We produce all
| thenecessaries of life. Other nations
| consume our product. In the race for
existence it is constant struggle be-
| tween producer and consumer. Our
present system of money deliberately
submits to the desire and the profit of
creditor nations, leaving us, in the mass
and as individuals, prey to the money
| gatherer and the deadly cheapening
of the old world.
| Every believer in the advancement
| of the race realizes that the instability
1 of prices has been the deadly foe of
our toilers and the servant of the for
| eign interest gatherer. Bi-metallism
will help to bring the time when
| certain expenditure of human toll will
produce a certain financial result. Who
among the great masses of our people
| in the United States butts feels his lot
| would be made better, his aspirations
take new wings, if he could know, in
the performance of his labors. what
would be the price of his product?
rs not this purpose worth the at
tention of the people as individuals
and worth the attention of political
conventions yet to be held in this year,
1896? Is not this SO great an end that
all who believe in the possibility of at
tanning it by the means proposed can
yield something of their partisanship
both in convention and at the polls?
1t is in the hope that the masses and
the remaining convention will have
the courage. and the generosity to unite
for this purpose that we have dared
to offer our views to the people of the
United States, and because in the past
there has lacked rallying point for
the masses who hold, as we do, to this
belief. we venture an act trusting it
| will be received in the same spirit of
conciliation, concession and hope with
which we put it forth.
j ssWe have endeavored in plain way
| to set the matter before the eyes of our
fellow citizens. We invoke the union
Of all men and all parties who believe
| that the time has come for the triumph
/ of justice. 1t is an hour when the
| people may speak for themselves as in
/ dividuals and through conventions yet
/ to be held 1t is the right of every
citizen to indicate his preference. With
/ this in view, we offer to the forth
| coming conventions and to the people
/ the name of man for the presidency
| of the United States whose life in pub
| lie and private represents those dis
| tinguished virtues which adorned the
/ days and the deeds of the earlier time
/ of this republic; return to which
| virtues is requisite for the prosperity
| and contentment of the people and
| the perpetuity and commanding ex-
| ample of free institutions. That name
| is Henry NJ. Teller, a man of the people
| and for the people. He is of no sec
| ton. His experience and service, his
| devotion to the common justice and
| the common cause of his fellow citi-
| zens has been as wide as the country.
| We believe that the people of the Uni
| ted States have him in their hearts
| as he has had their interests in his
| purpose through all the work of an
| exalted life.
| ssIn submitting this name to the
| American people, we remind them that
| lust a generation ago, from the heart
| of the boundless West and touched by
the finger of God, there arose and eman-
| cipator who was powerful in the work
/ of human deliyerance. By his wisdom
| and courage, providentially directed,
| millions were free and the nation Kept
| in its holy union. If others shall see
/ this opportunity as we do, our fellow
| citizens shall see this duty as wee see
| it, that sublime history may be re-
peated and another man-clothed IN
/ the majesty of devotion to the race
| will be lifted to power where, by his
| wisdom and courage, providentially
directed more millions may be made
| free. chains as CALLING as those of actual
slavery loosened and the nation may be
| preserved in the unity of his mission
| to the world.
| Signed: Fred. i. DUBOIS, IL. r. ret
/ tigrew, Frank J. Cannon, Chas. n.
| Hartman, Ben. Erich Clarence Allen,
A. S. Robertson, A. C. Cleveland, Willis
Sweet, Amaza p. Campbell, Archie M.
! Stevenson, Enoch Strother James NJ.
Downing, Chas. III. Brickenstein, Thos.
| Kearns. c. J. Hart Littleton Price,
! Jacob J. Elliott, o. J. Salisbury, j. B.
| Overton, Frank G. Goudy, John f.
/ Vivian r w. Rockefeller Robert W.
Boynogne, Jno. T. NJ. Williams and L.
NJ Earl.
'sSt. Louis, Mo-, June Is, 1896"