The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-01-30

r1dlcule0 every Outer belloSlo othS af'~
pirant.
''There was plain evidence to show
that the President himself had weak
ened on the question of tariff reform,
and the financial plank was cunnlngly
drafted so as to satisfy both gold and
silver men, with the intention that it
would be interpreted, if Mr.. Cleye-
land was elected, as meaning the
cessation of silver coinage and the
forcing of a gold standard upon the
people. Interpreted according to the
plain use and meaning of the English
words, the platform means bimetal-
lism, but there are conditions and
ambiguous phrases which have afford
ed an excuse to the elastic conscience
of the bull-headed and self-idolatrous
man who holds the reins of power to
pursue the policy he has. Whether
the scheme was agreed to by the Presi-
dent in person or not, and whether he
bound himself in plain terms or not
will, perhaps, never be known. His
course has been answering in the alb
solute contradiction of his public pro-
fessions and letter of acceptance. The
expectations and interests of the peo-
pie have been forgotten and ignored.
The party which elected him has been
betrayed, and it's banners which float
ed so triumphantly in the breezes of
1892, now trail in the dust of defeat.
The practical destruction of the party
has been accomplished"
There had been no trouble with the
gold reserve, the Senator asserted, and
no hint of any loss of confidence in the
nj nj.
of the last Presidential election Then
for the first time, we got glimpse of
the conspiracy which he had referred
to. Mr. Foster gave the holders Of
greenbacks and Treasury notes the OPP
ton of having government paper cash
ed in gold or silver and, as they all de-
manded gold, the gold in the Treasury
rapidly run down.
Instead of endeayoring TO stem the
tide of ruin and redeem the pledges of
the Democratic party, to give the peo-
pie the relief, President Clevelan lent
aid and comfort to the conspirators
by his utterances and official actions
in continuing the policy Of his prede-
cessor.
The Senator quoted from President
Clveland's response TO the committee
that notified him of his nomination the
last time, and declared there was moth
ing in it TO warrant one to expect that
the leader of the Democratic party
would ignore the platform and treat
with contempt the trusted lieutenants
whom the people has sent to the Ma
tional capital. The language would
lead us to expect the very reverse. How
many, he asked, of thes reasonable eX-
pectations have been met?
How many of you men, grown old
and gray in the service Of the party
and of the nation, men who were its
trusted leaders before Cleveland was
ever hard of, how many, | say have
been called into his councils? If any,
speak; / shall be glad to hear them.
Where has this man sunk his per-
sonality? Whom has he consulted?
Whose advice has he recognized None
but that of the bootlicks and syco-
plants, who have crawied on their
knees for the crumbs Of patronage and
betrayed their constituents for the Of
fees in his gift.
'.In the entire history Of this coun-
try the high office of President has
never been so prostituted, and never
has the appointing power been 50 a
bused. Claiming to be the apostle of
Civil Service Reform, he has debauch-
ed the civil service by making appoint
ments only of those whose sponsors
would surrender their manhood, and.
with bated breath, walk with suhmis-
siye head in his presence. With re-
lentIess purpose he has ignored his
oath of office to uphold and obey the
law, and has paid out gold instead Of
coin and issued bonds 10 buy more
gold, by both actions overriding the
law, and giving no heed TO the inter
ests of any but moneyed friends
might say his owners or partners.
while TO this besotted tyrant, coin
has come to mean gold alone, he cannot
by his mere 'ipse dixit' change the law
Of this lQad and pervert the plain
meaning of the English language. His
Republican partners in crime who set
the unrighteous and unlawful exam
pie which he has SO persistently fol-
lowed, and encouraged him in it TO the
utmost extent, cannot escape the con
demnation of the honest, working, bus
mess men of the country as equal part
ners in his guilt"
The repeal of the Sherman law. il
was asserted, Wnich was the nfSt poiht
of attack of this ''unholy alliance" was
only accomplished through the aid
and in conjunction with majority of
the Republican Senator'S
"This Democratic President accom-
plished what was not possible for any
Republican executive. under the cir
cumstances, to have brought about.
A change of the party in power had
left large number of offices in his gift
with which to buy votes"
In discussing the honest meaning
of parity of gold and silver, in the
Sherman law, he said
'The object was to have them TO as
sist each other to hold silver up by
holding gold down, and an honest
Secretary of the Treasury, who should
have resigned his Office rather than
submit to the dictation of besotted
chief, would have paid out silver to
protect the treasury from the gold
gamblers and bond grabbers, as the
law and the oath of his office required.
But, alas, the old breed of Southern
statesmen like Calhoun, who, after
life Sueuf n. Tho 11,1hiie service had tn