The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1896-04-02

cipie Tor the hope OF party victory.
IT you have no respect for yourself,
do not be the means Of making the
Straightforward members Of your
party attempt to apologize for your
position and attitude. II you cannot
stand for principle above every indi-
cation or promise Of victory or office
without principle, then for Gods sake
and for the sake Of honesty get out OF
the Peoples Party and 20 back where
you belong.
SOME MORE QUESTIONS AND An
| swERs.
In addition to the questions about
cooperation, published recently in
The CAUCASIAN, we have received the
following:
| QUESTION: II we Co operate with
the Republicans this year, could we
not allow them to name the Governor
If he is a good silver man?
ANSWER: This depends upon what
you mean by good silver man." A
man who claims to be for free silver,
yet who is ready to vote for a goldbug
for President il his party dominates
one is not a good silver man. Such
man is more dangerous to the liberty
and prosperity Of the people than an
out and out gOldbug. The seat of
power in this government is in the
White House. A President not only
has the power Of vetOing any bill
passed by Congress, but he has, in ad-
dition, such tremendous patronage
and other influence behind him that
he can have dangerous influence
over COngress-he can, as has often
been done, influence legislation di-
rectly against the interests of the peo-
pie. Did not Cleveland, by the use of
patronage, force the Democratic Con-
gress that was pledged to free silver
to repeal the only silver law on the
statute books in 1893? The great Sem
ator Vance could not even get a 4th
class postmaster appointed, because
he was one of the few who would not
bow down to the will and demands of
gOldbug President. 1t is not every
one who has the courage and manhood
that Vance had. Governor Vance saw
his mistake in voting for Cleveland
when it was too late; and if he were
living to-day he would be standing
with The CAUCASIAN and the Peoples
Party for common fight against the
Clevelands, the McKinleys, the ALI
sons, the Reeds, the Whitneys, and the
Shermans.
In the light of the present condition
of the country, the man who claims to
be friend of the people, yet who will
vote for gold man for President, is
not only hypOcrite, but is, in fact,
the best and most valuable agent that
the goldbugs can have for deceiving
the people and leading them to vote
for their own ruin. The g0ldbug
Charlotte Observer understands this,
and this is why that paper says that
it will support any silver man who
will say that he will vote for the Dem
ocratic goldbug nominee for Presi-
dent; but, on the other hand, that it
will fight any man who will not SUD-
port that Democratic nominee. Every
member of the Peoples Party and
every patriot should not only stand |
against any goldbug nominee for the
Presidency, but also against any other
candidate who will support a goldbug
for President. We all know that there
will never be any better times, but
that, on the other hand, everything
will go from bad to worse, as long as
the government continues to be run
as the Democrats and Republicans
have been running it. How can a man
who believes that the gold standard is
fatal to American liberty and pros
perity Justify himself in Deliberately
voting for goldbug, unless he places |
the love of party above the loxs of /
country, and the love of parsy spells
above the welfare of the toiliHg masses.
The people have been tsified with.
fooled and betrayed long enough. The
Peoples Party will not stoop to the
same game that the old parties have
been playing. Therefore, we cannot
support any candidate Tor Governor
who will vote for goldbug for Presi-
dent.
QUESTION Csr we risk the chances
OF Democrat getting back into power
In North Carolina this year? If we
cannot do asy better, had we not best
accept ths terms of the Republicans?
ANSWER: The letter containing the
ABOVE, question was written before its
author had seen the issue of The CAu-
cAsiAN in which we answered the
same question. We think that M ono
will question the soundness and cor.
rectness of the answer which We pave
two weeks ago. But we will say fur.
'her that the Republicans have lust A
much to fear from the Democrats get
ing back into power as we have. Wei
nave simply asked them to do what
was fair, right and consistent. On the
''her hand their proposition, as we
Understand it, is unfair, wrong and in
consistent. The Peoples Party has
and cannot descend to old
party methods to the extent of betrav.
ng the interests of the people. We
,ave asked the Republicans to Join US ,
n common fight for the prosperity
# the people and for the defeat of the
'oldbugs. So far they have not &C. ,
epted this offer, but have, on the
'ther hand, asked Us to give up our
principles and to join them in a COM
non scramble for crumbs from the ]