The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1896-06-11
LATEST SCHEME
OF THE GOLDBUGS
The Gold Ring Prstends to be Dis
satisfied With McNnlsy-The
Hope to Fool Western People.
ALL EYES TOWARD TELLER

Aopo W WI "eeselu eepiSs
ALL EYES TOWARD TELLER.
win SILVER Democrats K.ve the Patriot
lam to Rise to the Importance of tn. oe-
easion. -signiac.ace Of the Oregon Kl.e-
t,on-Ths PHILIPPE Labor Commission
Bill . Doubtful AeAsure-Hin Tryirs to
Rob Citizens Of Trial by Jury.
Special to The Caucaslanl
WASHINGTON, ID. c., June s.-after
long and hard fight the anti-bond
bill passed the Senate on last Tuesday
by a majority of seven votes. Since
that time the bill has been before the
House committee TO which il was re-
ferred. A large majority of the COM
mittee are opposed TO the bill, while
only four members of the committee
are in favor OF it. The gold Republi-
cans and gold Democrats who com
pose majority of the committee are
still hesitating whether or not TO
pigeon-hole the bill and let il die in
the committee, or to report it to the
House and vote it down. If it is re-
ferred to the House there will be a
minority vote favorIng the bill. and
the first vote will have to be taken on
this minority report. This Will lead
to some discussion of the question
which the gold men are angious To
avoid. They were SO badly worsted in
the discussion in the Senate that they
fear the effect of debate in the House
upon it.
But whether the bill dies in the
committee or is killed in the House by
vote will be of little difference. be-
cause the voters of the country will
place the responsibility for the failure
of this bill TO become a law where
it belongs -upon the Republican
House OF Representatives. This &C
ton will make the Republican House
of Representatives equally RESPONSE.
BILE with Grover Cleveland for every
other bond that is issued. 1t will
make them equally responsible will
him for the secret bond deals of tn,
past, because in spite of Cleveland.
outrageous and infamous conduct il
this matter, they insist Oh leaving hin
with the power to repeat the same in
stead of referring this important mat
ter to Congress for action, where it be
| longs.
Senator Butler in closing the debat,
in the Senate on this bill said, "Thi
measure will pass the Senate: now lie
the House of Representative pass i
before it adjourns and save the coun
try from another issue of bonds an,
another load of debt piled upon tn
taxpayers for the benefit of the gol,
gamblers of Europe" He asked "Cal
1T be possible that any Congressman
will say that he would rather trust tn
President, in spite of the record tina
the President has made, to decid
when money shall be borrowed, an,
how it shall be borrowed, and for wha
purpose it shall be spent than to trus
Congress, the representatives of tn
people who are elected to transac
such matters and to guard the interest
of the nation?"
Senator Teller made a speech on tn
Butler bond bill just before the yot
was taken in which he paid his re
spects to certain class of silver Re
publlcans. He said that the test of
mans loyalty to silver was proven O
the recent vote in Congress to take u
the tariff bill with free silver amend
ment thereto. He said that those VIII
refused to vote for free siI
yer amendment on the tart
bill showed that they placed tn
question of tariff above the finar
cial question, and in doing that the
took position alongside Of Sherma
and the other epublicans. He sal
that this class of silver Republican
who took John Sherman for the
leader could no longer fool their cor
} stituents by making them believe tha
they were true to silver and to the pc,
pie.
LATEST SCHEME OF THE GOLDBUGs.
AS we have said in a former lette
the same gold ring that put up I.
enormous fund to nominate and ele,
Grover Cleveland has now put up a
even larger campaign fund to nom
nate and elect Mckinley. But tn
gold ring has recently become alarme
at the rapid growth of the free silv,
5 sentiment, even in the Republica
! party. They have become alarmed lie
. the whole West will revolt again
l Mckinley under the lead of Senat,
= Teller. They now realize that it
p impossible to elect Mckinley unle
they can fool large number of fir,
silver men into supporting him. The
e latest scheme is to do this. 1t is beir
= worked in the following manner: III
gold papers of the East, acting as Il
g mouth-piece of the gold ring are b
: ginning to say that they have doub
as to Mckinley's being sound on tt
i money question. Some of them eve
i go so far as to threaten that unle
n they become thoroughly satisfied tn
Mckinley will stand squarely for tt
single gold standard after he is electe
= that they will not support him. TIL
is being done by the very men wi
. are putting up the money to nom ina
and elect Mckinley. At the san
!. time the Republican papers out We
[. where the free silver sentiment in tt
! Republican party is very strong, a
r quoting these threats of the Easter
papers and saying to their WesteI
n leaders that the fact that the Easter
e men are dissatisfied with Mckinley
n the best possible proof that McKinl,
is friendly to silver, and good reas,
+ why all silver men should suppo
r him. A few years ago scheme Iii
e this would have worked nicely al
i fooled millions of voters, but it W
fool nobody this year except tho
: who desire to be fooled. 1t is true tn
g number of politicians who expect
get office under Mckinley, if he
n elected, will seize on this scheme a,
e use it to fool their voters at home. b
+ the hope of the country is in the vote
themselves, and the voters this We
" are too much in earnest and too. W,
u Informed to be fooled, even by t.
leaders they have trusted and follow
'e so long. The fact that the gold M
have been forced to resort to tt
scheme is proof that they are beei
&c ming to doubt that Mckinley a
IL the Republican party cannot carry t
country on next November.
- Let the voters remember that Il
= gold ring used the Democratic par
= in 1892, it is now using the Republic
=, &c party, and in 1900 it will raise ca
e paign fund to control the Democrat
~ conventions and elect goldbug De-
u Ocrat for President. Let every yo,
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