The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-03-12

dependent party answer this question:
/ AZ M the door of Arthur i. German,
and the traitors of tariff reform, SO
AZ the door of this administration and
of All who uphold it lies the charge OF
party perfidy and dishonor.
T6e Democracy OF the State went be-
fore the people advocating and pledged
| to free coinage, and every Democrat
who regards his own and his party
| honor should stand by the pledge and
1 repudiate the faithlessness OF the men
| who have betrayed us. The admins
| fration has placed the party in the at
| titude of obtaining the votes Or the
| people by false and fraudulent pre-
| lenses, vet there are Democrats III
| North Carolina who defend it, and try
to hide it's tFeachery behind the veil OF
| ingenious sophistry. But 1t cannot pc
| concealed 1t stands out before the
| people of North Carolina IN all It's or
/ ioinaI nalledness. In law it would be
| FINISHED as felony: in politics IT
should be punished with political dis
/ grace and death. While no honest
| man will blame the Democratic party
| for its wrong, yet herein lies the I'M
sneakable shame that has done more
| to humiliate and disorganize the party
| than the adverse fortunes of war and
| thirty years of Republican SANDER.
| Won admit that the Democracy OF
| North Carolina is for free silver we
| are pledged to it not only by tradltioh'
| but by solemn declaration IN conVeh-
tion assembled. And not only qua the
convention of 1894 unequivocally ana
with practical unanimity proclaim
| orr allegiance to silver, but 50 intense
10 ~
was the feelings of the Democrats OF
| the State, and so emphatic was thelr
demand that this metal be coined INTO
| money. that as a rebul<e and protest 70
| tba noIiey of the Federal adminIstra-
finn orr State executive committee re-
! ffirmed The demand for free coinage
| al. the ratio of 16 to l.. No party couid
he more thoroughly committed 10 any
policy than is the Democratic party q
North Carolina to the free and UNI
limited coinage of gold and silver az
the ratio of 16 to /. Now, VINO are the
hol+erso We. who would stand by
these principles, or you who repudlSte
them We. who would adhere TO the
well defined orthodox faith OF Demo
cracv. or Won who are trying to tear us
away from the old landmarks, adyoca-
ting the dogmas of Repubiicanlsm
Your sound money comrades IN
Kentucky have bolted their caucus
nominee. and are now voting with he
n,,hlicans for the election of john =.
Carlisle. We have heard from you the
nildesf censure against these men.
and we are not surprisd, as you are en-
daayorino to commit the whole party
of the State to the Republican idea.
like the generation of hypocrites, de-
nounced Of old, you honor the name
Democracy with your lips, but your
heart is far from her.
You denounce us as boiters, aIia
when YOU do, you denounce the party
nlatforrn of 1892 and what you admit 70
be the platform of 1894. You not only
ran,1diata the solemn declarations 81
the party but you join hands with the
enemies Of your people and sustain
them in the ubiquitous legislation that
robs and ruins the product OF the
South: and this we denounce as tory
ism of the revolution, scallyWagism OF
| reconstruction.
You say that it is the duty Of Dem
ocrats to stand by the National lon
vention. regardless Of its decfara-
tions. and heroically exclain with
Martin Luther: Here | stand, God
heluino me. [ cannot do otherwise.
Imagine Martin Luther going to the
Diet of Worms with such q declaration
as this in his mouth: II have de-
nounced the Pope and have condemned
the sale of indulgences as an outrage
upon humanity aud the blacklist 81
sins. And / am going to the Diet 81
Worms; yes, though every tile upon
the house-top should be devil, and
If the Diet of Worms declare that the
Pope is infallible and that the sale Of
iudIilgences is right, ] viii kiss the
Pope's foot and help to sell indulgence.
Here stand, God helping me, cannot
do otherwise
What OF the attitude Of these so
called free silver journals. as our es-
teemed Citizen, and the men who par
ticipated in the silver convention and
voted for the resolutions there adop-
ted, who advise the North Carolina De-
mocraey to abide by the action Of the
Chicago convention, even il it should
declare for gold mono-metallism and
repudiate silver; and what would be
the attitude Of the Democratic party
of North Carolin? We have always
claimed that it was the champion of
the money Of the Constitution. We
have denounced the decentralization Of
silver in the language of John @. Car
Isle as ''the most gigantic crime Of this
or any other age" the contamination
of which would ultimately entail
| more misery upon the human race
than all the wars, pestilences and fam
| ines that have ever occurred in the hiss
tory of the world" Yet in the face Of
all our professions and declarations
when silver is the all-absorbing, all
controlling Issue, and after we have
! seen the demonstration of the truth
enumerated by John q. Carlisle, the
party must 90 before the people Of
| the State endorsing this gigantic
| crime advocating what to Its own
| conscience is d lie and what to the
mind and conscience of the people is a
| detestable wrong and the cause of
/ untold calamity. Such pusillanimous
| surrendering of principle on the part
/ of the Democrats Of North Carolina