The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-06-02
SOME WORDS OF WISDOM.
There Is Mo Sense in Having Two De-
nocratic Parties.

To the Editor:-I have read so much
of late about silver and gold, that L
have decided to ask you if it is really
a fact that the leaders or those who
have tried to be leaders of the good old
Democratic party, have come to the
conclusion that the Republican party
is and has been the only party that has
has had an honest financial platform?
The Democratic party, as j understand
it has always favored both metals as
money, without discrimination. III
this is not true, then / have been de-
ceived as to the financial principles OF
the Democratic party. With the two
metals as money, the country has been
prosperous, and farms and farm pro-
ducts have brought fair prices; but
since we have virtually been on the
gold basis, it is almost impossible to
sell land at all. The owners of the pre-
cious yellow metal want to hide it, and
| am of the opinion that if there is
goldbug elected President the common
people are done handling money at all.
If we have been wrong all these many
years, | see no use in making little
Or no change in our platform from the
Republican party, and virtually have
two Republican parties, but let us just
disband and go to Russell and beg par
don for telling lies on them ever since
the war, and promise 10 do SO no more:
| am, and have always been OF the opin-
ion that two parties were necessary to
good government, but | see no use in
two Republican parties, both fayoring
the same thing.
The big men in the Democratic party
who are now admitting that they have
been wrong, or have been deceiving the
people 10 these many years, should hide
themselves in shame, instead of trying
to run the Democratic party into Re
rublicanism, and destroy forever the
patry of the people, the party that has
protected our homes and the virtue of
our daughters, and has given peace,
happiness and prosperity in the good
old State of >orth Carolina since 1869.
| am for coming together and sticking
to the old principles of Democracy.
and let new and wicked principles re-
main outside our ranks. | will thank
you to explain this matter, and say if
our gold friends are not admitting in
their flops that the Republican party
is financially right, and we. the Demo
Gratis, wrong ,t -...
L viii say further, that in my opin-
ion, if we don't send silver delegates to
the Chicago convention, we will not
represent the people of this State, for
in my honest opinion there are fifty to
enc in the Democratic ranks in favor of
silver. | don't believe the Democratic
party can carry single county in this
State on gold standard platform. |
will say in conclusion. that | do hope
the will of the people will rule, and
when our State convention meets it
VIII not be suppressed as in the late
Republican convention, but that we
may nominate good honest men TO fill
every office, from constable to Presi-
dent, men who will represent and main
tain the will of the people. Right here
| will give you a sample of the kind of
man | mean-Ben Lacy for Congress,
and then, if they can be found in the
State, fill every Office in the State with
just such men, and am sure we will
be in safe hands, and such Demo-
cratic victory as we will have in No
yember you have never seen or heard
of, and our opponents viii wonder
what they ran for.
Wishing you much success as editor
OF the best paper in the State, and har-
mony and prosperity to the Demo
cratic party, / am,
Yours obedently.
n. g. MARLBOROUGH.
Osgood, n. c., May %. 1896.