The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-09-30
JETER PRITcHARD's DODGE
All That Was Good in Repub-
licanism Buried With It's
Old Leaders.
SILVER MEN STAND TOGETHER
Announces Himself for the Senate and
Pledges Himself to Vote tor no
One for Senator who
Is Not for Silver.

IN TINS cam I)adSH IL OllO HuSoNi01A -
finance. 1t is not a party question.
1t is one of commerce and purely
business question, All other questions
are relegated to the rear. Inc he
publican party is for a single goiu
acknowledgements with Mark
Hanna, so-called Democratic annex,
the two headed by Mckinley and
Palmer-but all for Mckinley.
Then we have opposed to a single
gold standard-the Democratic party
proper, the Populist party and the
National Silver party, in favor of
double standard, gold and silver, on
a parity with each ether the ratio
being 16 ounces of silver to one of
gold. The great Silver party have elect
ed for their leader William j. Bryan,
the conquering hero of the 10th CEN
tury, who to day is travelling from
State to State and county to county,
contending for the restoration of sill
yer to its proper place as money
metal. He is meeting with such ova-
tions as was never accorded to any
American citizen. God bless him and
preserve his life and strength until the
election in November when we
can listen to the tramp of
to the polls and deposit their ballots
for the matchless Bryan for their
wives and children and for their home
and country. North Carolina has
agreed ON the fusion of the Democrats,
Populists and National Silver party for
the Bryan electors. That means so or
rs thousand majority in the Old North
State, that through the chairman, the
Hon. Theo. T. KluttZ, cast the vote of
her delegation for William j. Bryan.
That ticket will receive my party sup
port and should receive the party sup
port of nine-tenths of the people of
the State Why do | say so? Because
all our interests are one common in
terest. Republicans, Democrats, Popu-
lists and National Silver party-at
heart they are all for silver and gold
the money of ancient, sacred and
modern history. You all remember
that Joseph's brother sold him into
Egypt for twenty pieces of silver; not
gold, and that Judas Iscariot betray
ed our Lord and Master for thirty
pieces of silver, not gold; don't know
the denomination of the pieces. It may
have been dollars, but that makes no
difference. 1t was money and silver
at that. All the Presidents in the UNI
ted States up to Cleveland and Harri-
son recognized it as money, 1914 to
l, up to 1884, and after that 16 to 1.
Harrison and Cleveland are to-day in
the same boat, voting for Mckinley.
Cleveland was the old ulcer of the
Democratic party that sloughed off at
Chicago and left the Bryan Democrats,
as pure as they were, in the days of
Jefferson. And there is no
difference between Thos jefferson De-
mocracy and Abe Lincoln Republican
ism. The Republican party was in
power when silver was demonetized.
They say they did not know it was
demonetized and that it was a fraud
on the statute books. I waited twenty
years for them to repeal the fraud and
they had the power to do it, but never
attempted to do it. left them for that
reason and voted for Weaver and Field,
and claim that no honest Republican
can remain in a party who upholds
fraud, and that strikes down one
half of the coin, the money of the
constitution, at one fell swoop, and
thereby cuts down the price of wheat
and every thing else the farmers, the
great wealth producers of this coun-
try, dig out of the ground. Jeter
Pritchard voted for a free coinage bill
when it come up in the Senate, thereby
acknowledging it was right to restore
it. / voted for members of the Legis-
lature that made him a Senator to re-
store silver. Now / find him, in a few
short months, going back upon the
people, clamoring for single gold
standard. He talks about interna-
tional agreement That is all bosh. We
will neyr get it and he knows it. The
plumed Knight, James G. Blaine, said
in 1878, after silver was demonetizcd,
that if it was not restored it would
bring distress to millions of people and
destruction to tens of thousands, and
that silver was the money of the Con-
stitution, and must be restored and
fixed so that could never be struck
down again. These are not his exact
words, perhaps, but ask Senator
Pritchard to read that part of his
speech when you hear him talking for
a gold standard Republican.
These. new tangled Republicans
have gone back on Lincoln, Grant,
Blaine and Garfield, and do not inn
bibe single principle of Republican
ism.
Major Guthrie declared in his
WiIkesboro speech that about all that
was good in the Republican party and
all that could hold a patriot to,
its standard had been buried with it's
great leaders of the past, and that the
party was completely Mark Hannaized
until men like Teller, TOwne and Du-
bois and hundreds Of others could no
longer remain within it ranks, but
that he thanked God that these
patriots had the courage and bravery
10 come out and stand with VIM. j.
Bryan i'm the interest of the people.
You are right, Major, carry the news
to Hanna; | hope you will be our
Governor and Cy. Watson our Senator
Now as TO our duty farmers and
wage-earners as to who should be
elected to the legislature and to Con-
gress all conceding that VIM. J. Bry-
an will be our next President. and
in the event he will be inaugurated as
President of the United States he is
then ready to sign a free coinage bill.
Therefore he must have a Senate and
Congress to enact free coinage law,