The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1896-07-23
DUTY OF THE HOUR.

DUTY OF THE HOUR.
Mr.. EDITOR LII all the advocates |
of free and unlimited coinage OF silver
would only read the comments Of the
northern gold bug press upon the Chi
caeo convention and its nominees,
there would be immediate union.
The people should not allow office
seekers and Office holders of any party
to Keep them apart. This Is a lie
and death struggle for the white metal,
and its friends are needed. According
to these vile, hired mouth-pieces OF
concentrated wealth, trusts and mo-
nopolies, no man who does not wor-
ship the golden idol of their own
creation, is worthy to breathe the free
air.
Read the following from the Phila-
delphia Record, of July 18th:
The platform adopted by the Chica-
20 Convention is such declaration OF
purposes and principles as no consist
emit Democrat and no lover of the
country can conscientiously approve.
No man fit to be President or Vice
President of the United States could in
honor stand upon it; and it is there
fore quite unnecessary to consider what
manner of persons have been presented
for the suffrages of the people. Be-
/ nHIrn D4n0n1 CITY
porter of Democratic principles it re-
pudiates, condemns and splits upon this
Communicate, Populistic deliverance.
The worst misfortune that could now
befall the Democratic party would be
the election of a President and Con-
gress pledged to carry into effect the
aims of this revolutionary, Sociallstic
scheme of political action.
The propositions to authorize free
silver coinage at the ratio of 16 to /,
independently of all other nations, and
thereby to establish silver monometal-
ism to impair the sanctity of contracts ;
to repudiate the obligations of the Gov
eminent to override or debauch the
Federal Courts to put it out of the
power of the executive to protect the
public credit or the public safety, and
to authorize the Congress to issue I'M
limited amounts of legal tender notes,
are all embodied in this Chicago man.
|ifesto. They are set in framework
of undisputed Democratic doctrine
but this can not disguise their abhor-
rent quality. It makes them more re-
pulsive by contrasts and contradictions.
The partisans who vote one way or
another way with view to make a
livelihood out of politics, and with no
other motive the mistaken believers
in Cheap Money as panacea for hard
!, times or bad government the secret
enemies of republican institutions the
wretches who are willing to speculate
upon public misfortune, and the follow.
ers after Coxeyism and Tillmanism and
!: Altgeldism, may fnfno impeachment
to the support of the Chicago ticket
But from this time until the day Of
election it will be the business of Dem
ocrats to study how they may best ACT
to defeat it, and at the same time CON.
serve the principles OF true Democracy
: Whether this may best be done by the
nomination of an independent Demo.
cratic ticket, by voting for Mckinley
or by taking some other course of &C.
ton, is matter for immediate consid.
, Grafton and decision.
By overturning Democratic prece-
dents and usages, by unseating Demo
cratic delegates and by insulting the
Democratic Administration, the mad
men at Chicago have forfeited all claim
! to party loyalty. The Record reserves
to itself the largest liberty of action in
Regulating its future course by what il
: shall deem that line of policy which
will best promote the public welfare.
It behooves every true American to
use his best efforts for the success Of
this cause waged by the great body OF the
J people against the few. Sacrifices
} should be made by all. The man who
does not read the great northern dailies,
largely owned and controlled by for
, eigners, does not know the malignant
spirit entertained for the middle class
of people.
These papers are un-American In
tone, sentiment and sympathy. They
denounced Mr.. Cleveland for his vigor-
GUS assertion OF the Monroe doctrine and
they now denounce the efforts of true
Americans to protect their honor, their
children and their liberties. The watch
word in this contest should be Ameri-
can liberty against British gold.
J w. A. D.
THE BOY PRESIDENT,
i There have been many disparaging
remarks about nominee w. J. Bryan's