The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-07-16
He Got in a Lick Uuder Cleve-
lands Short Ribs.
WORKERS NOT FOR SALE
Mark Hanna Cannot Pay Them
to Forge Their Chains
JUSTICE CLARk'S OSillON
SIC Would Have Been Nominated But
for the Determination of South
ern Men Not to Nominate
Southern Man.
a Southern Man.


and gold men. Some of them are true
Democrats and some of them nave
merely been masquerading as Delno-
Gratis In the main the advocates
of the gold standard in the South are
honest Democrats, who believe IN the
fundamental principles OF the party
They will bow to the Will Oh the ma
ioritv and work for the success OF the
marty this year as hard as the dlsap-
noinfed silver men worked IN 1877.
lo1v one such Democrat on the ears to-
dav IT was Mr.. j. n. Bohanan, Oh
Hickory, whose business takes nm In II
To every section of the country. L
am like the Indian said Mr.. Bohanan,
.swho was found away from his wig
wan, who said: Wigwam lost; IN
dian found. Wigwam will come pack
If wigwam don't come back lna!an
will go to wigwam.' That's the klIld
of Democrats Catawba has long had
the reputation for raising
David Bennett Hill is nobody's fool.
And he has a long memory. -Four years
ago in the city of Chicago, MI. Hlll
was denounced by Whitney, Was,
Russell, Bissell, Bragg and the other
Cleveland leaders as a peanut polltl-
clan unworthy of confidence and lack
ing elements of great leadership. Last
week. these men put him forward as
their leader, applauded his every ut
terance. and made him the manager
of the administration and gold forces.
So far as having a feathers weight
& hA Mr.
whitney might have gone to Europe.
He wasn't seen by two hundred dele
gates. and did not influence a dozen
outside of New York. Hill was the
soul of the gold forces. He fought the
battle with skill and adroitness, but
had to 90 down in defeat. But in his
hour of defeat he had his revenge. At
ter his money plank was defeated by
more than a two-thirds vote, Hill in
sroduced his resolution endorsing
Cleyeland's administration. He had
been begged by conservative silver
men not to introduce it, and told that
they would be compelled to vote it
down. The committee on platform
had decided to make no reference to
the administration They could not
endorse its financial policy without
y
to criticise in a great platform con-
tanning a declaration of principles.
Hill persisted, and had the satisfaction
of seeing his resolution voted down.
Was he sorry that the convention voted
down resolutions endorsing Cleveland?
Nobody will believe that David Ben
nett did not take just a little satisfac
ton in seeing his once victorious enc
my vanquished. I heard more than
one Cleveland man say that Hill intro
duced the resolution merely to get a
dig at Cleveland under the short-ribs.
This probably does him injustice, but
/ will never believe that Hill lost any
sleep through anguish at the result.
This is a great Republic. If there
was any doubt that those from the
humblest ranks might aspire to the
highest elevation. the nomination of
Mr.. Bryan to the presidency proves
it. Tt is published that when Mrs.
Mary +. Cobb. the great-grand-moth
of Mr.. Bryan was informed ofhis NOM
ination she was working at the wash
tub, IT is the highest praise that could
be given the candidate to say that his
chief ambition in life is to secure leg
islation that will give a better chance
to the lowly and the humble. While
his candidacy appeals to all men who
want a government that bears equal
ly upon all, it appeals with special
force to those who earn their bread
in the sweat of their face. They are
foclling to his support everywhere.
Mckinley thinks his honied words and
Mark Hanna's money can induce them
to vote for their undoing, and to forge
the shackels upon their own wrists.
He will be mistaken in November. |
met gentleman in Asheville who said
that on the day after Bryan was NOM
mated, a number of workingmen, who
had been waring Mckinley badges,
threw them in the ditch and announc-
ed that they would vote for Bryan.
They do not believe that this country's
financial system ought to be dictated
by foreign kings and queens. They
have faith that America can paddle
its own canoe
II have noticed" said a prominent
Georgian TO me as we boarded the train
at Cincinnati, that the men who work
for their living are prouder of their
country and have more faith in it than
the idle classes who live upon inher-
tied wealth. The man living upon an
income he has not earned, is ready
to have fit if anybody suggests that
America ought to control its own fl
nancial policy. The same proposition
made in a company of men who work
is received with patriotic fervor."
/ wrote yesterday that the North
Carolina delegation voted on every bal
lot for Justice Clark for Vice-Presi-
dent. 1t was apparent early in the bal
lotting, and even before the first ballot
was taken, that the decree which had
gone forth by Northern leaders against
the nomination Of a Southern man,
would be obeyed. But the North Caro-
lima delegates did not believe it was too
soon to nominate a Southern man. and
determined to enter their protest to
the decision. It is but fair to the West
ern Democracy to- say that they did
not share the view of the Southern
leaders. They wanted a Southern
man, but they acquiesced in the advice