The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-11-01
SOME PAST INCIDENTS
Mr.. Vinton's Report on Some
North Carolina Pop. Leaders.
I'm 1T FOR WHAT THEY CAN GET
Senator Germans Close Maryland
Work Has Saved that State Scan
daI-Monger Morton's Insult to
Mrs.CIeveIand and North
Carolinians.

Sim Republican, Senator, but |
owe you debt for clubbing that pro-
fessional scandal monger, Morton, the
barn rat" said handsome looking
business man to the venerable Senator
Morgan.
'sWell, he is a pest, said the Senator.
When George Vest used to roast him
/ told him he wasn't worth splitting out
an epithet at. | was provoked"
'sWhy, he even maligned Mrs. Cleve-
land, and deserved to be booted down
the steps instead of taken into re-
spectacle association, said by
stander.
He went up to Asheville and some of
Mr.. Nanderbilt's people showed him
around, and he swelled up to that de-
gree that he could only relieve him.
self by villifying the mountain people
of the neighborhood.
Some people are fools for want OF
sense.
Mr. DE La Croix ought to fetch him
down to North Carolina to convert the
silver sayages, and then use him after
the election to account for the failure
of the people to vote. The excuse
Mould pass.
Have you read Senator Germans
speech 30 said an unusually well-in-
formed gentleman yesterday. Its
digest of the situation, and very able
one. He is a convert that can give a
reason for the faith that is in him.
The $4,000 additional white voters reg
istered in Maryland, three-fourths of
which are white metal men, will show
you how idle he has been. Work with
him, like charity, begins at home, and
then when his own row is weeded, he
goes over into his neighbours farm and
helps him out of the grass. Unless
the corporations brow-beat their men
into voting like serfs, Maryland is
Democratic, and / don't believe that
corporate power, however powerful it
may be, can unman the white voters
OF Maryland" That's the way he puts
it.
Mr.. Lindley Vinton. who has been
stumping North Carolina for the past
three weeks in behalf of the Sound
Money League of New York, passed
through the city to-day on his way into
West Virginia to continue his cam
paigning. In conversation with Star
reporter he gave an interesting ac-
count of the situation in North Caro-
lima:
1.-THE chances are excellent for Nc
Kinley's carrying the State said Mr..
yinton. saThis condition has developed
in spite of the fact that there is an
ostensible fusion between the Demo-
Gratis and Populists, and that upon the
basis of the last election such fusion
would show plurality of $1,000 votes
against Mckinley. This apparent OBJ
stacle in the way of a Republican vic
tory has been overcome in a number
of ways.
GIN North Carolina THE P0PUIIST
LEADERS ARE IN THIS FIGHT FOR
WHAT THEY CAN GET OUT OF 1T
FOR THEIR OWN PARTY AND FOIL
LOWERS. There is nothing for them
in the national election, but there is
a great deal in the State election. The
Populists have fused with the Republic
cans on the State ticket and Congress
sional ticket, and with the Democrats
on the national ticket"
Whether Mr.. Bryan becomes Presi-
dent of not the people who delight in
obeying the second of the great COM
mandments viii always eve debt to
the editor of the News and Observer
for having championed his claims and
urged his supreme fitness to lead a
crusade for Justice and humanity. 1t
is not politics-that is politics in its
worse and accepted sense, that draws
people of all shades of belief in public
and social questions TO Mr.. Bryan's
banner. He has touched the hearts of
the people and if left to their better
selves they viii do what is right by
him. To have aided in uncoyering such
a man to the admiration of his country
deserves praise and thanks. / know
men of almost every phase of opinion
who are for Bryan, because they be-
g lieve in the man and in the sincerity
and intelligence and honesty of the
principles of his daily life. / do not
know a woman but holds him in
reverence A most interesting acqualn-
lance of his, who has had the great
privilege of sitting and talking with
him financially, entertained me most
charmingly with few sketches that
brought out the man very clearly and
earnestly, and may make good Sunday
reading.
We were sitting at the birth of the
silver propaganda and the pivotal ques-
ton of whether those present would
abandon their past party associates,
was reached after long and serious
communing. Gen. Warner presided
and he requested each speaker in turn
to be brief in stating his view. Mr.
Bryan sat in corner and when his
name was called he said, cheerfully
and 1aughingly:
General, you had better pass me
by"
'sNo," said the General, 81 will not
I don't believe the Democrats can or
will give us what we must have. so
you must tell us what you think"
/ shall never forget the look that
came out of his face. 1t gleamen He
said in a far-off voice:
at has been the dream of my youth
to see the great Democratic party take
up the true cause of the people and
I will live to see it do it. have long
ed to be a worker in that struggle and
I believe it to be great honor to be a
true Democrat. ! foresee that