The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1896-09-10
CAN THESE MEN BE FOLLOWED ny
REPUBLICANS:

CAN THESE MEN BE FOLLOWED ny
| REPUBLICANs"
Great national interest attached TO
the course of Henry N. Teller when
he withdrew from the National Re-
publican convention. His course
was inspired by the belief--even the
knowledge-t that the Republican
party had departed from and re-
nounced the principles on which it
had been built up, and when the
party, directed and controlled by
monopolists and foreign syndicate
influences, decided to take a wrong
course, Teller arose, and in the face
Of Kisses and jeers of fifteen thous-
and people, declared he could not
and would not 60 with it. With
, force and eloquence never surpassed
in the annals of American states
manship, he Numbered forth to tho
world that the National Republican
convention of 1896, was the first
body of American citizens that had
shown the cowardice to declare that
America was not competent to enact
legislation in her own interests with
out the consent of some other coun-
v try. A party like that could not be
, the party of Teller, nor can it be
the party of any TRUE AND GENUINE
: AMERICAN CITIZEN.
/. Not quite so extended perhaps,
but equally as intense was the in
terest attached to the course Of Hon.
Oliver II. Dockery, the grand GOLD
n WAR HORSE of the Pee Dee, when
e he declared at Wadesboro, on Au-
: gust Goth, that the Republican party,
v of which he had been a member
. and for which he had fought all the
Years of his manhood, had renounc-
I'd al true Republicanism, all true
Anericanism, and he could not &C
u with it until it should return to its
basic and time honored principles,
No more inspiring scene was ever
O witnessed in this State than to see
y this "Grand Old Man" of North Car.
q olina standing before a large audi
- ence Of people who have ever trusted
;, and followed him, and pleading with
and warning them to call a hall
" in the course they had been pur
u suing. To do this he was compel
re ed to wrench ties and connection!
re which had gained great power ant
strength during their growth O.
years; but he saw danger ahead il
- the path marked out by his life-lons
l. aud life-loved party, danger, eve,
disaster for people and State; ant
, despising criticism, hurting defianc
" at any and all denunciation tina
y might come from party blinde'
pimps, his voice rang out in clea
and clarion tones, saying if tn
Republicans did not want to invit
depression and ruin to reign amony
. them, THEY MUST CHANGE THEi
-. COURSE.
val The power with which he gave tn
-, warning compelled the hearts of hi
4 hearers to culver in sympathy wit
:. him, and what he said found lodl
co ment in their intelligence. His or
er splendid physique shook under th
~ power of the intensity of his convi'
. tons, and their force was refecte
~, In his strong, powerful face whic
=, looked to be the incarnation
ev sterling honesty and integrity.
,rs There are yet more who could b
Il, spoken Of. But one more persons
illustration will suffice here. No R
publican will question the Republ
canism of Ulysses s. Grant. The for,
90 of his character and the influence
TO his convictions may readily be SUI
M posed to have been impressed on b
IL. sons. And this is why We can a.
p, nounce in this issue that Jesse Gran
of son of U. S. Grant, has r
y, fused to bow to the mandates of
yer party that has made a most disgrac
cd full covenant with the Hanna gol
r. monopoly combine, and has d
= q nounced that, as he stands f
he American principles and patriotism
100 he finds he must enroll himself u
,ds der the banner of the Peoples Pa
"A ty!
IAN
ess 1t may not be very hard to accou
not for the fact that some Republica
ak can and do bow to and support t
cte foreign controlled platform of t
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