The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1896-10-22
DEMOCRATS, READ THIS.

From all accounts the Hon. J. Sltr-
ling Morton has made good Score
tary Of Agriculture in Mr.. Cleveland's
Cabinet, and his friends have marked
his administration Of that office with
no little satisfaction, but of late he
seems 10 have lost his head, as many
other good men have done since the
opening OF the Presidential campaign.
SO long as Mr.. Motion confined
his writings 20 descriptions Of cabbage
seed he was all right, but the very mo-
ment he abandoned that class of liter
ature he startled the country with his
ignorance. Nobody has ever thought
that Sterling Morton was overbur-
dened with intelligence, but the PEG
pie thought him a good man 10 han
die their turnips and garden seed, and
when Mr. Cleveland invited him to
become member Of his political
household they SAID i, was well. But
this quite good man has grown rabd
OF latc-hc sees IN the silver move
ment "another attempt to destroy The
Union and lest it may succeed
| he hastens to write the Washington
Pest in regard to the matter, and here
is what he says:
The finance which they teach is
entirely Confederate fiat. In the
Southern Contederacy the same lead.
ers who now are i'll command Of the
picket guards for free silver at lG to l
were leading tinanciers. And Harris
| Pu.h, Morgan and the other Confed.
crate Generals now in command of the
Bryan campaign seem to desire to &C
| u'ru piieh Ivy FALSE iiuou.U, that wfiiUl
they failed to bring about by arms
national dshonor and disgrace.
This would be amusing il not 81
ridiculous. But seriously speaking
does Nh Morton know what he i
talking about? Does he not know
that the men whom he has attacked
IN his correspondence to the Post ar
as patriotic as himself? And does ht
not know that all of the silver mel
are not Confederate brigadiers? |
every man who advocates free silver i
a traitor and a would-be destroyer Q
the Union, Mr.. Morton has severa
hundred thousand of them in his owl
section Of the country.
| As The Pest remarks:
Hundreds of thousands of them whC
fought for the integrity of the Uniol
just as valiantly as Mr.. Morton did
who swelled the regiments from Ohio
Indiana. Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota
Kansas, Iowa and Wisconsin. VIVA
of these? Surely they did not stud
finance at the feet of Jefferson Davis
Yancey, Toombs and Alexande
Stephens. Are these also traitors
conspirators and patricides Mr.. MOI
ton has taken a formidable contract i
this utterance of his. He not only al
tracks the honesty and patriotism {
the South, but he charges millions {
his fellow citizens, West aud Mort
with treason. Does he, then, CON
NIT himself to the assertion tha
all these men have gone over to tn
teachings of secession, and that vot
for silver means call for the resul
rection of the dead Confederacy?
Mr.. Morton has spoken unadvisedly
These Southern gentlemen are as pf
triotic as he is. The honor and tn
welfare of the country are as safe
their hands as they would be in his
They represent section which is a
enlightened, as patriotic and as va
orous as the section which he repre-
sents. He has no warrant for denoun(
ing them as traitors and agents of sed
ton because they do not happen t
agree with him. We believe-cel
tainly we hope-that when Mr.. Mo-
ton shall have pondered we'll his WORD
he will come forward with retrac to
and apology.
Is there any other charge Mr.. MOI
ton and his friends care to brn
against the men of the South who al
advocating Bryan and free silver? F.
mark you, he does not attack any
the South who are not engaged in III
free silver movement. 1t is from III
Confederate brigadiers that he bs
lleves danger is TO come, and he
. mighty uneasy lest they will brin
national dishonor and disgrace upo
the country.
II J. Sterling Morton was simply
United States District Attorney an
he abused the people "who have
, monopoly upon the honor and honest
of the country" as he has the men
the late Southern Confederacy he'd
: called down, but it makes a differenc
: you know in these times whom on
: abuses.-Norfolk TtsInian.