The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1896-05-14

under on. banner and agh, the enc
Mrs az our country. who in the past
hare. 10 sene extent, managed tn hide
behind party n.rsr and . striddling
r.rsy platform ~ matters ret whai
il.c leaders do. The grvst masses Of
Tho reopi. in the south ard Wet VII
support the man nomiust~'i by the
People Party AZ 81 Iouis, on July
I'D. aud that candidate stands e>;t~r
chance of being elected President
than Abe Lincoln stood when he Ma
elected in = three corner~d Sight
Tus TRUTH .noCr MCKINLEY.
Editor kohlsaAi. W ho /. prOnOu need
Sp!dbaS, and the editor of the Times
Herald the leading gold paper IN Chi
cago, now comes out and ssys that he
and the ether gold men have been as
surrd for over n year from Mckinley
own lips that he Is opposed Ia the free
coinag. Of silver; that he would not
accent the nomination on n free coin
age platform, and tina. he would stand
squArely with the so--slled sound
money crowd. Editor kohissst says
that he is ncw NJ liberty 10 make this
statement public, inssmuch n Nckin-
ley has enough delegates already
pledged TO him TO make his nomination
sure. lie explains that n. has kept
this information from the public 50 a.
not To hurt Mckinley's chances with
the great masses of the people. But
now that Mckinley - "a good ~ nom
mated, he wants the whole world
To know where be stands. THIS
is the same game that the poliii-
clans and gold men have
always played an the past.
They have found out months. il not
years, ahead just where every candi-
date or probable candidate for the
Presidency stood on the money quss-
| ton, and whenever they We're salts
| fled that they could own and control
the candidate il elected. no matter
what his past record was or what he
had said on the money question. then
they were ready 70 support him. The
only diff srence in this programme il
| that never before have they let the
people know where candidate stood
until after he was elected and duly
installed in the White House. Then
IL was too late for the people To pro-
| tect themselves But now the people
have timely warning before their
votes are cast. The delegates from
every State that are pledged 10 Mckin-
ley have timely warning and sufficient
Justification in not casting their votes
| for him. But il the delegates. in the
| face Of the direct and positiv. infor-
| nation that Mckinley is n goldbug,
should proceed 10 nominate such a
man, then let no true American citi-
| zen who loves his wife, his children,
and his home, cast his vote for such n
British tory, and for snch an enemy of
| the money of the Constitution and the
prosperity Of the people, on next Mo-
| vember.
| SENATOR BUTLER SHOWS UF SENATOR
HILL.
Senator Palmer was making n spe-ch
| in favor Of the gold standard one day
this week, and asked if any senator
| would dare to say that if ". had free
| coinage OF silver that the bullion val
ue OF the silver dollar would be equal
to the bullion value of the gold dollar.
Senator Butler arose and said that he
would be glad TO answer the question
by quoting from a speech which Ssna-
tor Hill, of New York. made at Elmira
on December 4th. 1882. In that speech
Senator Hill argued that free coinage
would make the silver dollar not only
by law. but by weight, equal To he gold
uoIiar IN every respect, "a free coinage
did before 1873. Senator Butler pro-
ceeded To read the following extracts
from the speech of Senator Hill:
Did ever anything but free bimetal-
lie coinage, down To 1873. make our
gold and silver dollars equal by every
test? Did ever free bimetallic coin
age, down To 1873, for one hour fail to
make the silver dollar equal 10 the
gold dollar, whether ut mint or cruci-
Bile, or at any market in the wide
wOrld!"
Then little further on he SAYS:
But To maintain a parity impIies
the existence Of a parity. No parity
exists between the two. Melt the gola
coin and il can be recoined again and
again gold dollar, for its private
owner, because geld has free coin age,
and 25.S troy grains are the fixed
weight of the gold dollar. Melt the
silver coin and it cannot be recoiuei for
| its private owner. 1t can be sold 70
the Treasury, but for 80 cents or less.
because silver has not free coinage
though H. IL troy grains Of silver are
indeed The present weight Of the sill
yer dollar"
When Senator Butler had read 10
this point, Senator Palmer. seeing
that the leading gold man on his own