The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-11-01

Worth ngton and those who, like my
SELF stand with him, are abused, the
sooner we shall have an end of that
Republican can't about all men being
born equal, which has at last brought
the Republic into such peril that it's
wealth, culture and responsibility
have had to rise as one man in defense
off it's credit and honor. | have so long
been heartily tired of it that, great as
is IN r respect for my friend, Mr.. Hanna,
profound as is my admiration for his
mastery talents of leadership, and
warm as is my appreciation of his
priceless ia ices to the cause
levels are all hattHng owe
that have be,a disappointed
and saddened by his recent efforts ITO
placate the worbingmen by appeals to
their ignorance and vanity. | compre-
bend the necessity for victory, the
pressure of advisers and the sanction
of custom. Nevertheless, | hoped he
would be greatly bold and crack the
whip publicly at the insolent rabble,
instead of descending to the plane of
the ordinary politician and treating
the mapy-headed monster to the usual
hOneyed words.
Bishop Worthington has chosen the
better part. Equality, political or So
cial, is a fancy for the closet. There
can be no such thing as a nation of
freemen." Always the majority, be-
cause of their intellectual deficiencies,
must be hewers Of wood amid drawers
of water, and to educate these inferior
beings Is, as the Bishop points out, not
to raise them IN the scale, but ITO render
them discontented-to exchange the
blessing of humble, respectful and re-
lieious peasantry for the curse Of an
envious, embittered and rebelious
pToletariat. 4 nation ruled by it's
ma ioldty would BE one ruled by its
hewers of wood and drawers Of water
-one in which intellect being sub
iected to muscle, could not acquire
wealth, from which alone comes all
that we caH by word civilization. Such
nation is an imp0ssibilHy.
The man Bryan IS the savage chief
of our sayages, the prophet and gen
era of the hewers of wood and draw
ers of water-the majority. Is it to
be thought that the minority if it is
unable to preserve itself from ayerting
defeat at the polls by persuasion, CO.
ercion, purchase and other arts by
which intellect governs muscle now,
as it has done throughout history, will
submit to overthrow, spoliation, sub
mersion? With Chairman Lauterbach
| say no; with General Palmer, leader
of whatever is left of honor and pa
triotism i'm the Democratic party,
say better to live under a monarchy
than under President Bryan and the
Chicago platform.
The crisis, sir, has come. We shall
conquer the majority ait the polls with
the majority's help, rs usual, or we
shall take other TEeasures, always
within the resources Of wealth. and
brains, to conquer tha majority, again
with the majaaity's help, as ever.
We have the Government The
State, the church the army, the aris-
tocracy and hfhe upper middle class are
ours. That Jack Cade, of Nebraska,
William Jennings Bryan, will never be
President. He may be elected and call
ON rs to surrender, but we are in pos
session of the citadel and are able TO
hold it. The raoDle needs lesson. It
| lis forgetting that it has a master.
But / trust the outcome of the vot-
ing NEXT Tuesday will dissipate my
fears; hope / may not have to throw
away the pen ito take the sword.
A GENTLEMAN.
New York Oct %