The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1897-11-18

EyIDESs OF THE CONSPIRACY &C
CUnUL,TE AND MULTIPLY.
For weeks and months The CAUCA-
SIAN has been warning the people
against deep and wide-laid scheme
Of the gold syndicate. The scheme is
dangerous because, it is being worked
under cover. The object is to sidetrack
the money and monopoly questions, to
turn over the State legislatures in the
next campaign 70 the railroads, and to
turn down Bryan in 1900 for goldbug
or a straddlebug.
The conspiracy IS beng manipulated
by the Cleveland gold Democrats. 1t
may be asked how these few gOldbugs
who bolted Bryan and supported Pal
mer can have any influence with those
who supported Bryan? The explana-
ton is not hard to give. They have
partners, confederates and spies on the
inside of the Bryan party. The fact is
that only small percentage of the
goldbugs and monopolists In the DEM
ocratic party bOlted.
1t must be remembered that the gold
bugs in the Democratic party are so
numerous and powerful that they have
practically controlled the party for 30
years. 1t is a matter Of history thst
every Democratic candidate for Presi.
dent since the war up to Bryan has
been rank goldbug and as much of
tool of trusts and monOpolsts as Nc
Kinley or John Sherman. 1t must al
so be remembered that the delegates
from North Carolina, under the dOmi-
nation of the Ransom machine, and the
delegates from other Southern States,
under the domination of similar gold
bug machines in their respective
States, have helped every time to NOM
mate these gOldbugs in national con-
ventiOn. So We see, that for this en-
tire period the gOldbugs and monopo-
lists have absolutely dominated and
controlled the Democratic party,
though the great rank and file of the
party has all the time been for free sill
yer and against mOnOpOlists and trusts.
When this powerful goldbug element
in the Democratic party was last year
caught mapping and taken unawares
by the nomination of Bryan, they at
first intended to bolt in a body. After
reflection and consultation they decid-
ed to stay in the party and pretend to
support Bryan, though intending to
secretly defeat him if they could. But
their purpose was if Bryan should be
elected to pretend to be good free sill
yer men and try to get all of the offices
under his administration, not only for
the purpose of holding the offices but
mainly to use their positions to try
| to make his administration a failure.
But their ultimate and greatest object
was that by staying in the party, for
Regularity" sake, they would be in a
stronger position to work on the in.
side and to help the gold crowd re-
capture the party and dictate its course
| in 1898 and in 1870.
They stayed in for this purpose, and
this is what they are now doing. The
open enemy on the outside (the gold
syndicate and the railroad trust) are
furnishing the money while the real
work is being done by their spies and
agents on the inside.
We have exposed repeatedly the eff.
forts along this line of the Charlotte
Observer and its retinue of "soa ptails'
and gold and monopoly tools, assisted
by all of the railroad organs in this
State. We have also given evidences
of the progress of such scheme in
Maryland, Ohio, New York and other
States.
Each day fresh evidence of the Gun.
ningly planned plot accumulates and
multiply. Now comes the goldbug At.
lanta Journal (the paper of Hoke
Smith, who was in Cleveland's cabi
metz with an editorial that shows the
Shiny trail of the monopoly snake. Il
says:
1.-The leading newspapers of Ala
bama, almost without exception, art
urging that national issues be ignored
in the State campaign of next year.
, The Admission Hot Blast, which il
heartily in favor of this policy, pub
, fishes list of 4S persons which hav'
taken the same position, and finds on
ly 16 which insist that national issues
| oho no nj toA mt hn
, paign. In the former list we find near
, ly every we'll known daily paper ant
the ablest weeklies in Alabama. Man!
= the principles of the Chicago plat
form, but they believe that it will b.
better for the interests of the Demo
e cratic party in Alabama to make it
g State campaign purely on State issues
The Democrats of Alabama are badl
, divided on the issues presented by tn
Chicago platform. Six thousand o
them voted for Palmer and Bucknel
: but they represent only u small par
: of the host of Alabama Democrats VIII
:. refused to accept the Chicago platforr
} and vote for Bryan. These numbere
: many thousands in Alabama, as the
e did in every other Southern Stat,
There were thousands of others VIII
voted for Bryan against their cOnvic
} tiOps for the sake of "regulaity," an
t many of these would refuse to repes
b such distasteful experience"
The above from a Cleveland gold OF
gan that pretended to support Brya
(but which, like the Charlotte Obee1
yer, sneakingly and cowardly did all
q could to elect Mckinley should b
: carefully noted and considered. NJ
tice that while it admits that ther
e were but six thousand gold Democrat
g who bolted and supported Palmer, "
y it boasts that there are many time
that number who 'for the sake Of rel
=