The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1897-12-16
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OF COURSE, or COURSE.

OF COURSE, or COURSE.
A subscriber of The CAUCASIAN in a
letter to Senator Butler referring to the
desperate efforts Of certain Democrat
ic papers to misrepresent his speech
es, and especially his speech at Rocky
Mount, ask, very significant and
far-reaching question. We quote:
"You certainly have been consistent
in your fight against the gold stand
ard and mOnOpOlies and in your fight
at the same time for free silver and
transportation reform since you were
elected to the l. nited States Senate in
| 1890 and introduced and passed the
Railroad Commission law, and since
you refused to support Cleveland in
| 1892 unless his position on the silver
question was right and fair up to the
time when you supported Bryan, the
candidate of another party, because he
was right on these questions, and
down to the present time, no one, not
even your bitterest enemies, has been
able to question your sincerely and
consistency, though you have been
| put to the severest tests.
Now what want you to explain is
| lho' w
stand on these questions ust as you do,
do not use their adjectives and venom
against the gOldbugs, mOnOpOlies, and
railroad tools, but instead use it
against you? think | know, but
would like to see you explain this in
your paper. OF course | do not ex-
pect anything but abuse and misrep-
resentatiOn from North Carolina pa.
pers which are so rotten as to advO-
cate the gold standard and defend the
allied mOnOpOlies."
Yes, our correspondent no doubt
knows, and the majority of the people
are fast finding cut. The plain gospel
truth in nutshell is that these So
called silver papers are not sincerely
and honestly with us on these ques-
tiOns. IL our correspondent will re-
fleet he will remember that nearly
everyone Of these papers abused and
State when we were fighting for the
Railroad Commission in 1891; nearly
il not everyone of these papers were
supporting Cleveland and his goldbug
administration as long as he had any
offices to distribute through Ransom
When Cleveland was perscuting Vance
because he stood up square for silver
and refused to betray his people for
patronage and spoils, nearly if not
everyone Of these papers were sup.
porting Ransom, either openly or Sc.
cretly, or at least they did not come
out and defend Vance. Some of then
went so far as to criticise Vance and
: charge that he was in his dOtage, etc
OF course, all of these papers are nov
pra;sing Vance, since he is dead. That
is their way. They abused Henry
George while he lived, and now they
are praislng him. This is the way they
try to curry favor with the people BY
trafficking in the reputation of a deat
man who had the confidence of thu
, people.
These papers have been for the las
few months saying: that while silver
o the ninety-nine year lease, the reduc
e ton of freight..and passenger rates, ant
the stopping of government by lnjunc
, tion and the Federal courts were i'm
, portant questions, and that they ia
, vored these reforms, yet that the al
important thing now was for a fight re
/, duced to a single cry of "negro domi
nation" They have claimed tina
they would be glad to get tn
other reforms, but in the mex
breath have said that they mus
. make fight against negro domina
4 ton. Now of course there is not now
4 and there is no possible chance in tn
O future of negro domination, and the
= know it. There are three white voter
4 in this State for every negro voter
O and even if there we're as many as Their
n are whites, the whites would rule Of
n account of their superior intelligence
o But we took it for granted that pos
a sibly these so-called silver editor
r were really frightened about the ne
q gro capturing the State and elect
d ing a negro for Governor and a legis
z lature controlled by negroes; and "
It knew that there was no use to try t
Il argue or reason with q scared maj
d You cannot do it. He is fool unit
d he gets his senses back. You must b
J., patient with him and treat him lik
d you do baking horse. So we though
is it best to humor their fears. There
Is fore we proposed early to them {
al have cooperation of all men in til
.r State who opposed negro dominatio
,e and who really opposed the gold stant
1t ard and monopoly rule, showing thel
" clearly by facts and figures that tn
n. would not only give US an anti-monoI
N oily legislature which would redut
De freight and passenger rates, invest
ne gate and set aside the ninety. mir
es year lease, if possible; prevent the r,
Is moval of causes to Federal courts @
K iniunctions which would save to Il
d. State over three million dollars a yea
l. and would also give the best viii
be mans government the State has ev'
,s, seen. This proposition, which, if the
Id had accepted it, would guarantee b
be yond doubt not only white supren
be aoy (Which they claimed was Il
of transcendeIt need of the State) b,
at also guarantee transportation refor
(Which they said was next in impor
be ance) that is would guarantee beyor
ID, question both at the same time. Tht
at refused.
n Let it be remembered that they r
er fused . similar proposition last SUI