The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1897-09-16

Let Not The Great Issue lie Lost sight or
Statesville Mascot
"Some of the amp-follower pa
pers of the State, recognizing that
they have lost favor with the people
and being still unwilling to quit the
service of the money power of the
country, are urging that the State
platform be silent on the money
question, that our next campaign be
fought out on State issues and that
the only common ground upon which
the divided ranks of the oid-time
Democratic party of North Carolina
can be mustered together again be
abandoned. Certain considerate 10y
al Democratic papers of the State
have fallen into the trap set by the
wiley csmp-followers. The country
people will not be fooled. >
The farmer has been forced to live
harder ard harder, to deny himself
and family more and more Of the
comforts and Injuries of life as the
years since then have come and
gone. The farmer also knows that,
while his outlay have in some in
stances been decreased, the decreases
have not kept pace with his dimin-
ished and diminishing income. The
farmers know that this thing has
been going on under all kinds of
tariffs and they have become thor
oughly convinced that the tariff is
not the cause of their trouble"
The Mascot then goes on at some
length to show that a majority of
the white people and a ma ajority Of all
the whites are in favor of silver and
opposed to monopoly rule. 1t says
that all sincere men will favor a
line of battle that will bring on one
side all who stand for reform and
the rights of the people. 1t closes
its editorial with the following para
graph:-ED.l
"By this union our State govern.
ment will be wrested from the hands
Of the incompetent and the vicious
and the State will be. held in line -to
contribute its part to the great vic.
tory of the common people over cor
porate and plutocratic greed in 1900.
Those Who Favor Negro and MonopoI,
kule.
Fayetteville Observer
"The people of North Carolina ar.
intensely pro-silver and anti Cleve
land. Already the anti silver ant
pro- Cleveland papers in this State
who did their best to defeat Bryar
while pretending to support him
l>aud who succeeded in bringins
about the golbug fusion by which
the State has been turned over I,
negro rule-are taking on the air
of party leaders, just as if they ha,
been loyal to il in the last grea
struggle. They are also posing jus
now as the advocates Of whit
mans party-the impudence of tn
thing! after having been the sponse
of the negro party now in power
while at the same time they persis
in heaping abuse upon the Populists
Any one capable of adding two an
two, knows that without a consider
able accession from the ranks of th
latter, the Democrats are in a mi
nority. There have been evidence
that the great ma ,rity of the PoT
ulists copdemu the late legislator
including its election of the gol
Pritchard.
the trouble with cur anti silve
and pro-Cievelapd papers rs thu
they were all for Pritchard when tt
struggle was on last winter. at Ra
eigh, doing their best toprevent an
, combination of silver POpulisfs ar
Democrats for his defeat-and su
ceeding While, therefore, the o
thodox Democrats have a right
abuse the late legislature for all /
villainous acts, including the ele
: ton Of Pritchard, the goldbug Der
{ ocrats'' simply demonstrate their j
: sincerity when they make a Or
!. tense of objection to anything whi'
that body did.
81 "Our goldbng "Democrats" try
switch the Democracy of from Il
Chicago platform by proposing
run the next campaign first on abu
: of the fusion legislature (for who
p election they are responsibility d
s then on the rallying cry of . viii
+ mans party (Which they themsels
+. have put out Of power"