The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-02-06

IT is the same thing in the CHANCELLOR
conscience"
If we look at the practice of the Gov
CrmnCnt, which is the same through al
Administrations, our standard of valu
is the conscience of the administrators
If we look at the law, it is gold am
silver-the same standard that we hav
had since the mint was opened with re
Spect to our public securities, rot I;
single one of which was ever issued OF
any other.
If we look beyond dhe bonds them
selves, and beyond the consideration
paid for them, to the values from whic
their payment must he derived, we dis.
Germ no equity for the bOndholdcr to de
mand gold, but we do discern that TIN
course of events has multiplied hi
values and greatly diminished those OF
other persons.
Mr. President, ] shall not probing
this debate. In every Republic there
must of necessity he Il party of the PEG
pie. In this country the Democracy is
that party. 1t has made many mistakes
1t has suffered for them and it has cor.
rected them. 1t has done many great
and wise and noble deeds which more
than compensate for all its errors and
leave mighty balance of achievement
and of hopeful promise to its credit.
1t has been often defeated, but il
has never failed to come to time fresh
and vigorous ON the renewal of con
ilict; and now, approaching the centen-
nial of its birth, it stands before the
country and the world as the greatest
historical organization for the defense
of popular rights and popular interests
and for the defense of the Constitution
and the laws that time has ever known.
Some of it's old leaders have deserted it:
but better leaders have sprung into
their vacated places.
Some have abandOne. its principles as
well as its organization, and in peevish
tones pipe the inane cries of anarchy
that amuse the ears which are unannex-
ed to minds capable of digesting argu-
ment. But fresh recruits from other or
CARNATIONS have more than supplied
their absence; and they are recruits who
have clearer conviction of policies and
principles and are more tenacious of
conviction. Some, not many | hope,
have yielded to vulgar brides. Let those
pass; we cannot Outbid their buyers.
Some have bent to hard necessity
wife and child, bread and cheese, and
kisses" have bowed them to the orders
of taskmasters, who exacted their man
hOOt. as the price of the wages that
keep the wolf from the door. For them
alsa! Inferno yawns for the criminals
who have robbed them of their liberty,
but the recording angel still holds out
the beckOning hand to the unwilling
sinner and washes away the stain with
tears. Some have yielded not to plain
bargain and corruption nor to duress,
but to the atmospheric pressure of pat
ronage and wealth and social blandish-
ment. Some, otherwise strong and
great, have yielded in mere lassitude of
moral energy, even as Merlin, the sage,
to the willy Vivian.
Meanwhile, however, events argue
for our cause more Significantly and
more eloquently than language. The
party of Jefferson and of Jackson, the
party that defends the Constitution and
the laws, increases its numbers, it's
columns close up and press on, bearing
that standard of the stars to which it
has contributed so many stars and to
every star some splendid beam.
Meanwhile, Mr.. President, 1896,
with is repudiated platform, its broken
pledges, its vanished hopes, recedes
from view into the mists of the past
Meanwhile, too, 1900 comes on apacc-
Slowly comes a hungry people like
a lion drawing higher
One who slowly mods and winks be-
hind a slowly dying fire.