The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-02-22
THE COMMITTEE MEETING TONIGHT.

The State Democratic Executive Com
mittee will meet in session tonight, and
the indications are that there will be q
large attendance.
The last meeting of the committee
was held a short while after the Demo
Gratis had won sweeping victories in
the Fall elections, and the committee
issued manly and ringing address that
was approved by every Democrat in the
State.
Since the last meeting of the commit
tee important events have transpired,
chief among which is the action in
both houses of Congress on the Teller
resolution. This resolution was in every
word and syllable copy of resolution
introduced years ago by Stanly Mat
thews and which was supported by Nc
Kinley and many other Republicans.
Now, with the exception of few West
ern Republican Senators who thereby
virtually read themselves out of the
Republican party, every Republican
voted against the Teller resolution.
showing that the Republican party now
does the bidding of the bondholders
who are bent on receiving double what
they paid for the bonds. One significant
sign was the fact that those Demo
cratic Senators, who called the Chicago
platform "repudiation,' have learned a
lesson and voted with the majority OF
the party. That vote marked the future
line of party cleavage. 1t showed that
the Democratic, Populist and Silver Re-
publican parties are agreed upon the
leading issue before the American peo-
pie. and voted together against the Re
publican policy of letting the bondhold-
ers determine what this government
shall do The Teller resolution nfade
clear what certain trimmers like Prit-
chard and Pearson had been trying t.
make hazy; that the Republican party
was not only the gold standard party
bnt is also the party that robs the tax
payers to enrich the bondholders CON
trary to law and in violation of written
contract. In future campaigns, the Re
publicans cannot pretend to favor silver
but stand exposed as the enemies Of al
who believe in bimetallism. The Demo
cratic State Committee pointed out this
fact in former declarations; they can re
joicc thatsthe logic of events proves what
they have asserted.
The second other significant even
since the last meeting of the Democratic
Executive Committee is the simultane
Gus publication Of ADDRESSES to the PEG
pie by the chairmen of the three partie:
favorable to the free coinage of silver
giving strong reasons why all opponents
of the gold standard should stand shout
der to shoulder in the great contest be
tween those who believe in justice ant
fairness and those who mOnopolize fol
the few, through the gold standard, the
profits OF toll. Those addresses show,
y
repetition of the contest of 1896, whel
the three parties united in support o
the greatest living tribune of the peopl,
for the presidency. If devotion to tht
principle pervais in these three parties
the next House of Representatives vii
pass the Teller resolution and a fret
coinage bill, and put upon Mr.. McKinle,
the responsibility for ivetoing it and thus
denying to the people the return o.
prosperity which the opening of thu
mints would bring about. The issue il
momentous; the responsibility upon par
ty leaders is great.
Another important event has trans
pired since the last meeting Of thu
Democratic State Executive Committee
The rottenness Of Republican rule is sci
exposed. The Republican Governor ha
removed from an important position o
trust favorite Republican politician
upon charges rejecting upon his charac
ter-charges of being guilty OF a crim
of which none but the basest Of MANKIND
could be guilty. This is an object lesson
known of all men and that is not hi
in corner OF Republican rule in Mort
Carolina. And this is only one Of man.
scandals, some almost as bad, that hav