The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-10-02

sold on the New YORK exchange at 9lf
per share. On September oath,
1898, the same stock sold on
the same exchange at S24 per
share, or $1,000 per share advance
on every share of all the fifty or one
hundred million dollars of the stock.
HOW ABOUT STATE BONDS?
But they may say that these stocks
are subject to sharp fluctuations. Let's
try something that is not so fiuctuating
On September oath, 1896, North Caro-
lima 6 per cent. bonds sold in New York
at 500. On September Oath, 1893, the
same bonds sold in New York Mt $11S
So while the Mckinley wave was sweep
ing ten dollars a bale off the farmers
cotton. the same wave swept more than
$500. 900 into the pockets of the men
who hold these 6 per cent bonds.
NO WONDER THE TRUSTS
FOUGHT BRYAN.
The same comparisons are found all
along down the line. On stocks and
bonds of the trusts and monopolies the
wave has swept one way. while on all
the products of the farmer and the Ia
borer it has swept the other way.
No wonder John X. Cowan. the head
of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, and
n former Democratic Congressman from
the State of. Maryland. quit the Demo
cratic party when he found that VIM.
J. Bryan. the enemy of trusts and
monopoleS, and the great champion Of
the people, had been nominated for
President. No wonder the Morgans. the
Rockfellers, the Havemeyers, the Wall
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names. ia Dukes, the railroad mono
poles and the bond and money barons,
all poured their dollars into the Hanna
corruption fund to buy the election of
Mckinley.
TRYING TO DELIVER POPULISTS
TO GOLD-BUGS.
And yet, my friends, we find that some
leaders of the populist party in North
Carolina are doing all in their power to
deliver the Populist voters of that party
into the Mckinley goldbug monopoly rid
den Republican party. And the chair
men of the Populist Executive commit
tee has the effrontery to tell the Popu-
lists;
I'VE must cooperate with gold
bugs and monopolists now in order
to retain our organization in 1900,
and then we will nominate w. ].
Bryan for President ahead of the
Democrats"
/ have found no counterpart of this,
except in Hawthorne's THE Celestial
Railroad" where he represents MIR.
Smooth-it-Away denying the existence
of Tophet, when he felt its fiery tortures
raging in his breast"
THIS YEAR THE FIRST SKIMISH
FOR 1900.
| will not insult your intelligence by
characterizing the spohistry as it de
serves. There is no man so ignorant
who does not know that the campaign
this year is preliminary to the, great
campaign of 1900, and the pretense that
helping the Republicans this year to get
control of North Carolina will aid in the
election of Bryan, is on all tours with
the plan of preventing negro domination
by Filing all the Offices with negroes.
The man who helps the Pritchard-H
ton machine to continue it's control in
North Carolina this year, may be in
favor of silver and may vote for Bryan
in 1900, but he is either ignorant or dis
honest. The Republicans in their plat
form have promised to incorporate the
present infamous election law" Ito
quote the Caucasian in the constitution.
j. G.. l.. Harris, who is Russell's right
hand man, said in the Wake County
Republican County convention, talking
to the negroes:
1.-THE Populists will stand by you.
They are going to join us in putting
our election law into the Constitution.
The bill is already drawn. 1t will
be the issue two years from now"
sTABBING BRYAN BY PRETEND
ING FRIENDSHIP. 5s.a
There isn't an honest man in North
Carolina who does not know that, IL the
Republicans can perpetuate the present
Infamous election law" drafted SO
''they can do little stealing on their
own account" they will steal the vote
of North Carolina from Bryan in 1900,
as they stole it for Grant in 1872, and
as they stole Kentuckys vote from
Bryan in 1896. If the Pritchard-Skin-
ner fusion wins in North Carolina this
year by the aid of men who voted for
Bryan in 1896, it will be giving the gold
men Il club TO beat out the brains of the
silver men in 1900. If Harry Skinner
ana cyrus thompson and other 6O-called
Populists have made trade to sell out
the State to Hanna, they cannot hide
their treachery under the pretense of
wanting to elect Bryan in 1900.
STEALING THE LIVERY OF
HEAVEN.
The man who stands by the Republican
party or fuses with it in North Caro-
lima or anywhere else, is Intentionally
or unintehtiOnally betraying the silver
| cause. Oil and water will not mix.
You cannot serve God and Mammon
Spells and office are the only things
that will justify fusion between silver
men and gold-bugs. When Skinner and
his followers effect such fusion, let them
avow their true purpose. They will not
| be permitted in this year of grace to
| steal the livery of heaven in which to
serve the devil, and the men who are
exposing this hypocrisy all over the
State are honest Populists. II / had
time | could quote from five hundred
| Populists who are openly and honorably
| standing up for their principles against
| those 9eaders who are selling the party
| ont to Mark I1nuo'S Marty fo. thirty