The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1898-11-03

PooPie couiu nave lead what thew
SAID, the masses Of the silver Demo-
Gratis would have rallied and con-
troiled tie Drmocra'ic Safe con-
vention in North Carolina ard IN
every State in the L MON except such
States as New York and few New
England Sta'e5, where the gold Dem
ocrats are in the m, j,ri'y. This Is
why Mr.. Bryan's letter was sup
pre- essed and the silver Democrats
kept In ignorance Of 1t. Mr.. Bryan
ia his le.tsr warned the people that
IN States whore gold was strong
Qike New York; that there the GOLD
Democrats would openly ignore the
Chicago platform and repudiate sill
ve,; but that in States where silver
was strong (ike North Carollna)
that the Clsvelandi.es would rre-
tend TO be for silver IN order to tool
the people into letting them 60 ar
delegates to conventions, but that
such men when they got to conven-
tions, while profe ssing to be for sill
yer, and while agreeing to the pas
sage of strong resolutions, yet they
would every time "refuse to do
what was necessary TO win a victory
for silver If the people of this
State could have read that warning
issued by Bryan and Jones last
spring and been made to realize the
danger. it is safe to say that three
fourths of the men who went to the
asst Democratic State convention as
delegates would never have gotten
here. In their place would have
been true Bryan Democrats in a
large majority. In order to maE 6
1t certain that their plans would sue
eeed, the Clevelandites who cor.
trolled the Democratic State Com.
mittee in this State called the con-
vention early last spring before the
masses Of the people had begun tc
think about politics. They tricked
the people and packed the conven
ton with men who did not represen,
one tenth of the Democratic party
OF course that convention repudi
4ted Mr.. Bryan's policy for winning
u victory for silver and the people
OF course they did everything il
voters who lined hands and carried
the 5 ate for Bryan by twenty .hon
sand M jorlty in the last cam
paign from ,lDing hands ant
winning such victory for the peo
pie III this campaign. Having thu
betryed one hundr.d thousand sin
cere silver Democrats in the SIat
by deliberately dividing the siIve
forces of the State in the interest o
gold and monopoly, it was necessar
for them to do something to try t.
all attention from their conspirac
and to try to frighten the homes
silver Democrats into submitting t
their traitorous leadership. For thi
purpose they decided that the cry O
negro domin alton and an appeal I
race pref dice was their most effee
, tive wespon
q. If these Clevelandites wer
honestly frightened at the danger Q
negro domination, which they sa
threatens the State, and if they hor
eslly thought that such threatene
:. danger was greater and more to b
feared than the threatened DANCE
Gas they consider iO of the trump
of silver, could they not at thei
State Convention have pursued
! course that would have made it ah
solutely certain that the negro woul
: be elimin ated as political factor i
4 the coming campaign?
a. Certainly they could. If the
feared the negro more than the
. fea,d the triumph of silver they conl
have agreed for cooperation Of th
white silver forces and carried th
= s ate for Bryan by twenty thousan
maj ,rity as it was carried the la
A election. If they are honest in the
=, pretended fear of negro domination
q then, goldbugs as they are, the
. would have taken the lesser of tv
/ evils and have agreed to the triumK
Of silver in order to secure white 8
- premacy.
@ Then why did they pursue
different course when this certa
- means of victory for the white S
10 premacy they pretended to desi
was at hand 7
- A Because the supreme and owe
;. shadowing question with the m
- who controlled the Democratic Sta
Convention was the triumph of t
gold standard and the domination
! the Safe by the railroads and 9th
-, monopolies, These men are t
agents and hirelings Of these n
-. nopolies. They were running t
"A Democratic State Convention in
interest of these monopolies. Tn
M were ready TO resort to anything
cd divide and fool the people in orc
Il. that these monopolists might v
the election and proceed to bls
bo and rob the people. So their re
sal to let the white silver voters "
ala make majority get together '