The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1898-01-27
CAPT. KITCHIN STILL THINKS
SILVER WILL WIN.

Truth will assert itself and finally |
control. It may remain clouded and
indistinct for long time.
The sun, the moon and the stars are
frequently darkened and clouded for
time, but the air and the winged
zephyr in their evolutions have never
failed to clear the skies and exhibit
the brightness of these luminaries, and
they in their turn have never failed to
warm and illuminate all nature, both
animate, and inanimate.
And so will the luminaries OF light,
truth, and justice warm into life the
dormant, resting energies OF the human
family, and cast light and truth upon
every pending issue before the nations
of the earth, and educate, instruct and
lead the minds of the masses of man.
kind into the channels of right, justice,
and truth.
It Is true gold sits ON high, dictates
and controls, orders, commands, and
the powers OF the earth obey.
But time changes, conditions change,
circumstances change and men, If not
fools, change with them.
Gold holds Its position, exercises its
dominion, and exerts its power through
out all the channels and avenues OF
life by deception, hypocrisy, treachery,
and fraud.
In fair, open, standup field fight
gold never could have gotten the adj
vantage Of silver.
But wickedly, clandestinely, and
fraudulently, under cover of darkness.
it assumed the power so gradually and
SO secretly that it mounted on the
financiaIhrone before the friends of
silver ever heard the declaration OF
war. But the silver forces are now
fully alive to the Issue. Their eyes
are opened. The hypocrisy and treas
on OF the leaders of the gold forces are
lost grotnd will be harder to regain
than it would have been to hold it
while in possession, nevertheless, it
will all be regained and the common
enemy driven from the field.
The gold forces are hugglng the
delusion that the silver craze, as they
call 1t, is dead and the leaders and
dictators of the populists are trusting,
praying and hoping that the silver
forces will divide in the coming cam
palgn, and thereby extend their lease
of plumber, but l am constrained to
believe they are all doomed to sad dis
appointment.
The republican and popullst leaders
are praying, planning and plotting
night and day to divide the democratic
forces, and create factions and feuds
in their ranks. They know this is the
only possible nope for them to extend
their mongrel-corrupt, and incompetent
lease OF power IN this State.
Nothing could please Butler, Skinne,
and Company more than to know that
the democracy would waver or hesitate
on the silver question. They intend
to cooperate with the republicans al
all hazard, but they by all odds pre-
fer plausible excuse, and any lodging
or trimming on the financial question
by the democratic party or its com
mittee, or even any of its so-called
leaders, will furnish that plausible ex
cuse.
OF course no sensible man has any
confidence in the leaders of the pop
ulist party. They are after plumber
and to gather that plumber, they viii
60 to the right, to the left, or switch
off on any track, or go In any direction
that leads to that plumber, or do an,
thing that will capture the plums a
the pie counter.
But I still believe the majority o
the rank and file of that party arr
honest good people, and will not follow
their leaders and office-seekers and OF
fce-holders any farther in the direction
Of the republican party, or into tn
republican camp, or into fight wher
it is impossible for their party to win
or one single one of their financia
principles to prevail, or single on
on their side to be benefited, excep
the few who succeed in getting offic
in the Kil-kenny-cat-dog scramble 70
spoils and plumber.
still believe if the present demo
cratic party will stand erect with bot
feet on the Chicago platform, and ir
vite all men everywhere who believ
in silver to meet with them in thei
conventions and nominate no delegat
to any convention who will not vot
for free silver, white supremacy an
VIM. J. Bryan TOR the next Presiden
Of the United States, they will carr
this State this year by good majorit
and sweep the country from ocean
to ocean as with flood in the ne1
national campaign.
w. II. KITcHN.