The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1898-10-27


iticians Of the two old parties for
thirty years had come before the
people in each campaign hiding the
real and vital issues and attem cting
TO work up the people and divide
them ou two local and side issues,
namely: the tariff and the negro.
tie called their attention TO the ar
gumeDts which he used thn to show
that the striking down OF silver ard
burning up of the greenbacks which
destroyed half of the people s money
while population and business were
increasing, and the national bank
ing laws which had turned over the
control of the remainder of the |
money into the hands Of private in
dividuals and money sharks, and !
ne laws which had turned over the |
control of the other two great instru-
ments Of commerce: transportation |
md the transmission of Intelligence,
which had created the three mann
moth trusts, viz: the trust on money,
the trust on transportation; and the
trust on intelligence,-that these
laws were the causes for the forma-
ton of every other trust and mo-
nopoly In the country. lie then
called the attention Of the audience
TO the f. cts which he had stated
eight years ago, that if their silver
was not restored by free coinage,
and their ereenback money was not
restored, the national banking act
wiped out, and the control and direc-
tion of the Othe" instruments Of COM
merce were not taken from the
hands of the private monopolies and
returned to the control of the paO-
pie, where under the Constitution they
belonged, that money would get
scarcer, the price of cotton a0d all
other products would fall lower,
times would get harder, and that
more trusts aud monopolies would
spring up each day to control every
branch Of industry in the country
and thereby lay tribute upon seventy
millions OF people TO make Il few
men mllllonaires. That these few
men would grow into hi lionaires 10y
! bleeding the millions Of people wi"
create. d wealth and making tnem
poorer. That these few men, clorhed
with these special privileges, would
become more powerful than the gov
eIn ment itself; that with their power
and their wealth, drawn from the
masses, they would control newspa
pers, corrupt and manipulate poll
tics, control State Legislatures and
dominate and control Congress it
self. He called their attention TO
the fact that as long as these evil
laws and evil conditions existed that
the people would grow poorer, no
matter whether they had high tariff
or low tariff. That they would grow
poorer, negro or no negro.
As toe Iemc cratic Leaders Saw 1t TheD.
He next proceeded to call the at
tention of his audience to the fact
that when he first made these
speeches prese ntlng these facts IL
1890 and In the campaign Of 1892,
aud also in the campaign of 1894,
that every Democratic speaker and
every Democratic newspaper In
North Carolina denounced what he
said as false and as political dema-
goguery Intended to fool and mis-
lead the people. That at that time
the Democratic newspapers rldlculed
free silver aud referred to him rs a
silver crank, ard thar they denoun ed
what he said as political heresy. He
referred to what dIffer Dvmocra-
tic daily newspapers SAID and also
reminded the audience of whai
speakers like Aycock, Glenn and
others had said in reply to his
speeches in 1892. and to what they
further said in reply to the same ar
7 guments used by Populist speakers
, and newspapers in 1894.
After reeounting all of these mat
ters Uf history, which were RENE N.
bered by every voter in the audience
D and atte stsd to by the words of ap
. prevail from hundreds of the listen
$ ers, he asked: What happened
9 two years ago in the campaign OF
1896? Did not these same soeakers
: aud newspapers who had denied, de-
s nounced, abused and 1idiculed ev
: cry thing that and the Alliance anG
Populist speakers told in 1890, 1892
and 1894, declare to you in the cam
u paign of 1896 that everything that The
d Alliance and Populist speakers sale
t in 1890, '92 and '94 was true They
q not only admitted that it was true
but they attempted to make the peo
pie believe that they had always be
L lieved it was true and had alway
" stood for these principles. In tina
d campaign of two years ago the Dem
ocratic newspapers tried to over
match and outdo the POpulist paper
Il in their denunciation of trusts ant
Q monOpolles and combines, and il
Q their advocacy of silver, the abolish
y ment of national banks. and the res
. toration to the people of equal right
- and privileges, which could only b
o done by taking from the syndicate
is and trusts the control of all the IN
q struments of commerce which ar
!, natural monopolies.'
. He ask d the audience if they di
10 not remember that speakers lik
Glenn and Aycock came before ther
two years ago and not only admitte
g everything that the Populist speal
l. ers had said in the last three can
l. paigns but stood upon the stump an
&c tried to make louder and stronge
le professions for free silver and again:
"a monopoly than ever the Alliance an
IS Populist speakers had made. "The
~ came before you on a new politics
4 Il PLATFORM he said, lone that tt
q Democratic party had not declare
~ for since the days of Thomas Jeffe
vi sen and Andrew j jackson. They can
90 before you standing on platfor
VI VI which they had stolen from the Pc
W W. Piles Party-a platform containin
NC Nc many of the same principles whie
o @ they had denounced and ridlculed
ne 1890, 1892 and. 1894 y -.
aL Glad That the nemacrafs Stnla al,a p1