The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-08-12
G5he Wessenger.


There is none so blind but him who
will not see. With plain facts before
the eye there are newspapers by the
score who are writing nonsense as
to the future of the silver party. They
have already been at the funeral and
read the burial service over the re-
way Of writing falsehoods? Are there
any indications to justify any such
statement as the following that ap-
peared in the editorial in the st. Louis
Globe-Democrat a very ultra republl-
ear gold paper:
"The lost, strayed or stolen legend
of the old advertisements will soon
have to be used if any tidings are ever
to be obtained of the silver issue again
in the United States. Nobody has, in
in the past six months, mentioned IS
to /. The $500, 000' are nearly all
living yet, but they have either for
gotten their antics in 1896 or they are
ashamed of them. Bryan, Altgeld,
Stone, Bland, and the rest of the erst-
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all of them have been talking to the
public recently, but not one Of them
has said a word about free coinage or
the crime of 1873"
The democrats in North Carolina in
their conventions, state, county and
district, are very plain spoken as to
currency, and indorse Inc repeat the
national resolutions of 1896 in favor
of silver and gold. We notice that the
speakers capture crowds and evoke
great applause whenever they boldly
attack the gold standard programme,
and insist upon a return to the money
The other day one of the foremost
public speakers in this state in an
elaborate speech to a large crowd, de-
voted a considerable time to the Chi
cagO platform and the money question,
and his words were listened to with
great interest and satisfaction. That
part of his speech fills more than two
columns of the Asheville Citizen. He
said that the Chicago platform Of
1896 was right and true. We quote:
THE logic of events has demonstrate
ed the truth of the Chicago platform.
There can be no genuine and lasting
prosperity until the principles there
enunciated be written into law"
We believe that the democrats in all
southern state conventions have re-
affirmed the doctrine Of 1896 as to
currency. So far as we know there
has not been a break or failure on this
important question. The Washington
lost, is an excellent and able newspa-
I ar, but it is not a democrat. It is in
t@vor of high protection, we believe,
md it is a goldbug paper out and out,
which is a very serious objection to it's
teachings for democrats. But in a
recent issue, 4th inst, it rebukes it's
brother republican at ST. Louis, and
says this:
Nov, as in 1896, The Post is op-
posed to the democratic demand for
free coinage, and now, as then, The
Post warns the advocates of sound
money not to underestimate the
strength of that issue. 1t is not dead,
nor has it gone to sleep. 1t is much
more wide awake than any other of
the issues of past campaigns. And
unless some other of OvershadOwing
Importance should thrust itself into
the arena and compel all others to take
back seats, it will be at the front in
1900, challenging a renewal of the var
of the standards"
That is correct. 1t shows candor
and sense. 1t is at the capital of the
American union and watches current
events with an Argus eye. 1t tells the
color-blind organ of radicalism in
Missouri that up to now recent demo-
cratic conventions have not failed" to
reaffirm the democratic faith as enun-
ciated in the Chicago platform of 1896.
Even in states where the democrats
are trying to run their campaigns o.
local issues, they still stand up square
:toed for 16 to 1. The gallant democ-
racy of Vermont, like their brethren
in Illinois and the south, are not
afraid to raise the standard under
which the six and a half millions raj
lied in 1896. In the state of Virginia,
where a senatorship is dependent on
the result of the pending campaign,
the silver issue i'm prominent, and the
regular democrats will not let boilers
get into the legislature if they can
prevent it."
1t tells the opaque daily at st. Louis
farther that a Philadelphia federal Of
-fice-holder has been making an ex-
tended tour in the West, and he was
so impressed with the vitality of the
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