The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-04-27

MR.. BRYAN'S LETTER ON COOPERATE
IN NORTH CAROLINA.

This is Democratic paper. III
breaches Democratic doctrine and de-
tends Democratic policies.
The Chicago platform, compared
with the Cleveland platforms, sounded
like radical departure. Compared with
Jcffers0n's first inaugural address and
Andrew Jackson's messages ON the old
national bank monopoly. it was mid
declaration of the eternal Democratic
principles. interpreted to fit present con-
ditions. That platform was assailed by
every creature of monopoly in America.
and such tools as Cleveland and Carlisle
bolted the party that honored them be-
cause it refused to follow them in the
advocacy of Republican doctrine. AT
that emergency in the party's history,
when men who had been elevated to
leadership went over TO Mark Hanna.
thousands of what Mr.. Lincoln called
1.-The plain people rallied TO that second
declaration of independence. and gave
Mr.. Bryan more than a million majority
of the white voters. These voters
belonging to the Populist and Silver Re
publican parties, were actuated by no
other motive than "A desire to destroy
the conspiracy of the gold standard.
In that campaign. the Democrats
adopted the policy of cooperating with
these two parties on honorable terms.
1t is now universally conceded that
they succeeded at the polls, but money
bought enough election officers TO
change the face of the returns.
Elated with the success thus dishon-
orably obtained, the gold standard men
of all parties have since busted them
selves with trying to prevent the con-
tinued united action of the three sill
yer parties. They have been repulsed
in every Western State that has acted,
and in those States. with devotion to
principle that commands the admiration
of all true bi-metalists, they stand as
one army, with different regiments,
fighting for the principles enunciated ut
Chicago.
The national organization of the Dem
ocratic party is committed to the policy
State Executive Committee at its last
meeting endorsed the address of Chair
man Jones in which he urged all BIZ
metallists. without abandoning their
party organization, to unite for the fight
of 1898, preparatory to the greater con-
test of 1900. Elsewhere we print a
letter written by Hon. William j. Bryan
to the member Of the Democratic Ma
tional Committee from this State,
giving his reasons for believing it to be
the duty of the Democratic party in
North Carolina to cooperate with the
Populist party to secure bi-metallism
In view of the actions of the National
and State Executive Committees and
the unanswerable argument of Mr..
Bryan, this paper, as a straight Demo
cratic paper, has no duty to perform
outside of the duty of advocating the
policy thus outlined. 1t is the right and
manly policy, and, if it prevails, all the
cohorts of mammon from Hanna and
Cleveland down to S. Ohio Wilson and
Louis de la Croix cannot withstand the
righteous determination of the people
TO restore bi-metalism and prosperity to
the American people.
No man who really believes in the
principles of the Chicago platform can
oppose honorable cooperation without
injuring the cause. 1t is plain to the
humblest man that the same policy that
was pursued in 1896 will be followed in
1000, and ii would be a deliberate deser-
ton of the cause of bi-metalism to re-
fuse the aid of members of other par
ties who desire the success of bi-met-
alism. Mr.. Bryan never wrote truer
words than when he writes:
when the Democratic party adopted
the Chicago platform and became cham
pions of the great common people, tho
gold Democrats deserted the party and
gave direct or indirect support 10 tho
Republican ticket. In the hour of need
the Populists and Silver Republicans
came to the rescue; shall we repulst