The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1898-11-03
EDITORIAL,
SOME rOlNIED QUESTIONS AND STAG
GIEiNG ANsWLItS

ago and carried the Safe for Bryan
~ twenty thousand majority are
uo, cooperating to'day'
Answer, Because men who are
opposed to Bryan and his principles
captured the last Democratic Sta.e
rJ1ven'ion.
a. VINO are these men who re-
pudat,d Bryan'5 plan for co-ope a
,,,n against gold and monopoly, and
thus betrt.Cd Que hubdred thousand
sine re silver Dtmocrats in the
Stat
A. They are the men who nomi
ratcd Gruvor Cleveland in 1892 |
when they knew tGat lie was < Id !
bug ard tool oi every rust in the
country. They are the men who
fooled the people into voting for
Cleveland by telling tn IN t at he
was good silver man and an enemy
to trusts they are the Ransomites
and the Clev,laudites and the hiled |
attorneys of the goldbug railroads.
attorn, vs. who are hired by the rail-
70 'ds to manipulate noliIics more
than they are hired for their leg4I
ability. Aud last but not least il
this aggregation of goldbug agents
ore 5 lcret Circular Simmons and his
brigade OF ballot-box stuff RS and
pujurers. All tf these mel
are OPP 'sed TO the principles OF
Thomas j # rson. All Of these
men would prefer to see Cleveland
rather than Bryan President. All
OF these men wanted to see Bryan
defeated for President IN the last
campaign.
q DJ those men and their hired
hetlers and hangers make up
maj rltV of the Democratic partyP
a. No. They compose numeri-
cally but small part OF the party.
They do not represent more than
ten or tw,lv thousand voters in the
party. There are ten voters in tn.
Democratic party who are opposed
t. them, their principles and III th-
DDS, for every one voter who favors
them.
. Then how did this small mum
. h., Il
every Irlncip pie of houest j eff rsorian
Democracy, manage to capture the
Democratic State convention and
betray Bryan and the cause of sill
yer and corporation reforms?
a. They laiu their plans over one
year ago and have been secretly al
work ever since to take snap j1dg-
ment on the silver Democrats who
compose such q large majority of
the party. Over one year ago the
Clevelandltes and the Palmer Buck
nerites and the McKinity Democrats
put their heads together and made a
deal with the railroads Of the s Sate--
the goldbug railroads that supported d
NJ k,uley aud the gold standard
against Bryan and free silver in the
last campaign. These goldbug
railroads that contributed such
a vast sum OK money to
elect Mckinley, were to furn
lsh money aud free passes to
help the Clevelandites and the Other
gold aud monopoly eonspiratcrs il
the Democratic party to capture tht
Democratl- State convention
Every newspaper that the railroads
and the gold syndicate could contro
was taken into the deal. Their plar
was to sidetrack Bryan and silver
and monopoly reform questions, aut
by capturing the machinery of tn,
Dsmocratic party to force the silvel
Democrats to help them to fight ,
campaign on side issues in order t,
sidetraek the real issues. TIE,
determined to divide the silve
forces and to force the campaign t,
be fought on some other issue. !
similar arrange mont was planned il
every State in the Union. Tb
Cleveaudites and the railroad 8,
torneys IN every State began wor
over year ago to capture the Dem
ocratlc State convention. Las
spring Mr.. Bryan and Senator Jont:
the chairman of the Democratic ms
uonal com mittee, wrote open lette,
to the Democratic voters of til
country warning til, m Of this dee
and wldelsid conspiracy and callin
upon the true silver Democratic vo
ers to rally to the rescue in eac
state, to go to their convention
and control the machinery of II
party, not only in favor Of silv. r al
against monopoly, bat in favor
getting co operati. n Of the silv,
parties and making a united Fl =
against the comU1aed forces of 90
and monopoly.
. How is it that the silver De,
ocrats of The country failed to he,
the bold, ringing and urgent appea
made by Bryan ard Jones9
A. The patriotic masses Of Il
Democratic party never knew
heard Of these letters and appes
sent out by Bryan and Jones. T
fopuhsts and free silver Repu
mean papers published their le,te
out not over one half dozen Den