The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-08-14

man VINO Dy MS every pubic act mas
shown his friendliness to the people of
this State and of the entire South.
But no one has claimed that McKin-
ley's record on the negro question or the
Force Bill is the chief issue in this cam
paign. 1t is simply one of the many rea-
Carolina will oppose his election. Of
course the negroes and other Republicans
will vote for him. But there are plenty
of other reasons why the best people
of every Southern State will prefer Bryan
to Mckinley.
Mckinley stands for the highest tariff
tax ever advocated in the AmeriCr,esl
Congress. 1t is generally admitted that
high tariff is the mother of many trusts.
Mckinley has recently become very ST.
lent on trusts. Why? Ask Mark Hanna
who collects a Republican campaign
fund from trusts and those whose profits
in business come from the favor of trusts.
Since Hanna openly defended trusts
Mckinley has apparently been afraid of
his previous milk and cider utterance
that some trusts were good and some
bad and that the bad ones ought to be
restrained.
1t is a notorious fact that the best
friends of Mckinley today are the trusts
and monopolies of this country and the
trusts and monopolies of the world are
in sympathy with him.
Find a member of trust anywhere
and you find a friend of Mckinley and
an enemy of Bryan.
A man is sometimes loved for the enc
mics he has made and sometimes the
people do we'll to distrust a man on ac-
count of the friends he has made.
Mckinley was a bimetallist until he be-
came the agent and representative of
Mark Hanna and the trusts in the pres
idential chair His conversion to the
gold standard since his election to the
presidency is only one of the many in
stances of his deserving "our plain duty
for political expediency, or in obedience
to his political masters. Mckinley stood
unseen force, almost in the twinkling OF
an eye, changed him so that he endorsed
the Republican legislation on that sub
iect.
Mckinley believes in benevolent assim-
ilation' and thought that forcible annex
alton was criminal until forcible annex
alton became necessary to carry out Re-
publican policies.
Mckinley at present stands for the prin-
ciple of Imperialism and militarism,
both destructive to the democracy of a
republic.
He asks Congress for AN army of 1OO,-
600 soldiers, and proposes to govern in
the islands of the sea by force instead
principle upon which this government
was founded and in accordance with which
it has developed for a century.
President Mckinley Mark Hanna and
the Republican party have taken their
position before the country. Wherever in
all the broad world today there is a
struggle between Money, Monopoly and
Monarchy on the one hand against Man
hood, Liberty and Democracy on the
other those who are debating the poll
cies are giving their sympathy and sup
port to the former. This is Republican
ism as represented by William Mckinley.
Yet, without doubt, there are in North
Carolina few people posing as Demo-
Gratis who are endeavoring to secure the
election of Mckinley. But the people of
this State, even those who do not en-
dorse every detail of the Democratic
platform, will not decide to endorse that
party and man to whom we owe no graft
Juu6 IUF lIlSuuSulp, sympathy VI AC6lo
lation.
The Democratic party and w. ]. Bryan
stand for human rights above all other
rights, for the time honored principles of
Jefferson, Monroe and Jackson.
Against the Democracy and Bryan
the people of North Carolina are asked
to support Republicanism, Mckinley, high
tariff tax, trusts, monopolies, antrim
come tax, gold standard, an imperial
colonial policy, and consequent militar-
ism and war in foreign lands, Force Bill
record, the appointment of negro post
masters and revenue officers and a gen.
eral repulsive and unfriendly admins
tration of Federal affairs in the South.
Will they do it? Nay. Verify! Not in
a Thousand years!
A GOOD LIBEL LAW.
The next LEGISLATURE may be relied