The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1900-10-18

" cents n head.
a. 10 mr.. 3 mmons' opinion the
tino wns not ripe for free silver: he
people were in good hxlf they onIv
an." ~ and besides, there WAS moi
% ach In tree silver anyway. Yet the
D"m"era'Ic party Of Nortn Carohns
10 convention assembled August >
1904 hsd 7ol"mplv declared
Resolved ! That We reafirn tb..
doctrine at the party As enunci ted hv
the hlcago convention Of IAg2. and
deSire 10 signify ss fDllows what is the
constitution placed by us upon the sec
on thereof relating To silver, viz:
We bold that 1T IS the duty of the
ia"-nakihg department of the govern
ment, now IN the hands OF the Dem.c-
racy, u take immediate steps to restor.
Dy legs at on he equal privileges of
silver with gold at the mints. by the
Tree and un i'm ted coinage of Goth gold
ana SILVER at the ratio of 10 tol. such
being the ratio of cOinage which here
tofor~ has held in the United sta rs .
We do not say that Mr.. Simmons is
not Tor independent bmetalism now
A man oug I To learn great deal in
six years Judge w, mack having urg-
ed his opposition to Cleveland's policy
IN 1894 as well a. in 1896 as one OF the
reasons why he should be Senator, we
submit that the. people are entitled to
know all the lacts. he truth of the
matter u that Mr. Simmons was regar-
ded as last and firm fir end of senator
Ransom IN 1894, and was indebted to
h'm Tor the col ectJrsbip He will no.
deny that whatever influence he DOS
x,t.
Ransom, who stood by Cleveland on the
money question.
Senator Vance opposed the confirm
alton OF Mr. simmons as collector of in
ternal revenue in 1893. Now the ex-
collectors friends are REPEATING the
aging OF the Roman that the horse
that p Ills the plow should have the
fodder. If ena,Or Vance had a reason
for opposing hIm for collector, it is in
cumbent upon Mr. Simmons to show
that 1t would not be sufficient for
VaUce's friends to urge against his
election to the Senate.
The Weekly thought in 1898 that Mr.
simmons services as chairman entitled
him tn the cOilectorship and advocated
his cause We did not see the matter
from senator Vance's standpoint He
saw more clearly than any man IN
n NOrth Carolina that Cleveland had de-
termined t. crush Oht the silver senti-
ment in the party. He saw in Mr..
Simmons shrewd manager and re-
nlarkable organ Zer and thought him
dangerous man for Cleveland and Ran
som to have on their side. Time has
shown that Senator Vance did not mis-
Judge I leyeland's intentions in trying
TO convert the party to the creed of
John Sherman Mr.. simmons can tell
better than any on, else Whe her the
patr, mage of the collectors office was
given to Vance men or Ransom men :;
TO Democrat is who believed in the free
coinage of silver by this country alone
or to those who favored waiting for
Europe to come to our relief.
Mr. s mmors in an open letter pub
ilsh d in the Raleigh papers I uesday
denies that he was lobbyist for any
corpora ion or in crest during the ses-
81 n of the Legislature IN 1899. He is
unfortunate in being yoked together
with ''unbelieverS" in this particular
| 1t is a notorious fact that the law firm
of Simmons, POu & Ward, of which he
is member, did large business in
representing trust clients who were in
terested in bills before the Legislature
I vi lCOJ az oHC IL lS Sdlh,
Raleigh Office had more work of this
character than could be hand ed and it
| was necessary to bring the NeWbern
member, Mr. Ward, up to relieve the
pressure.
We recall that Mr. Jas. II. Pou was
represented by the News and Observer
as having antagOniZed certain features
of the stevens antitrust bill b fore the
| Sena committee and being reminded
by the an hOr that he was satisfied
with them at the other end of the Cap
itol, snsw red that it was true, hut h.
W S sp aking for his clients. That was
| the day Sena or tIl-nn, of Forsyth, ask.
ed if he declaration of the party in
this State against trusts was not q
"mer echo Of the natIOnal platform
The dictionary defines an "eCh0' as 8
'reflected sound"
the following from the News arc
Observer rep 'rt of the Senate Commit
tees hearing shows that Mr. POu W IS {
star perfor uer on that lntere- ting Oc
casiOn
Senator Fie IDS: with the mend
ment whom would the bill reach1"
Mr.. POr: "A' y trust in the state
Mr.. Steve Is "rhat W ,uld make the
bull a null tJ, won d it not, Mr. Roun
tree?'
Mr. Rountree: at looks very mucl
Ike it'
Mr.. Hicks: "ih he bill looks like |,
wa aimed at foreign trusts, but lets il
State rusts "
Mr. Pou: ~ do not think there ar
. any trusts in he State
We will quite again from the sam
report:
: Mr. stevens said he was surprise
S that Mr.. Pou should oppose the bill
) be ,au- e he had agreed to the bill as
a passed the House Mr.. POu said he wa
acting in behalf of clients.
Mr.. simmons has not yet di>avOwe
the "llient" pl- n of his partner for VI
Qing and. with Senator Glenn's helI
), securing the adoption of amendment
/ to the Stevens antitrust bill which i
the opinion of Mr.. X untree, OF Ne'
l. Hanover, an able lawyer, made it nu
J, lity His attention has been called
it by the Weekly more than once, bt
he has rem .ined dumb as an Oyste
He had influence with the Legislature
y which he tells US he eXerted in beha
Il of the amendment and the election Law
;. Why did he not urge the LegisiatuI
D to enact a stringent antitrust law?
eI The people of North Carolina woul
h like to know what fel owship hath ligl
. with darkne 8; what agreement hat
Democracy with attorneys who moo
- 70 at the complaint of the people aga n
N trusts, saying there are none in tt
10 State, yet declaring the bill they anne
J. ded to death will rea IN them every on
Il what concord hath the Democrat
rs st .te Chairman and candidate for t
n Senate with firm that lObbies for &C
porations before the State egis atur
~ Can two walk together except they
49, agreed2
er Let us be understood in this matte
g. Our only motive is to see that m
Of goes to the United States Senate fro
ve this upon whom Mr.. Bryan, if he
" elected-and we pray God he may be
can rely in any and all emergencie: