The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-04-29
Leadgal orth Carolina Dae8 News and Circulation

get into politics | regret it. Almost
every supporter of the bill and the ma
tional movement it aroused regrets this
latest development, but it hardly can be
avoided unless the Cullom bill becomes
law. The commercial bodies of the ma
tion. which have piled up petitions, tele-
grams and letters here demanding that
the bill be passed, never Will retreat or
surrender, and since their opponents
are the railroads the contest looms be-
fore us one of the greatest ever fought
out in this country
Mr. VIM. Sulzer, member of the House
from New York, is one of two members
of Congress from that State who has
been an ardent Bryan man from the first.
When asked as to the head of the ticket
this year he said:
''Mr. Bryan will be renominated beyond
a doubt, and on the first ballot The
solid New York delegation will be for
Colonel Bryan at Kansas City, and will
ask that the Nebraska statesman be
made the standard bearer of the Demo-
cratic party by acclamation. l believe
Mr.. Bryan is stronger now with the peo-
pie than he ever was before, and that he
will be elected
"Will the Empire State so Democratic
this fall?" he was asked.
Eyes. | think it will. and I will tell
vou why he said. THE State was
abandoned in 1896, and leaders proved
false. This year every effort will be made
to put New York in the Democratic coll
umn, and if l mistake not the signs of
the times New York will be as safely
Democratic as Texas. Mr.. Bryan is better
understood and more appreciated now in
the East than in 1896. People who
thought him unsafe and radical, now be-
lieve he is safe and conservative. In
New York he will be devotedly supported
by every opponent of the Mckinley ad-
ministration.
THE platform this year will be a prac-
tical reaffirmation of the Chicago plat
form with strong additional planks
against trusts, militarism and imperial
ism. The Democratic party is right on
all the great issues and will take no step
backwards. We have not abandoned free
coinage of gold and silver, and we will
not. This election will be the most i'm,
portant ever held in this country 1t
will settle forever whether we shall be
republic Of an empire. Our free insti-
tutiCns ere now on trial, the voters are
the jury and they must determine this
momentous question for themselves.
'In this contest between republic and
empire l believe the republic will win.
If the people are true to themselves and
realize the inestmable blessings of free
government, / do not believe the ship of
state will drift far from the channels of
the fathers. The people are sick and tired
of the weak, wobbling, wicked sway of
this Hannaized administration controlled
by the trusts and dominated by a few
corrupt exploters who use the presi-
, dent as a catSpaw.
"The campaign of the Democratic party
will be made principally on the money
monopoly. Imperialism and trust tissues.
The trusts, backed by the money power
of banks and individuals, are playing a
high game under the protecting cloak oil
the Republican party, but in this campaign
the Democracy will tear aside that guise
and disclose the grim alliance. The peo-
pie are learning. and learning rapidly
where to place the responsibility for the
rapid increase in the prices of the neces-
Sdries of life-an increase far and away
beyond the rate of rise in wages. The
reason traces straight to the Republican
party whose criminal connivance enables
The trusts to raise the cost of commodities
from day to day. The quotations change
but slightly from the previous schedule
but price lists succeed each other so rap
idly that before the consumer is aware
figures have doubled
."HousewiveS who buy cotton are TOLD
they must pay quarter of cent YARD
more than last month, but they may not
remember that last years figures wer.
just about half. They do not know thai
Fleishman and the yarn trust demand 9,
cents a pound for yarn and guarantee
that next fall the price will not be less
than dollar pound, as against 65 cents
last year. Ask dealers in tin and they
will tell you the figures have been raised
125 per cent. The tin plate trust, ! an
told, is about to unload stocks that crowd
it's warehouses through refusal of the
people to take the product at high figures
These are but instances of the CONNER
cial torture for which Republican party
through its nurturing of the trusts, is re-
sponsible. The campaign will deal largely
with these matters.
Il believe this nation should stop the
South African war, where the existence
of two weak republics is attacked by the
greatest monarchy of the world. The
sympathy of the country is for the Beers
as witness the many resolutions adopt
ed by leading cities the country over
Craven, indeed, would we be if we al
lowed our honest sentiment to be smooth
cred by the trckery of the money power
and politicians who pretend to see il
Englands attitude toward us anything
but self-seeking. The Democratic party
would set the nation right before the
world. The Republican leaders, tiet
hand and foot by the money power that
dictates both from Wall and Downing
streets, dare not"