The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1900-08-30
-oMgf SrEREsTISo HISTORY AND
THE RESULT.


livery day NV converts are
ported from Mckinley III 10 M sup
port oi Mr.. Bryan since cur last
We. ks issue, u list as long as the one
tn. d publish, d, Of prominent men
who supp rted NJ HI ley. bot nov
their adhesion to Brysr, hat |
been civ, n to me pubic. Toe e |
con veris rsprei emit every part VI our
vast country, and the belief is now
xAInIng str, myth that Bryan IS g.
Ing 10 sweep the field"
We said the movement represents
every part OF the country. That lie
! o qo,te true. Ia North Carolin :,
a vs., the 10 Movement is the other way.
fhe McKiuley "D-mOcrats' w,h
whom we lused IN 1893 nave proven
Ease 10 their implied promises, and
tue mass OF aiseordant eIeDents
winch has been hghuDg under The
Democratic banner seems rent 10
twain. The Bryanite clement has
KEEP absolute faith with it, allies Tor
two years past, though having often
to hold Its nose at the n snsive re-
suits OF the unnatural UNION"
We think the Fayetteville Observ
or states pre- ty correctly the present
situation, and we also think it stat, 8
correctly the cause which has pro-
duced II. The real friends OF Bryan
and silver, ~ the Observer states,
DID all they could to get co opera
ton of the silver forces in North
Carolina in 1896 and run n campaign
on the money question and get the
trusts 81 the issue. This Effort was
defeated by the monopoly agents,
with the ASST. lance Of BryaL's loud
mouthed, but false friends in the
State.
Instead of q cooperation on silver
for silver aud Bryan, there was Co
operation bet ween the so called sill
YER Democrats and the Monopoly
Democrats on the negro AS the Issue
in tho interest of monopoly This
explains why we have had two negro
campaigns in North Carolina, and
this also explains why there Is now
expressed any d1ubt about B. vans
carrying the State.
With the co operation Of the silver
forces, Bryan carried the State in
1896 by over twenty thousand ma
jority, and 1t was not necessary 10
holler niger, and appeal to race
prejudice, or to steal q single vO.e TO
mplish that result. This aud
more could have been accomplish. d
in 1900 The editor of the Fayette
vile o OBSERVER and the other true
friends OF Bryan aud silver in the
Democratic party may yet learn
what we suspected in 1898, and what
we still suspect, and that is, when
the fusion of the so-called silver
Democrats and Monopoly Democrats
was made, with niger as the cry
that there was secret deal to the
effect that the Cleveland Democrats
were to get the State Offices in the
August election, and that no serious
obstacle would be put in the way of
the monopoly and Cleveland Demo-
Gratis carrying the State for McKin-
ley. Unless this was the d. al, what
other explanation caa be given Of
what the editor Of the Fayetteville
Observer calls the unnatural union
OF discordant and antagonistio e'e.
ments.
1t is clear that whatever deal was
made that one F. M. Simmons was
into it. 1t is we'll known that he is
not q silver man and not q Bryan
man, but that he is q gold bug and a
monor olist and hypocrite, to say
the least. Senator Vance's denun-
citation of him went even further
than this. 1t was only few mon tbs
before Bryan's nom: nation in 1896
that Mr.. Simmons, then one OF Mr..
Cieveland's revenue Off GERS, declared
ia an interview In Wa shing ton City
that he was for Cleveland and for
the gold standard, and that North
Carolina would send delegation to
the Chicago convention of that kind.
The Democratic candidate for Gov
ernor, Mr.. Aycock, who - just BET n
counted in by ATTY thousand ma lori.
ty by Simmons ballot-box suffers,
was also q Cleveland Office holder,
and while he has talk I'D in public for
silver, when campaign exigencies
demanded l., it is we'll known by ell
who have discussed the matter With
him In private CONVEX sation, that he
has always been against silver.
As to little chameleon Joseph q,
Daniels, he may have been into tn.
deal or he may not. He promised
Mr.. Bryan and the friends OF silver
to work for . cooperation OF the
silver forces in this State in 1898
One thing is certain: he did not keer
his promise. This little political
chameleon is SO wanting in convlc
ton and po itical honesty, that it i,
difficult to form any conclusions q,
any time from anything that he cay,
or does; but his conduct for the pas,
two years would seem 10 indicat,
that he was into the dea'. He no
only sat idly by in the State coovep
tion and allowed The Cleveland an,
Mckinley democrats to control i
and turn down the silver co opera
ton, but he has since played int
toe hands of that elemen,
When the National Committee Nee,
ing Of the Democratic party wa