The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-08-03

who fought for the honorS which he
wore, and finally betrayed. At the door
of Grover Cleveland hangs the scalps of
the Democratic Governors and Senators
he fails to meet as Democrats in office
from the Northern States these days. At
the door of David B. Hill hangs the
scalps of the men called democrats that
defeated the Democratic party in 1896
1900, and these two men are the most
conspicuously quoted men of this day by
the great apostles of trusts, MONOPOLY
Imperialism and commerciaIism. as the
prophets under which an outraged De-
mocracy and people must rally if thew
would wish to win. And these two are
known of all men to be the bitterest of
all known political enemies, and to see
them play the stage act of holding love
teasts, each holding his dirk behind him
while teaching six and one half million
Democrats that about one hundred and
fifty thousand that have worshipped the
Cleveland and Hill theory, all bearing
the dollar mark, are the men that must
save this country from being trust and
commercial ridden to it's destruction!
From their ranks John J. Carlisle landed
In Wall street, denied the faith of his
forefathers, while if he had stayed by
the faith of his forefathers and denounced
Clevelando s policy, and resigned his
chair in the Treasury, there is not a sane
man living that does not know he would
have received the nomination on Cleve-
lands retirement for the Presidency
and would have won the race, had it
been possible to win in Clevelands wake
of party betrayal and infdelity. From
their ranks Lyman j. Gage, a so-called
Democrat, went to fill a Republican Sec
rotary of the Treasury's chair, and from
there he has landed in Wall Street with
salary exceeding that of the President
of the United States for his able assist
ance in electing Mckinley in 1896, by
working for Palmer and Buckner. Cleve-
lands last term was the time that the
money power throughout the country and
in Wall Street put forth in full force its
strength, and made known it's purposes to
rule this country regardless of the wishes
of the people, the National Banks with
Cleyelands sanction took the initial
steps to crush, if possible, the restora-
ton of the unit in silver, to double our
primary money, as it was prior to 1873.
Trust legislation was inaugurated, a
gentle modification of the tariff was be-
gun in a manner that would continue to
incidentally protect those men in the
Democratic ranks that were engaged in
the East and North in National banking
and manufacturing. So that, when the
live issue did come of the people de-
manding their rights, these Democrats
would have to choose between personal
gain and commercialism as power or
party loyalty. This was the situation in
1896, when the great old Democratic
party woke up to see men it had loved
to honor for half century turning from
the worship of the goddess of liberty to
the worship of the god of mammon,
and the grand old party was casting
about to find a standard bearer, true
and unit ouched by mammon worship. and
they selected w. j. Bryan to run on a
platform as truly Democratic as pen
could write, and as truly Democratic as
pen can write today, and the history of
the world has never pictured such a hat
tie for the people as he fought for true
Democracy and the platform on which
he was called to run, and he was slaugh-
tered by the 10000 that followed in the
ranks of Palmer and Buckner, and the
still, very still ranks of David B. Hill
and Grover Cleveland, whose loyal
and working influence given to
the party at that time would
have insured victory and the same
could be said of the campaign of 1900.
If the reorganization and harmony in
the ranks of the Democratic party is to
come from this element there will never
be a day of harmony, for harmony at the
sacTfice of principle is not harmony to
an honorable man.
Tariff reform that must reform Ma
tional banking will turn every man that
voted fer Palmer and Buckner from De
mocracy as quick as silver did, for the
real issue that they left on was not sill
yer but National banks and protection,
and the man who cannot endorse every
line of the Chicago platform today is not
fit to be in the Democratic party, much
less to be there as a preacher of har-
mony and true Democracy. The silver
issue was used by the Republicans and
forced to the front as the paramount
issue, which compelled Democracy to
meet it, and that issue is far from settled
yet, but it is side issue now, as it was
then. Democracy is not short of issues to
fight on, or win on, it has only got to
stand by its true principles and rid itself
of sheep in VOLTS clothing. There is but
one issue neeGful to be added to the Chi
cago platform and that is an unalterable
opposition to Imperialism and expansion
in foreign lands unless by peaceful
measures.
The question to ask that concerns
North Carolina Democrats as well as the
whole country, will reveal a simple, plain
line of issue and will reveal the lines
that will measure the sincerity of Hill
ard Cleveland Democracy, let them ask
them do they now and have they al
ways advocated and worked for tax
on incomes? Do they now and have
they Away opposed giving the National
Banks the control of the issue of the
country's currency. and for our Repub-
lcan friends will they tell the American
people why steel is sold in America at
ST. 65 per hundred pounds and the same
steel made by the same firm in America
and shipped across the ocean sold ut
a5 cents per hundred pounds in London,
a difference of 20 cents per hundred
pounds maintained by a tariff on steel.
If the Republicans of North CAROLINA
will get Moody and Blackburn and
Pritchard, instead of working for pen