The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1912-09-05
GOVERNOR WILSON AGAIN REPU'
DATES HIS PLATFORM.


Governor Wilson. the Democratic
nominee for President, addressed a
few days ago a large farmers meet
ing at Williams Grove in Pennsyl-
vania This ig the first formal speech
in the campaign made By Governor
Wilson since his speech OF accept
ance.
He takes occasion in this speech to
repeat what he said In his speech of
acceptance to the effect that the plat
form OF the Democratic party was
not a program" This second declara-
ton by Governor Wilson has awaken
ed wide attention and has forced up
on the country the inevitable conclu-
sion that he repudiates the platform
upon which he is nominated.
This has caused his friends and
supporters, as we'll as those who OPP
pose him, to again examine carefully
his speech of acceptance, and also
this, his first speech in the campaign
To the farmers of Pennsylvania, to
find therein the program" that Gov
ernor Wilson favors in lieu of the
platform on which he was nominal
ed. So far, we have not seen a sin
gle statement in paper, either sup
porting or opposing Governor Will
son, that claims to be able to deter
mine the program for which Cover
nor Wilson stands. Neither has any
prominent politician so far given an
interview or claimed to be authorized
to state for what program" the Gov
ernor will stand if he is elected Presi-
dent.
We have examined carefully both
his speech of acceptance and his
speech to the Pennsylvania farmers,
and the only definite declaration, diff
fering from the repudiated platform,
which we have been able to find is
the one to which we have before call
ed attention in the columns of The
Caucasian 1t is as follows:
1T is not as easy for us to
live now as it used to be. Our
money will not buy as much.
Higher wages, even when we get
them, yield us no greater COM
fort. We used to be better off
with less because the dollar
could buy as much more"
1t will be seen from this one DELHI
crate and definite statement made by
Governor Wilson that he alligns him
self with a certain class of our people
. and he refers to that class and him
self as I'VE" and Gus" That which
seems most to concern him is that
we or "us" used to be better off
when a dollar would buy much
more"
No one has ever questioned the ca
pacity of Governor Wilson to use the
English language clearly and explicit
". If, in this language, he means
anything, he means that he is con-
cerned about those who want dear
dollar to buy much more of labor
and the products of labor than it
buys now. In short, he alligns him
self with the people who are concern
ed, not about creating wealth and
how much they will get for their Ia
Dor and the wealth they create, but
he alligns himself squarely with those
who want to buy labor and the prod
ucts of labor as cheap as possible.
1t will be remembered that this
was exactly the position of Grover
Cleveland. 1t will also be remember
ed that under Grover Cleveland's ad-
ministration, that dollar would buy
more of a days labor and the prod
ucts of labor than ever before. At
that time, the dollar would buy TWEEN
ty pounds of cotton. Today, one dol
lar will buy only seven or eight pounds
of cotton. Today the laborers and pro-
ducers of cotton and other products
are more prosperous than ever be-
fore. Do any of these people want
to change to the conditions that we
had under the administration of Gro
yer Cleveland?
In this connection, it is also we'll
to remember that Governor Wilson
was one of the greatest admirers of
Grover Cleveland that there was in
the United States. His eulogies of