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JOHN D, BAERIER& SON.a f.
. Editors and Proprietors.
3AS. P COOK. V
Editorial Correspondent.
OFFICE IN BRICK ROW.
CONCORD, SEPT., 21, 1896.
WALTER It. UEJfBrS SPEECH.
The campaign speeches; thus far
lave had a measure of mildness
and cou8ervativene88 about them
Shat gives pleasure to those who
Jove peace and unity, tnough tbe
jentiment be the; opposite of that of
anany of the hearers, but it remained
ior somebody to give Walter R
Henry a chauce to come in our
snidst with -stuff' that was surely
jbumiliaLing tu every Populist of
the Qner taste. He began bv a3-
jertifcg th it.be would not .be abu-
3i?e and we gave him credit for
aieaning what he said, but we were
ioo q-iickly undeceived.
He charged against Democrats
about the same vilification as he
ler d on Democrats and. Republi-car'ri-i
d Siid that abuse rebounds ou
2ts source. It fits Mr. Henry to a
I. lie claims the merit ol work-
in g for "Dc-moc racy 16 years till
last August a year, but took upon
himseif the? presumptious task of
marking out a line to which Dem
ccracy had to come or he would
lwear byhisGod ; he.'a leave the
partyaiid he did. He said he did
not leave it for effice but forerer.
Tiiia, was the best part of his speech.
31 ay he never return unless by
lorn? cbii-ge he becomes fit for any
party that has patriotism in it.
He fiuid he h'ed fought the Jfopu
if his magnanimity does not ex -ceel
Henry's. t -
He told of how fafVauder hilt's
$202,000,000 'would reaoh,4f fnlsil
ver laid side by sidev or upon each
other ana made not a single, argu-
ment.out of it unless it was what
could have been said with .equal
impressiveness in a few woidsj that
the policy of son ebody gave rise to
such conditions. Of couise Mr.
Henry would not abuse. The1 Dem
ocrats abuse, he says. Bat e speaks
of the Populist's marching over the
:dead and rotten corpse ' of Democ
racy." r :'. ' - !;
Mr. 'Henry affected to have regard
for the feelings- of Democrats in the
use of the term "Stati," then went
on using.it m a way most uncourt-
e'ous arid said the Chicago conven
tion had stolen the silver, plank and
the income tax plank' and the man
to stand upon the,, platform, of the
stolen planks, ' V l ' v
Hr. Henry does not seem, to know
that Democracies not made of such
contrariness as to disapprove of a
thing j u8t because the ropulists ap-
prove it. We would feel a$hamed
of the party if we did not believe it
put its own convictions intoits p)aU
forms without reference to the views
of any faction that? Mr. Henry as-
aumes to 'champion 1 f n
kr. HenryJ thinks' Populism is
poison to, Democrats, . and that Mr.
Bryan was a big dose for them. We
think Mr. -Bryan a fairly palatable
Democratic elixir, but Mr. Henrv's
ind of Populism we think is calcula?
ted to give t Democratp, .Republicans
and everybody else spasms like that
one he. suffered from fcr oyer- two
hours Saturday 'evening, ifa: fellow
just opens his mouth and drinks it
down as some'seemed to do
ur. Ufcnry said much against the
State were not eecond to the free
S'lyer issue. Think of i I From
the end of the war" to 1876 the State
was uudr Rjpublcan rule, and we
had the Holdon. Kirk disturbance, a
looted and bankrupt treasury, with
North Carolina bonds selling at 18
cents on, the dollar a.nd general dis
content and alarm. From tthen till
'95 we had a reigu of peace and
quiet and successful state enterprises
that could well invite the envy of
any Sta e. Democratic supremacy
guarantees the- same today. Is free
silver a stiain with Mr. Henry or
does be not appreciate, good govern
ment ?
We repeat our regret that Mr.
Henry should ctme and thrust so
much obj-ctionab e matter in his
speech which he knew there was no
chance to have a reply to. VVe in-.
vite him or any one else to turn on
all the light, but. ve want ; nothing
miaieadiog to further array man
agaiiibt man ' whose : interests -are
identical.
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lists like a Bengal tiger, titl het
found they were right and he was national banking sy stem, as if it were I
If 'we understand resolution
paeed by the Populist convention
Saturdtiy, they'propose to draw the
lice3 pretty tight. A Populist em
plojrar must give employment to a
Populiat when it is in his power to
do so, .a8 over.pgainst employing an
individual whom hs might like bet
ter and who might suit him t better
if euch individual's convictions were
not Populistic. fIs ; that5 principle
above party ?
75T0Bg. He told of his own foolish
txtravagance .that is characteristic
cf his speech when hejaid in 92
ihat if yoa would put a bit of Pop,
slist blood in a hole 100 feet deep
2nd then fill the hole with dirt and
ihe grass were to grow on the dirt
and a shet p were to graz9 on the
grass, he would not eat the mutton.
Be 8mootb?d it over with the pitia
ble ilirt that he was a muttonhead
at the time; and some of the audi
ence cheeied him. ..
. He charged that the Democratic
ihip has a pirate crew. In the in
.terest-s of all that's grand, noble
and good in the party, that makes
its name a reality, we are glad Mr.
Henryris not one of the crew.
n.t: earn me wneeis or tnis gov-
firnmetit were running dangerously
near revolution. This may. be only
too true, hence such vile harangues
-as Mr. Henry's ougbt to be avoided
He was severe in his strictures of
fcotb the Democratic and the Repub
lican parties and " claimed great
things that the Populists had done
in shaping Democratic policies.
.'" The speaker was very entertaining
In his description of 50 very wealthy
men in New York engaging in a
$10,000 fea3t when the poor were
sutside and 'suffering. Such things
are too often true and it makes the
heart of every good man ache with
regret. But such has been in all
ages of the world and probably
always will be and we ourselves
cannot have an unusually good din
ner without being liable to the
same reflections, but on a Bmaller
icale. Many a man listening at
Mr. Henry works harder than he
and . suffers privations that might
crjtaliz in envy toward Mr, Henrr
full of evil 'without any great
amount of good. ' Some men will
find fault with the bread that nour
ishes them The national banking
system will be reformed or abolished
whenever our patriotic congressmen
belieye they have found a better sys
tern. Many suggestions have been
made but no agreement has yet-been
reachiea1. There ire too many like
Mr. Henry and oureelvea that do not
kno how to make a better system
of finance. Mr. Henry would have
us believe that ''Arthur Sewall
changed from a gold bug to a silver-
ne Because Cleveland would not give
Sewall'g son an appointment. Pacts
would spoil that columny in a hurry.
He,shojved an immense array of fig
uresun his wall canvass to prove
that the financial system had
wroaght ruin, and in his tyrade of
Sewall he said that Sewall was the
worst of j a protective tariff man.
Now if the financial policy of the
government is the cause of all our
ills, as he would have his figures
prove, then why speak of ;SewalI a3
the worst kind ot2a protective tariff
man? What has the tariff to do
with our troubles if the gold standard-has
caused them all ? i v
He was f ondjof . literary land his
toric flights and found Cleveland
parallel in Nero. Let such as Henry
reflect on a noble, manly, honest
npil 1 Ipiii
Before
Retiring;
and patriotic ofilcial; it seems to
gratify Mr. Henry and does not
hurt Mn Cleveland, It was rather
amusing to hear, him call the gold
dollar a thief, as much as a pirate is
a thief. ! We think everyone of us"
would be glad to have a busbel bas
ket of ihe thieves of that kind. "
He got quite impressively in ear
neat hen he caid the issues in the
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