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THE OBSERVER. FAYETTEVILLE, N. C. WEDNESDAY. APRIL 29, 1896. E. J. HALE, Editor and Proprietor. E. J. HALE, Jr., Business Manager. THE NEW CONVERT CONTINUED. We gave yesterday some of the points of ex-Congressman Henderson's remarka ble letter in the Charlotte Observer in which he goes . back on his record as an anti-unconditional repealer. Considering his close connection with Senator Ran som, there were persons who said at the time that Mr. Henderson's vote at the extra session in opposition to Mr. Cleve land did not completely represent his views. But we had too much respect for the member from the Seventh district to think anything of the kind, and we be lieve now his change is due simply to that extraordinary control, akin to hypnotism, which the President seems to exercise over those who come within the sphere of his influence. We gave yesterday an inteiesting and amusing account of Santanelli's power over his "subjects" how he made them all nurse each one a perfectly well foot under the impression that it was badly crushed. The poor fellows would roll in the dust and roar with pain. After awhile, released from the spell, they would, one by one, laugh at those still under it as well as at themselves. Similarly, we have seen poor Mr. Car" lisle eat his very words, and look his as tonished audience straight in the eyes and tell them that there isn't a particle of difference between what he said in 1878 and what he says now; and Hoke Smith roll over in the mire into which Mr. Crisp put him the other day, declare that he was "a fool" when he advocated ensi lage and turnip seed as the basis of a "sound'.' currency in 1892, and look his auditors square in the face as he protested that he could see no point whatever in his opponent's suggestion that if he was a fool in 1892 it might turn out that he was a fool now and at other (if not all) times. It is to be hoped that all of these gentle men may recover like Santanelli's sub jects, and live to laugh at their curious antics while under Mr. Cleveland's spell. Unfortunately, however, the high posi tions of trust which Mr. Cleveland's sub jects occupy do not permit them to retire from the scene of their crazy goings on with only themselves to laugh at or to commiserate. Millions of their fellow citizens writhe in the suffering that fore closed mortgages and business failures bring, while th cabinet gentlemen go on their smiling, self-satisfied way, insisting that the people's suffering is as unreal as their own. But to return to Mr. Hendei son's letter. Mr. Henderson says that if the Presi dent had not issued bonds to replenish the gold reserve, "the present Congress ! might have impeached him." We never thought of that before, but the suggestion accentuates the fact that the last thing a Republican Congress would do would be to impeach the President for carrying out his present Republican policy of giving the Treasury gold drainers the option which the law, says belongs to the people. Mr. Henderson says the President "has maintained the gold standard and kept all sorts of money on a parity. If he had not done so he would tiave violated the law." Mr. Henderson is mistaken. The law says keep "the two metals on. a parity." That the President has egregiously failed to do, the silver in a silver dollar being worth only about 50 cents, you know. It is the Chicago platform which says keep all sorts of money on a parity, and the instant Mr. Henderson admits that the President is bound by the Chicago p form in other words, the instant he claims that the President is a Democrat away goes the claim upon which his whole letter rests, viz : that the President wrote a letter to an individual seventeen months before he accepted the Chicago platform, which was at variance with that platform; and that to the doctrines ex pressed in that letter he owed a greater allegiance than to those expressed in the platform of 4 millions of voters which he subsequently declared his allegiance to ! Mr. Henderson says "He the Presi dent does not make laws, but he is bound to execute them." Precisely. The Presi dent did not make the Chicago-platform, the law of his party. That law required him to do his best to secure the restora tion of the double standard of value, but Mr. Henderson commends him for having "maintained the gold standard" ! Mr. Henderson saTs (most truly) "The Republican party established the gold standard." And he adds : "The Repub licans and Populists of North Carolina are equally responsible for the majority which controls the Fifty-third the pres ent Congress." Now that is richness. Not a word has Mr. Henderson to say about the Fifty-second Congress, which Mr. Cleveland controlled. .Did the President utter one word in the messages of recom mendation, which the law requires him to make, in favor of undoing the Republican law that established the gold standard ? Not he, but, as said above, Mr.,Henderson actually boasts of his having adhered to the Republican doctrine of his Kllery An derson letter rather than to the Demo cratic doctrine of his subsequently ac cepted Chicago platform ! But, worst of all, the President's gold bug defender, our new convort, Mr. Hen derson, actually holds up the Populist, Mr. Peffer, as the linal authority on the ques tion of the President's ' honor. "He the Populist Mr. Peffer regarded them Cleve land and Carlisle as men of honor;" and Mr. Henderson exclaims in triumph "What more need he said?" Why uorrt he cali up Mr. Tillman, the Democratic Senator from South Carolina? Why is the West ern Populist Peffer's word better than the Southern Democrat Tillman's word? And so on, and so on. Alas and alas, that a man of Mr. Hen derson standing should make such a curious exhibition of himself. And still we have no condemnation by Mr. Henderson and the other administra- tionists of the New York, New England and Keutucky bolters. Not a word. . CURRENT COMMENT. Every day now. brings news that con firms the Observer's prediction made on the 27th of April, 1895, and repeated con stantly since, that the Democracy's fight or free silver was bound to resolve i tself into a fight against the President and those he controls with his malign influence. Remember. Democrats, the whole fight centres on the President. 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