People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1892-07-29


A telegram from Raleigh, N. c., says
a sensation has been caused by the ap-
pearance in the Third Party organ of
that State of long address to the peo-
pie signed by John j. Mott, chairman
of the executive committee of the Third
Party. 1t is formal proposition for a
fusion Of the Third Party and the Re-
publican party. The terms offered are
that the Third Party will support the
Republican candidates for State offices
if the Republicans will vote for the
Third Party's candidates for Congress.
The Democratic majority in North
Carolina has been smaller than in any
other Southern State except the two
| Virginias, and a trade of the kind sug-
gested, if carried out in good faith by
both parties, would undoubtedly result
in the success of the fusion ticket.
In view of this fact, it behooves white
men who feel themselves driven toward
the Third Party by their discomfort to
consider exactly what the Third Party
movement means. 1t is becoming cas-
Ter every day for them to Judge it in
! diligently. In North Carolina, as we
see, the Third Party is willing to turn
over the State to the negrOes-the ne
grQes are the Republican party-for
the gain of few votes in Congress.
They are willing that the white prop
erty holders of North Carolina be tax
ed by a negro legislature, that the
school system shall be managed by ne
grOes, the election laws made by ne
groes; that all the functions of the
State government, in fact, shall be per-
+! formed or controlled by negroes, If the
negroes will only help them to destroy
the power Of the Democratic party,
This IS what the proposition of the
chairman of the executive committee
amounts to, and we do not think poll
tician ever made a more abject surren-
der to the base elements of society in an
effort to further his own and his fac
TONS interests. No sane man can be-
lieye that he is acting in the interest of
the white people and from patriotic
motives.
But it may be commended that the dis
position shown by the Third party in
North Carolina to buy the support of the
negroes at such fearful cost is not shared
by the Third party in other States Such
a contention would not be justified by
the facts The same tendency is OBJ
served everywhere in the south.
The candidate of the Third party for
vice-president. once a lieutenant of the
renegade Malone, who is now the Re-
publican leader in Virginia, was magnil-
OQuent in a recent interview in his
boasts of what would be accomplished
by his party in the approaching election.
1t would elect Weaver in North Carolina
Georgia, Texas and other Southern
States-Or, if by any accident it should
fail to do that, it will at least defeat
Cleveland and cause the choice of Har-
rison electors In this interview, Field
made no concealment whatever of his
animus toward the Democratic party. It
is that of implacable hostility. He would
Of course prefer to see his own ticket
successful but, failing that, he will be
pleased if through his party the Repub-
licans are continued in power He
leaves no doubt that his enmity to the
Democratic party is so great that he will
rejoice in Republican victory.
The third party leader of Georgia, Mr..
Thomas Watson, has intimated plainly
enough that he is animated by the same
feeling A few days ago a resolution
was before the house to print 10000 cop
les Of the force bill for the use of mem
bers, and Mr.. Watson fought it with all
his strength. The force bill, he declared,
is dead issue, though he knows that it
is not dead issue, but it demands il and
every leading Republican is committed
to its enactment at the earliest oppOrtun-
ity. Mr.. Watson himself would probably
vote for it. He knows that it is not a
dead issue, but it is an issue which he
wants kept out Of the present campaign
as much as possible. 1t is not yet time
to openly make proposition of surren-
der to the negroes, as has been done in
North Carolina.
The tendency of the Third Party is TO-
ward the negroes, and the men who
think Of going into it should understand
from the first that in the event that they
are successful they must share their
power with the negroes. They will be at
all times at the mercy of their black al
lies, and must grant whatever conces-
sions the latter demand. They should
cOnsi 3er we'll before attaching themselves
to the Third Party whether they can re-
main patriotic citizens while making the
sacrifices which will be demanded of
them.
Rarely has more Infamous mis-
representation been given to the pub
lie. The chairman of the Executive
Committee of the Peoples Party of
IN VI Ill Val OIAud3 Is uOG y Ouu y NOGt3 |
but such is the name of a prominent
white Republican who published in
the last issue of the Progressive
Farmer long letter, conceding that
1t was impossible for the Republicans
to carry the State, and advocating
the virtual disbandment of that par
ty and acceptance of the Peoples
Party candidates for State officers.
The Telegraph does not publish the
telegram it alludes to, and whether
the misrepresentation is by the editor
or by the Associated Press does not
detract from its infamy.
There is no quotation from any
utterance Of Major Field to sustain
the editorial statement in the Tele-