The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1893-05-18
THE CONTRACT Gas NOT YET BEEN
SIGNED.
The North CaroliniAn.

I nS EApEs@5ADA
contract printed below has been
signed is an erroneous one We are
not surprised that thoughtful people
! thought il was "of record" They
are justified in so thinking BY the
contents of the last CAUCASIAN. On
every page there were the ear-marks
of J. e. Logan Harris, secretary or
ex-secretary of the Republican Exec
utiye committee, who spent several
days of the previous week in Wash.
| ington City, and evidently prepared
the Jonathan Edwards" letters
which appeared in THE CAUCASIAN
They bear evidence OF his pen, and
voice the opinions which he is known
to entertain. We do not know
whether the said Republican wrote
the editorials in The CAUCASIAN on
the North Carolina Election Law or
not. They read nightly like the ed
torials on the same line which Mr..
Harris printed in his Republican or
gan, The Raleigh Signal, a few years
ago. Wheather written by Harris,
Butler or some other member of the
new Confederacay, they all had the
same inspiration, viz: hatred of the
Democracy and desire to defeat II,
and will nave the same futile end
AS to the subjoined contract, or
agreement: 1t has not yet been
signed or witnessed by any of the
parties whose names appear below;
but no well informed man doubt that
the contract sets forth the perfect
understanding that exist between
the leading Populist and leading Re
publicans. There are some contracts
and agreements that are so well
known and so generally understood
that it is not necessary to redcue
them to writing or to sign them.
The suggested contract below is one
of them. What need to write what
every sensible man in North Carroll
ma knows, but which the conspira-
tors are unwilling yet to avow? He
is silly man who does not see that
the Populists and Republicans are
political Siamese twins, and that
they are working hand ia hand.
The fact that J. C. Logan Harris,
the veteran Republican, is the cor
respondent of THE CAUCASIAN, and
furnishes five or six columns of cor
respOndence in one issue, all abusive
of the Democratic party, is evidence
to the blindest of this perfect under
standing that foreshadows their per-
feet union. And this unholy alliance
is called "a Reform Movement"
God save the mark!
Although the following suggested
contract has never been signed, so
far as we have information, by any
of the parties whose names appear,
it is certain that it correctly states
the verbal contract or agreement
ssbsisting between most, if not all
of them.
A Contract Suggesting the Understand
| ing Between Populists and Republicans.
THIS CONTRACT entered into this
9th day of April, 1893 between Ma
rion Butler, editor of THE CAUCA.
SIAN, and leader Of the Weaverites,
of the FIRST PART, and j. C. Logan
Harris, Secretary of the Republi-
can State Executive Committee, and
Foster-mother of the Gideonltes, of
the SECOND PART:
| WITNEssETH, That the said Mari
on Butler agrees for and in consid-
Grafton of promise of the Republi-
can support for the United States
Senate for 1898, to publish a paper
at Goldsboro, to be known as THE
CAUCASIAN; said paper to be chiefly
devoted to a denunciation of the
Democratic leaders, a repetition of
the hackneyed Republican TRADE
against the North Carolina election
law, and misrepresentation of the
Democratic legislation Of 1898.
The said Marion Butler also agrees
in consideration Of the above reward
to publish in his paper communica-
ttons from Raleigh written by the
said j. c. Logan Harris, signed
Zone Of the Peoples" also communi-
cations from Washington City writ
ten by said Harris ridiculing and
disappearing the Democratic ad-
ministration. and Democratic candi-
dates for Office, signed Jonathan
Edwards" and any and all other ar
ticles which the said J. C. Logan
Harris, or any other Republicans
who are dyed in the wool see fit to
send to his paper, under 4oa de
ptumes. He also agrees to do any
and all things desired by the Repub-
ican leader and his associates that
will injure the Democratic party,
and that will form a more perfec ct
union between the Populists and Re-
publicans.
The said j. C. Logan Harris, PAR
TY OF THE SECOND PART, agrees for
himself and his associates, mostly
colored, to furnish Washington let
tiers signed Jonathan Edwards, ;"
for publication in the said CAUcA-
SIAN, to write letters from Raleigh
signed Zone of the People, land to
furnish other communications with
various other signatures, to defeat
the Democratic party, and promote
the coalition between the Populists
and the Republicans, and the said j.
c. Logan Harris does for himself
and his associates and Copfederates,
hel eby agree, in the event that the
coalition of the Gideonites and the
Radicals succeed in controlling the
next General Assembly in North
Carolina, that the said Marion But
Ter shall receive the support of the
eolored and white Republicans for
the Office of United States Senator.
1t is part of this agreement that
said Marion Butler shall be elected
to the United States Senate, the said
j. c. Logan Harris and his associ-
ates shall control one-half of what
ever patronage said Marion Butler
may be able to secure.
| In WITNESS of the above sT1pULA-
TIoNs we have hereunte set eur
hands and seals this the twenty
seventh day of April, eighteen hun
dred and ninety-three.
(Signe0 MARION BUTLER,
j, c. LOGAN HARRIS.
WITNESSES:
WILSON fG ON hobo1e oe A. GA