The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1894-10-11
CH4IRM4N POU'S LETTER.


under the Constitution of this State. Is
vested with powers to reverse the poill-
ical condition Of every county IN North
Carolina that Legislature, if controlled
BIZ the fusionists, will have the power
(and it will exert it no doubt to APP
point magistrates in every county ana
to increase their number In every couI-
tv until they control the BOARDS 81
commissioners and Boards Of Finance
(where :hey EXIST In every county III
the State that Legislature VIII have
the power to turn over the control o.
our great State institutions to the Fu-
sionists it will have the power TO de-
liver into the hands Of the Fuslonlsts
our institutions of learning, orr charl-
table and penal institutions, and the
control of the common schools OF North
Carolina that Legislature Will have
charge of the levying OF the taxes, ana
the spending of the public money for
the next two wears it will have the
power to enact an election law to be
framed by the Fusionists, and to be en-
forced by them at the next election,
and it will devolve upon that Leglsla-
ture to choose two United States oena-
tors, one to serve six years and the
other to serve two years. If we lose
these two Senators we VIII lose controi
of the Senate of the United States.
That Legislature will choose one
member of the Railroad Commission.
Nine members of Congress are to be
elected, and every county office In
North Carolina is to be filled at the
coming election. In short our honest
and efficient judiciary is at stake the
control OF the Legislature Is at stake !;
the control of each county in the State
is at stake, and the control OF the Uni
ted States Senate is at stake. Never
had party greater incentive to work
than we have in this election. Never
we're the rewards Of victory more salts
factory or more certain, and never were
the results Of defeat more disastrous or
Illuminating. No good citizen can con-
template without a shudder at the posi-
biity of fusion victory IN November
In the opinion of this committee the
result of the coming election Is no long
er in doubt. We VIII elect our State
ticket by the largest majority ever CIV
Ell in the State. We will elect ma
iority of both houses of the General
Assembly, and it will probably increase
the number OF Democratic Congress
men from eight to nine. The indica-
tons all over the State are that the
people have turned against the fusion
ticket and they will bury it beneath
an avalanche of indignant votes. We
have borrowed strength and gathered
inspiration from the great victory won
this summer by the Democrats of our
siser States OF the South, Tennessee,
i kansas, Florida, Georgia and Alaba-
ma where tickets made up, like the
mongrel one in this State, have been
buried beneath decisive major.ties
The returns from these elections show
us that as political factor the Pop
llist movement at the South is at an
end. Claiming successfully each OF
these States the POpulists carried none
OF them. The Populist movement at
the South has become mere sideshow
to the Republican party, and to the
least reputable wing Of the Republican
party at that. 1t has sold it's principles
and it's honor, and with this election it
will disappear from the face of the
earth.
The Populists are losing every day
their men of character, and all those
who went into it from principle see
that they must now leave the party or
prove untrue to their principles These
men see the base purposes for which
they are being used by the Populst
leaders they are spurning that leader
ship and coming back to the Demo-
cratic party. Let us welcome back
home all these, who, in leaving us, act
ed from pure motives and from consci-
entious principles. Their return in
creases our majority, and adds gladness
to our success. The best men in the
Republican party, disguised with such
performance as have lately been seen
in this State, refuse to sanction the
deals made by their own discredited
leaders with would-be Populist auto
Gratis, and announce that they will as
slst in burying the Fusion ticket
In almost every county in the State
discOrd relgns supreme among the
ranks of our enemy. Disgust and in
dlgnation fill the minds of honest men
Of both Republican and Populist par
ties they spurn the loathsome dish of
fered them by the fuslonists They
feel that their personal honor and per-
sonal dignity require them to adopt
this course and they no longer hesitate
to proclaim their intention.
The Democratic party, thoroughly
aroused, solidified ana united in every
county, marches to certain victory.
The question now Is only one of ma
jority. What shall our majority be ?
Shall it be small one, such a majority
as will leave the fusionists some hope
for the future, some ground upon
which they may base hope for future
attacks upon the welfare of the State
Or shall we, by one months earnest
work, pile up such majority on the
9th day OF November as will for years
to come dishearten the enemies of our
State?
This Committee begs that you make
choice of the latter course. 1t is with
in the power of the Democrats of North
Carolina by one months united work
by one months Jealous and earnest eff
fort, to annihilate the Fusion aggrega-
ton.
We have it in our power to elect ev-