The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-09-27

Mr., Shocks Follows Mr.. Walter II.
Henry Into the Populist Party--He
Applied tor a Position of Revenue
Guager. but a Democrat Lie Kept
Him From Getting the PIace--White
Supremacy Mast Come to an End--
Problems Confronting the FusiOnists.
tFrom the Harnett county Union.)
MEssRs. EDITORS: The purpose of this
communication is to notify all of my old
conferes of the Democratic party that |
am with them no more forever. | did
not realize until lately how corrupt and
disreputable the party was to which |
have been allied. Not until / read my
friend Walter Henry's eloquent denun-
citation of them did know how basely
ungrateful the leaders of the Democratic
party were to those who had given them
the benefit of their talent and influence.
Walter and I have been working and
waiting for years for the ship that never
came. Our hearts finally grew sick with
s'hope deferred" And now have de-
termined to follow Walters example,
by leaving the rotten old bourbon
hulk and ally myself with the
party of reform, composed of men
who believe in rewarding those who
are faithful and Jealous in building up
the walls of their party Zion. For some
time / was uncertain which OF the other
two paaties | would join. The Republi-
can party does not offer much for new
recruits, as the ranks are filled with old
liners who have been fighting for politi
cal supremacy in our State ever since
1868. and who think that they should be
provided for, by being let in to the swill
tub ahead of latter day patriots. The
Third party is not so, | am informed
The laborer of the eleventh hour gets his
penny at the divide along with the man
who has borne the burden and heat of
the whole day. The Republicans too, have
a foolish idea about political principles,
which they insist must be upheld, and as
the Populists are not burdened with any
such effete stuff as principle and 60 only
for the leaves and fishes, it suits my
principles best. So | have notified
Brother Marion mot Mary Ann as the
vulgar Democrats have it, Butler of my
flop over, and expect him to publish my
declaration Of principles in next weeks
Caucasian as he did for Walter, brethren
Carter, Foy and Others who have pre-
ceded me in this the GROWING act of
nv life. I have no doubt but that my
motives will be impugned by the par
tisan press of the State as were those
of my brethren just mentioned, but
/ defy them to lower me in the esti-
nation of a patriotic and discrimi
mating public. The leaders Of all
reforms in the past have been thus as
sailed, but have come out OF the furnace
of persecution without even the smell of
fire upon their garments. Tney will say
of me as they did of Walter that am
sore headed, disappointed office seeker,
but if they do, they will give me noto-
riety, and as in the case of Walter, make
me conspicuous before the national pub
lie. Such we seek.
Did we not, or Walter rather, canvass
the State last year and denounce in
terms most bitter and eloquent, the I'M
holy alliance between the Republicans
and Populists and pronounce it a com
bine to elevate certain men to high Office
at the expense of principle, and all that
Certainly we did, or at least Walter did.
If Cleveland, Ransom and Go. are so
unappreciative of merit and statesman
ship as to overlook us in the distribution
of office, there is but one road open to
us, and that is to leave them to their
fate, and as the flag of Democracy goes
down beneath the waves of public con-
demnation, upon it folds should be in
scribed the fateful words: Faithless to the
G. E,-1 = Fn-, TfNEr
that Walter and did not sooner discover
how utterly rotten the Democratic ship
was, and how utterly unworthy of pub
lie confidence were Cleveland and his
crew, but as long as there was spa k of
hope that our ship would come in, these
things were hidden from us, but when
Ransom wrote his last letter, or didn't
write at all to Walter, that it had been
decreed that we should not be provided
for, then it was that the deceivipg man
tie fell from before our eyes, and in all
its loathsomeness, and rottenness we be-
held the remnant of once great party,
and we, Walter and |, wrote upon it the
magic word Icabod. But then, Mr.. Edi-
tors, if any bourbon Democrat says or
inslnuates that we, Walter and |, quit
the party because of disappointed thirst
for office, he is a liar and the truth is
not in him. / use the words of Major
Grant of Wayne used under violent pro
vocation in the last and best General
Assembly.
| don't want so soon as this to betray
any of our party secrets, but | will say
that we are likely to have some trouble
in keeping all the elements of fusion so
mixed, as to keep the pot from boiling
over. Now the first problem is, how are
we to get the negroes to vote for Dan
Russell when he advocated their disfran
chisement for years, and next, how can
We rally the Populists of Sampson to
him when they are reminded that he
held their court in time of peace under
a military guard and issued bench war
rants for the arrest of some of their best
men who are now Populists, for crimes
they nor any one else ever commi ted.
These questions must be solved, as it is