The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1896-02-27
AN INTERVIEW
WITH GUTHRIE.
He Has Been In Washington and
Talks Of What Is Going On
There.

Thiaks . Late Convention Advisabls For
The Peoples Partv-A Straight Populiss
VIII He Nominated For 0Ovsfnor-AaA
The People VIII Elect Him.
Major w. A. Guthrie was in Raleigh
early Tuesday morning, remaining for
a short time, and while here the CAU-
CAsIAN asked him few questions - to
where he had recently been and when
he arrived, etc.
81 just arrived this morning." said
Major Guthrie.
Reporter: II see from the Demo-
cratic newspapers you have been in
Washington lately, and there are all
sorts of rumors floating about rs to the
object Of your visit to the Capital, and
there is q great deal Of talk just now
about Senator Butler, DR.. Mott, Mr..
Chambers Smith and Mr.. r. B. PEBBLES
meeting in Washington, and the pro-
spective nomination of Judge Clark
for Governor. Have you seen the
Charlotte Observer of Sunday"
Major Guthrie: Il saw the Char
lOtte Observer at Gastonia, in CASTOR
county, on my retzrn from Washington
Sunday night on my way to Dallas,
CASTOR county, on some professional
business pending in Court there, and l
was very greatly surprised at what
read in the Observer in relation to
Judge Clark and the way my presence
in Washington was construed. The
fact is that was only accidentally and
incidentally in Washington last Satur-
day, while Mr.. Smith and Mr.. PEBBLES
happened to be there. l had been up
to the city of Frederick, Maryland,
attending, the day before, to some pro-
fessional business connected with the
Interstate Telephone and Telegraph
Company, in which certain clients
Saturday, the 22d, being Washington's
birthday and a legal holiday, and IS
had to be in Dallas, n. c., on Monday,
l concluded on my return would stop
over and spend the 22d in Washington,
and very naturally fell in company
with our members of Congress and
other North Carolinians in the CITY,"
"Major, what truth is there in the
Observers surmises and copjectures
about Senator Butler and Messrs.
Smith and PEBBLES agreeing to form a
combination of POpulists and Demo-
| Gratis, and to make a. State. ticket with
Judge Clark at the head of it as the
nominee for Governor
absolutely none, SO far as the nOmi-
nation of Judge Clark or any particu-
lar person is concerned. There is no
question about the fact that Senator
Butler, as we'll as myself, and all true
Populists, wants to see the free silver
elements in both the old parties united
with US the effort to carry out the prin-
ciples Of free coinage and currency re-
form laid down in the Peoples party
platform, and which is, as everybody
knows, the leading principle upon
which the political contest both
National and State will be fought
out in the approaching campaign.
| GAS for the nomination of Judge
Clark to lead the Popullsts and the
combined silver forces, that is q mere
fiction of the Observers imagination.
The fact is, as intelligent people all
over the State well understand,
the Democrats, or at least a strong
element Of that party, have been mad
with Judge Clark ever since we Popu-
lists and the Republicans at the last
election helped them to elect Judge
Clark to another full term of eight
years on the Supreme Court Bench
without opposition, and the Democrats
only want chance to avenRe their
chagrin over that result. But we have
already provided for judge Clark as a
Supreme Court Judge for a good long
time ahead in the future (thanks for
Democratic help), and Jud re Clark is
too good man for US to give the gold
bug Democrats a chance, in this year
of grace, to vote against.
1.-The Democrats having put up
Judge Clark at the last election as their
beau ideal of a Judge, and we Populists
and Republicans too having voted for
Judge Clark and helped to elect him,
now since Judge Clark owes his posi-
ton to all parties alike, if he chooses
to spend his winter vacation in Mexico
and write for the press things which
all silver men ought to know and gold
bngs try to suppress, of course we
shall expect Judge Clark during his
summer vacation this year, along dur
ing the hot summer days when be has
leisure time to spare, and wants mental
recreation apart from hearing argu-
ment and writing judicial opinions on
dry questions of law before the Court.
to give the press q few more letters of
the same sort, in order to give "Junius"
and other gold bug correspondents of
the Charlotte Observer the exquisite
pleasure of hurting invective criticism
|
Judge to withhold at least that much
pleasure from the gold bug Democrats
who voted for and supported him for
his place on the Supreme Court Bench
at the last election.
| eff our Democratic friends will lust
exercise a little patience and quit
some OF their everlasting wrong guess
ing about what the POpulists are doing
or are going to do, we will show them,
in due time, how the silver forces in
North Carolina are going to get to-
gether and put up STRAIGHT POPULIsr
nominee for Governor, and along with
him the best State ticket altogether
which has been seen in North Carolina
for many year.
| "And If our nervous P0pulist friends
will possess their souls with patience
too, and dismiss from their minds their
unfounded suspicious conjured up in
their imaginations against Senator
Butler and other trusted leaders of the
party, it will do good to all concerned.
Some Of our P0pulist friends seem to
fear an absorption of the Peoples
party by the Republicans; others fear
an abandonment of principle and 4
return OF the party to the Democrats.
these results.
| You will observe that our National
Convention at st. Louis, Missouri. will
be held July 22d after the Conventions
OF both the old parties have been held.
We will probably have State Conven-
ton only short time before our IA.
tional Convention. The Republicans
in North Carolina will have to hold
their State Convention to elect dele
gates to their National Convention At
least (SO) thirty days before their Ma
tlonal Convention meets, as their plan
OF organization requires that length
of time.
II think late State Convention
would suit our people, who are chiefly
farmers, after the corn and cotton