The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-10-29
Nv Honest Populists All Over
the State.
"voTE FOR NO GOLDBUGs'
Is the Reply That is Made &c
His Proposition.
"FRgE SILVER ABOVE OFFICES
Thunder the People to the Little
Populist Chairman Who is Trying
TO Sell the Party Out
to Gcldbugs.

The Populists who really want Sill
yer legislation are repudiating the
trade made by their Executive COM
mittee. They have hoped all along
that all the silver forces would pull
together in this campaign, and until
the rejection of the proposition of the
Democrats for joint fight by their
committee, they have believed such
action would be secured. Until the
rejection of the Democratic PROPOSE
ton, the Populist leaders who were
secretly dickering with the Republl-
cans, told the people that they wanted
to work with the Democrats, but the
Democrats wouldn't do it. They tried
to excuse the trade to elect gold-bugs
to office and give the Republicans the
Supreme court by saying they had to
fuse with somebody, but after they
refused the Democratic proposition,
they had then to let it come out that
the Populist machine was an adjunct
of the Republican party. This fact
has made many honest Populists imdig-
nant. and all over the State they are
declaring:
1--WE WILL STAND BY OUR PAR
TY, BUT WE WILL VOTE FOR NO
GOLD-BUG FOR ANY OFFICE, FROM
CONSTABLE TO PRESIDENT, AND
WE WILL VOTE AGAINST EVERY
GOLD BUG WHO Is A CANDIDATE
FOR OFFICE
This has been the announced policy
of the Populist party since its organ
ization. 1T has been declared in all
their platforms, every Populist organ
has enforced it, and every Populist
speaker has Numbered it on the stump
until the rank and file regard it as
the chief principle of the party. 1t
seems that the fellows in charge of
the machine have forgotten this fun
damental principle, and by dickering
with the Republicans have trampled it
under foot.
But the country people have long
memories. They did not go into the
Populist party to elect gold-bugs to of
flee, in the Federal government, or
to restore the corrupt Republican par.
ty to power in North Carolina. They
care little whether Hal Aver or some
body else is State Auditor. They want
Legislative relief and reform. They
want to defeat Pritchard because he
is a gold-bug, and they know it can
be done only by voting against all leg
islators who will not promise to vote
against his reelection to the Senate
They want to send nine silver men
to Congress, and they know it cannot
be done by voting for 'decoy" Popu-
list candidates like Dolby in the Fifth
and Moss in the Second, or for gold
bugs like Richmond Pearson in the
Ninth or r. Y. Linney in the Eighth
districts.
We have received letters from many
counties giving the names of scores OF
Populists who will vote against every
gold-bug on the ticket. In some places
they will also vote against those trad
ers who are trying to make them yote
for gold-bugs. Most of these men are
averse to having their names printed
but they will be heard from on cleo
ton day. We print on first page ring
ing appeal to Populists from a Popu-
list to repudiate the Mark Hanna gold
bug trade, and below print other COM
munications showing that there are
Populists who refuse to bow down and
worship the golden calf at the behest
of fellows who are to get offices as a
result of this gold-worship.