The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1896-10-08
MARION BUTLER
NAT. CHAIRMAN
Of the Peoples Party Executive
Committee Work In the
Present Great Contest.
4 NEW FORCE IN POLITICS.

Mr. Butler's Chlef WOrk liz tn Make Ey-
.ry Fr.e silver Vote Count for Bryan
O,e Of the very best Of monthly
r,csz.les published is The Review
~, Reyiews, edited by Nh. Albert
4 shaw. Mr.. Shaw has so ably direc-
Ted the policy OF this magazine that
Dday IL has no superior and takes
rank with the best type of American
magazines. 1t is devoted to "topics
Of the day." gives brief reviews Of
current events, and reproduces the
best American and foreign cartoons
that have appeared during the
month, and many other good fea-
tures. 1t reviews the political situa-
ton i'm partially, and its partisan
position commends it to all. The
October issue is an unusually good
number. Of the many interesting
articles "The Three Strategic Chiefs
Of the Presidential Campaign is the
.eadlug paper in this issue. This
article is divided into three parts
par. deals with brief sketch Of
Mark A. Hanna, chairman of the
Republican executive committee, by
Murat Halstead; part III, with 8
short description of jerome *. Jones
hartman Of tho Democratic execu.
tive committee, by Willis j. Abbott
and part III gives narrative of Mar
ion Butler, chairman of the Peoples
Parry executive committee. The
article is accompanied with fine half
tone engravincs of Mr.. llama ano
Mr.. Butler.
THE CAUCASIAN reproduces, il
part, the chapter devoted to Chair
man Butler:
Marion Butler, by Carl Snyder.
OG the three national chairmen
Butler, tho Populist, is by odds tn
most interesting. Both Mr.. Ham;
and Senator Jones are to the coun
try at large, new me-, but they ar
not particularly new types. TIL
Republican party has entrusted it
fortunes to the mlllionaire-in poll
"A ties before. Senator Jones has thu
lar been chiefly notable from the
.Y#mistakes he has made and the things
IN le had better left unsaid. Butle
|5 alone is novel and picturesque. A
|W country editor, sprung from thu
plain people and reared on farm
at - this young man finds himsel
in control of the party machinery o
II political organization larger II
numbers than than which electe,
Lincoln for the first time; an &C
knowledged leader, and Unite,
Statas Senator TO boot. In his brie
and quite dazzling career he ha
shown himself shrewd manipulate
and o dexterous tactician, with
genius for success and an unusuf
talent for taking advantage of othe
mems necessities. There is grow
ing suspicion that he holds the Ike
TO the situation, if there be such
key, on the Dem ocratic-P Populi!
SIDE, and that even now he has th
key in the lock and is beginning
slowly turn it around.
All these things would of then
selves make Butler quite wort
while. But more than all this,
stands as the reprsSseatatiya Of tn;
ne~ rOFee which has come In
ch!sec the rsce Of Emerican pc,
ties, TO recast the lines of party q
visions, to introduce new issues 81
new ideas and TO relocate the stor
centres of our PRESIDENT tial struggle
No intelligent conception Of Il
present campaign, in fact, is pc
Sible that does not take into consi
Grafton the thoroughly domiuatil
influence of the Peoples Party. AL
lnasmuch as the precise position
that organization in this contest
due, whether through luck or !eadt
ship | know not, to Buffers decisi
action at the st. Louis convention,
may be we'll to glance back q lit
way and note how events conspir
to work out an opportunity for Il
unknown politician to put himself
the front.
A year ago the Democracy fou
itself between the Devil, as perso
fed in Mr.. Cleveland, aud the ia
deep waves OF annihilation &
sweet forgetfulness. Under
Presidents leadership, the party
been forced into positions anita
nistic to Its natural tendencies, s
Ia much more important antagont
to the sentiments of its rank ,
file. The Populists, with q comps
earnest and aggressive organizsti
were forcing financial issues to
fore. The tariff, pensions, the Fo
bill, and their antique kindred W
growing decrepit and decayed.
political issues they were back M
bers. Meanwhile the Democr
had sustained heavy losses in
South and was quite fading f:
view in the West. Alarmed st
shadow of free silver, the busir
interests of the country were gr
ing apprehensive and were turn
to the Republican party as Il
natural ally. In spite of the fra,
Efforts of the Republican Leaders
prevent it, the country was form
IN two DIVISIONS, with the mo
question as the line of cleavage;
Republican party was forced to
come the champion of gold;
champions of silver were the Pc
lists, 1t was then that the De
cratic leaders began to ask th
sci yes: Where do we come int
They did not come in. Divided
the single vital issue of the b
and thrust into an anomalous 7
tlon by their adherence to Clevel;
iSm, the Democracy was simply
ing ground between the upper
neither millstones. To shift the
aphor, 1t was at this point th
new set of leaders boldly seized