The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1896-11-19
SENATOR BUTLER TO
SENATOR PRITeHlRD.

4 POINTED QUESTION AND A DIRECT
ANSWER ABOUT Al InPoR-
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ELLIOTT, \. c., Nov. IA, 1896,
Hon. J. c. Pritchard, Marshall. &c.
Dear Sir: Yours Of Nov. sth, asking
whether or not l favored your 10
election to the Senate, received. Who
shall be Senator 10 . matter to be de-
cided by . majority Of the members OF
the next legislature, but il 1 were .
member Of that body l would not vote
for any man for Senator who favored
the gold standard or whose position
on the financial question ESQ vital to
the welfare Of our people, was upcer-
tain or equivocal.
When you were elected to the Senate
two years ago you were ~ outspoken
and - strong for the free and unlim-
tied coinage Of silver at the ratio of Is
to I ~ l or anyone else. You con-
demned the gold standard a. one Of
the greatest curses to our people and
to our country, you condemned Ceve-
lands financial policy and especially
Carlisle's policy in redeeminE Treas
ury notes in gold alone. But to-day
Senator John Sherman, the arch leader
Of the British gold conspiracy, says
that their hope Of capturing tho
next U. s. Senate for the gold stand
ard depends upon getting a Senator of
their own way Of thinking from both
Kentucky and North Carolina. It is
understood that they want to elect
Carlisle from Kentucky and to elect
you from North Carolina. Therefore
| take it that you are no longer for the
free and unlimited coinage Of silver at
the ratio Of 16 to l, but il you are,
then Sherman and Mark Hanna must
be deceived as to your position.
Besides If you have been correctly
reported by the newspapers, you have
in soma Of your speeches admitted
That you have radically changed your
views on the financial question. which
question is at all times the most i'm
portant and vital one in this or any
other government and which is espe-
cially so at this time in the United
States: Again, you had published in
the Winston Republican . few months
ago statement of your great change
on the money question. That article
which the editor said he was author
lied to publish and which you have
never corrected, stated that you would
vote for free coinage until March 4th
next because you were pledged to do
80, but that after then you would be q
Sound money man."
Thus it seems clear that you have
decided to desert the people in their
great struggle against the money
power and have gone over to the side
OF the money changers who bleed and
Cypress the people.
There is no longer any halfway or
st-addling ground in this contest.
Every man in Congress will have to
vote for the free coinage of silver and
more full legal tender money for the
people or he will vote with the bank
ers, bondholders, spectators and gold
gamblers who live and grow rich BY
making money dearer and scarcer. II
this is your position then no member
OF the Legislature, who is not himself q
goldbug, can vote to send you to the
Senate. You certainly cannot expect
the vote Of any Populist, neither can
you expect the vote of any silver Re-
publican, for when your State conyen-
ton passed a resolution approving
your course, you had not given public
notice that you had changed your
views.
Every man has a right to change
his views on the money question or
any other question whenever he has
reasons sufficient for doing 80, but he
has no right to complain II the people
OF his State refuse to change their
views because he changes his.
Having radically changed your posi-
ton on the most vital issue before the
country to-day and now holding new
views in conformity with those of
Sherman and Mark Hanna you would
not represent the sentiments and in
tercsts Of the people of North Carolina
in the United States Senate any more
than did Senator Ransom after he
changed his views on the money ques-
ton to conform with the views OF
Cleveland and Carlisle.
One vote may determine the position
of the next United States Senate on
the money question. In fact if you
are elected or any man holding the
new and foreign views you have
adopted 1t will almost surely give the
bankers, bon dholders and gold trusts
one majority in that body, and com.
plete control of every branch of the
government, and this is the reason
why that class of men are now SHOWING
so much interest and anxiety about
your election.
1t is absolutely necessary for the
people to hold the United States Sen.
ate in order to check the turtle,
schemes Of the monopolists and gold
cOntracti0nists. To do this it is nec.
| essary for North Carolina to send q
free coinage and anti-monopoly man
to the Senate. Therefore favor the
election of man who holds the same
views on the financial question that
you held before you changed.
Yours respectfully,
MARION BUTLER.
BRYAN'S MAJORITY 1926.
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