The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1896-10-15


follows:
RALxroH, r. c.. Oct. 9th, ise6.
EoN. CLEMENT MANLY. Chairman Etate
Democratic Executive Committee.
Dear Sir have the honor TO sc5Inowl-
edge the receipt Of your communication OF
this day.
note especially the following paragraph
In your letter:
II beg, therefore, that you will make i'm
mediate answer TO this communication.
and state what, II anything, you are will
ing and ready 10 do In the premises"
In reply to this ] desire to call your at
tention TO communication under date Of
August 12th, 1886, which was officially sub
mitted to you by the Peoples Party State
wss a. follows
RALEIGH, n. C., Aug. 18th, 90.
Hos. CLEMENT MASLY, Chairman State
Executive Committee:
Dear Sir-Your communication of yes
terday, addressed to Marion Butter, Chair
man of the Peoples Party State Executive
committee, enclosing copy of preamble
and resolution dated August 18th. 1886,
passed by your committee, and which you
requested 10 have submitted through our
chairman TO theExecutive Committee of the
Peoples Party held this day in the city of
Raleigh. your letter, with enclosure. was
signed were appointed az a special commit
tee 10 comply with your request TO give you
a reply to your communication expressing
the sense OF our committee. For the infor-
nation OF our committee our chairman
stated TO our committee that YOU had. on
August LIST, submitted to him, pursuant to
the authority of your committee a written
proposition for fusion between the Demo-
cratic party and the Peoples Party on the
electoral ticket by dividing the eleven elect
ors by giving 10 the Democratic party six
electors and the Peoples Party five electors
Our chairman further stated that he ex-
pressed to you at the time of receiving your
communication of August 1st, an unwill-
ingness Oh his part to recommend to our
committee the acceptance of the PROPOSE
ton contained i'll your communication.
standing by itself; out that he promptly on
August LIST, submitted to you as a counter
proposition written memorandum en-
bracing your proposition, and also other
| matters contained in said memorandum, as
follows, to-wit.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Acknowledgements 6, Populists 5.
STATE OFFICERS.
Populists-Goyernor, Treasurer, Superin-
intendent Public instruction.
emocrats-Lieutenant Governor. Secre-
| tary OF State, Auditor, Attorney General, L..
| 5. Senator.
| Or,
acknowledgements. Attorney-G General,
Superintendent Public Instruction.
Populists: Lt-Governor, Treasurer, Secre-
| tary of State, Auditor, L. s. Senator.
Congressmen-Populis 1sU, 4th, 9th and
| 18th districts
| Democrats: ID, 9Th, Sth and 9th districts;
| 81 district to be LETT open for free fight.
Judges: Each party one Supreme Court
Judge.
County officers: The two executive COM
mittees to use their good offices to secure a
| fair and honorable division of county and
legislative candidates between the two par
| ties III an equitable ratio similar to the above
| DIVISION OF state and congressional Offices
Our committee being thus fully informed
| by our chairman as TO the antecedent facts
III relation to your proposition and the
| ABOVE counter proposition, seeing that the
| matter contained in the above counter prop
osltlon are not even referred to in your last
| communication of August 18th, and not
| knowing whether the same has been acted
upon by your committee, and if So what
| action was taken thereon on their part. and
as your last communication is only petit
tlon IN substance of your first comluunica-
ton OF august LIST, it is the sense of YOUR
| comlnlttee, and by their direction YOU are
| so ADVISED, that your committee having ig-
| nOred the counter proposition which was
| submitted to you through our chairman for
| VIZ Tonoiuei "tioI % your committee, We
| are LETT In the position Of having no reply
to make to your last Communication other
than that aieady made by our chairman.
! (oighed) MARION BUTLER,
a. SHAW,
| JAS. a. SHERRILL,
| Committed"
1t must not be understood that the recital
OF this communication here is a re-submis-
SION OF the proposition therein contained
| lhe conditions that existed when it was made
| and the conditions which exist now differ
to such an extent as might make it imprac-
tlcabie for us to carry out its specific details
| IL IL should now be accepted by the execu-
tive management of the Democratic party,
IL is recited Tor the purpose of recalling the
lact tnat our committee has once made a
| tangible proposition to your committee
looking to the ends which are expressed as
being desirable in your communlcation of
today.
You will permit me to remind Won that
the Peoples Party, through lis State COM
| mlttee, has accepted the only tangible prom
osltlon which has been made to that partv
oy the Democratic party, viz: The PROPOSE.
ton TO cooperate on the electoral ticket. j
90 not mean TO be dlscourteOus in stating
that a tangible proposition made by the
Peoples Party, through its committee, has
received no consideration at your hands
but such is the fact
Under these circumstances, and not being
empowered to take any action without con.
sultlng our State Committee, do not fee
at liberty to undertake to state what oul
committee would be willing and ready tc
do in the premises" l do feel at liberty
however, to assure you that if it shall be
the pleasure of your good self, or your com
mlttee, to make tangible and specific
proposition looking to those results suggest
ed III your communication of today, thai
such propositions will be taken into earnes,
consideration by our State committee at The
| EARLIEST POSSIBLE MOMENT. am.
| Yours very truly,
HAL w. AVER.
| Chairman p. z. State Ex. Com.
| PROPOSITION MADE,
| The State Democratic Committee
mad conferred plenary powers on the
| Demncratic Central Cnmrai+4aa NJ: