The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-10-29
A PoPULIs,res- PLEA.
Populist Candidates Have Sold out to
The Observation-Disclosures who
Want Silver Should Vote the
nepoorY.a fic Ticket

Populist Candidates Have Sold out TO
The Republicans-Po who
Want Silver Should Vote the
Democratic Ticket.
To the Editor: Will you be so kind
as to allow me a little space IN your
paper to say a few words to my Peo-
pies party friends? | left the Demo-
cratic party in 1898 because of its &c
ton in Congress on the silver leg1s-
lation and / think there are. a good
many others who did the same thing.
But because we left the Democratic
party. we need not go into the Republic
can party. If we are honest in our
views on the silver question we cam
not vote with the Republicans this
year. We throw away our vote II we
vote our own ticket, therefore | see
nothing left but for us to vote the
Democratic ticket, and risk the chance
to get Mai. Guthrie in the Sem
ate. We have no other candidate to
look after as all the others HAVE
SOLD OUT TO THE REPUBLICANS
AND TRIED TO SELL US WITH
THEMSELVES. think it our duty to
be at the sale and make the purchase
as dear as possible.
saw AOi. ". H. lyOCktAN SOIilC
ago. He told me that he was in no
sense a candidate for Lieutenant Gov
eirnor and would resign if elected.
So you need not consider but that Mr..
Dockery will be taken care Of. Then
let us vote for the nearest to silver
that we can get. We know we can get
no silver legislation from the Republi-
cans. We can get more in fusion. Then
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If we are honest,we are bound to vote
the Democratic ticket. If we don't
vote at all we cast a half vote against
silver. If we vote the Republican tick
ct, they are against silver, then we
are not honest in our assertions here
| tofore If we do not act honest in our
convictions now how can we ever
hereafter make people believe that
we were ever honest or ever had any
| honest convictions?
If Ne have forced the Democratic
party to kick out it's bad elements,
bring it back to it's old landmarks,
we ought to be satisfied that far and
| not throw away what we have done
for the people, but rather still fight
if we have to continue the fight in
the Democratic party. IF we left the
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ship of the golden calf, then, when they
destroy their idol we have obtained
our ends ;unless we be PIE HUNTERS
we ought to be satisfied that far, but
still continue the fight for the peo-
pie, and, if we do not do that we have
not been honest but hunting pie.
You know it has been said that the
Peoples party was made up of sore
headed politicians who could get moth
ing from the old parties but just
wanted to fool the people i'm this
move and get in themselves. / am
afraid there is more truth than poetry
in that, from the way some of our
trusted leaders are acting just at pre-
sent. But the Peoples party is not
dead. Tt cannot die, but will rise up,
Phoenix like, from its own ashes, only
purer and better made up of princi-
pie and not pie. All of the patriotic
principle is not gone out of the people
of North Carolina nor do j think out
of the Peoples party.
Therefore | would ask all good Pop
ulists to vote for principle rather than
party.
Yours respectfully.