The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1896-10-01

publicans-CaIIs on Silver Men to
Stop and Think.
Capt. W. H. Kitchin, who accom-
panied candidate Bryan from Raleigh
to Goldsboro, yielding to invitations
to address the Populists left the party
at that place made one OF his -eharac
terisiIc speeches. A correspondent Of
the Wilmington Messenger reports
him as follows:
When Mr.. Bryan had concluded he
was escorted to the hotel kennon,
where he received, many ladies and
citizens being introduced to the next
President. He had a cordial hand
shake for all. At IL O'Clock Mr.
bryan boarded his special train with
his party for Wilson, Rocky Mount
and other towns up the Atlantic
Coast Line. Captain w. H. Kitchin,
of Halifax, the well-known Populist
and enthusiastic Bryan supporter, was
on the train and was to have intro
duced Mr.. Bryan at Rocky Mount,
but large number Of Populists in
s;sted on his saying behind to make
them speech. He yielded and spoke
from the stand on which Mr.. Bryan
had spoken. A tremendous crowd of
Populists, Republicans and Democrats
gathered around him and he spoke for
nearly two hours. His speech was
principally an account of how Marion
! Butler had manipulated and bossed
|the POpullst State convention and la
ter the Populist Slate committee, in
the interest of fusion with the Repub-
licans and against the Democratic
party, which he said was the natural
ally Of the Populist party, having COM
mon principles in the free and unllm
tied coinage Of silver at the ratio of
I6 TO I. He vehemently denounced
BI;ler and said he had unblushingly
entered into ibis unholy alliance with
the gold bug Republican party that he
| (Butler) and dozen Of his friends
might be vampires upon the public.
Capt Kitchen earnestly declared that
he was for free-siIver coinage at 16 to
and against any fusion with gold d-bug
Republicans, bat Marion Butler at the
Populist convention was doing all he
could to put gold-bug Republicans on
the Popuiist ticket. He (Butler) was
working to get Zeb Vance Walser on
the popu!ist ticket for Attorney Gen
eral, probably believing that the
Vance" part Of his name had some
influence in it. (Applausel-Walser
was also in Raleigh when the State
convention was held and was trying to
waltz through the convention. oval
SER said Capt. kitchin chad told me
that he was gold-bug and for Nc
kinley, and | was determined that he
should not lie endorsed. fought him
in the convention and on the first day
had 50 nearly whipped i'll the fight
that Batter succeeded in gettln5 an
adjournment. The next day Butler
tried 10 waltz W,lser through the con
yention again, but | defeated him. He
also tried to put gold bug Republican
judges on the ticket for Popullsts to
swallow in the face Of proposition
from the free silver Democrats to fuse.
Through Buffers influence the Popu-
lists refused TO fuse with their natural
| ,lI;ar Tho Dao,CCratc ~
Capt. kitchin said that he (kltch-
in) had drawn up proposition TO fuse
on Congressman and the electoral
ticket with the Democrats and that
proposition was spurned by Butler and
his followers. After Butler had failed
TO &c, Walser through the convention
he had dishrag committee appointed
and he controlled it, and after all put
gold bug Walser and other Republ-
can gold bugs on the Popullst ticket
for Tree silver Populists to vote for
Was ever anything SO monstrous?
Capt j>itchin then went on to veEe
m1ntly denounce fusion between the
P,Iulists and Republicans. He
ayerred tha the PopuIlsls had been sold
and traded off and asked if they would
allow a few men to control their vote:
in TINS way. (.No, no. replied men
IN the audlenCc.l Then vote against
he trade made 10y the men who thus
force their tyrannical bo=ssm upor
YOU. He swore by the angels that h5
would never support Buffers arrange
ment.
"Where does Guthrie stand?' con
tinued Capt. Kitchin. "lie' stand
where | stand 10 day. He is denoun
cling fusion and advising the voters t(
down gold bug Republican Pearson
gold bug Republican Jeter Pritchard
gold bug Republican Settle and gold
bug Republican Linney. Capt. kllch
in denounced all those named ant
. urged Populists to vote against them.
swear cannot and will not vote 70
any gold bug Republican or Democra
for Congress. (Applause.) | lett tn
Democratic party, my first love, par
" | was born in, because it had de
serted its principles, and now a lot o
{ bosses are destroying the principles Q
e the Populist party. Marion ButIe
9 who presumes to be your boss ant
master is more tyrannical than an.
master OF any slave. [Applause.J
..What did Batter and the other mem
bers of the committee mean by thei
T, arrangement for Congressional fusion
: The answer is, simply to elect the iiftI
= and ninth district Republicans. Ii