The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1896-10-01
OUR WASHINGTON
LETTER.
Railroads in Politics-Are Fore
ing The Issue Their Corrupt
Influence in Legislation.
BRYAN EAST; WATSON WEST.

The Hormes's Woaderfal Endurasee-
Brtliant mpaig, spsschss-Wasson II
The West Wisai.g Votes cad Mahss
Most Favorable iDprsesies-A Trus
Friend Of The L.boriag Claasss-Mayor
strons's. OF New York. Little Game 70
ThvArt Mr.. Bryan From Speaking In
That City.
Special to The Caucasian.I
WASHINGTON, ID. c., Sept. 26.-The
great national campaign is now near
ing she point where the hardest and
most decisive fighting begins. Presi-
Dental campaigns, as rule, are won
or lost during the month OF October Ii
is clear that Bryan has the people with
him now. Nothing but the expendi-
ture of an immense amount Of money
or some unforeseen turn of affairs can
defeat him. Yet, everything is still in
doubt.
The Literature Bureau of the ma
tiOnal Democratic committee has been
removed to Chicago. They learned
that they could get out plates for
weekly newspapers and documents
cheaper from that point.
THE RAILROADS FORCING THE ISSUE.
Your correspondent learns at Peo-
pies Party headquarters that they
have more demands for the folder en-
titled "The Wage Farmer and Free
Silver" than for any other document
which they publish. Local commit
tees are ordering these folders, and are
placing one in the hands of every man
who works for wages and small sal
aries, in order that they may see both
sides of the question and determine
for themselves, with all the facts be-
fore them, how they shall vote. This is
considered complete and efrec-
tive reply TO the gold circular,
which the railroads and other cor
pOratiOns are handing out to their
employees to try TO array the
wage Garner against the wealthy pro-
Queer in this fight. The action of the
railroad companies in boldly entering
into politics, and becoming the active
and aggressive allies of the gold men,
is forcing rapidly the question of pub
lie ownership of transportation to the
front. In short, they are making every
silver man come over to the POpulist
position that the government should
own and operate the means of trans
pOrtatiOn, not only SO as to take these
agencies of commerce out of politics,
but also to give the people lower
transportation rates and to insure that
no discrimination shall be made
against any class of our people or any
section of the country. 1t is safe to
say that half of the corruption that
has occurred in Congress and Legis-
lative halls has been through railroad
lobbies and railroad Influences, direct
or indirect. Next to a correct tinan-
cial system nothing could do more to
add to the prosperity of our people
and to purify our politics and the ad-
ministration of our government than
for the means of transportation to be
operated at cost for the benefit of all
the people, as the postal system is now
operated. 1t is sure to be the next
great leading question in our national
campaign.
WATSON MAKES GREAT IMPRESSION IN
THE WEST.
Reports received at Peoples Party
headquarters show that Watson has
made as brilliant a campaign in the
West as Bryant is now making in the
East. The national committee is hav-
ing WatsOn's great speech delivered
at Lincoln, Nebraska, printed as q
campaign document, and will dlstrib-
ute it in large numbers. Dates are
now being arranged for Watson dur
ing the month of October, Immediate
ly after the close of the Georgia cam
paign.
BRYAN's MARVELLOUS CAMPAIGN.
The campaign which Mr.. Bryan is
now making is the most marvellous feat
ever known in American politicA His
physical endurance is not only mary
| elous, but his capacity for making a
speech, with new illustrations, every
day, is the wonder of the great orator:
and the ablest campaigners in the
country. His speeches are all, of course
extempOraneOus, are taken by stenOg-
raphers, verbatim, and reported wore
for word, just as he speaks; yet the re.
port of these extempOraneous speeches
appear in type as connected, as logical
and as we'll rounded as the best care
fully prepared speeches ever delivered
or published. The mans power is de-
velOping every day, to the astOnish
ment and qualification of his friends
and to the great alarm of his politica
opponents.
ORGANIZED LABOR STANDING sOLrDL,
| FOR SILVER.
In view of the desperate efforts tn,
gold men are making for the labo
vote, it is interesting to note that ever!
labor paper in the country that is tn,
organ of large labor organization i
for Bryan and free silver. A littl
} over a year ago the officers of all tn
. labor and farmer organizations of tn
country Joined in petition to Con
!, gress to open the minis to the free an,
unlimited coinage of silver at 16 to l
. The fact is that the farmers and or
, ganized labor has forced this finan
cial question to the front.
WATSON THE FRIEND OF ORGANIZE
LABOR.
In this connection it is also. inter