The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1896-08-13
'OpULISTS
ARE PATRIOTS.
hey are Making Efforts Every
where to Unite the Reform
Forces They are Earnest
OR BRYAN AND WATSON

\, . stand By the Convention OF Amep-
cans And Want Reform All The way I
what Tom Watson says and Advises
National Chairman Butler Pleads Tor
Harmony and Success. Il
| Discussing the situation anu nc
Nurse which he would sueseo
(opulists, Hon. Thos. +. watson
kown himself To BE- an ,tha
kizen and patriot. n iet. t.,ore
,g York World, written JUST pei.,
meeting OF che
ny.ntion he SAID
1000 far il it from Mr.. watson pur
| ,se 20 be responsible for any discoru
al ne will advise the Populist state
nyention, Thursday To endorse the
| zion of the st. Louis conventloh,
Ind thus throw the blame OF rupture,
any must be had, upon the Demo.
Sratic politicians. lie VIII ADVISE INA.
rvana and Watson be endorsed, ana
Rngt n full Populist electoral ticket De
'ut ont. He will also advise that the
,acutiye Committee be empowered
withdraw portion OF the fopullst
I ectors. and to supply their piaces
k1th electors named by the Democrats,
any time MIR. Sewall signifies MS
retirement.
mis- course he had decided on be-
,ra senator Jones interview came
nut and the said interview Will not
cau.e him to change his plan IN tne
I.Iightest degree. II the Democratic
nnIiticians reject SO fair an oier, as
,,e intend to make it will be their
c,ult IL the free silver forces shOulu
not unite. ,o
Al least half of the free-silver vote
IN the south, and it is only lair
that it should be represented.
I'm the event MIR. Bryan continues 10
reject the Populist overtures, the iOp-
MIST National Committee has authori-
~ Co name a straight Populist ticket,
in lien " the Bryan-Watson ticket;
and if the Committee should take TINS
action. the Populists of Georgia wouiu
enthusiastically support their noml-
naes. I'm that event, the electors Sc
Incted Thursday would not vote lor
Eryan and Watson, but would vote LOT
the straight Populist ticket put out
by our committee
SENATOR BUTLER's VIEW.
rv snecial request, on August 9Th
senator Marion Butler, chairman Oh
the Populist National committee, !tei'
syraphed to the Atlanta journal the
fnIIowinp signed statement in regart
,n senator j ones interview criticlslne
the Southern Populists:
"You wire me purpOrting to the IN
tarview with Chairman Jones, as II ap
nears in Mondays World, and ask IN
for a statement with reference TO IN
same. am not prepared TO belieV
senator Jones was quoted correctly
The election of Mckinley would meal
not only four years more OF sherman
ism and Clevelandism, but also man
additional and culminative resultin
W evils.
"No intelligent, patriotic voter,
true American citizen can, by MS a.
ton or inaction, be responsible, q
rectly or indirectly, for such threa
ened calamity. The only possible wa
that il can be averted, is by a cOmplel
harmonious and enthusiastic union
all parties opposed to the destructl 1
rule of corporate greed and Brlti
gold upon the candidates for PRESIDE
and Vice-President that represent Ju
the opposite of what Mckinley al
Uobard represent.
"What /. humiliating and slckenll
spectacle it would be should the 1ol
oi personal ambition and the dem
of party spirit step into, confuse
divide the allied ma ority anu deliV
the people into the hands OF the eI
mics of republican institution. b
this cannot, this will not happen.
"The American people are not M
in any humor to be triiled with. IN
realize the cause of our evils; tney II
Iy appreciate the threatened dang
They Will this year drive the BTU
money changers and their Amerlc
Tory allies from the temple OF lloel
and take charge of their own affairs
1T would be better for canulua
and chairman to do less talking AZ
present. But in spite of the indlsc
lions of individuals and so-cal
leaders, the American people nave
termined to win the nght anu I
Will do il.
(Signed) MARION BUTLER"
wArsoS's CONVENTION SPEECH.
ON the eve of the assembling of
Georgia State Peoples Party conN
tion Hon. Thos. f. Watson mad
speech of two hours length be
three thousand people.
Mr.. Watson appealed at the ou
for a non-partisan hearing, decla
that he spoke without bitterness;
behalf of the man who held the
who pulled the hoe, who welded
hammer. If God gave him
strength, he declared he would I
the cause of the people through
reporters present before 6o,OOO,Ol
people. He entered into an emu
NM alton of the reform demands c
Peoples party, indicting the go
ment for high crimes and misden
ors in the granting of the govern
tai mower of making money for
cial class: in the unfair levyir
taxes. which laid the heavy hs
tribute upon those least able &c
bain il; in closing the mlnts u
freq and unlimited coinage OF
in leaving the great public higl
of the country IN the control OF
ing corporations, who levied
upon the people who were com
to use them, in the corruption
ballot.
He explained at length his cou
leaving the Democratic party
having been elected TO Congres
Democrat. He said that MS OPT
had run as straight Democrat
he made his race on the Alllanc
lOTU, anu was plcuSCu w SSo"~
platform through the heaven
Furthermore, the National A
convention had instructed thOs
cressman elected on the A
platform not to go into the c'
OF those of the two great partle
only had he felt bound to sta
principles rather than party,
had seen then, as he saw no'
the only chance for Jetfersonla
ocracy was to unite the farmer
south with those of the West.
that required another party
Southerner could not be md
go into the Republican pal
could the Western Republican,
duced to enter the Democratic
A common rallying point WI
lutely necessary. When Cong
in 1892, eleven Western Cong
stepped out of the Republican
"Of the thirty Southern T.
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