Evening star., 1896-10-31

In THE COLUMN OF DOUBT.

IN THE COLUMN OF DOUBT.
/ North Carolina Confidently Claimed
| by Both Sides.
| Correspondence of The. Evening Sur.
l. RALEIGH. N. c.. October %.
| It remained for the last week in the cam
paign IN North Carolina to develop It's
| greatest sensation-one which Is Of an un-
paralleled character. Tuesday night Will
| lam A. Guthrie, who had all during his
campaign defied the populist committee as
the machine" of the party issued an ad-
| dress. In this he said:
"Wtll you now, On the eve of the election,
desert your party flag and the principles
you profess to love? VIII you be allured
into the camp Of Mark Hanna and politi-
cally slaughtered? 1 refuse to believe 1t,
| and will not be convinced to the contrary
until your vote shall be counted and re-
turned. Will you take the earnest advice
| and listen to this last appeal of him whora
you honored with your confidence at our
| last state convention by nominating me as
your choice for the Office Of governor? VIII
you fail to vote for each and every elec.or
| on the Bryan presidential ticket? VIII
you vote for goldbug to represent you in
| the next Congress of the United States?
| VIII you throw away your votes for a
congressman upon populist 'decoys' in the
NTH and ninth congressional districts and
| thereby help to elect goldbugs instead of
Tree silver Congressman in those districts?
VIII you vote for members for the general
assembly pledged to support SenatorPrftch-
ard or any other goldbug republican for a
| seat In the Senate of the United States?
have you forgotten soon the principle
iald down at your state convention only
two years ago relating to a non-partisan
l win 1f,,l
| that If you vote for Col. Douglas for SUI
| preme court judge you will do so in direct
violation of that principle and give to the
| republican party three members out of five
I CT the supreme court justices?'
This aroused the wrath of the populist
| committee and the chairman of the latter,
! against whom Guthrie's attack was plainly
directed. sat up all night to answer the ad-
| dress with a counter blast This was is
sued last night. 1t is long and exceedingly
| bitter. Here are some extracts:
| The first three lines of the address con-
vey gross and objectionable insult to the
peoples party state committee, and every
member of the party who sympathzes with
| the efforts the committee has made and
the course 1t has pursued. 1t would be
| superhuous here to recite the cooperative
arrangements which the state committee,
by virtual authority of the state conven-
| ton. has entered into with other political
parties. One of them is a cooperation with
the republican party on state and con-
| gressiona1 tickets. This is referred to by
Major Guthrie in these words: 'Allured
| into the camp of Mark Hanna and politi-
| cally slaughtered And after this outrage
| Gus insult, which every true populist in the
state will avenge in some way the address
| turns into disgracefui and disgusting plea
for the peoples party to walk into the
democratic party and be swallowed.
| Much more might be said concerning
this astonishing address. but it's full pur-
pose and meaning can safely be left to the
| insight and comprehension Of the members
| of the marty They a. a md
| that it comes with bad grace and gra-
| tuitous impertirence for their gubernatorial
nominee to advise the scratching of the
| party ticket which his own name ap-
pears. and watch name can be as easily
| scratched as any other.
| ITO briefly summarize the unauthorized
surrender by Major Guthrie to the demo-
| cratic party, there is this to say:
| First. He vilely insults his party and
the members of the state committee.
| Second. He bolts the action of his state
I convention in certain cases; he bolts the
| action of his own congressional district
| convention, and also the action Of his iu-
dicia1 district convention.
| Third. He pleads that populsts will vote
! for democrats, but nowhere pleads that q
| pcpulist shall vote for populist
l. Fourth. He declares he cares nothing
| about the results of the greatest compli-
| ment and honor that the peoples party
| state convention could bestow on any man,
and this gives the members of the party a
full right to care nothing about what be-
comes of him.
"For these and other reasons which there
Is now neither time nor inclination to men,
ttion, it is the calm and candid opinion Of
| the state chairman that Major Guthrie has
| forfeited all right to the confidence of the
members of the peoples party. He is how
ever, still the party nominee, and his name
| viii appear on all the tickets issued from
peoples party state headquarters.
hrm conviction of the state chairman
Is that the course of Major Guthrie has
| been such as will make it impossible for
him to receive the suffrage of the full mem
.tership Of the peoples party. and here in
advance or election day it is declared that
the number of votes cast for Maj. Guthrie
as the peoples party nominee for governor
| must not and cannot be accepted as an in
dicatlon of peoples party strength"
! The democratic state committee Is cir
! cuiating an enormous number of the Guth-
| rie address. while the republican committee
| Is sending out the populiSt state chairman's
reply.
| The democratic papers today were full of
attacks on the populist state chairman
| signed by populists. Some of these charge
MIN with selling out the party for the of
| fce of auditor. to which republicans and
| populists have nominated him. The chair
man said today: '"The people who ere rep
resented as populists. and who attack me,
are either men who are paid to do so with
mean whisky, or else were tempted by the
| democrats with Offices
The three parties are keeping their cleo
non 1.,t tickets in secret The populists are
The republican state chairman says:
| You can state that think Russell our
nominee for governor. will get majority.
OF McKinley's carrying the state, 1 have
| now no doubt.
| The democratic and populist state chair
men stated to Chairman Campau that Bry-
an would carry the state by 30,OOO. The
| populist state chairman doesn't believe t.
however. He declines to give any figures
populist committeeman say that Guthrie
| will get a very light populist vote All he
loses Russell will gain, they add.
| republicans offer large odds that Bryan
can't possibly get all the electors in this
| state.
| PECULIAR PENNSYLVANIA TRADE.
| Two Republican C0nEressmen to BE
Slaughtered for Candidate Crow.
Correspondence Of The Evening Star
| HARRISBURG. October %, 1896.
Advicas from the nineteenth congress
sional district are to the effect that HolIar.