The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-09-24
into this little bouquet and see if it is
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III All IuIS we hO NV ~
evince harsh feeling against the
Populist party as a whole or TO
imply undue disrespect to indlvid-
ual members of that organization.
In truth-since we see all things by
comparison-our respect and re-
gard for Populists has very greatly
increased within the past six
months as we have compared them
with some Democrats"
Since the regard Of our dear cotem-
porary for the Populists seems to ex-
coed that which he has for ''some Dem
ocrats,' why should it keep some
Democrats" at its masthead and take
down the Populists for whom regard
is accommodating so rapidly? This ought
to he cleared up; else the bouquet will
have lost much of it's perfume. The
Populists will love the Observer more
as it's regard for thel-Te continues TO
| increase, and, of course, " III oe SLOW
to turn deaf ear to it's advice. Aney
feel the warmth and heartiness OF the
Observers embrace with those feel
! jngs of prese.r ovation which they might
feel with their cheeks up az "llass V4e
throbbing solicitous bosom of Polar
bear, 1t the Observer hugs too hard,
populists must remember it is all for
the love of them and of silver and of
Bryan. But they will not house them
selves until some other day near the
heart of the Observer.
BY the bye, why did the Observer
write that last paragraph anyway?
| If it was not apologetic, it was use
less. If it was apologize, the apology
had a motive What was the motive?
Was it to say: You are bettes than
Democrat, but you are not good enough
TO vote for silver with the Democrats
at my masthead" Surely it did not
mean to try this method TO troll off
any Populists from toe support of the
Electoral ticket, thus dividing the sill
yer forces. 1t did not mean this; for
two reasons: it has too much sense and
it does not deal in such methods.
A few mords more anl we are done.
In another editorial paragraph of yes
| terday, the Observer says:
/ I'VE call attention to the fact
that we are still flying the ticket
1 of the Chicago and Raleigh conven-
/ tions, with the exception of one
| elector for the State-at-large, who
| has been taken down, and that we
| are giving these tickets the best
| support of which we are capable"
Why did the Observer take down
that elector-at-large? If, as it says,
1 the action of the committee in taking
| him down was unauthorized, why did
it even thus far acquiesce? If it could
acquiesce in this instance, why, as far
as the authority of the committee is
| concerned, could it not acquiesce in
| replacing the taken down elector with
the other replaced by the committee
Does not this prove that the matter of
authority was not so sorely troub-
| ling the Observer as the matter of its
own feelings? And ON what could it
reasonably base boiling feeling
| against the Populist electors after say
ing that they were better than "some
Democrats" which could mean no
other Democrats than those who were
| in favor of the fusion?
All this is said in good temper with
no feeling at all of an unpleasant per-
| sonal nature. Our feelings are all the
other way. But we must be permitted
in the face of grave crisis to utter
our astoundment at the decision of the
| Observer. We must, moreover, feel
| that both it and its followers, if there
| be any outside of the Indianapolis
/ McKinleyites, should be, in its present
position, henceforth regarded as hav-
| ing dropped out of the ranks of the
Democratic party, at time too when
! its brilliant services can Ill be spared.
] In bidding the observer brief adieu
| for we cannot but feel that its better
self will Jekyli-like soon return, we
take up our thread of life where it was
broken, and shall try to be cheerful.
/ Hand in hand, we have walked to-
| gether and we shall now feel in the
| darkness in vain for the Democratic
pressure that used to respond to ours.
Far be it from US to lecture the Obser-
yer for its untoward course.
| When, however, it shall have recon
sidered, it will find us at the old Demo-
cratic stand, and unless it kicks up too
/ many shines in the meantime, we shall
| try to find it in our hearts to exercise
the Democratic quality of forgiveness.
But as the case stands now, the OBJ
server is starting on a road the end
of which is Repentance, and before it
be too late we again say, "Don't!"
THE MOST UNKIND CUT OF ALL.
In 1892 the National Democratic COM
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