People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1896-11-20
SENATOR BUTLER SERVES Notice
II Mr.. Bryan Leads Reform Forces In
1900 1t Must moi ha as a DEMOCRAT

II Mr.. Bryan Leads Reform Forces in
1900 1t Must not be as Democrat
From the Raleigh Caucasian Published
by Senator Butler.
1t is probably idle to go back nov
and revieg tho causes which led to
the defeat of Mr.. Bryan, tut the
ehiefest among them all was the
brutal stupidity Of the goldbug nom-
inee for Vice President ia declining
TO retire from the national ticket sup
orted by those forces declaring for
reform, " may not be altogether
correct 10 assert that this stupidity Is
The sole cause Of defeat, busit GER
tain that many people who favor re-
form could not be persuaded to be-
ievs in the sincerity Of such man
as Arthur Se1ail, and re have no
hesitation in saying they were right
We have asserted before that ne was
pus on tho ticket by the schemers IT,
defeat it, and re say so now. The
3bjsot Tor which he was put up has
been accomplished.
Another cause of the defeat was
The failure Of the party represented
by the Chicago Convention to suo-
pert the Bryan ticket. If that psrty
had gwen two-thirds as many votes
70 Bryan as it gave to Cleveland four
years ago, Bryan would have been
elected.
The announcement now comes
that Mr.. Bryan declares ne will con-
tinue to 6gat tho battle of reform.
II is well, perhaps, that he will do
so. He is an able leader, and it may
be that none can now be found to
quail him. But great events can b
evolved within the next four ye2rs,
and, speaking nov for the Peoples
party of North Carolina, and we be-
lieve for the na.ion, we take the lin
erty of serving notioe upon Mr.
Bryan that If he desires to head tbs
reform forces of the Peoples parry
in tbs next fight he muet dose under
some other name than thai OF Dam
oorat. Th2t name has become re-
proaeh and stencil among the peo-
lie, and it gill not be Supported any
more now nor hereafter.
Democrats had charge Of the gov.
eminent for nearly four years, and
they plsyed the people false gross
7 and brutality false. In the cam
paign Just closed the Peoples party
joined ferces with the Democrats snd
he Demo ,rats again played the PEG
pie false-grossly and brutally false
There is no virtue in them. We are
done with them now and forever,
and also with any man who seeks to
lead the people hereafter under any
thing that may bear the name or
have the smirch of the word Demo.
GRAFT on it.
NOTE: The great trouble about
the above Is that it comes too late.
Mr.. Butler is simply hedging. He
kno rs that his conduct during the
recsnt campaign stamps him as g
man without principle Or loyalty,
and he resorts to his old trick oil
abusing the Democrats in the hope
that this Populists will forget how
he, Butler, betrayed them TO said
Democrats.
If there is one man in America
who ought never to open his mouth
against Sewall and the Democrats, it
is Butler.
And ii there be one unsorupuloua
political triokster whose treachery to
Popalism and to the Populiat ticket
will never be forgotten by the real
Populists OF tho country, it is Butler,
We see no reason why Mr.. Bryan
should be any less fit for MIR. But
ler s distinguished support in 1900
than he WEE in 1895. If it was the
correct thing for the Populists to
desert their own nominees and flock
to Bryan and Sewall in 1896, we
cannot understand why it will not be
the correct thing in 1900. Yoarl
change, bat principles do not. Right
in 1896, will be right in 1900.
Mr.. Butler knows nothing about
the Democratic party now which he
has not known for several yesrs. L
has behaved itself quite as we'll dur.
ing the campaign of 1895 as it die
during those of 1894, and 1892
Democratic methods do not change
They are the same old thing, year il
and year out.
Mr.. Sewalps spirituality" in mo-
Withdrawing from this ticket is NJ
more shocking now than it was pre-
vious TO tho election when Butler
convened his Committee at Chicago
and "oensared" Watson fer insisting
that Sawall should be withdrawn.
Mr.. Butler should not abuse The
Demo wats. He has learned severa
useful political lessons from them
One OF these is that the people soor
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