The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1896-10-08

fectly willing to have accorded credit
to the Peoples Party for bringing
them to that declaration. The very
least they could have done would have
been to express . willingness to. have
helped to re-eiect the Peoples Party
Congressman from this State. They
knew that the Peoples Party had
fought the issue to the front in spite
Of Democratic slander, rascality, abuse,
vituperation and storms Of rotten eggs
thrown by Democrats. We say they
knew this, and the least approach to
common honesty and decency would
have compelled them to have acknowl-
edged this.
Did they do it! Not much. The
very first thing they did was to begin
fight on the very men who had made
the great issue now before the Ameri-
can people. They began to try to de-
feat every member OF the Peoples
Party now in Congress. There is not
a single district from which Popu-
list was in Congress from this State
in which the Democrats did not put
up a candidate for the purpose Of try
ing to defeat him and ALL THIS AZ
ter the Dems had climbed onto our |
platform and acknowledged it to be
10 do n
not blame them for getting On the |
platform, but we have never seen a
meaner or more rascally effort in our
lives than their attempt to drive us
off Of it and claim it as being excln-
sively their own.
to some extent on the kind of men
they put forward to push us off. Mr..
K. w. Pou ia beautifully fair sample.
He may be described as new convert
who is more enthusiastic lin his mInd)
than one of the old fighters who have
stuck to the cause through the storms
1
men. But after these men had gone
through the bitterness and violence of
the stOrm-a storm which Mr.. Pou and
men of his stamp helped to create
and finally come through it, then Mr..
Pou, ct ais, come forward and have
the Unreasonable cheek and unmiti-
gated impudence to claim that THEY
helped to do the fighting, and more
than that, have the inexpressible i'm
pertinence to claim that they are en-
titled to some recognition and ought
to hare the fruits of the victory.
This may be pretty plain talk, but
it is gospel truth, and we propose to
tell it. 1t was in 1892 when the Peo-
Piles Party raised its voice against
Clevelandism and goldbugism. But Mr..
POu and many others condemned and
, abused, without stint, the cry and the
warning raised by the Peoples Party.
No expression was too mean-nO lang
uaga too harsh for Mr.. POu and Co.
to hurl against the Peoples Party for
their warning cry. The whole DEM
ocratic party seemed to be inspired by
the Devil himself to abuse the Popu-
6 lists, for nothing but the Devil could
have invented the meanness and the
abuse which characterized the pro-
ceedings of the Democrats against the
I Populists.
And this went on for two years. 1t
took long time to get Mr.. FOu "con-
9 verified" In 1894 he was still bowling
for Clevelandism and Cleveland Dem
{ ocracy. He fought everything that
didn't bow the knee to Clevelandism.
: Cleveland was almost his god. He
couldn't have talked about God AL
g mighty with much more reverence
and respect than he talked about
Cleveland.
Mr.. POu made speech on July 18th
e 1894. 1t was pretty full of all the
!. GLORIOUS things" that had been done
+ by the Cleveland administration ant
1854 mind youD contained the fol
lowing heart bursting and soul inspir
l. ing eulogy of Cleveland.
d "WHERE IS THE AMERICAN CITIZEN
y NO MATTER WHAT MAY BE HIS POLITI
,. CAL PARTY, WHO DOES NOT THANK GO1
10 THAT MORAL COURAGE, LOFTY PATRIOT
ISM AND PERFECT MANHOOD ARE TO B1
FOUND IN THE CHAIR OF THE PREsI
70 DENT OF THE UNITED STATES" In ad
If dition to this grand "perOration," Mr.
# Pou defended the issues of bonds an,
said that no sensible man could hav
done anything else, (but to issu
- bOnds).
If We wonder if Mr.. POu would say to
lr day that no sensible man could d
E. anything else but to issue bonds! /
such Internal rascality was the righ
thing then, why would it not be tn
y right thing at any other time?
es This was not the only time Mr.. Pc
Is. doomed Clevelandism. He made
n. speech at ThompsOn's store in Chat
ham county. Some people remembe
that speech and here is certificate "
-. have from some of those who heard i
n To Whom 1t May Concern.
% We, the undersigned, do hereby Gel
h.. tify that we heard Mr.. E. w. Pou, sa
in speech at Thompson's store i
e. Chatham county, during the campaig
of 1894, that he endorsed the Clevelan
administration Internationally.
JOHN w. ATwATER,