The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-10-14
POPULIST MANIFESTO
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port from the Joint electoral tickets.
Some of the Democrats of the revenue
stripe, who are not yet weaned from
the flesh pots of Egypt, but are stick
lers for regularity and are nOminally
supporting Mr.. Bryan, while secretly
and in every underhand way are try
ing to accomplish his defeat, are adj
vising against the joint electoral tick
cts, and failing in this, they advise
Democrats to scratch the Peoples
party electors, and already a few So
called Populist leaders are advising
the rank and file of our party to strike
back by refusing to support the Demo-
cratic electors on the joint electoral
tickets. This is a trap set by the
gold-bugs who are rejoicing that
few honest men have fallen into it.
These reports to-day are the only ones
that buoy up the hopes of the Re
publican managers and the Democrats
and Populists who are thus engaged,
are doing just what the gold men most
deshire. Therefore, we appeal to every
Populist who may have been misled by
such mistaken or false pleas of pre-
tended loyalty to the Peoples party
into refusing to support such joint
electoral tickets, to stop and consider
the results of such conduct and refuse
to be influenced by either misguided or
corrupt mem.
The one and only hope of the Re
publican party to win in this election
and fasten the gold standard upon the
country is the corrupt use of an unlim-
it'd supply of money for bribery, cor
ruptiom and intimidation. The pa
triotic action of the Peoples party
in forming and supporting these joint
electoral tickets has shattered that
hope. Already they are alarmed at
the impotency of a Doodle campaign,
when all of the great moral forces of
the people are solidly united in de-
fence of American insti buttons. The
revulsion of the American people
against this Doodle campaign, during
the last ten days, has so united them
that victory is now assured. The Peo-
pies party made this revolution pos
sible. Let every one do mis- duty and
fail not. Let our boast be that we are
American citizens, and that American
citizens are more than partisans.
This done, the cohorts of domestic
| and foreign greed will be driven from
our legislative councils and the domi-
nation of American institutions; this
done and the betrayed Republic will
be redeemed and American prosperity
restored. The men and the party that
achieves such grand and patriotic re-
suits in this crisis will be the men and
the party in THE future. Tt has been
left for the Peoples party and the sill
yer Republicans to make the party
sacrifice, and to do the patriotic work
necessary to accomplish this result.
The Peoples party must do it, for no
other party will, and the Peoples par
ty will do it. The Peoples party will
be the party of the future. The Am
erican people viii recognize it as the
agency that saved the day when their
interests were at stake; the American
people will rally around it's banner as
the party to contend against the
enemy of good government in the flu
ture. Every man to his post and the
victory is won,
(Signed.)
MARION BUTLER, Ch'm'n.
J. r. SOVEREIGN,
H. w REED,
GEORGE F. WASHBURN,
JOHN w. BREIDENTHAL,
NJ. C. RANKIN,
C. f. TAYLOR,
]. A. EGERTON, Sec'y.
The members of the committee adj
mitted after the meeting that this
statement is in the nature of rebuke
to Thomas Watson, who has been call
ing on the Populists to keep in the
middle of the road without paying at
tention to either of the other parties.
Early in the afternoon Senator But
Ter said that Mr. Watson would remain