The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-10-25
A Final Plea From the Chair
man to Come Together.
TOGETHER TO A GREAT END
Electors Can Adjust Vice Pres
idential Differences.
MISSION OF THE PoPuusTs
Bryan is Struggling Almost Alone in
Behalf Of the People, Ibis is the
Oppor unity For Both Parties
to be Great.
to be Great.


Washington, Oct Ex-senator Butler,
as chairman of the Populist National
committee, issued the following official
address, written by Ignatins Donnally
and adopted by the National commit
tee of the Populist party:
"To the Members of the Peoples Party
OF the United States:
Friends and Brethren: Your Ma
| tional committee has been doing all
in its power to unite our membership
in one grand charge all along the line
during the closing days OF the cam
paign, in behalf of liberty, home and
country. We have been measurahly
successful. All that is needed now is
| that the people should realize tine
gravity of the situation which con-
fronts them and the immense interests
that are at stake and move together
| as one man.
Our candidate for President, Hon.
VIM. j. Bryan, has proven himself one
of the great men of the country-if
not of all time. The power which gave
us Washington, jefferson, Jackson and
lous brought him from obscurity to
the front of affairs. He is more than
| an orator. He is a profound thinker, a
| logician, born statesman, he is striving,
to the last verge of human endurance
| and at the risk of his life-in cam
| paign which is one prolonged and tre-
mendous debate, to save this country.
Is there any honest heart that does
not go out to him in this great strug-
gle? We see him almost alone, like a
knight in armor, armed cap pie with
| truth and righteousness, battling
against the gigantic powers that now
| have possession of the world. Shall
we not sustain him? Shall any petty
plea turn US aside? Let us follow
where he leads and strike where he
strikes. Almost without newspaper,
without wealth, he takes upon his
shield a thousand spear points and
strides forward, laughing, TO beat down
the swarming hosts of the enemy. Let
every Populist in the United States
cry out:
Master, go on; and we win follow thee,
'"To the last gasp with truth and
loyalty.
| "We are no less fortunate in our can
didate for Vice-President, Hon. Thomas
E. Watson. He is fit 10 stand by Mr..
Bryan and hold up his hand. scholar,
an author and orator, q hero; merry
| souled son of the gallant South, as
wise and just as he is brave.
But do not take disoouragemenA
/ from the fact that there are two cam
| didates for Vice-President in the field,
marching under Mr.. Bryan's banner.
There will be two months between the
| date of the election and the day when
4 ela H. 10
| their votes. Surely there is wisdom
enough in the two parties which sup
port Mr.. Bryan to adjust that com
| plication during that time and in
manner satisfactory to all.
Brethren, some of you fear that this
campaign will destroy the Peoples
party. We have no such apprehen-
| sions. It's principles are right, and be-
| ing right they are immortal. In four
years they have taken possession of
the Democratic party, and ON Novem-
ber 3rd they viii take possession of
the nation. In 1892 we had but one
million voters. On NoVem Der 3Td, 1896,
we shall have majority of the whole
country. We have not become Demo
Gratis, but the Democrats have, in the
broad sense of the word, become Popu-
lists. We have not given up our or
ganization, We do not propose to close
the academy because the first class rs
about TO graduate with honors. AS
the spirit is greater than the flesh, Sc
the principles of a party are greater
than its traditions. We are educating
Democracy from the inside. We shah
find it easier to reach their convictions
as allies than opponents. Mems opin-
ions are not fixed quantities, but fue-
tuate with events. If Democracy lives
UP to its pledges the alliance, now tenn
porary, may be continued. III they do
not, and the forces have 10 divide.
three-fourths OF their people will
march off under our standards. The
banquet is not over with the soup.
The Peoples party has yet a tremen-
dous mission TO perform, and it seeks
nothing that is not just and reasonable,
1t must ever remain the guiding forcs
of the American Republic--led by the
pioneers of the great army of reform
"The malaria that makes the marsh
dangerous does not extend up the side
of the mountain, which towers sub
lime in the sunshine and the pure sweet
air of heaven. Let us in this conflict
seek the higher attitudes Of thought
and feeling. In the beneficent at
mosphere Of a great purpose let us
dwell together as brothers. This is the
opportunity for each OF us to be great.
If we neglect it we may never again
possess it. The occasion raps at the
door of time, and if we open m0t, il
passes away on wool-shod feet.
Sin the name of God, your eowAtry,
your children and all the poor and OPP
kConcluded on 4th paQel