The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-09-27

/ ties ought to bend all his energies and
/ use all his influence to elect the man.
! And vet. we find here in the State of
| North Carolina. the so-called leaders
| of the Populist party, advising, lead
! ING and commanding the PopulisTs to
| defeat this platform, this man and
| all reforms, both financial and other
| wise. and retain in power and restore
TO power the very man and party who
! they themselves admit brought these
| hard times upon the country and made
! these reforms necessary, and who de-
clare in their platform, in all their
| papers. and through all their speakers
| that both the Democratic party and
| Populist party and their leaders are
| anarchists. communists, destructionists,
| incendiaries, regulators and dishon-
| est men. Yes, the Republican party is
| the open and avowed enemy of the
Populist party and its every p nciple,
! and declares that not one sins prln-
! ciple of either the Democratic - Pop
| ulist parties shall ever be forl tlated
into laws or put in practice in tie Uni
! ted States if they can help or ."event
| it. And vet with all these facts and
| lights staring the Populist party
| in the face. the committees If the
| Populist and Republican parties them
| selves have usurped the power that
| belonged to the parties, and formed
On unholy and ungodly alliance both
| offensive and defensive with each 9TH
err, to defeat financial reform to elect
| gold bugs TO the legislature Of North
| Carolina, to elect gold bugs to both
Houses of Congress and to defeat Will
liam Jennings Bryan and elect VIM.
| Mckinley President of the United
| States.
There is not Populist in North
Carolina who has not declared thou
sand times more or less that he would
not, under any circumstances, vote for
gold bug, or for a man who would vote
for gold bug, We have all pledged
our sacred honors, in platforms,
speeches, papers, resolutions, declara-
lions publicly and privately, that we
would not, under any circumstances,
and could not be induced to vote for a
gold bug for the United States Con-
gress or for person who would vote
for Mckinley or gold bug. Yet in the
face of all this, our committee have
met the Republican committee and
sold us out horse foot and dragoon to
and commands to us,without even con-
sulting US, to vote the Republican tick
ct, TO vote for gold bugs for Congress,
to vote for members of the legislature
who will vote for gold bug Republi-
can United States Senator, to vote to
keep the yoke upon our necks, to vote
to keep the burden upon our backs, TO
vote to keep the letters upon our limbs,
r4s. 49, slr .,I oh
and their defendants slaves forever.
Will you do it? VIII you sell your
birthright for less than mess of pot
tage, for less than thirty pieces of sill
yer. for less than a Jewish shekel?
VIII you quietly submit to such de-
graduation, to such infamy? Will you
allow your committee to sell you to
Mark Hanna as so many sheep, so
many cattle, so many hogs, so many
dogs, not at price agreed upon by
you, but by another, not for your bene-
fit or the benefit of your country or
neighbor, but for the benefit of an
other, the ruin of your country, your
neighbor, and at the sacrifice of your
honor, your manhood, and your organ
ization? I don't believe you will. /
have more exalted opinion of your
manhood, your courage, your virtue,
your integrity, your patriotism and
the love you bear to your wives and
the children of yonr loins.
Vote for a gold bug for the Senate,
for Congress, for President! 1t can
not be, you will not do it. You will not
give the lie to all your platforms, res
olutions and pledges.
You cannot afford to lay yourself
liable to the same condemnation you
heaped upon the heads of Cleveland
Democrats, for violated promises, brok
en- pledges, and treason to platforms
and resolutions.
Great Heavens! My countrymen, how
can you assume the responsibility of
sending six gold bugs to Congress to
defeat silver, and a graduated income
tax, when you have it in your power
to send ten financial reformers who
will stand like a rock wall for the I'M
limited coinage of both gold and silver,
and against the National banks and for
an income tax? How can you assume
the fearful and tremendous response
bility of electing Mckinley President,
the very embodiment of all you are de-
nouncing and fighting against and de-
feating Bryan the very type and shad
ow of judicial administration and fl
nancial reforms, the great aim and
purpose of your organization?
Great God What Populist ever ex-
pected to live to see the time when
the gold bug wing of the Democratic
party, lead by Grover Cleveland, Car
Isle and Company, and the Republican
party, lead by Mark Hanna, John Sher-
man, William Mckinley and Company,
and the Populist party of North Caro-
lima, lead by Senator Marion But
Ter, Ohio Wilson and Company
should be found side by side, shoulder
to shoulder, elbows touching lighting
in the ranks of plutocracy, bond-hold-
ers, money-changers bankers, corpor-
ation, London and Wall street shylocks
and blood suckers, tax gatherers and
tax eaters, in favor of gold bugism,
high taxation, class Legislation; and
against the unlimited coinage Of both
gold and silver, graduated income
tax, the abolition of the National bank