The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1896-12-10
WILL THE GOLD men GET lT7
SENATOR BUTLER'S FORECAST OF
WHAT THE GOLDITES WILL DO-!F
THEY CONTROL THE SENATE.

Cleveland's Policy Would Be Approved
The Greenbacks Would Be Retired
And Then the People Might Never Be
and Monopolies-If Populists Should
Hold the Balance Of Power, They Would
Not Be Adverse to Certain Tariff Legisla-
tion.
Senator Butler was recently inter-
viewed by the Boston Herald to which
paper he made some interesting state
men5s. The interview is here pre-
sented.
QUEsTIoN-How do you think the
next Senate will stand on the financial
question?
Answer-The gold men have made
a desperate effort to capture the Sen
ate. They have gold President and
gold House. If they get gold Sem
atOr from Delaware and one from Ken
lucky, they will probably come within
one of majority.
Q.-How about North Carolina?
Does not Pritchard claim that enough
Populists in the next Legislature are
pledged to him to elect him?
Al admit that if the gold men
succeed in capturing the Legislature
of North Carolina, they will probably
capture the Senate and have charge
of every branch of the govern
ment. Mark Hanna and Mckinley
will, no doubt, promise Federal pat
rOnage, and use every other means Of
of "persuasion" to capture the Legis-
lature of my State, as Cleveland
did to get Democratic Congressman
and Senators to vote against silver in
the extra session of 1898. But l do
not believe there is single Peoples
Party member of the Legislature that
they can influence by such means.
POpulists are not made of that kind of
stuff. Our party was organized to
condemn such corrupt methods, and
to drive from power men who would
sell their convictions for spoils.
| Q.-Then you do not think it pOssi-
BILE for gold Senator to be elected in
your State?
A.-No, most positively l do not. A
Populist member of the Legislature
who would vote for gold Senator
would smell so strongly OF corruption
that he could not live in the State and
have the respect of any decent man
| l. uc uOlu VIC Oo1ohCC VI PoW
er, and they will in their caucus de-
clare for some man who is not only a
straight silver man, but who is also
for an income tax, and who is opposed
to the national banking system. / be-
lieve they will stand solidly for such q
man, and il there are not enough silver
men in the Legislature to come to
their assistance to elect such a man
then the Legislature will be dead
locked and no one will be elected. II
this should happen, this would leave
the United States Senate still in the
control of silver men by one vote.
eff the gold men capture thu
United States Senate, what do yol
think they would do?
i A.-The first thing they would d.
would be to endorse Cleveland's pol
icy of issuing bonds. Next, they woult
endorse and legalize Cleveland's un
lawful action in redeeming Treasur.
notes and silver dollars in gold. Be
sides, they wouldpass law to retire tn
/ greenbacks, and put US solidly ant
everlastingly on gold basis. Thel
: they would pass a law turning owe
the entire control of the currency o
the country to the national banks, 8
that they could contract and expan,
the circulating medium of the countr,
3 just to suit the desires of tn
) money sharks, and those who spec
uIate in stocks and bonds, and VIII
gamble in wheat and cotton and all Q
the products of labor. If the none
gamblers, the mOnOpolists and tn
trusts should ever get this additions
: power, 1 doubt very much whether Q
l not the people would ever be able t
q overthrow them at the ballot DO
and again gain control of the govern
> ment. 1t is horrible to contemplat
for while we might still have the ho
low form of Republic, yet it woul
Q be a worse form of oppression and de-
l. potism than has ever yet been seen III
y der any King or Car.
IL Off the Populists and indepent
n ent silver Senators should hold tt
balance of power in the next Senat
- do you think there would be any tari
~ legislation?
d A.-Well, yes; there may be. l fe
sure that the Populists and free silv
rs Republican Senators would favor SUI
m change in the present tariff law tn
IL may be necessary to provide sufficie