The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-09-27
Capt. -K!tchin Makes a Strong
Appeal to His Party.
SILVER MUST SUCCEED
It Is No Time For Quarrels and
fractional Divisions.
wm. j. sRYAN MUST BE ELECTED
Warns PopuIists Not 10 be Betrayed by
Leaders Into the Support of Gold
bug Congressman and
Legislators.
Legislators,

To the Editor; The Farmers
Alliance did a great work
towards educating the masses of
the people ON economic and financial
questions, on the theory and principle
and the objects and purposes of gov
eminent. For this the order deserves
the thanks and gratitude of the Amer
lean people. From the order sprang
the Peoples party. This party in the
beginning did a great work for Repub-
lican institutions by calling attention
to the tendencies of the old parties
to consolidation. In fact, on the great
economic questions, the two old parties
could only be distinguished, the one
from the other in the administration
of the government by their natural
names. Those two old parties became
so corrupt, their leaders / mean, that
the people were absolutely ignored in
the administration of their own af-
fairs, and the government was and is
administered for the sole interest of
classes to which they belong.
The organization of the Peoples
party was an earnest, solemn protest
against this usurpation, this violation
and defeat of the purposes of govern
ment, this notification and violation
of both the letter and spirit of the or
ganic laws of the land. 1t emphasized
the desperate determination the Amer
IL no
quietly to submit to these wrongs
and outrages upon their constitutional
and inalienable rights. In the begin
ming and up to a recent date the avowed
purpose of this new organization was
to lead or drive one or both of the old
parties back to the old landmarks
within constitutional limits and
bounds, and compel them to restore to
the people their constitutional and i'm
herent rights, or if this could not be
done, to build up great national par
ty out of the good men in both the old
parties. who would restore and defend
the rights guaranteed to the great Va
boring body of the people in their
organic law.
The great object claimed for the
Peoples party, was to marshal all the
citizens who stood on the side of and
sympathized with the great toiling
masses of the people, and who desired
the government within the letter and
spirit of the Constitution, with equal
justice to all and special privileges to
none, into one solicited army on the
one side, and to drive all supporters
Of trusts, combines, class legislation
violators of the Constitution, usurpers
and oppressors of the people on the
other side. In other words to separate
the honest citizen from the dishonest,
the patriot from the traitor, the lover
of justice from the plunderer and
hunter and spoils-seeker, the sheep
from the goats. These things were
desired, that we might test the
strength of the two classes of citizens,
and ascertain whether this is a pluto,
cratic government of a constitutional
republican government. Tt is histor-
zeal fact, that the Republican party,
through its dozen leaders and dicta-
tors, ruled this government with a rod
of iron, and in the interest of corpora
tions, trusts and moneyed syndicaJtes
in this and other countries, and against
the interests of the great masses of
the people for ait least twenty years.
And lit is equally as notorious and
historical, that since the Democratic
party fell into the hands of Grover
Cleveland, and through that party, the
government as well, the policy of both
have been dictated by him and John
Sherman, along the lines of former
Republican admins rations. In fact.
the Republican and Democratic ad-
ministrations have been identical since
the war. Sherman has been the mas
ter and dictator of the Republican par
ty, on all economic questions, and
Cleveland has been for the last twelve
years the sole master and dictator of
the Democratic party. In truth, he
just absorbed and swallowed up the
Democratic party, when he was first
elected President of the United States,
and since then all Democratic prlnci-
pies have been abandoned, and Grover
Cleveland substituted for both the
parity and its principles. But the Dem
ocratic party has been extracted from
the bowels of Grover Cleveland, and
it's principles resurrected and formu-
lated in the last Chicago convention
into a platform. That platform con-
tains all the principles of the Demo-
cratic party and the Populist party.
and demands all the reforms upon the
financial question ever demanded by
either the Farmers Alliance or It's
offspring, the Populist party, and the
candidate placed upon that platform
by the redeemed and Tegenerated Dem
ocratic party, is the embodiment of all
the financial reforms contended for by
the Farmers Alliance, the Populist
party, the Bimetalic League, the silver
Republicans and the Populistic Demo
cracy of the United States.
Here we have all reforms desired by
all reformers everywhere in one plat
form and in one man.
In this platform and this man we
have set forth about all the reforms
ever commended for or demanded by