The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-10-27
HOW SOME POPULISF OFFICE
SEEKERS TRAMPLE PRINCE
PIE UNDER FOOT.

refusing to fuse with the Republicans
il they nominated candidates who were
not in favor of free silver. The Re
publican county convention refused
TO accept these terms and nominated a
full county ticket. Ohio Wilson visi-
ted that county last Saturday, and
secured fusion between the two
tickets, by which the Populists agree
to support gold men for nearly half
the Offices, aud this, Notwithstanding
the action of their county convention.
Mr.. Wrenn, who was agreed upon
for the House of Representatives, has
been making aggressive gold speeches
during the entire campaign, and is a
strong adherent of Pritchard for the
Senate.
We invite the attention of our read
ers to three extracts from the highest
Populist sources in the State as throw
| ing some light upon the way honest
Populists look upon such reputation
of principle In a speech made at
| Wil<esboro by Maj, Guthrie, Populist
candidate for Governor, he said:
I'm my campaign in the noun
tains / have found in some in
stances county committeeman
claiming to be Populists and hay-
ing charge of the Populist Organi-
zation who are frequently conspir-
| ing with Mark Hanna gold-bugs,
and a few going so far as to say
| that they prefer Mckinley to
Bryan. 1t is manifest that in these
/ instances the Republicans are deal
| ing with these fellows like the
| government deals with the Indians,
Believing that they can buy the
| chief and own the tribe. But |
| know that the rank and file of the
| Peoples party are not to be barter
ed off like so many Comanches
| or Apaches. l want to warn my
| Peoples party friends against such
| local leaders. Don't let Mark
| Hanna's money in their pockets
| deceive you, my friends, but stand
| to your principles and when you
| find one of your local leaders try
| ing to sell you out rebuke him,
take him down and put Peoples
| party patriot in his place"
| The chief has been bought. Elec.
ton day will tell whether the tribe
sold out, too.
The Progressive Farmer condemned
i the fellows who made the above deal
with gold-bugs when it said, on April
| 21st, with reference to fusion with
| gold-bugs:
IF we will think for a moment
| we can see that we voters in the
Peoples party are in exactly the
| same position we were in 1892.
Then we left the Democratic
| party mainly on account of the
| nomination of Cleveland, whom we
regarded as a gold-bug and mono
polist of the worst type, and we
| are now more than certain that
| we acted wisely. After we did pull
| out of the party our former Demo
| cratic associates said to us: well,
you can vote our State and coutny
ticket anyway, for we have put up
silver men, and have adopted the
Alliance platform as our State
platform But we positively re-
fused because every State and
county nominee of the Democratic
party was going to vote for Cleve-
land and for gold-bug Congress-
men. This year, with Populist-
Republican cooperation, and the
candidates equally divided, it would
have been one vote for silver man
and one vote for a gold-bug, UNI
less they had put up silver men,
and this they declined to do
THERE is NO SENSE I'm TT. A
Tt.,S pIoDulists would have been abs
solutely ce1 1-te.in Of sore office ME:
but where is the good government
the rank and file of us have been
striving for against fearful odds
for years? Instead of ADVANC-
ING, we would have taken STEP
perhaps such long
one that we would have lost every
thing that has been gained
snow is a good time to watch
Populists who were elected to office
in 1894. If they protest against a
fight for principle now they will
be objects of suspicion"
On March 2sth, the Caucasian said:
THE Caucasian is in favor of CO.
operating for principle. But how
can we cooperate with those who
are going in an opposite direction?
lief to the Industrial classes and
the business of the country. We
must fight those who are herding
in the camp of the gold-bugs and
the monopolists. We have no pa
thence with those who favor join
ing together opposite and oppos-
ing forces by division of tickets
for official position. We are OPP
posed to cooperating with those
who have no principles but who
simply want our votes to help
them to the pie counter"
There is not a respectable Populist
in Chatham county who will not bow
his head in shame when he hears of
the action of his leaders, and reads
| these strong denuciations by his
chosen leaders, and the two chief or
gans of his party. There are two things
he can do: 1. Quit the party and join
the only party that has no candidates
other than silver men from constable