The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-10-29
He Urges the Populists to Help
Ele t Them.
MANY PopuLlsrswIL NOT OBEY
They Declare That Principle is Above
Bossisn1, and That No Chair
man Can Sell Them Out
to GoIdbugs.

in the State. democrats are closiliS
the campaign with a mighty tussle,
and if the improvement is as rapid till
election day, as it has been for the last
ten days, the State will be saved.
Settle is defeated. He has appealed
to aver to help him, and demanded, as
part of the bargain to elect Aver as
State Auditor, that Aver shall send Gy
Thompson into tie district and use all
the influence of his. position to en-
compass his election. aver has com
piled. and is flooding the district with
circulars telling the populists that in
this campaign they are PLAYING \
GAME OF POLITICS" and adding,
do NOT DISCUSS PRINCIPLES. :
He eoun not help Settle any other way
than 10y frankly avoNing that it was
"a game of politics, and an utter
abandonment of even a pretense OF
principle But Aver cannot elect Set
tie. though he is carrying out his part
of the dishonorable deal with great
earnestness Neither can the money
that is being poured into the district
save Mr.. Settle. Twenty-Five hundred
dollars has been sent into Stokes coun-
IN alone to-buy up the farmers TO vote
for their own continued impoverish-
ment and their enslayement. They
have been misrepresented by Mr.. Set
tie long enough. Settle is a proud and
naughty man. He has nothing but
contempt for Populists, and, though
aver had promised to help elect him,
Settle would have disdained to ask
help unless he stood in sore need of
it. But having seen the handwriting
on the wall, Thou art weighed in
the balances and found wanting,p he
cries out to Aver. Help Cassius, or
/ sink And Cassius forthwith comes
to the rescue, telling the Populists
that it is none of their business ITO
DISCUSS PRINCIPLES" but to hustle
to elect Gold-bugs (and me, too) to Of
fee, and to PLAY A GAME OF POLL
TICS" and ITO give his party power"
Not only does Settle thus order Aver
to help send him back to Congress
TO VOTE FOR A GOLD STANDARD,
but he shows how abject is the SER
yitude of the Populists office-holders
by compelling the son of Congressman
Strowd to run for the State Senate
with Jim Cheek in the Orange dis
trict, under threat of refusal to help
Strowd in the Fourth district Young
Strowd has been put on the ticket
with Cheek. Could the badge of SER
vitude be put on Strowd more COM
pletely? It is bad enough for the old
man himself to be hand in glove with
gold-bugs, supporting Pritchard, and
helping Jim Young (col.), to the Leg
islature, but to force his son to go on
Radical ticket with Jim Cheek
could lower degradation be demanded?
Let it be hoped that young Strowd
will be above going into trade so
repulsive and unholyl
The news from the Eighth district
is most gratifying. Unless all signs
fail, Doughton will beat Linney in
every county in the district except
three, and be elected to the next
House of Representatives. Doughton's
campaign has won the people wherever
he has gone. His honesty, his frank
ness, his gentle manliness have been
in such contrast to Linney's vulgari-
ty, coarseness, unl1ept faith with the
people, and devotion to gold bugism
as to have produced a revolution in
'.de ate" Linney has employed ''little
Bill league" to canvass for him, and
last week sent Marsh Mott down to
Raleigh to demand his share of that
thirty thousand dollars that Holton
has distributed, and he will also want
his part of the big pile received since
Marsh Mott came to demand his share
for de ate" Linney's friends have
been pretty hot over his treatment,
claiming that Pritchard has poured
money in to help Pearson, who has a
plenty of his own and who robbed
him of Mitchell county, and that Hol-
ton has run the campaign largely in
Tom Settles interest, pouring money
into that district when the American
Tobacco Trust is backing Tom Settle
in his race. He sees defeat staring
him in the face. After it is over, and
he is defeated Linney will explode,
and his fellow Radicals will get a
tongue-lashing. Look out for it,
News from the mountains is good.
The importation of negro voters from
South Carolina, the wholesale spend
ing of money ($2, 700 having been sent
to one county,) and the Topping of
Ki Budger and another fellow named
Carter have been boomerangs to the
Republicans. The Democrats are alive
and at work, and Adams is making "a
glorious race. 1t looks now that he
will carry every county in the dis
trict except Mitchell, Madison, Hender-
son, and Cherokee, and that the ma
jority in these four will be decreased.
The fight is as hot as hot can be.
There is quite sprinlling of free sill
yer Republicans who will vote against
Pearson and Mckinley, and some of
them are making strong canvass of
their counties with good results. Like
Settle, Pearson is scared, and has
called on Aver TO make the Populists
fall into line. Aver did so, but struck
a snag in the person of Mr.. Boggs,
chairman of the Congressional COM
mittee in the Ninth district Mr..
Boggs wrote that no Populists could
support gold-bug like Pearson with
out sacrificing their principles, and