The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1896-12-03


ing a direct appeal to the South aud
West IS against the money power
aud corporation inf sences OF the
East and North, was the one policy
upon which the two great producing
sections could have been united. the
silver foIees concentrated, the Pop
uiists and Democrats harmonized.
and Mckinley utterly rented.
Instead Of this plsin, manly and
logical campaign in which the Pop
ulis. masses could have been en-
listed, devotedly and unanimously,
We have had the crafty policy of fu-
sion which compels the Populists to
vote for Sewall, and which has DIS
heartened our men and filled them
with disgust. A vote for Sewail
elector, means vote for Sewall. and
no Populist can vote for Sewall
without abandoning his creed. Ii
once We support man who stands
for the National Banks, corporations,
railroads, trusts, and Mckinley
tariffs, as Sewall does. Populism can
never be heard hereafter to declaim
against class legislation and the ia
vorite thereof. We would be es-
topped, because We had endorsed it
in voting for Sewall.
expressly rejected Sewall, aud Pop
ulist voters should not be compelled
to vote, though fusion deals, for q
man their convention refused to ac-
cept. g.
Both Kansas and Colorado are
Populist States and yet the POpu-
list nominees are not to receive
a single electoral vote in either
State. The Democratic ticket, Bryan
and Sewall, will receive them all.
In Kansas the people have been
soothed by the assurance that the
electors would vote for Watson, pro-
vided Watson got more votes else
where than Sewall got.
When in Kansas, recently, /
warned oul people Of this snare. !
told them that Sewall would receive
all those vctes-else the Democrats
| would not have conceded SO much
to get them. You have since sent
me a letter written by Chairman
Breidenthal, in which the tacit ad-
mission is made that Sewall is to re-
ceive all the electoral votes of Kan.
sas, if the present deal stands.
Thus the Populists Of Kansas and
| Colorado have been disfranchised
Worse than that-they have beer
delivered to a fusion where mono oi
their votes count for the Populis'
ticket. They must vote for Sewal
and thus violate their principles.
In North Carolina where fusior
has been arranged with the Repub
licans on the State and county tick
cts, and with Democrats on the Ne.
tional ticket, Mr.. Sewall gets q ma
jority of the electors.
| North Carolina is supposed to b,
a Populist State. Upon that idea sh'
was allowed ninety five votes in Gu
National convention. Thefact tina
in North Carolina we have now con
ceded ajority Of the electors t.
Mr.. Sewall, would indicate our vot'
in North Carolina has undergone ,
disastrous shrinkage siEee our Ma
tional convention adjourned, or tina
the National ticket has been use,
for mercantile purposes.
Senator, a reform party has no righ
to exist if it has no valid complain
TO make. Populists cannot denounc,
the sins Of the two old parties, ant
yet 60 into Political CO. partnership
with them. The moment we make
treaty, the war must cease.
| And when we cease our war upol
the two old parties, we have n
longer any excuse for living. When
ever Right compromises with Wrong
it is the Right which suffers. A re
form movement is necessarily an as
sault-an attack upon intrenched er
ror. Whenever the attacking fore
halts, it begins to melt away. T
route Republicanism, we must cor
tinually assail it. We cannot b
friends 10 4 one day, and enemies t
it the next. The same truth apple
to the Democratic party. Wheneve
We. cease our warfare upon old part
errors, and go into partnership wit
them, We lose all moral force; W
lose our own crusading spirit; "
show the public that we are mer
spoilsmen like the others; and tn
people lose interest in us when we IT
duce the issue to that Of merely e1
changing one set of place hunter
for another. If we represent notl
ing but a contest of the "outs
, against the Gins" we are lot {
!. humbugs, parading as reformer
and we deserve the contempt of a
> good people.
To win in this campaign, thel
should haYe beenimmediate and col
I centrated efforts to unite the Sout
and West, from whence the free 81
yer majorities must come. The
q should also have been conciliatol
: measures adopted to harmonic Po]
l ulists and silver Democrats.
Thus far in the campaign, Il
! South has been concillated by sneer
:. misrepresentation and abuse hurl.
4 at the Southern nominee.
n The Populists have been mollif,
/ by being told "to go to the negro
o where they belonged"
IS The American people are hig
It minded and fair-quick to see
i justice, swift to condemn it..
II To all unprejudiced and man
n men, regardless Of party, I subn
70 the statement that never before b
70 any party, so badly needed as ou1
been so badly treated. Invited
l. come to the help of the helpless Z
t. mocracy, We have received no ge
70 erous recognition from those "
y appealed to US, and whose appe
le we heard. We did not go to tn.
to for aid-they came to US. And ,
r. they refuse to recognize our right
either place on the ticket which tn
k admit our votes must elect. Th
I'd want our help;-but We must co.
70 aslservants' earnings a wage, not
ct friends sharing a duty, and an hon
ar They are the prodigals, not Y