The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1896-06-18
4 cAeD.

From Ths Chairnsan Of The sss,. E.esa-
tive COMMITTEES Of The People. Party |
with keferenee to This >i.asfion Of Del |
~x.se. TO The S~sien.i People. Party
Convention
To The fsot,l>s Party Of Nersh cqrotsaa:
Having received several letters
inquiring as TO lie action o: the
Peoples Party State committee with
reference 10 the selection of dele
gates to the National convention of
the Peoples Party, at st. Louis on
July 22nd. | have deemed it best to
answer them all in this manner,
through the columns of the press.
The State committee a. It's lac
meeting, after due dehberation, de-
cided that il was not advisable 20
hold the State convention OF the
Peoples Party tor the purpose OF
nominating a candidate for Cover
nor and for the other State Offices
until after the national convention
of the Peoples Party was held. This
being settled, the next question was
the holding of a State convention for
the purpose of eleeting delegates to
| the national convention. The State
committee, after discussing and
weighing this matter carefully, de-
| cided that in view of the fact that a
large portion of the delegates are TO
be selected by districts, and that
only the delegates at large are to BE-
selected by the State convention, tn t
to call upon our people to leave their
farms and various vocations during
this busy season simply for the pur-
pose of selecting Few delegates-at-
large would be too great sacrifice
of both time and money.
Therefore, the full meeting of the
committee recommended that the
delegates at-large be selected by the
State Executive Committee, and that
the delegates to be selected by the
districts be selected by the Con
gressional committees of their re-
spective districts. Of course, under
our plan Of organization, the people
Of each district have the right tC
hold . district convention for the
purpose of selecting delegates foi
each district; but inasmuch as the
county chairman of the Peoples
Party of each county of the respec,
tive districts is member of the
Congressional committee, and mas
much as there is but one delegate tC
be selected from each county, Ger
tainly the people of each county cal
trust their county chairman to maxi
known their wishes and to represen
D them in the meeting to select dele
gates as well or better than an
other person or delegate could
=, Therefore, each Congressional com
/ mittee is as representative con
vention for the purpose Of selectin!
: delegates as any district could de
sire, or possibly secure. How use
less, not to say absurd, it would b
Z to have five or ten delegates to &
:; from each county to Congressiona
" convention, there to select only on
y delegate from each county to til
s national convention. Certainl
a each county can trust its count
r chairman to represent them in thu
e mattsr-a matter about which Their
is no difference of opinion anon
our people. | suggest that the pee
e pie of each county let their count
lie chairman know who they want for
IS delegate to the national convention
so that he will be ready to act whe
his Congressional committee is cal
u ed to meet for this purpose. l woul
- say to our friends in each count
that they should be sure to recon
mend to their county chairman tL
a name of some good man for delega1
! who will be sure to go to st. Loui
n n for we are DESTROYS of having fu
s. delegation from the State at our n;
IF tional convention.
a The Peoples Party has electe
It every Congressman in Oregon, whel
n an election was held last weel
Ii There were three tickets in the fell
and the Peoples party carried tt
s. day over both of the old partie
re The outlook for the Peoples Part
e. =. in the whole nation grows bright,
IT each day.
is In State and county matters SD!
)e gest that we take no action until a
N ter the national conventions are he'll
We Then We will have the whole polit
m cal situation before US.
Yours respectfully,
MARION BUTLER,
Chairman Peoples Party State E