The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1896-08-27

the people do not believe your prom
isse. The same crowd that made
these very promises, made the prom
ises Of four years ago. We have no
CONFIDENCE IN THEN. II you don't
like it, just blame yourselves. The
record which created this lack OF
confidence" was made by your party |
while you were sticking to it like g
brother.
There ID one thing which your
National convention did which the
honest, consistent men Of your party |
do not approve. 1t was the nomina-
ton of Maine man tor Vice Presi- !
dent--a man who was yielding party |
allegiance to q Democratic goldbug |
in his State and was supporting q
goldbug nominee for Governor. I'M
| til he was nominated at Chicago.
Then he went home and hired an
other convention to meet and de-
clare for silver so that show of con-
sistency with the Chicago platform
might appear. If Mr.. Sewall could
make the State Of Maine declare for
silver AFTER HE WAS nominated
for Vice President on silver
platform, why could he not have
made the State of Maine declare for
silver BEFORE HE WAS THUS
NOMINATED IF HE HAD WANTED TOT
| This is one act of the Democra-
tic party in which the Peoples Party
has no confidence. 1t is utterly
useless to ask them to put confidence
here. They will not do it. The
Populists were advocating reform
, and denouncing Grover Cleveland
when you were villifying them for
doing both, and you have no reason
, on Gods earth to question their sim
cerity. In fact they DRovEYOU to de-
9 clare in unequivocal-terms to make
some specific declarations, but we
| know these declarations were made
3 by you under DUREss, and it is just
: possible that you might take them
: back under feeling of party secu-
t rity and ascendancy. We shall be-
q lieve you would unless you DO SOME
q THING in this state as an evidence of
t good faith. The Populists in the
y Fifth District have endorsed Demo
: crat Gin whom they have confdence)
' in order to insure the defeat of a
goldbug Republican Congressman
Have you done anything of that
, kind in this State7 Do you know
: that the democratic party" has
It called State goldbug convention
70 to meet in Greensboro
e offered to divide electors, did you
le Well, are you yet such fools as t.
70 think the Populists are fools. Dom
81 you know, as God sees you ant
hears you, that you meant to mollif.
o. the Populists by this ruse while yo'
a. hoped to, and felt sure Of electini
le Sewallq Is such a scheme as thi
A. honestf Is it decent and gentle
m manly to propose such thing7 I
m this not rather an action that tend
IL to make more difficult the establish
:" ment of confidence in you anon
of the people9 If you are engaged, i
" sincerity, in that great struggle be
O. tween the "West and South" an
g. the EAST" why do you want to G
he to the East for aida What is Main
nd going to do in behalf of this refor,
C. movement She is simply going
DIS elect Mckinley and Hobart electo1
ar and you know it. And you kno
of furthermore that this is just VIII,
- that class represented by Mr.. Sewa
is wants.
But enough. The question is thi
Or Are you willing to DO SOMETHING
ice show your sincerity7 Are you vi
- ling to subordinate party allegian
ITO to principle7 If so, do it at once.
ich you don't, that slack of confidence
, nt | will stitl oxist