The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1896-05-21

senator ifltcnard said that it look
ed to him like that there were two or
three hundred of these Populist who
wanted fusion; that at every turn he
met one who said: "How do you do,
Senator? | am with you for fusion"
Your correspondent suggested that
these amiable Populists were numer-
GUS just as the COW horns We're in the
New England trade. The seller sold
while his accOmplice stole them out of
the rear door, thus keeping up con-
tinuous circuit of the same horns"
EDITORIAL ENT,
THE CAUCASIAN learns that while
the fight was going on, the Russell
supporters industriousiy circulated
the report that Russell had an under
standing with the POpuiist State COM
mittee, Chairman Butler &C, and that
if he were nominated. cooperation
with the Populists would be certain.
When Russell came on the stage after
he was nominated he said:
1--WE will appeal from the Populist
committee to the POpulist men. We
may not fuse with the leaders: we will
fuse with the voters whether they want
it or not. The fact that a committee
rejected it does not show that the
people have rejected it. Your
executive committee ought to have
authority to fuse. The Republicans
stand for great principles, and are not
to be absorbed by the Populists or any
other party"
This shows that Russelrs support
ers had been lying, if they circulated
those reports, and it also gives the lie
to certain statements made in Demo-
cratic papers that Butler and Russell
had an understanding looking to
fusion.
"Talk about war; why, my dear
reader, if the teeming millions of these
Northern States really thought that
there was danger to-day of free and
unlimited coinage of silver, an army
for gold could be raised in "a hours
that would have mere fighting men in
it than any army ever seen on earth
before. New York correspondent of
Charlotte Observer.
Talk about seditiOn, treason and an
archy! Here it is dressed down and
polished. And the teeming millions
of the Northern States will fight for
gold, will they? Yes, we have no
doubt that the men who control such
damnahle hirelings and tools as Cleve-
land and Carlisle would precipitate
war If they could before they would
accord to the people the justice and
| rights of which they have been robbed.
But this sort of brutal bluff will have
no weight with the people. This sill
yer question is up for settlement, and
it will never be settled until settled
right. If its settlement involves
bloody revolution, then the revolution
is inevitable, for the settlement must
come and will come just as sure as
God reigns.
Last week we announced that Col.
Jas. Il. Holt, Jr., who had always been
Democrat, would go to the Republic
can national convention as supporter
of Mckinley. He was elected dele
gate by the Fifth district congression-
al convention. But at Goldsboro last
Saturday he saw aRussell-McKinley
demonstration which seems to have
made him sick. He wrote a letter at
once, declaring he was going back to
the Democrats. A party that can't
hold good recruits can't hope for much
success. Moral: When you want to
get away from fraud, don't Jump from
one old party to the other. You don't
gain by it. Come to the Peoples
Party.
The action of President Cleveland
on last Thursday, in putting the whole
force of the government by one stroke
Of his pen under the civil service. re-
calls the bill which Col. Skinner in
PRODUCED month or more ago to re-
peal the whole civil service law, The
majority OF the people of North Caro-
lima believe with the late Senator
Vance, that this civil service affair is
a mammoth humbug and a fraud: and
1t certainly is as managed by the last
TWO administrations. What will be
the result of this last sweeping order
OF the President, only time can show:
but 1T may be before long that the peo-
pie will demand of their Representa-
tlves that they pass Col. SINNERS bill
to repeal the whole outfit.
Some time ago Senator Pritchard
voted for bill in the Senate to give
hundreds of thousand dollars of the
peoples money to big ship building
corporations and steamship lines. His
people, or the people who vote for him,
90 not know any thing about this.
Neither did they catch on to his shrewd
scheme to have the State platform de-
clare in favor of protecting shin build
ers and ship owners. The "protection"
means voting them money, and now
the Senator can vindicate himself to
his constituents by pointing to the
platform they SO blindly adopted. See?
There seems to be danger in the pro-
LESSONS and pledges made by the old
parties. There is big risk in beIiev-
ing either one. For instance, the Re-
publlcans have been "whooping her IN,
for honest elections; have been CRYING
out for an honest ballot and a fair
count, and yet the very first thing they
did IN the convention was to begin to
fitch and steal votes from among them
selves. Lord deliver US from anv such
honest ballot and fair count system rs
this. 90
The Dockery men were not a hit
phased with their defeat. The on
locker can testify that they made A
square, open, manly fight. They had
no deal-no collision. If they could
win by virtue of their own strength
they wanted the victory-not other
wise. When combinations were made
against them they opposed their own
following to the foe, and when thev
were defeated they had the satisfac-
tlon OF knowing they went down hon
orably and with their colors of true
blue waving to the last.
When the vote was announced that
nominated Russell, Mr.. o. j. Spears.
who had been an ardent Dockery snn.
porter, took the stage and moved To
make the nomination of Russell unan.
lmous. A laundering, Earring chorus
OF noes" greeted his motion, and it
was so evident that there was no nnan-
unity, the chairman never put the mo-
ton Co the house.
The Washington correspondent of
the News and Observer says: Senator
Butler joined the Episcopal church
mere sunday, and his son, Marion, Jr.,
was baptized at the same time.o