The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-09-13

Who will add the most electoral
votes to the ticket. Watson en- Sewall2
The strongest and most available man
ought to be retained upon the ticket
and all financial reformers ought &c
vote that ticket.
The North and West must decide this
matter. Republican States must not
be taken into consideration
Leave the six New England Statess-
and Delaware, Maryland, New York
Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indiana out Of
the count. Now which man, SewaH
or Watson, will add the most electoral
votes to the ticket in the balance Of
the Middle and Northern States
/ give it as my deliberate opinion,
after serious and mature thought and
the closest calculation I am able to-
make with the lights before me, that
the Populists and Republicans com
bined in the South cannot carry but
one State. They may possibly carry
Kentucky. hut 7 do not believe 1T.
Now ask all Populists in the south,
is it not demanding too much of the
Populistic Democrats 10 take the only
man they have on the ticket Off, anU
put our man on when they can carry
without our help the solid South, eX-
cept the State of North Carolina ana
we cannot carry that State for our par
tn without the help of the Republic
can party, the goldbug party. The
confessed and ayoWed enemy OF MS all
politically and financially. and the par
tv who brought upon MS all the evils
OF which we complain
Now if the Populistc Democrats and
the boiling Silver Republicans i'm the
Northwest and the Western Middle
States were seriously dividedonS ewaiE
and Watson. there would be some rea-
son and force I'm our demand for Wat
san. But they are not seriously di-
v;Jad 7 believe the most extreme oil
ms viii confess that Bryan and Sewali
viii be stronger i'm these States than
Rrvan and Watson; and we all know
prran and Sewall can and wiH carry
more electoral votes i'm the South than
BRYAN and Watson. Now, if these are
facts. and we are to be the Judges,
| 1T the peril of defeating financial re-
! form and under a more fearful respOh~
| sibilftv. what course ought the EoPuF
lists of the South to pursue
! Under like circumstances and con
! Tf+ions what course ought the Demo
! Gratis of the South to puTsue2
] Now. let us be reasonable, honest
| and patriotfc with ourselves i'm conssd-
erine the fearful conditions thar con
/ front us.
It is no time to consider the claims
of politicians. office-sekel-s and ONCE
holders. and men whose ambition over
reaches both their Judgment ana tneit
| patriotism. We have been following
| their lead since 1870, and doing. thelr.
bidding and wifi, honestly, thoAs ~
hlindlv. And what is our condition lo~
cav? I need not answer. The voice
of more than sixty millions OF people
composed of farmers, laIoorers, mef-
chants. doctors, lawyers, preachers,
4 and starqino. women and naked ch1ls
dren have already answered in tones
that make the strong tremble in their
power. and hearts bleed i'm their APP
peals to the powers that be, and to
high heaven for relief
Again l want to know what shall we
do. shall we let this golden chances
this God-given chance, slip through
our fingers and lose all, or shall we
seize it with both hands, improve its
opportunities, restore happiness and
plenty to ten thousand suffering
homes, and bring universal prosperity
and glory again to our dOwn-trOd6a1y
and crushed country?
Shall we, the silver forces, by divis--
ions among ourselves, restore McKin~-
! leyism and Clevelandism to power
again, to still further crush and man
gle the institutions of this once grand
and glorious republic, to still further
mutilate and destroy the Constitution
of the United States, the once chief
anchor of all our desires, hopes and
ambitions, to make us all hod-bearers,
hewers of wood and drawers of water,
base ignoble slaves? Or shall we, as
one man, buckle on the armor and
! shield of defense, grid up our loins,
| fogetting all but country, family and
| God, GO forth to battle for the restOra-
tion of our lost liberties, for the re-
! storation of our God-given cOnstitu-
tional rights, for the universal enamel
! patton and liberation of mankind
from the iron grip and money bond
| age of this and other countries?
There is no Democracy, no RepUbIi~
canism, no POpulism in this contest so
far as the people are concerned. 1t is
a matter of life and death politically
and financially speaking.
1t would be ten thousand times bet
ter if the words Populist and Demo
crat should be blotted from the mem
Dry of man, to be remembered no
more forever, than that Bryan should
be defeated and Mckinley elected. And
it may be impossible to elect Bryan
without the vote of North Carolina.
Shall we, as Democrat and Populisg-
reformers, quarrel among ourselves.
denounce each other as unworthy of
trust over a figure-head, a dummy, g
lump Of putty, without power, infiu-
ence, control, patronage or one single
requisite to shape legislation, clothed
only with the dignity of presiding over
the Senate of the United States, and
power only to draw his salary, while
the common enemy of us all are drill
ing, training and marshaIling his
forces ready for the day of battle2
Shall We rs hrnflhren Of the .arns.-