The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-10-27
THE POPULISTS BID AVER GOOD
BYE.-IS HE THE G0LDBUG
TOOL?

organized ne WAS u leoNu'0 y
Alliance. He supported Weaver Tor
President. and his standing in the
populist party is attested by the TACT
that he is q member of the Popuiist
State committee, and the chairman OF
The populist Executive committee OF
the Ninth Congressional district
We publish to-day letter from Mr..
Rogers to Chairman Aver which shows
4ba4 when Aver turned over the Popu-
list party to the Republicans he dldh I
have the authority to transfer Mr..
Rogrs with the other assets Mr..
Ro~~s shows that Chairman Aver has
,a,,lisbed Richmond Pearson as the
populist candidate for Congress in
The Ninth district when Mr.. Pearson
WAS never nominated or endorsed by
the populist party or committee. Mr..
Boegs also states that Chairman Aver
is ''writing letters to parties in this
district urging that the Populists sup
mort MIR. Pearson" Mr.. Boggs is nat
uraIlv indignant at such usurpation OF
mower, and declares that the Populists
of Western North Carolina will not
abandon principle "at the dictation of
others, no matter what may be their
position" Mr.. Boggs also asks this
question:
Us il consistent to try to elect
MIR. BRYAN President and then try
ito send men to Congress who
would antagonize him?"
There are very many people, Popu-
lists among them, who doubt whether
Chairman Aver really wants 10 elect
Mr.. Bryan President. Since he was en-
dorsed by the Republicans for State
Auditor, the Republicans confidently
claim that Mckinley win carry the
State Is there amy connection be
tween the two?
All Populists, dixie Mr.. Boggs, who
stand for principle, are supporting Nj.
BRYAN and silver men for Congress.
Those wlho, like Chairman Aver, are
trying TO feather their own nests, are
doing the bidding of Richmond Pear
son, Tom Settle and his hackers, the
American Tobacco Trust, . Romulus
z. Linney, George H. White, Ccol.), and
Mark Hanna. 1t may be possible that
Chairman Aver can deceive some peo-
pie this time about his surrender to
the goldbugs, but there are a great
many Populists like Mr.. Boggs who
will refuse longer to be like dumb
driven cattle
Chairman Aver is not only writing
letters to Populists in the Ninth dis
trict to support goldbugs for Congress,
but is also writing letters urging Popu-
lists to vote for candidates for the
Legislature WHO ARE PLEDGED TO
VOTE FOR GOIIDBUG PRIrCHARD
against Populists and others who de-
clare they will support Maj. Guthrie
or some other silver man for United
States Senator. Is Chairman Aver thus
fulfilling his part of the contract made
with ZoIton to secure his own election?
On April 23rd, this man Aver drew a
picture of himself and that portion Of
the Populist party he controls, while
writing of the Republicans, that is the
strongest Indictment of his recent
trade that could be drawn. 1t was
written in criticism of the Republicans
when they wanted to fuse for 'spoils"
just the fusion Aver has effected TO
get AN office for himself:
"How was this proposition Ito
fuse on the silver question: met by
the Republicans. BY a fatuous,
selfish, coldlblooded and almost
brutal proposition to overwhelm a
political enemy by numerical
strength, and coolly divide the
plumber among few men. There
was not the shadow of a suggestion
as to AN issue on which both par
ties could fayorably unite. There
is no evidence that moments
thought was given the interests of
the people On whose votes the cap
ture and distribution of snoils de-
ponds. A fiat Interpretation of
their proposition can he nothing
less than this: We, the office-hold-
ers and leaders, are in the thing
for the stuff, and we have no furth
er interest in the people than TO
use them to that end
eve want the Ihonors and the
Offices is the plain Inference.
What we do after we get them is
none of your business is the hid
den dictum of the people whose
votes are sought. 1t may be that
there are some people who cam en-
dorse such a course of procedure
as this. If there are they are more
of a menace to Republican institu-
tions than a wild Anarchist, for
the wild Anarchist is watched,
while to the endorser of the above
course is confded power which
he cam exercise to bring this count
nv under the rule of autocraey and
into condition of abject servi-
tude.
eff the proposition of the Repub-
lican party Ito fuse ON division OF
Offices expresses the attitude OF
the Republican party, then that
party is nothing less than an Or
ganization for official 'brigandage
and spoliation. A division among
the leaders, of what can be ex-
acted from the people constitutes
the limits of its intentions and