Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1897-12-09
WHAT HAVE YOU Do
WITH III.
DONE

WHAT HAVE YOU DONE
WITH 1T.
Tom Watson Wants Chairman
Butler to Tell Him What
Disposition He Has Made of
the Peoples Party.
Tom Watson furnishes a spicy
signed editorial IN last weeks
issue Of the Peoples Party
Paper.
The Populist leader rises to
inquire what has become of his
party. He says, in part:
s.Will some Jealous believer in
Mary Ann Butler tell US what
that eminent fraud has done with
the Peoples prrty?
Where was it during the recent
election? What figure did it cut:
What was it's vote?
In the off-year elections after
the presidential year of 1892, the
Peoples party was intact. well
organized, aggressive. coherent
and effective. It polled nearly
two million Populist 70 es, cast
for Populist candidates running
upon Populist platforms.
From North to South it was
united, from East to West il
knew but one doctrine and fol.
lowed but one flag.
Where is the party now?
Where was it during the recent
elections?
Who can say it is intact, well
organized, aggressive, coherent
and effective?
Who can say it cast two mil
lion votes? Who can say that il
IS united, that it has but n doc
trine and follows but one flag?
Was it a Populist victory in
Nebraska? By no means. The
Democratic name covered the
whole thing: the Democratic
colors waved over all the troops;
and a Democratic politician got
the only Office that was at stake
the Supreme judgeship. The
Pops got two miserable little
college agencies that would not
be called Offices anywhere else on
earth except in a convention
where fusion tactics had made
lunatics out of sensible men.
Did the Populists win any glory
in Kansas? By no means, They
went down in slime Of common
defeat because the fusion be
tween Democrats and populists
was a mere corrupt bargain fol
the spoils of Office.
In Colorado how was it-Colo'
RADIO. where a few years ago
Populist Governor ruled trium.
plant? Democrats and Repub.
licans united and routed the Pop.
ulists who had been torn into
factions by the fusion of 1896.
Our party in 1892-4-6 was
growing in Virginia and Mary
land. Where is it now? Gone!
Not a grease spot left in the
pan.
In Kentucky how was iti
Brave Joe Barker led the middle
of-tbe-road fight and did it Drills
liantly, but with Butler knitting
him at the same time. he was
powerless to make Roadway.
In Iowa how is 1.-THE home o:
James B. Weaver? Less than sil
thousand Populist voters re-
main; the others are Democrats
in name, in policy, in principle
and in organization. AS Popu
lists they have absolutely no sep
crate existence. The Democrats
have swallowed them ''boda.
ciously."
So it is all around. A magni
fcent party of two million mel
has disappeared. 1t has beer
swallowed up as though the eartE
had opened and taken them in
Such humiliation has not beer
known since the earthquake O
Lisbon.
Will some jealous Butlerit'
please tell US what that eminen
fraud has done with the People
party2 Has he lost it? Has h
hid it2 Has he loaned it out?
We trusted him with it; it wa
in good condition when he took it
and now we ask him:
What have you done with it?
You we're the last one that hat
it. We want you to account TO.
it2
In 1892 and 1894 we could turf
to the official returns of the cleo
tons and tell to a man how man,
Populists voted.
Can you do it now2 How man,
Populists voted in Nebrask to Civ
that Supreme Court ~Judgeship t.
a Democrat
You don't know, and nobody Oh
earth does know.
How many Pops. voted 10 Kan