Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-07-01
B U T L ER ON WAT S o N
The North Carolina Senator Castigates the
Georgian.
He Asserts That the PopuIfst Tail Of
kinley Elected.
Special Dispatch TO The Evening Star.

Special Dispatch 10 The Evening Star
RALEIGH, July lin Senator Buffers
paper today is a four-coumn editorial
signed by him. in which he says: Here are
two reasons given by the peoples party
paper (of Tom Watson) why the Coxeyites
want a conference. First, they want a
meeting wherein they may call on Chair
man Butler for better explanation than
ne has yet given of his reason for not fore
ing Sewall off the ticket, they claiming
that this was his duty and tla; he had
the power to do it, The rational commit
tee did not have the power to force the
with travail of Sewall. If il had IL would
certainly have done so. The committee
made diliSent effort to find out If there
was any contract, promise or agreement
MADE by Chairman Jones or any other p.r-
S,'h representing the democratic party 10
the etect that Sewal should Withdraw as
4 consideration for the nominal tion of BRYAN
ny 'he peop.eS party. We found that there
was absolutely nothing on which to bas,
suci ciaim Watson refused to cooperate
with the committee by stopping his attacks
On oeWall, but he aggravated the excuse
behlnd which the democratic committee
was Sheltering. Watson was the one man
W no could help the committee create pub-
TIC sentiment in favor of our demand y,t
ne refused TO do So but persisted in pur-
SUING d course which created public senti-
Heht against him. To no one was this
more PAINFUL or disappointing than TO ihs
i'auond committee. In short Watson for
some strange and uneXplarable reason. or
dctihg Under the influence of bad advisers
some OF " nom We believe were republican
iti eiiHSs, thfGW away one of the greatest
opportunities that ever came To any MAJ
ior himself and also to give his party a
comm anding and proud position He could
nave put the cause of humanity above
sell and been the star attraction in tra
,on of the peoples party would be TODAY
70 Jorge to the front in this great reform,
nght II Watson had had the breadth ami
patriotism TO take such a course The
question was should it help elect Mckinley
out OF spite and Put out a seuarate elector-
al ticket in every state. This is what Wat
son wanted the committee to do
ReaSon number two is they want :,
better explanation of Chairman Ruil.r's
acton suppressing Watson's letter of ac-
Seplahce than has yet been given The
iSt'ef was NOT published because it would
hdEe heiped Mckinley and Hanna as far
as W atson's influence EXTENDED. For proof
OF this we refer every sensible and fair
minded man to the letter itself He re-
luSei TO leave out the advice to populis;s
not 10 vote Inc joint electoral tickets. Then
me committee refused to be responsible
Tor the publication of the letter Chairman
Butler refused TO publish it because he did
not want 10 do anything either directly or
!huirecuy 10 hei? to elect Mckinley and
a. 'iiu iot want 10 give any one an
opportunity 10 charge the peoples party
with the defeat OF Bryan, it SUCH should bc
the result PopClists all over the country
would have held meetings and repudiated
the letter. He was afraid to publish II
himself before the election. The committee
knew he would publish il after the el.c-
non, 10 try to call attention from his own
hiaEdcrs and cowardIy hide behind his al
tack, upon others"
Senator Butler saws he beIie,-as Y
Dunning, the go-between of Watson aud
the republican committee, was in the nav
OF the republican campaign committee "