The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1897-03-18

Gus direction OF Congressman Harry
Skinner, aided and abetted by Ger
tain prominent Populists Of other
States. high in the councils Of the
party, have committed this crime.
The prominent Populists Of other
States referred to have sent letters
and kilograms here encouraging the
boilers and endorsing their base and
treacherous action in defeating Dr.
Cyrus Thompson. the Populist nom
inee for United States Senator, by
voting for and electing Mr.. Pritch-
ard, John Sherman Republican.
We denounce and repudiate this un.
warranted and strange interference
by outsiders in our local affairs.
But their crime against the princi-
Piles and organization Of the Peoples
Party we leave others to deal with.
But Skinner and the boiling Popu-
lists have been promptly repudiated
and expelled from the organic ation
by this caucus, and, therefore, bran
ded as traitors to the basic princi
pies of good government and enc
mics to the welfare of humanity.
The seductive but shiny old party
snake has, no doubt, struck its pois-
onous fangs to q greater or less
depth into the organization of the
Peoples Party in many other States.
Therefore, this purging must also
be done elsewhere. 1t cannot be be-
gun too soon.
The presence of this disease was
painful and dangerously evident at
the last National Convention of the
Peoples Party.
Four years ago when the Peoples
! Party met in National Convention
at Omaha, composed of delegates
from every quarter of the Union,
men who, in The past, had affiliated
with different political parties-they
met on common ground, moved by q
unity Of purpose toward q common
end.
In the last National Convention
we were confronted by the baneful
and poisonous effects of Republican
taint in the South, swinging the par
ty to one extreme, and Democratic
taint in the West swinging the par
tY to the other extreme, which not
onIy; destroyed the harmony and
unity of method, but also endanger-
ed the very existence Of the organi-
zation.
There was danger that if either of
these extremes had dominated, the
Convention would have been rem,
in twain and tho organization af
terwards disorganized and disinte
grated in detail.
Thus the heroic and patriotic, ef-
forts of the lamented L. L. Polk in
breaking down the deadly barriers
of sectional prejudice and uniting
the patriots of the South and West
and their fellow-suffsrers everywher,
under a common banner to fight fol
the restoration of property and the
liberation of humanity, which wa'
80 nobly achieved, was threatened
to be undone by the separate an,
; joint machination Of the two OF
parties that are co ,intly response
BILE for the evils and miseries tina
} exist.
The enemy, though temporall,
, foiled, is still at work. Only las
, week here in Raleigh, within 1
stones throw of the consecrate
, grave of L. L. Polk, the combined
: conspirators from Lombard an
3 Wall streets concentrated all thei
infamous powers to deal q deadl
: stab At the very vitals of the Pee
s pies Party organization and its prin
: ciples, for which our fallen leade
consecrated his best efforts and sac
: rifeed his life. Thus the electio
/, of Mr.. Pritchard, by those profes
: sing to be Populists, discovers
y startling crisis in the history of th
D Peoples Party.
y Therefore, let all those who b.
r lieve in the basic principles of goo
II government, as taught and exempt
: fed by jefferson, Jackson and Lii
d coin, take heed IN every State in tt
Y Union lest the same insidious an
q baleful influences be at work unde
D. mining our organic alton and sappir
70 the vitality of its principles.
IS It has been the purpose OF bo
10 the Democratic and Republican pa
10 ties to destroy the organic existen
d of the Peoples Party, and our life
70 endangered by the too friendly tou'
D. of either.
70 They co operate with US for the
ID own advancement, and with a vie
p to our disruption and ultimate a
le sorption.
Only last week, Immediately aft
er Senator Pritchard's election by
h boiling faction of the Peoples Pa
X ty, the Asheville, IN. CO Regist'
ne his personal organ, gloated over t
Ill apparent disruption Of our ranl
Ee and boasted that the Republica
We would absorb by 1900 every Popul
ht in North Carolina THAT is VOL
% having"
The boast and hope of the Repr
IN lican party in North Car Dina fiu
m no doubt q parallel in the hope q
he purpose of the Democratic pal
m against the continued existence
be our organic life.
"a But We have not come upon
in stage of political action as food
tic prolong the life of the two old p
ties, to whose corrupt practices {
ers justly chargeable the ills the peo
ro- suffer. We are here for the purp
op- of establishing good government
lth equitable principles. By the vir
rs, of our principles, by the purity
the our organization and patriotism
rty each member, and by the help
By God we will do it.
But this purpose cannot be e
CO. cuted if We follow the example
ain the two old parties. In tho unc
los, dltional repeal Of the Sherman
les, under Mr.. Cleveland, the Demot
ust tic party, for instance, submit
its for the sake of harmony patrons
the without serious complaint to the
Vel trayal Of its principles. The tres
erous Congressnen retained &