Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-02-16

SENATOR BUTLER ON THE OUT.
LOOK FOR THE PEOPLES
PARTY.
He Also Pays His Respects to Con.
gresham Skinner and Thomas E..
Watson and Exposes Their Conduct
IN Helping to Elect Prltchard to
the Senate.
When Senator Butler returned to
Washington after the ending of the
Senatorial fight in North Carolina,
he was interviewed by a reporter OF
the Associated Press. He was asked
three questions, to each of which he
promptly gave short, clear, and
forcible answer. On the following
day the said reporter notified Sena.
tor Butler that the Associated Press
refused to send out the interview.
The interview, including questions
and answers which they refused to
send out, is as follows:
Senator Butler, when asked by an
Associated Press correspondent in
what shape the Senatorial fight in
North Carlina had left his party, said
'The Peoples Party is in better
shape than it has ever been since it
was organized. This is especially so
just at this time in North Carolina.
The election of Pritchard by some
boiling Populists means that we have
simply lost seventeen voters, for
whom we have the qualification of
believing the opposition paid ex.
tremely high.
mot single one of these boilers
could have been elected as Populists
il they had said on the stump that
they would vote in the caucus for
Pritchard, much less if they had said
that they would bolt their party's
caucus to vote for him. If they
were for Pritchard during the cam
paign they were elected under false
pretenses. AT any rate they have
sacrificed their principles and be-
trayed their constituents. Mark
Hanna and his agents have gotten
these seventeen individuals, but they
can not get another man unless they
should be able to find some one or
two corrupt men in some county who
are willing to desert their party and
join the Republican party for fat
Federal Office, and I am sure that
there are not to exceed one hundred
of that kind of cattle in the state
Every time the Republican machine
finds member of our party to &C
cept a Federal Office, it means that
the republicans have bought one
vote, and one only, with the office,
and such loss is not a loss to (but q
publication and strengthening of,
our party. This purging and purify
ing of the Peoples Party is an indi
cation of health, and will surely re-
suit in great growth to the organiza
ton. AS soon as the boilers anC
traitors voted tor Pritchard, the PEG
ple's party members of the legisla
ture at once held a caucus and ex
PEELED and branded every bolter, sc
as to render it impossible for any O.
them to ever be in position to agair
betray the trust of the people, an6
also to make it impossible for any
one of them to ever find admittance
and gain membership In any respect
able party.
"The Peoples party in its action il
this respect has shown itself more re
liable and truer than any other pc
litical party that exists. When Gle
veland corrupted the Democrat,
party by patronage, if not by othel
means in addition, to repeal the las
silver law on the statute books, the
Democratic failed to denounce ant
expel it's traitors, who had betrayed
their constituency and trampled up
on the principles of their party.
But, on the contrary, the traitors il
that case are still men of high stand
ing and position in that party.
"The republican party in dozens o
instances has been guilty of the same
crime in not branding and expellinl
traitors from it's ranks.
'Thus the Peoples Party has dem
onstrated the necessity for its exist
ence, and will henceforth draw rapid
ly under its banner Of political integ
rity every honest man and patrio'
still left in the rank and file Of boil
OF the old parties"
Referring to Representative Skin
ner's part in Pritchard's contest, Sen
tor Butler said:
s'Mr. Skinner is probably the mos
despised and contemplate characte
in North Carolina. He could not to
day be elected even a delegate of tn
Peoples Party from any township fl
his own county to a county conven
ton. He has no future except in rh'
Republican party. and he will hav'
no future in that party, for the reason
that that party has no future in the
state. The treacherous and despica
BILE methods and conduct of the Re
publican party in breaking their co
operative contract with the Peoples
Party, and in corrupting small fac.
ton OF our party in the legislature,