The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1897-02-04

o<1ss to call tsess lv~s ee-ap-r.,s.s
fopalssss- sees IA irush iA.y ars
aoihins bat ksprbl,eAe.. vAils a,
'snP'ins TO better ssrve the purposes
OF the aspsblieaa party by rna, qas
rsdine as fopul,s;s. by is.ir frai,,
70 shall know shen-
The only vsy by Which The P~s-
pie . party can he able 20 nasntAsa
ITS eaisssees. sircsgthsn ts has.
And advance ats basic prleospl
upon which good rovernnsp, mas,
oe founced. 10 by parsiue frou AZ.
ranks all sho hav. committed IN.
crime OF placing self above the s.l.
fare OF the people.
Seventeen menbsrs a. tho L~c,,l.
turs OF North CAroliua, ealing ihsm.
selves Populists. unde. the traitor.
Gus direction Of Congressman Harr,
Skinner, aided and abetfed by Ger
tain prominent Populists of other
states. high IN the councils OF III.
party, have committed this erim.
The prominent Popu!ists Of other
States referred 10 have sent letter.
and telegrams encouraging the bolt.
ers and endorsing their base. traitor.
Gus action 10 defeating DR.. Cyrus
Thompson. the Popul,st nominee for
U. 5. senator. by voting for and
electing Mr.. PritchArd, . John Sher
man Republican. We denounee and
repudiate this strange and un.sr
ranted interior ence by outsiders IN
our local Affairs. but their crime.
against the principles and orgAniIA.
tion Of the Peoples Party, We leave
others TO deal with. But skinner
and the boiling Populists have been
promptly repudiAted and expelled
from the organization by this caucus
and therefore. branded as traitors 10
the basic principles Of good govern
ment and enemies 10 the welfare OF
humanity.
The seductive, but Shiny old par
ty snake has, no doRbt. struck its
poisonous fangs to q greater or less
depth, into the organiz alton OF the
Peoples party in many other Slater.
Therefore this purging must also be
done elsewhere. 1t can not be be-
gun too soon.
The presence OF this disease was
painfully and dangerously evident q,
the last National Convention OF the
Peoples party.
Four years ago when the People,
party met in National Convention a,
Omaha, composed Of delegates from
every quarter of the Union. men
who, in the past had affiliated with
different political pArties-they me,
on common ground, moved by q
unity Of purpose toward . common
end.
In the last National Convention
We were confronted by the banefu
snd poisonous effects of Republican
taint in the South, swinging the
party to one extreme, and Democratic
taint in the West. swinging the
party to the other extreme, which
not only destroyed the harmony and
unity of method. but also endang ger
ed the very existence of the organi
zation.
There was danger that if either o
the extremes had dominated, tn.
convention would have then beer
rent in twain and the organization
afterwards been disorganized and
disintegrated in detail.
Thus the heroic and patriotic eff
forts of the lamented l.. l.. Polk, IL
breaking down the deadly barrierl
of sectional prejudice and unitinl
the patriots of the South and West
and their fellew-su6erers everywher,
under q common banner to fight fol
the restoration OF property and tn,
liberation Of humanity, which was S,
nobly achieved, was threatened to b,
undone by the separate AND Join
machination of the two old partie
that are co-jointly responsible fol
the evils and miseries that exist.
The enemy, though temporaril,
foiled, is still at work. Only las
week here in Raleigh, within /,
stones throw Of the consecrate,
grave of l.. L. Polk, the combine,
conspirators from Lombard an,
Wall streets concentrated all thei
infamous powers to deal a deadl,
stab at the very vitals of the Peo
Piles Party organization and its prin
ciples; for which our fallen leade
eonseerated his best efforts and sac
rificed his life. Thus the election o
Mr.. Pritchard, by those professinI
to be Popnlists, discovers q star,
ling crisis in the history OF the Peo
pies Party.
Therefore, let all those who bt
lieve in the basic principles of goo
government, as taught and exem
plifed by Jefferson, Jackson an
Lincoln, take heed in every State i
the Union lest the same insidious An
baleful influences be at work uade,
mining our organization and SAP
ping the vitality Of its principles.
i 1t has been the purpose Of bot
the Democratic and Republican par
ties to destroy the organic existenc
of the Peoples Party, and our life
endangered by the too friendl
touch Of either.
| They cooperate with Us for thei
own advancement, and with Q vie'
to our disruption and ultimate al
sorption.
/ Only last week, imme diately afte
Senator Pri.chard's election by
boiling faction of the Peoples Pal
ty, the Askeville. N. G > Registel
his personal organ, gloated over th
apparant disruption Of our rank
and boasted that the Republican
would absorb by 1900 every Popu
list in North Carolina "that is wort
having"
u The boast and hope Of the Repuh
lican party in North Carolina Hndl
no doubt, . parallel in the hope An
, purpose Of the Democratic part
! against the continued existence q
our organic life.
But We have not come upon th
, stage Of political action - food I
prolong the life Of the two old pa
: ties, to whose corrupt practices ~
, iustlv charDoahlA the ills the peool