The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1897-04-15

pohihx fopcilsts have been an wash
inxton recently. They all make
straight for senator Priichard. What
ever their business IL they do not
make II known Ia other. n. far q. ~-
know. Mr.. Brown of Jones d. the last
one that has been seen here
IIIS BEARING FRur.
How The Popuiist L-assa 10 Hsiax M.as
T" worn u~eti.sIy.
The Pcpulists OF the United States
who favored 4 union of reform forces
and advocated me king the fight on
the silver issue In the late campaign
contended that silver would prove
an entering wedge for all the re
forms Of the Peoples Party snd tha,
while acting cor ,intly with th. 9th
er silver forces. We would gradually
impregnate them With our own ideas
and principles. Time has proven
the wisdom OF these tr .diciiors. To
day the reform sentiment of the
country Is turning 10 the Peoples
Party platform in its entirety. The
attitude of the railway corporations
in the late campaign has Spen.d the
eyes OF the silver men 10 the desira-
bllity Of the government ownership
! of railroads; the efforts Of the banks
to retire the greenbacks has shown
the necessity Of direct Legislation.
The manly attitude of the Popu-
lists in their support of Mr.. Bryan.
while in giving 1t they were going
outside their own party and laying
aside their dearest principles, has en-
deart q them to the entire free silver
army, has brought their men and
ideas into favor and will certainly
make them the leaders in the great
battle Of 1900. Now for the proofs
They are all from sources outside
the Peoples Party and therefore
without special bias in our direction.
The first is from the Philadelphia
American, a free silver Republican
paper that up to last fall would hear
TO nothing but free silver and pro-
lection. That a change has GENE
DER the spirit Of IFS dreams may h.
seen from the following extracts
from a recent editorial:
| 1--WE must not content ourselves
with striving to combat the upbuild
ing of a moneyed oligarchy nv work
ing for free coinage alone. We mus,
not permit that oligsrchy to fasten
its grip upon our people through
gaIn ming a monopoly Of the issue o'
our paper currency, or monopo ly
of our railroads, or of our telegra phs
The surrender of our government "a
the banks Of the sovereign power Il
issue and control the volume of oul
currency is urged upon us wI'.
greater or less vehemence. the con
troll of our railroads and telegraph
lines in the interest of speculative,
cliques is becoming more and NOR,
marked. The banks of the one han,
and the railroads on the other ar,
being turned into engines Of specu
laiion. This tendency must be com
batted. The banks and railroad
must be run for the purposes 70
which they were crea.ed, namely: Z,
facilitate the distribution Of wealth
and lessen the cost of distribution
not to enable those who control III,
banks and railroads to levy a iribut
on such distribution"
The other two questions are iron
Democratic sources. Hon. DAvi'
Overmeyer of Kansas Is second L
Mr.. Bryan, probably the leadiuI
. free silver Democrat west OF tn
} Missouri river. The following sen,
ences are taken from recent lette
of Mr.. Overmeyer's:
"Why not boldly and openly an
. nounce the well settled and familiA
legal doctrine that railroads ar
I high public highways, and VIII
, longer shrink from applying TO ther
. the logical rule which obtains in a.
such cases, viz: That SO long a
J they remain public highways th
title to their roadbeds and rights O
, way should be in the public, wit
. such degree Of control in other re
| speets as the law-making power ma
: deem expedientf In fine, why no
have society control property il
stead Of having properly rule soc
etyf These great issues are upo
usi We cannot escape them"
The third quotation is not quite &
outspoken but 1t points in the 81 m
direction. /. is from the Chicsg z
I Dispatch, the leading free silvs
. Democratic paper of the west. Tt
. q notation occurs at the end of q
4 editorial defense Of socialism. Tt
y Dispatch does not openly espoui
e socialism, but answers some of ii
lies Of the goldbug press. 1t the
2 adds the following significant par
- graph:
!, "The Dispatch is Democratic.
e believes that all government rests
!. the consent Of the governed, az
r the voice of the people is the vol
E of God. 1t rejects nothing Of wor
= because il is new, and il clings
n no faith simply because it is old.
e believes in the people Of to-day al
that they are capable Of solving Al
will solve the problem Of COVER
n ment. 1t is all very well to rsspe
y, the fathers, but they were huma
- and If We cannot improve on the
"a work after more than . hundr