The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1897-08-19

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the National Peoples Party Conven-
ton had been very labOrous and try
ing. He had tried to do his duty,
worked day and night, was worn out,
and besides was suffering with neural |
gia. Why did he make these appoint
ments now, he asked, why did he not
wait till the next campaign opened, or
wait until his term of office was about
to expire and then spend his efforts
hustling for another job? This was
not his object. He regarded it the
highest duty of legislator to consid-
er his duty to humanity and the peo-
pie before his own interests. He had
advantages to see things he would not
have possessed had he remained at
home. An effort was going on among
the leaders of the old parties to try to
to side-track the great vital issues
which the Peoples party had pushed
to the front. Every great question
that effects the prosperity or poverty
of the people and nation has been
brought to light and forced to the front4
by the Alliance and Peoples party.
Democratic and Republican politicians
know it. They have had the people
fighting over side issues ever since the
war, and the Peoples party is the only
political organization which has been
honest enough and has possessed man
hood enough to bring these great
questions of economic reforms to the
front. Some of the politicians who
whooped for Grover Cleveland in 1892
aud for Bryan in 1896 are now trying
to side-track free silver and the mono
poly question in this State and the ma
nt hn will Mt oil nv hny 70
it, and he challenges all of the machine
politicians from Currituck to Chero-
kee to meet him on the stump and
prove that this is not true. He knew
how easy it was for honest men at
home to be fooled by political sharks
who were continually laying wires to
defeat the will of the people and dupe
them. Bryan's nomination saved the
Democratic party last tall. Had it not
been for him many honest free silver
Democrats would have gone to the Peo-
pies party. Bryan was too good for
his party, and the Democratic politi-
clans are trying to down him now !;
they are getting ready to put a gold
bug presidential candidate in the field
on straddle. bug platform. He was
here to prevent that class Of politi-
clans from fooling the people. The
Democratic politicians did not want
Bryan nominated. They we're taken
by surprise. Some of them voted for
Palmer and Buckner, some for Nc
Kinley, and some whOoped for Bryan
because they thought he night be elect
ed and they would get the offices. But
they would rather have voted for Gro
yer Cleveland. 1t is this class of poll
ticiens who are working the "harmony
| of RI q n n.
bug Democrats, Mckinley Democrats
and free silver Democrats get togeth-
or in one bed and under one cover.
He said that the machine politicians,
the gold trust and the mOnopOlies
were now at work over the whole coun-
try laying wires and schemes to side
track the great money issue and to
turn down Bryan. But he said there
was coming an election next year (two
years before the next Presidential
fight) and that the people must pay
special attention to the schemes OF the
politicians and monopoly agents fol
the next years election. If the schemes
of the politicians succeed in 1898 that
then they would be in better SHAPE tt
fool the people in 1900.
He said he was out speaking now tt
expose the scheme which had already
been Matched by the agents of the mo-
nopolies for the next campaign. HI
, said that it was his duty to warn the
people and further, that he had righ
to ask the people to believe what hi
) said. He had in the past spoken tt
the people from one end OF the Stat'
to the other, he had warned them be
j fore and his predictions had come true
8. he had made certain pledges and pro
| - ha no q
Q kept faith with the people in ever.
|, particular.
a Every prediction he made in 1S9.
\ has come true. Cleveland was elected
the control of government placed ii
J the hands of the Democratic party
and by that party the only silver lay
d on the statute books was repealed
/. bonds were issued and the people lef
a with nothing but the bag to hold. A
\ of these charges and predictions ha
y been bitterly denied at the time by M
Aycock and other speakers who me-
him on the stump. He could face tn
.r same audiences again with the sam
" speeches he made in 1892, but this
81 those who denied his predictions coul
a not. Senator Butler then said that
n was here to warn them of a DANCE
~ again.
Two newspapers udu UceH HSu0in
'g each other as if they seriously and n
Ideally differed on fundamental ar
- vital issues. The News and observe
~ ~ has opposed trusts, railroad monop'
+, lies and the gold standard. The Cha
- ,otte Observer on the other hand b:
10 opposed free silver and favored mon
40 poles and trusts. One was for Il
~ Southern railway; the other agains
Nv one for reduction of fares and freig
rates: the other against a reduction
IN one against the free pass infamy, &
other for il; one against the interfe
ny ence of the Federal courts, the 9th
NJ the defender of such:.m0nopOly and
m ranny. These two papers which ha
ist pretended to be far apart, are gettil
ny together in the same bed. The Ne
no and Observer has about dropped
fight for the great reforms; has b
en- little to say in several weeks AGAR
ct railway extortion and in favor of I
Is ducing freight rates and passena
fares-n0thing to say against g