The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1897-12-02

ruld standard aud monopoly rule. Tbat
he Peoples Party occupied the same
portion and they were ready TO JOIN
lands with all OF hers who favored the
sane reforms and elect an anti Dionop-
biz Legislature and that this would
give 10 the State the best white mans
the State had ever seen!
bid he not say that there were certain
gold and monopoly agents VINO were
irving to Keep divided the people who
thought alike on the most vital ques-
tions: that they were trying TO divide
and conquer and elect monopoly Leg /
islature and that they were using the
"niggpr' question and appeals to race
prejudices to carry out their scheme!
A. To this they mu-t answer, yes.
q. Was it not against these hirelings
Of Shy lock and monopoly and no one
else that Senator Butler used the stric-
lures concerning which you were CALI
ed upon to make an affidavit?
A. TO this, they must answer, yes.
.. Did he use these structures against
the gold monopoly agents in connec-
ton with rape cases!
A. TO this, they must answer, no.
.. And did he not in this cOnnec-
ton use an illustration to the effect
that when machine politicians and
agents of monopoly have an unusually
bad record to defend, as when they
have put up specially bad ticket and
are planning greater rObberles than
usual that there was only one way for
them to force the best element of the
white people to again submit to their
machine domination and robbery aud
that was for negro to throw brick
bat into political procession or to do
something else Of the kind to arouse
race prejudice; and that, under these
circumstances, the scOundrels who had
been helping the mOnOpOlies to rob the
people, (by giving US five cent cotton
and charging US high freight and pas
senger rates at the same time and by
uOLeHS vi OtHcI VouiN nv
doubt hire some worthless negro to
commit such an act il necessary to
win monopoly victory? And was this
not the only connection in which such
a statement wac made?
A. To this they must answer, yes.
@. Did he not, in another part of his
speech, after deplOring the number of
rapes, also deplOre the efforts of GER
tain monopoly organs to try to make
political capital of such horrible
crimes, by charging that the Peoples
Party was in some way responsible for
them? Did he not refer to number
of rapes committed in other States
where there were Democratic admins.
trations and show that none had ever
attempted to charge the Democrats IN
those States with being responsible in
any way for such shocking crimes, and
was this not all that he said either d.
rectly or indirectly about rapes
A. TO this they must answ er, yes.
q. Did he not tell the cOlOred people
in the audience that this was an Anglo
Saxon government and that they
would always rule, and that it was best
both for the blacks as well as the
whites that it should be SO?
a. To this they must answer, yes.
q. Was not his whole speech an ap-
peal for cooperation of the large
ma GRITTY of voters, now divided, who
oppose the gold standard and monopoly
domination and robbery, to join forces
in great fight for these vital economic
reforms in addition to white suprema-
cy; and were not all Of his structures
directed at these few agents of the
enemey who are using the "nigger''
cry to prevent such cooperation, to
sidetrack the money and monopoly
question and to force a fusion of sill
yer men and goldbugs, and who there
fore were using the white supremacy
cry for an insincere and dishonest pur-
pose?
A. TO this they must answer, yes.
TO every one of the above questions
these men will answer "a we haven indi-
Gated They cannot answer otherwise
This cross examination shows how
the speech was misrepresented and
proves that the sentence quoted is a
base and slanderous perversion.
The fact is that the editorials we
have been writing since Congress ad-
journed and the speeches We have been
making since the 10th day of last Au-
gust have hit in tender spot certain
"nigger" organs who are working the
race prejudice racket in the interest
of the gold and monopoly syndicate
They have WINGED under our exposure
of their scheme. We have tested their
sincerity in crying out for white su-
premacy by proposing cooperation
of ali those who oppose the
gold standard and the domina-
tion of our State by monopolies
to elect an anti-monopoly legislature.
We have shown that such a fight
would not only elect an anti.
monopoly Legislature, but also give the
best white mans government the State
has ever seen. We have shown that
this was the only way to make such 8
victory certain. This has exposed the
insincerity of those who were raising
the "nigEer" cry in the interest of mo.
nopoly. They could not answer our ar.
guments. They saw that the people
were catching on to their conspiracy
to sidetrack the money and monopoly
questions and get a fusion of the sill
yer men and gold bugs behind thu
"nigger" cry and to turn over tn,