The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1897-09-30
Crookedness in Ohio.


branch. This victory will be foiinwec
up by an sct've campaign, with bright
prospect 81 psi ing th- largest Popu-
list vote ever cast in the state What
Ohio has done other SAFES can dn.
plea 8. se- tina, full and graphic &C.
count of This victory |. pup isl~d In
very Pop"li-s pap-r in y.ur stat.
W. nciose ou 4 bri + c,nd- q -.d re-
purt ( tn proc-.d ngs If ib- C snvea-
inn, vii N yus Gao a. IN -endiug gu:
Ia P.tpuiisf tap.rs. IN kinx as man,
cuI is OF ~ A. y"u have Popuii L pa
prs in your Safe. Hoping the organ
izatiou committee will move up all
along thu Iin~. W. are,
Yours fraternally,
Nv. $. MORGAN, Secretary,
ABE STKINBER6ER."
We copy the following from the let
ter ~ u prom u-uf middle-Of th.~road
pobulist of another State VIII, received
Thu. communication from Steinberx-s
and MOFgag. lr is as follows:
SENATOR MARION BUTLKR, Chairman
Peoples Parry National Executive
Committee, Washington, ID. G.
"MY DEAR SIK:-I have received the
enclosed letter signed jointly by M-ssr-
Morgan and Steiuberger ACCOM- anied
by a report which they prepare OF the
Ohio Convention and sent to me to
publish. enclose TO you also the en-
velope IN which they mailed the same
There is something about this matter
which l do not like and | thought il
my duty to inform you as National
Chairman of what was going on. sup
pose, OF course, they have not written
to you. ! want you TO note particu-
larly the envelope. You will see that
it is from the Neil hotel, which is the
most aristocratic hotel in Columbus
The letter and address is written with
q typewriter. The report of the meet
suppose they have mailed out large
money. Morgan and Steinberger are
not we'll loaded with this worlds goods,
and even if they were how did they
feel called upon to 60 to Ohio and
spend their money iavishIy in this
way? Did patriotism take them to
Ohio, and if so whI was paying their
hotel bills while there? Who paid
their transportation from Arkansas
and Kansas, and who paid for sending
out all this literature which also costs
no little money? 1t looks lid to me to
.ay the least. | am opposed to fusion,
but il to be a middle Of-tne-rOader
means to be used as cats paw and a
decOy duck for Hanna, the head agent
of the trusts, mOnOpOlies and syndi-
Gates, thea l am rot that kind of q
middle of -the-roater."
The above tells its own story. The
man who wrote the above letter criti-
cised the National Chairman last
spring for not calling the Nashville
Conference in spite of the verdict of
the committee. He is a middle-Of the
rOader, but middIe-Of the-roader from
principle. There are thousands and
ten of thousands just such honest men
in this country who were in favor of
the Nashville Conference, and who
thought that the instigators of that
meeting were moved by patriotic mo-
tives. The logic of events is fast open
ing their eyes. AS this writer said,
(when the Nashville Conference was
called against the decision of the COM
mlttee) there are tens of thousands of
honest POpulists who were criticisina
the National Chairman and the c., III
nittee and favOriDg the Conference
who would inside of year turn their
backs upon the schemsr, WHO were ma.
nipulating the whole = II .r for a pur-
pose.
We do not think that there were but
very few men in the Nash ,lle Confer
ence whose purposes an, motives VIZ
bad. As soon a. their rA..h-1y is ex-
posed they are II longer b to do any
harm. The part will hu ~ divided,
but the few black sheep will De driver
into outer darkness as were thu bOltlnx
POpulists In the last North Carolina
legislature.
When the Populist caucu, at Raleigh
last winter expelled the pliers it gave
new life to the party and made it
stronger, more vigorous and aggres-
sive than ever. We are in North Car
DINA to-day gaining recruits that we
never could have gotten it such action
had not b zen taken. The same will
be true of the National party. Out of
all this confusion aud treacnery che
party will come purified, and the very
fact that it has stood the test aud tx
PEELED its traitors viii! give it the Goa
hdeEce OF the trust and best men in
all parties to make tie future growth
certain.
Another lstter which we have lust
received from Ohio contains the fol-
lowing clipping:
''Let us Know.
"The editor of the Buzz-Saw will
make series of speeches in Ohio, be-
ginning about the Goth of October.
Those who want to make dates Tor
meetings Will please address him at
Hamilton, Ohio. Write for dates and
further particulars.
Address w. S. MohGAN,
Hamilton, Ohio"
Thu Pnpulist who sent us this clip
ping wants to know if w. S. Morgan
has been made Chairman of the Popu-
list State Committee Of that State. He
wants to know why Morgan left his
home in Arkansas and came t" OH, tn
manipulate their Convention and MAKE
series of speeches. The writer says
that he is true Populist and intends
to remain so, but that there is some-
thing going OF which he does not I'M
derstand, that he does not like and DIES
not intend to be party to.
Another letter which We have re-
ceived from Ohio encloses a clipping
from Tom Watson's paper in which
Watson tried to break the force of the
open charge ID pro that Hanna was
using money to try " ,:-banch the
Populist Convention bJ charging that
Hugo PreyOr who received the twen-
ty-five dollar check and exposed the
same was a Butler PopulisL" and was
trying to sell for money. The writer
proceeded to say that Watson either
does not understand the situation or
chat he is purposely misrepresentine
it. That Hugo Preyor has been a