The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1897-10-07
CYCLONE DAVIS WRITES.
How the POLITICAL SITUATIONS IN
THE NORTHEAST LOOKS 70 A
SOUTHERN PoPulisT.

Both Sections The Same and Frsm The
Same csasss-Hou The Political Sur
reasdiags Of The soushsrn s.d Wssssr.
Popuiise Differ, Bot They Are Of The
Same Mind and Purpose.
Zion. "Cyclone" Davis, of Texas,
has accepted An invitatian to make .
series Of speeches in State campaigns
in Nebraska and Iowa now in prog
ress. He writes . letter to his home
paper, the Alliance Vindicator, at
Sulphur Springs, Texas, as follows:
GORDON, Iowa, Sept. 8, 1897.
TO the readers of the Vindicator:
When left Texas crossed Okla
homa and the Indian Territory, East
ern Kansas and Eastern Nebraska
to Lincoln. In most of these Sec
tions crops are dne; growing corn in
Eastern Kansas, Eastern Nebraska
Western Iowa is foe and there are
millions of bushels of old corn. 1t
is nothing unusual to find from ten
to 6fty thousand bushels of last
years corn in "corn bins" and eleva
tors at country depot. Shelling
machines at the depots are run by
small steam and horse power like
threshers. It seemed terrible to cou-
template thus vast amount Of corn
here with virtually no market at liv-
ing prices, while our country, for
the past year, has been in such sore
need of it. This man has been
choked to death by the same monop-
oily of money and transportation that
starved US because We were unable
to buy and transportto to our country.
And the corn that did 20 to our
country was sold here at such q low
price as to make this man heartsick
and respondent and yet reached our
market at such price that, in our
condition, forced our people to burd-
en- themselves to buy.
Politics are IN q strange condi-
tion to a Southern Populist. The
S liver r Rspublican, Silver Democrat
and Populist all call each other
"orother.' That imperial insolence,
that autoeratic, prognostic, dogmat-
ic air Of the Southern Democrat is
not found among Democrats in the
Northwest. They and the Populists
have both been under the covering
lash of Republican rule here fox
years, just as we Populists and Re-
publicans IN the South have been
under the scorn, contempt, ridicule
and rank ruin of the Democracy jp
the South. The Democrats here and
Silver Republicans are the most OF
them Populists in everything but the
name and they are generally net
sticklers aboqtthe name. But nine
out of ten of all reformers here are
hoping praying and working te
unite all the forces in the cam
paign of 1909. And when tel
them that the condition and position
of the Southern Dem ocracy is sucl
that he will recognize no union e4
cept the unconditional surrender
and ahjsct submission of the Popu
, lisss OF the South to his tyrannica
, way, when / tell them that it Is tn,
) Democratic dynasty in the Soutl
that is responsible for the intens
, partisan hatred that exist there an,
for the middle Of f-the-road organixs
t ton they seem thunderstruck,
5 The great battle cry here is
! union Of the South and West agains
the gold standard East. But l tel
r them it can never be done if it mean
;. that We Populists in the South ar
i to be made the only martyrs, il "
Q are to be made a sacriflcial offerin
s at the shrine of democracy Of tha
= country who tor six years hav
8 maligned and traduced US, scorne
9 aud contempted US, heaped the
it ignominy and opprobrium on u
It loaded us with contempt and col
IS tumely, stained our garments wit
n stale eggs, baptised many of US
Is our own blood and sent others to tt
d grave yard because We advocate
lr this doctrine, they seemed amaze'
D. ! have told them and still tell the
y that our people in the South on
10 want fair, honest and honorab
Q treatment, and our party be re
ID ognixed as a factor and our peop
er be recognised as patriots by Il
IS Southern democracy. And unle
10 this Is done there can be no unio
D. cooperation or allegiance in Il
10 South, and if the Southern Populis
Id is forced to choose between unco
he ditional surrender to the democra
O. as the price of union or unabati
k warfare on the democracy to upho
his party, his bonos and self respe
he will choose the latter. And
that ease, armed with the juctice
MT his cause and forced into this attisu
es by the base intolerance Of the den
ti- cracY he will and patriotic sympat
It. enough among the Populists of t
ey Northwest to make almost eve
ey State up there doubtful in 1900.
'lY ! have been asked if in order
of insure a congress against the e
ny standard crowd next tine,
,et Populist. silver democrats be Civ
Is their just ratio of congressional mol
VS. nees next year, all combine on tn
ng in every STATE, If that would sati'
id the Southern Populists.
rst tell the M that am not auth
of lied to speak for the Southern POI
he lists nor any one else but am she
rol ing them conditions. They seem
mt believe this can be done both in
in next campaign and in 1900, and
lily leave every party with its own pa
the autonomy.
ia I want to say to our friends in
lii South that there is no intention
the ON the part Of Populists here to
ore tsert the cause or desert the pAl
in They view the silver question as o
or the gateway to complete revolut
to to our financial SYSTEM as stepp
rec stone to tie total abolition Of hi
usi- way and land monopoly also. ! th
pol there will be heroic effort mad
lese reconcile the partisan animosi
s of that exist in the South. II thez
,ate an honorable opportunity ! hope
nee Fopulists will &c act in the Soutl
hat to make the failure to overthrow