The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1897-02-04
SENATOR BUTLER on TINE 0uTloou
FoR TINE PEOPLES PARTY.

SSWAtVu OO I'm W s"e S0seOO~
FOR TINE PEOPLES PARTY.
He Also Pare Ms Rsspsess 10 C~ssssss-
man 0Asasss sad fhe@ss =. Wsssss.
and Kxposss Their Cesda IT In Hs,psss
> 70 Eject Prisehsrd to The ssssse.
When senator Butler returned TO
Washington after the ending OF the
Senatorial fight in North CAROLINA, he
WAS interviewed by . reporter Of the
Associated Press. lie VAS asked three
questions, to each Of which be prompt
~ gave . short, clear, and forcible
answer. On the following day the
said reporter notified Senator Butler
that the Associated Press refused to
send out the interview. The inter-
view, including questions and anewers
which they refused to send out, IL Is
follows:
Senator Butler when asked By an
Associated Press Correspondent in
what shape the Senatorial light in
North Carolina had left his party said !:
1.-THE Peoples Party 10 in better
shape than II has ever been since 10
Was organized. This is especially so
Just ut this time in North Carolina.
The election Of Pritchard by acme
boiling Populists means that We have
simply lost seventeen voters, for whom
we have the eradication OF believing
that the opposition paid extremely
high. Not single one Of these bolt
ers could have been elected as Popu-
liata 10 fhov hSA said IN Tho stnvu n
that they would vote in the caucus for
Pritchard, much less il they had said
that they would bolt their party's eau
Gus to vote for him. If they were for
Pritchard during the campaign they
were elected under false pretense. At
any rate they have sacrificed their
principles and betrayed their constit-
uents Mark Hanna and his agents have
gotten these seventeen individuals,
but they cannot get another man un-
less they should be able to find some
one or two corrupt men in some coun-
ty who is willing to desert his party
and join the Republican party for q
fat Federal office, and am sure that
there are not to exceed one hundred
OF that kind of cattle in the State
Livery time the Republican machine
finds q member of our party to &C.
cept Federal office, it means that the
Republicans have bought one vote
and one only, with the Office, and such
q loss is not loss to tbut q Hurifca
ton and a strengthening of our par
ty. This purging and purify ing o
the Peoples Party is an indication o
health, and will surely result in grea
growth to the organization. As sool
as the boilers and traitors voted TO
Pritchard, the Peoples Party member
of the legislature at once held a can
Gus and expelled and branded ever,
DOlter, SO as to render it iupossi BILE 70
any of them to ever be in a position
to again betray the trust of the peo
pie, and also to make it impossible 70
any one Of than to ever find admit
lance and gain membership in an,
respectable party.
The Peoples party by its action ii
this respect has shown itself NOR
reliable and truer than any othe
party that exists. When Cleye
land corrupted the Democratic
party by patronage, il not b,
other means in addition, to repeal tn
last silver Law on the statute book,
the Democratic party failed to de
nOunce and expel its traitors, VIII,
I had betrayed their constituency an,
trampled upon the principles Of thei
party. But, on the contrary, the trai
> tors in that case are still men of hisI
standing and position in that party.
The Republican party in dozens o.
instances has been guilty of the sam,
crime In not branding and expellin,
traitors from its ranks.
Thus the Peoples party has demon
> strated the necessity for its existence
der it's banner or political int grit,
!. every honest man and patriot still lief
in the rank and file OF both of the oil,
. parties"
Referring to Representative Skin
ner's part in Pritchard's contest, Sen
ator Butler said:
Mr.. Skinner is probably the mos
: : despised and contemplate characte
in North Carolina. He could not "a
day be elected even . delegate of tn
Peoples party from any township il
o his own county to a county conven
ton. He has no future EXCEPT In til
republican party, and he will have u
future in that party, for the reaso
: that that party has no future in th
2 State. The treacherous and despicabI
Il methods and conduct Of the Republi
can party in breaking their co-opers
1--WE cOntract with the Peoples paYtl
and in corrnpting a small faction I
our party in the legislature, to secuY
e Pritchard's election, and to contrs
and divide out the State patronage Z
the unholy combine, makes IL in th
future the party Of perhdy and dir
honor In North Carolina.
Senator Pritchard's election 10 "a
4 dearest bought position ever secure
\ By him or any man. II not only des
y troys any possible future for his part
. in the State, but it taints him Wit
/ the questionable, not TO say infamou
& methods employed by Hanns's agent
skinner & Co., to secure the came.
addition to this, his backslidinl
waddling. and Hopping on the finaI
cial question has lost to him the n
Il spect OF even . large part OF his ow
y party"
"What" the Senator asked, do 70
. think of eT.vice- Peeaideuf;el c.1A