The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-08-29

operation with the Republicans, lnclud-
ing the support of gold-bugs; A. 5.
Peace. elected treasurer of Granville
county by the negroes, who spent thirty
days in Raleigh last winter working with
all his might for the reelection OF Prltch-
lard. and who had previously exerted
himself to elect Tom Settle to Congress-;
j. III. Sheriff., secretary to Congressman
Shuford; and V. J. Macarthur, door
keeper of the House of Representatives.
The address, issued by this committee,
contained not a sentence rebuking those
TRAITORS" who voted for Pritchard, no
condemnation of those sell-onts who de-
serted in the 80 year lease fight after
secret conferences with Vice-President
Amlrews, no criticism Of the extrava-
gance of the Legislature that makes the
State Treasury unable to meet the APP
organizations, no denunciation of the poll
icy of giving to negroes a voice in the
selection of teachers for white schools,
no adherence of the reign of terror in
the State produced because the lgnor-
ant negro thinks his crowd
lis on top-these matters that affect the
civilization of the race and the honor of
the State were passed over in silence,
while the address glories in the shame
which fusion with the Republicans has
1 hn IL IN
secret that the address Was largely writ
ten by. a. s. Peace, of Granyille, who Is
nothing but a Republican, and who was
denounced at the time 10y the Caucasian.
THE Populist executive committee, and
Senator Butler as traitor. The adj
dress of January 18th, Of this year, IS
sued by the majority P9pplists, drew 4
correct pen portrait of y. s. Peace WHEN
it used these words:
Seventeen members OF the Izegis-
1 lature of North Carolina, calling
4 themselves Populists, under the trait
/ orous direction of Congressman
Harry Skinner, aided and abcttcn ny
uroniihene Populi5sts OF other States,
! high in the councils of tue parity have
committed this crime and been
promptly repudiated and expelled
from the organization, and therefore,
branded as traitors to the basic prin-
I ciDles OF good eoyeEmeHt and enc
I EInies to the welfare Of humanity
Mr.. Peade, who /drafNd part of the
address Of The Pobulist State Executive
committee /tgo weeks agoA was one Of
the .prei1iinent Popursts~6f the State
high up in the councils Of the party" who
committed this crime" If he has been
promptly repudiated and expelled from
tire organization how does -it happea that
Inc writes the platform aipen which die
~ tbaulist Speakers il and writer's arc
iH-agingf campaign? He did much to
elect Pritchard, and on the Doth Of Jan
referring to the election OF Priich-
ard, Senator Butler said
/ .The election of Mr.. Pritchari
! gives every monopoly, trust, combine
I and syndicate-foreign as well as do.
4 fiestfc1a mortgage on the Country
for the next four years. They bought
| the vote TO give them a majority OF,
I the United States Senate as they did
| McKinley's election and will use ito
loot the country for their OWE aggran-
dizement."
The Progressive Farmer about the
same time declared that the methods Of
the gold-bugs in the Pritchard Senatorial
election were. the most infamous ever
known in the political history Of the
State" Mr.. Peace was leader in the
"most infamous methods" and yet he
liz chosen to draft the articles Of faith Of
the PopuEst party OF North Carolina!
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There isn't Popufst, who deep down
in his heart condemned the betrayal by
the election of Pritchard, and who really
wants good Anglo-Saxon rule, who did
not hang his head in shame when he
read the address of his party committee.
He expected a ringing reiteration Of the
statements in the. addresses issued about
the close Of the Legislature, and an APP
peal to the white voters of the State to
rally to destroy the influences that cleo
ted Pritchard and controlled the Legisla7
ture. Instead of that he finds glorifca-
ton of all the shameless and vicious leg
islation that curses the State, an assump-
ton Of responsibility for it, and an invita-
ton to "a line of campaign that will pre-
vent any hope Of reform and will give the
negro and politicians who pander to him
a continued lease of power. he is urged
to enter a sham fight to reforms, most
of which he desires, but which he knows
he has not the ghost Of chance to Sc
cure until he has killed the Republican
party. There is no reform pos
sible, as long as Republicans or men
chosen by Republican votes control the
If the men who wrote and
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