The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-04-24
TO RE. UNITE THE WHITES.

| Carolina at its State Convention OH Ni"3
26th. to accept any proposition that may
be made by the Populist State Conveh-
tion looking to Joint action by all men
who believe i'm the white man and the
white metal, will not come up for con
| sidaration Mt all unless the Populist
Stoto Convention, TO be held on the
18th of May, repudiates the Republicans
in its ranks and turns its back upon Re
nublican policies and Republican govern
mont. If the rank and file of the Popu-
list party, together with such of the
office holders as desire to have done with
Republicanism, negroism and gold stand
ardism-triplets of eyil-kickS the Harry
SINNERS, the Ohio Wilson's and the
pritchard Populists out of the party.
they will show to the world that they
are honest in desiring change of af-
fairs and it will be right and proper for
the Democratic party to treat with them
as honorable allies in the great fight upon
which all who believe in the Chicago
platform have entered.
Whether the Populist party in North
Carolina will thus break away from the
degrading influences of Republicanism
and take its stand with the Populist par
ty of the West, where the Democrats
and Populists work together harmonious.
ly. is a matter to be determined at their
Nha
between those who desire to have dis
honorable fusion with the negro and
gold party and those who desire Ito
be delivered from the body of death"
1t is only in the event that the silver ele-
ment WINS that the Democrats would
consider cooperation, and not then if
it involved such dishonOrable dickering
as the Cleveandites and the Pritchard-
ties engaged in to elect Mckinley and
Pritchard in 1896
There is cooperation and cooperation,
1t is dishonorable for any two parties to
act together unless they are agreed
upon the paramount issues The Demo.
cratic, Populist and Silver Republican
parties co-operated in 1896 to carry out
the greatest declaration penned since
Jefferson wrote the Declaration of In
dependence. Failure on their part to
have acted together would have branded
them as false to their professions or
dolts and idiots. Cooperation between
Republicans and Populists is inconsis-
tent and dishonOrable because the pro-
fessed principles of the two parties are
diametrically opposed to each other.
Those Democrats who hope to see the
better element in the Populist party re-
pudiate the Republican contingent base
their hope ON the belief that such
separation will open the door for re-
uniting the white men who, prior TO 1892.
stood together and prevented the evils
of Radicalism which now disgrace the
State. If this opportunity is presented
to the Democratic State Convention the
dictate of wisdom will be to embrace it.
We know OF no Democrat who be-
lieves in the Chicago platform who does
not rejoice in the tendency on the part
of many popuIists to break away from
associations which made them partners
in bad government and negro domina-
ton. They bid them God-speed in
their attempt to eXpel from leadership
those who seek to make their party
a ~
ard party. A contest between the men
who, since Bryan nomination, have been
fighting truly for silver and those who
are in the employ of the Republican
heelers is healthy sign. 1t means that
the time is coming when, Forgetting
those things which are past, the white
for the white man and the white metal.
Whatever others may think or do, we
shall labor for the coming of the day
when the gold-bugs and the traders
can no longer keep the white people of
common interests fighting each other,
while Russellites and Pritchardites and
Skinnerites disgrace the State and leg
islate for the robbery and injury of the
people.
The attempt by the gold-bug boilers
to show that those who want to SET
all the men who voted for Vance acting
together, are office-seekers is as false
as most other gold standard statements.
The men thus slandered do not care foi
the offices. They are willing that all
the offices should be in other hands if
they can legislate for clean government
at home and just government at Wash
ington. The presence of corrupt Off
Gals, scandals, and general nastiness-
inseparable from Republican rule
makes them earnest in their desire to
reunite the white voters of the State.
The suggestion that a union of forces
would necessitate IA cessation of de-
nunciation of bad and corrupt rule by
fusionists, has no force. The silver
men are the men who have exposed the
rottenness and shown that it must fol-
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