The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1898-04-28
REPLIE
TO JONES.
unity Commissioner Jones, Of
Fender, Writes Asking Ger
tain Questions.
.\ATOR BUTLER'S FULL
AND FRANK REPLY.

,aIL Monopoly should Cooperate.
.s +. .utocratic Leaders Are Insincere,
... wa, to Test Their sincerity Tn.
ur-.,. eel All Parties Are Patriotic.
I.., NnkeI Up ~ Majority OF the Voters
Ic Na, to Get Them Together and
u,t,u Monopoly aud Restore Good
ro,srnm"nt
The following is "A letter written
.y National Chairman Butler to
rJonc-, II prominent Populist and
ommisSioncr OF Pender county:
WN~nr>CToN, April -, 1898.
Nr. Gro. +. JONES,
Rocky Poinr. y. G..
NN DEAR SIR: Your esteemed
.,,Or received and carefully con-
tered. | agree with you in much
ruut YOU say, and were 1T not that
most evil and dangerous influences
N.nr controlling our government
Nul producing hard times in the
midst Of plenty, ii might be proper
..u- to be- influenced by the senti-
munts you express.
Iut in times like these, when
f.u welfare Of seventy millions OF
r0pIe, including our own wives
uul children, is at stake, our judg-
rn..t and conscience alike call upon
u- tu meet the situation from the
nthc,t plane OF patriotic duty.
ou say that you endorse and
iuat every patriotic man should
,uCo"~c the sentiments OF the recent
address issued by the twenty-five
popui~t congressman and Sena-
tors. appealing for n cooperation OF
all who are opposed to the rule and
domination OF the gold ring and the
allied trusts and monopolics but
vou say it will not work in practice
because large number, IL not a
majority, Of the leaders OF the
Democratic party are not sincerely
lur the principles OF Jefferson and
i|ryan.
Now this may be so and it may
NOT hc 80, but, for arguments sake,
lrt u~ admit that it il so; let us
admit that there Is large number
or Democratic leaders and Demo-
cratic newspapers who are more in
sympathy with Cleveland and his
policies than with Bryan and his
principles; let us even admit that
this class makes up a majority OF
the Democratic press and the
Democratic state Committee; but
do these men and these newspaper:
represent the sentiment OF the
great rank and file OF the Demo
cratic party: We know that there
were from fifty to hundred thou
sand Democrats in the state wis
were on the eve of leaving th'
Democratic party when the Demo
cratic national convention con
vcned in 1896. They would hav'
lett if Cleveland had been nomi
mated or il any straddlebug hat
been nominated. These men wer
then about to take the patriot
course that YOU and took in lS9:
rhcy are no less patriotic now tina
they were then. These voters i
this state are the rank and file Q
their party. They have to-day II
more confidence in the Democrat
leaders who supported Clevelan
and who up to 1896 ridiculed silve
and every other reform that tn
Peoples Party were advocatin
shan they had then. They are sin
ply staying in the party becaus
they have faith in Bryan an
Bryanism. They were going
follow in his lead then, and the
are simply following his lead no,
II we ever get these voters in ii
future, and our only hope for r.
cruits in the future is chiefly fro
this class OF voters, we must do
hy pursuing such n course as W
commend itself to these men and
the same time expose the hypocri
uf the pretended Bryan Democr
who Is at heart Cleveland Dem
Crat. IL we pursue such a cour
they will come il their party bac
slides, and, might say, II it Ia
10 progress.
believe that the great majorl
~ the voters Of the nation, as W
~ OF North Carolina, are hon,
and patriotic. They sincerely
iieve in the principles advocated
Jefferson, Jackson and Lincoln.
this were not so then there wol
he no hope Of ever redeeming t
government from the dominat
VI Shylock and the monopoly tor
that now have us in their clutch
But YOU say that the Democra
machine leaders, who are at he
monopoly and Cleveland goldbu
will be able to fool lot OF
honest rank and file and thus 5
ceed in controlling the Democri
state Convention, and that pa
controlled by such men ought
I've fought to the death. III
happens, then agree with you.
the Democratic party is not n
rStly with the people in this Il!
ii it will not prove its sincerity
repudiating its traitors and stl
Hers and marching boldly up
helping Us to fight the allied
combined enemies OF human
then il ought to die and the Quit
1t dies the better. But the
way that the party can be kill'
that il, the only way that the
honest and inSincere men in 1t
be thrust into the Republ
party, where they belong, and
honest and sincere men taken
the Populist party, where we
To see them-is by showing
honest rank and file OF that p
that their leaders are not sir
and that the party will again
tray them as it did under Clevel
We are now in position tt
this test to the party and to ac
pliSh this end so much TO b
sired, and it would be GRIMM
Us, both from a party standI
and from standpoint OF patl
duty, to fail to put their sine