The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1898-05-19

of Gold Monopoly sho"Id Cooperate.
IL Democratic Leaders Are Insincere,
TIA. Way to Test Their sincrrity-The
Masses Of All PArtic. Are Patriotic.
They Make Up n Majority Of the Voters.
Til. Way to Get Them Together aud
Defeat Monopoly aud Restore Good
Government.
The following is "A letter written
by National Chairman Batter to
Mr.. Jones, a prominent Populist and
Commissioner OF Pcndcr county:
WASHINGTON, April -, 1898.
Mr.. gro. Y. JONES,
Rocky Point, y. c.
NJ DEAR SIR: Your esteemed
favor received and carefully con-
sidcred. agree with you in much
that you say, and were it not that
most evil and dangerous influences
were controlling our government
and producing hard times in the
midst of plenty, it might be proper
for us to be Influenced by the senti-
mcnts you express.
But in times like these, when
the welfare Of seventy millions of
people, including our own wives
and children, is at stake, our judg-
ment and conscience alike call upon
us to meet the situation from the
highest plane Of patriotic duty.
| You say that you endorse and
that every patriotic man should
endorse the sentiments OF the recent
address issued by the twenty-five
POpulist Congressman and Sena-
tors, appealing for cooperation o.
all who are opposed to the rule anC
domination Of the gold ring and thu
allied trusts and monOpOlies bu1
you say it will not work in practice
because large number, if not {
majority, Of the leaders OF thu
, Democratic party are not sincerel.
for the principles of Jefferson an(
Bryan.
Now this may be so and it ma,
| not be so, but, for arguments sake
q let us admit that it is so; let III
admit that there is large numbe
Of Democratic leaders and Demo
cratic newspapers who are more il
, sympathy with Cleveland and hi
O policies than with Bryan and hi
q principles; let us even admit tina
r this class makes up a majority O
f the Democratic press and tn
Democratic State Committee; blu
! do these men and these newspaper
, represent the sentiment of tn
? great rank and file of the Demo
q cratic party? We know that Their
q were from fifty to hundred thou
q sand Democrats in the State VIII
were on the eve of leaving tn
|, Democratic party when the Demo
: cratic national convention con
y vened in 1896. They would hay
. left if Cleveland had been nomi
mated or il any straddlebug ha,
been nominated. These men wer
then about to take the patriot
course that you and / took in 1S9:
They are no less patriotic now tina
= they were then. These voters i
|. this State are the rank and file @
: 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 advocating
: than they had then. They are sim
ply staying in the party becaus
: they have faith in Bryan an
Bryanism. They were going t
: follow in his lead then, and the,
o are simply following his lead now
If we ever get these voters in tn
: future, and our only hope for re
!: cruits in the future is chiefly fror
! this class Of voters, we must do
4 by pursuing such a course as vii
commend itself to these men and a
4 the same time expose the hypocris,
of the pretended Bryan DemOcra
0 who is at heart a Cleveland Demo
crat. If we pursue such a cours
they will come if their party back
Il slides, and, 1 might say, if it fail
to progress.
!, l believe that the great majorit
e as of North Carolina, are homes
and patriotic. They sincerely be
. iieve in the principles advocated b
!, Jefferson, Jackson and Lincoln. ]
e this were not so then there woul
3, be no hope of ever redeeming thi
d government from the dominatio
: of ShylOck and the monopoly torie
that now have us in their clutches
- But you say that the Democrat
machine leaders, who are at hear
monopoly and Cleveland gold5ug.
: will be able to fool a lot of tn
honest rank and file and thus sue
coed in controlling the Democrat
State Convention, and that a part
controlled by such men ought t
y be fought to the death. II thi
happens, then 1 agree with you.
the Democratic party is not hon
estly with the people in this figh1
: IL it will not prove it's sincerity b.
: repudiating it's traitors and strad
e dlers and marching boldly up an,
: helping us to fight the allied an,
. combined enemies of humanity
!. then it ought to die and the Quicke
it dies the better. But the onl,
: way that the party can be killed
. that is, the only way that the dis
q honest and insincere men in it cal
= be thrust into the Republican
: party, where they belong, and tn
honest and sincere men taken int
F, the POpulist party, where we hop
= to see them-is by showing tn
honest rank and file Of that part,
. that their leaders are not SINGER
, and that the party will again be
tray them as it did under Cleveland
!, We are now in a position to pu
this test to the party and to accom-
plish this end so much to be de
sired, and it would be criminal II
us, both from a party standpoin
and from standpoint Of patriots.