The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1898-05-12

and Co. around the State as patriots
and silver men, and thus by our action
brand the Democratic position for the
last SIX years as false and its candidates
liars? If we fuse we will show to the
people clearly this abhorrent lnconslst-
ency. The party could not live under
this double-faced, spoils-huntlng policy.
It could meyer cast off the odium. Like
the pitiable criminal, with! the dead
victim dashed to his back, dying at last
from its stencil, the Democratic party,
tieing to itself the policy OF the But
lerites, will finally fall from its load
and perish from its filth.
There are in the State 3O,OOO Popu-
lists, or were at the last election. Ii
we fuse. we would lose more good sill
yer Democrats than the Populists could
bring to us with their whole body.
Besides, thousands of Populists would
go outright to the Republicans. With
a straight fight, clear platform-white
man and white metal--inviting as we
have done, all white men regardless OF
past party affiliations, to come into
our primaries and conventions and be
of us and with us, with good men as
candidates, we can win back to us at
least $4,000, possibly more. We won
back in the last campaign 10000 and
this, too, when the Popullst leaders
were sweareng that they we're not go
ing to vote for Pritchard or any other
gojd-bug, leading the rank and tile Of
their party to believe they had 7epu-
dated Republican gold-bugism, and
when they were perfectly united.
What could we do now when they
have again elected Pritchard to the
Senate, Linney, Pearson and White
to the House, put the gold-bug and
negro Republican party in control OF
North Carolina, split and fighting one
another, with the corruption and
stencil of the fusion administration of
affairs rising and settling like dense
fog in the face of the decency and honor
of the State? If we, starting in the
fight with solid column of $4,000
white men. with the journals, the pull
pits, the college presidents and facul-
ties, the largest portion of the profes-
slons, a large majority of the yeoman-
~, with the intelligence, the virtue and
the wealth on our side, with the cor
ruption, the scandals and the record
of the fusionlsts on the other, cannot
count under our flag in the coming
election large portion of the Popu-
lists, then there would seem to be no
right and truth On our side, or that the
Populists are so depraved and corrupt
that truth can never reach them. But
the latter cannot be. In the broken
and thinning ranks of the Popullst
party there still remain thousands of
honest, patriotic, but sadly mistaken
and badly misled, North Carolinians,
who will, sooner or later, SEQ the
clearer light and help us in the re-
demption Of the State and the extinc-
ton OF Republicanisn1 and Butlerism.
Let Us fight bravely on, recognizing
Republicanism and Butlerlsm as com
mon enemies. Let no defeats OF the past
discourage us. "The future bends
above us the bow of promise"
We must finally triumph. Just as sure
as God put into the breast OF man racial
pride, racial sentiment, just so sure will
the intolerable conditions, which must
inevitably follow black and white po.
litlcal alliances, sweep the honest, sell
respecting Populists back into the
white column, and the hand that lifted
their false leaders into power, will, with
righteous indignation, hurl them to
destruction. The Populists who still
desire to fight us let us driye unmask'
ed into the Republican party. Wher
once again the fight Is narrowed down
between Democrats and Republicans
victory, sure and lasting, Is ours. The
white men of the State will not re-
main subdued. The Anglo-Saxo1
will, sooner or later, reassert itself, as il
has done in every time and in every
land, and awaken the State to an ap
probation of that memorable law OF The
universe, written in the heart of the
world, which declares, that the FIT
TEST SHALL SURVIVE, and quick
en- the mind and the manhood O
the white people with the stern resolves
that they aciH either find auay, or b.
the etern0ls MAKE A WAY!
CLAUDE KITCHIN.