The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1898-09-01

1860 As an incentive for present en-
deavor of herculean proportions.
This morning dawned bright Ans
clear. but soon clouds appeared ans
intermittent showers largely deter
red the town folk as we'll rs RESIDENT
of the rural precincts from attend
ing, still at 10 a. m. when the Sepa
tor reached the grounds he founs
An audience Of 5000 people to gree
him.
By 1890 3. m. the speakers stant
was comfortably crowded, amons
those noted seated there being Hons
Barnett Gibbs, +. W. Kirkpatrick
Jake Rhodes, Lee Rhodes. W. Z
Farmer, Stump Ashby, Cyclone Da
Wis. Harry Tracy and Milton Park
all party leaders. while Hon. {. 81
Yoakum, late Democratic Congess
ional Representative for the district
was also there.
Senator Buffers appearance, while
not the signal for vociferous ap
plause nevertheless provoked enthu.
siasm.
He was introduced by non. Bar
nett Gibbs, who took occasion to
congratulate the party upon tbs
fact that it stood to-day united and
in better fighting condition from
Canada to the gulf than ever before.
This statement brought rousine
cheer from many.
Senator Butler started by con-
trasting conditions existing in Texas
with those in North Carolina.
"Riding across your fertile fields
and prairies, he said, 81 was i'm
pressed with the great abundance of
your crops and TIE richness of
your soil. If a man can manage
to subsist in my beloved home State
while in agricultural pursuits, farm
ing should be profitable in Texas.
But the same difficulties confront
alike the citizen of your great State
and all other States. We are to-day
confronted with serious problems
for solution. The correct solution
of these problems is of vital import
ance to all classes. It is not alone
the farmer who is interested in the
correct settlement of these ques-
TONS
He then proceeded at length to
argue that all legitimate interests in
this country were today suffering
by reason of lack of application OF
the principles of the Populist party.
"This party he said, twas organ.
lied to restore justice and equity
among all classes and industries"
Following this came an extended
argument to show that in reality no
differences existed between the ma
chine Democratic and Republican
parties in material respects, and
further that both were wholly dom
mated, or sought to be dominated,
by the money power. He charged
that to-day that an organized effort
was on foot and being carried to a
successful conclusion by adherents
of the gold standard to control the
next National Democratic conven-
ton. He charged that the men who
served corporate interests and at
the same time professed to be for
the free coinage of silver was liar
"The recent Democratic conven-
tion in my State" said he, "passed
resolutions and declared for ". J.
Bryan and free silver. daughter
That convention was controlled by
Clevelandites, Mckinley Democrats,
goldbugs and railway attorneys. The
gold element in the democratic
rarty controls the party in my State
to-day. That element is gaining the
control of the party the county
over, in pursuance of the deep laid
plans of the money power, and il
will dominate the next national
convention of the party. Why
right here in your own State, :it is
to-day in the hands of the goldbugs
and railway attorneys and other Ell
ements not in sympathy with the
great masses of the people. Why,
who is your nominee for Governor
in this State9 Joseph D. Sayers
What element dictated his nomina
tion7 Let us see."
! Here he read the following extrac
from tie speech delivered by Hon
M. M. Crane at Sherman upon th'
occasion Of his joint debate Will
Hon. R. NJ. Wynne, on may 13 last
1.-THE nomination of Sayers wouit
place the control Of the Democratic
party in Texas in the hands of tn
, men who fought the commission
the Hogg and Culberscn administra
> tions and the reform laws enacte,
under them, the free coinage of sill
yer and Bryan for President, an
,, many of whom supported McKinle,
for President"
Cheers greeted the reading of tn
extract:
i Continuing, the Senator said
"Now, my friends, your Attorne
General used that language and
was published in the Daily New
= three months ago. know thes
= publications. He was correctly re
: ported by the reporter or he woul
have denied it. He told the truth i
that speech. He knows who nom
mated the Democratic candidate fo
. Governor in Texas just as we'll as
: know who nominated their cand
dates in North Carolina. Do 20
!. believe that is the kind of man 20
= want for Governor of Texas7 (Crie
! of "No! No!'D That same cond
ton of affairs exists all over th
country, and that same element
dictate the Democratic nominee fe
Governor in Texas will dictate tn
. nominee Of the party for Preside1
:. in 1900" (Cheers)
. Next the sneaker presented h1s rem
q edy FOR the lewis of the times Mo
IS than an hour was spent in arguir
o the government ownership of tran
a. portation lines, the overthrow
4 trusts and reform in the transmi
sion of intelligence. He charged th
,e railway rates were twice as high
It Texas to-day as in North Carolin
( and that they were still too high
r. the latter state; that under existir