The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-09-20
kitchin at GiddensVllle.
~(SamWpsOn DemOcrat.)

'ItdCiIS me- CCplCIioCI :.
Captain Buck Kitchin spoke here
Saturday to an audience of about 200.
Fowler, the pOpulist candidate for on
gress in this district, also la an APP
pointment but following along with the
resolutions of the republican executive
committee would not divide time with
Kitchin. He knew we'll that Kitchin
had been behind the scenes in the
populist camp, and had left this pie
hunting gang because of their faith
lessness to their principles and their
teachings.
Kitchin made a strong, fOrcible I'M
ansWerable speech, charging and prov
ing:
LIST. That the democratic party was
today the silver party of America, in
hat it was bold enOug in it's arrest
ness for silver to drive the gOldbugS
and money changers from it's ranks at
Chicago in 1896, and selected such can
didates and platform that even the
| populists would and did endorse, and
therefore today should receive the sup
port of every silver white man in
North Carolina.
End. That the proposition of fusion
offered by the pOuplists at Raleigh was
a proposition for 145, 900 good white men
| 10 SURRENDER W O1,UUU pOp-luSlO1llS IS
upon conditions, not of silver, but of
pie for the f%usionists and therefore no
S~elf-reSpecting democrat could accept
it and was only offered by the pops to
| give them excuse for re~publican-pOp-
amalgamation which was now rapidly
taking place, in that Butler had been
driven from the head Of the populist
party in North Carolina by Pritchard,
Thompson, Aver, Skinner & Co., who
L arc now Joint nUnnrc Of tho nnnr1icf
party; that the Butler populists were
being slaughtered eac day and Pritch-
ard populists taking their places as
seen in the downfall of Martin, Shu-
ford and Stroud, O to be seen with
Fowler, who with Butler, were the last
two remnants Of populism in North
Carolina and must go down before the
combined forces of Cy. Thompson,
Pritchard and kline
CFowler was present and WINGED un-
der this, for he is looking for such to
take place at any minute as Abe Mid
dletOn has declared against him IN ac-
count of his failure to support Pritchard
two years ago.
3rd. That such absorption of popu-
lists by republicans was so quick and
sure that the populist party had in
four years dropped from 84,G 600 to $1,000
in 1896 and could not command a cor
pOrals guard now.
Therefore, he argued that there were
but two parties, democratic and repub-
lican, or white and black, and he made
a strong appeal to his hearers to stand
like white men together for the glory
of North Carolina and the honor of
themselves, their wives and children
but if m WOuld go aStray and leave
their fathers teachings to await until
they We're ready to 60. till their hair
1yir1yAI tIa;r -@~0- Al~:. ~1
or changed and the hollow of their
feet made a hole in the ground, as God
had made white and cOlOred men diff
ferent and intended them for different
spheres, and he warned them not to
even fuse politically lest they upset
this Divine plan.
He denounced DR.. Cy. Thompson as
an Infamous liar, for Thompson's
charges against him in his Clinton
speech.
He plead with Fowler to follow the
dictates of his own conscience, which
would lead him back where his father
and mother had raised him, howeve
enticing office might o appear, and
warned him of the scalpers in his own
party who were now bounding him
| down.
| He established all his charges
again fusion by such witnesses as The
Caucasian of '97-Butler an Hal Aver
its editors-the Progressive Farmer and
letters Of hundreds of returned and re-
turning prodigals who had fused for
the last time.
Kitchin left a telling and lasting i'm
preston upon those who heard him.
Mr.. Fowler was unable to meet the
| charges. which We're subStantiated by
Fowler'S witnesses. and the burden of
his speech was a denunciation of Kitch
in, whom four years ago in Clinton,
| he had declared to be one of the most
honest. foremost silver men of North
Carolina. Though Fowler had refused
kitchin an opportunity to answer his
| speech, yet he repeatedly regretted
Kitchin's absence. while he continued
to abuse him in his absence. and wound
up with the usual populist song of
goldbug democracy in North Carolina.
Many ~populists in Sampson. on see
ing the error of their way. admit that
they have been fooled into populism
n are returning home.
If Buck Kitchin could stump the
county Sampson would soon fall into
line.