The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1898-10-27
SENATOR BUTLER'S
SPEECH AT CLINTON,
A Magnificent Rally OF the PopuIists of
Sampson.
POLITICAL HISTORY.

Senator Butler speaks to = Large and En-
thusiastic Audienee-Hs Advocates the
Principles of the Peoples Party-shows
That the Fight Of the Present Csmpa'gn
by the Democrats IL to XIII the People.
Party In Order To get IL out of the way
as the Most Powerful Fac'or In Grrat
Reform Movement-Thntt tho way To Sc
ours Free silver and other Reforms of
the Chicago and Peoples Party Plat
forms is TO X III the Influence of the Men
Controlling the Democra Ic Pa,ty.
CLINTON, n. c., Oct. %, 1898.
Senator Butler spoke here to-day
to one Of the biggest crowds ever as
sembled at any political meeting il
sampson county. The court hous
square was crowded with the bes'
and most substantial element Of tn.
county, and the welcome extended to
the speaker was certainly very fiat
tering one. The programme as first
arranged was for the speaking to
take place in the couvt house, but
the crowd was so much too large for
the court house to accom- m odate, that
Notwithstanding the day was cold
and windy, Senator Butler had to
speak in the open.
The Introductory speech was made
by Hon. II. M. Crumpler, one of
SIMPSONS representatives in the last
legislature and who, on account of
his splendid record on the side of the
people, will be sent again by the
people of Sampson to represent them
in the next.
Senator Butler spoke for over three
hours and half, nearly four hours
and during the entire time held the
delighted and undivided attention of
every man in the large audience.
The entire meeting was q vote win
ner for Populism, and struck terror
to the few Democrats present (there
are very few of them in all of Samp-
son), who, like their brother Demo-
Gratis in other counties had been in
dulging in the vain imagining that
Populists were returning to the Dem
ocratic party. Sampson will this
year roll up bigger maj ority for the
Populist ticket than it has ever cast
before.
Your correspondent was present
and complete stenographic report
of the speech was taken, but an ac-
count of it's length it is impossible tc
publish only partial report, which
of course, cannot do the speech JUS
tice. Over two hours ard half
we're consumed in discussing the re-
form issues, and then apologizlpg tC
the audience for having to descend
to the low plane of campaign whict
the Democratic speakers and press
are making he began to show the by
pocrisy of the Democratic negro
campaign. He laid down two prop
ositions, which he proved by politi
cal history of the two campaigns
LIST. That the men controlling tn,
policy of the DEM cratic party to
day were not against gold and mo
nopoly in 1896, and are against it now
I'd. That they are not afraid of negr'
domination when they refused to &C
cept the offer of the Populist Part.
to aid in winning victory for fre
silver and other reforms, and tha
they are not afraid of it now. Ii
proving this he addressed himself t
the honest free silver Democrats
Addressing himself to the Populist
he declared that one of the chic
aims of the Democratic party in max
ing the kind of campaign it is thi
year was to destroy the Pee
pies Party. That the Peoples Part
forced the old Cleveland leaders i
order to hold their honest rank an
die in the Democratic party to acceI
the Peoples Party doctrine of FIRE
silver in 1896, which in previous can
paigns they had ridiculed. Ths
these same Democratic leaders kne
that while the Peoples Party live
they would have to continue to advt
gate these reforms or lose control {
the party votes. Hence their desll
to sidetrack these reforms which al
more essential in 1898 than the
were in 1896 in order to hide the
own hypocrisy, and, if possible,
TO kill the Peoples Party, which
the only obstacle In the way of IL
eonsummation of their real purpos
The following is a synopsis Of IL
speech:
senator Butler began by thankir
Mr: Crumpler for the kind and fla
terlng introduction, aud the and
ence for the hearty and enthusia ST
greeting which they gave him.
referred to the fact that they b,
known him not only through b
Puolic career but from his boyho
Gays up through his school and m
hood days as an individual, the,
.ore ne was no stranger to them a.
tney were no strangers to him; u
were they strangers to the doctrin
ana principles he would discuss,
ne came to them today to preach
neW doctrine, but to denounce t
same evils, to discuss the same 4,
.orm measures, and to advocate I
90 same principles that he had presel
~ 10 them in the first public spec
snat ne ever made in the cour