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


The Democratic party ran its campaign
IN this State or State issues. and STATE
I.su-, alone, except what il said abuut
the iariif aud the Force Bill Demo
cratic speakers said on every stump
I hat I'VE can get along under any sort
G United States government. provided
We can have a good Stste govern.
ment.' They were nightly afraid Of
the "nIgKef. In 1896 they burnt up
their history OF the iegi-latu re of Ise5.
They did not cry "n,xxer" at all. out
they said "silvsr! silver. silver" and
on every breeze and every Iip il was
silver from every Democratic tongue
They ran that campaign on National
issues. Why don't they do II again
Silver is just as urgent an issue now
rs il was then, certainly SO far as Con-
gressmen are concerned. No, they 20
back to their old cry and say "the
white metal and the white man. but
they don't say much about the whit.
metal. You can pick up Democratic |
papers aud there is nothing about sill
v-r or " illiam J. Bryan in them. They |
have lett it Off, and 1t is just '.nigger!
Niger! nigger.' forevermore. That
i. all the politics the Democratic party
has in the State now; it Is all they had
prior to 1896, and they they took silver
up then because they saw the rank and
file OF their party would leave them
aud come to the Peoples Party if they
did otherwise. Is there a prominent
Democrat here who does not believe
that? Why, he knows | am telling the
living truth; they all know | am tell
ing the truth.
Let's look at it little bit furt her.
was in the Democratic State Con-
speakers ] heard there was Capt. w.
II. kitchen-Buck Kitchen. Buck got
up and he began to speak, and some
fellow said: "Say what you want and
you can have it," | reckon that was
pleasing to Buck. Buck did not say
what he wanted, but Buck wanted
something. He has not got a thing
[ say he wanted something because h..
, never left Cleveland and the Demo-
Gratis and came to us until he did not
get the job that he wanted from Gro
: yer Cleveland: and when he came to
Us we knew we had to put him IN q
good strong place. We tried to make
him superintendent of the peniten-
/, tiary, knowing tnat if we put him in
the penitentiary we could him. Mr..
Leazer would not let him have it and
, stood him out in the rain. and the De-
I mOcrats called him "Rain-in-the-
Face; and seeing that there was NO
strong box for him in the POpulist
= and Republican cooperation, Buck
began to csss, and went back to the
Democratic party: and what do you
think he said? He stood on the plat
|. form of the Democratic Convention
:, and said; IL left the Democratic party
because of its gold and monopoly ten.
- do hoA
[ left it, what it is now, regenerated,
would have stayed in it. Now tina,
: you are regenerated [ come back te
YOU" A fellow said: Name VIVA,
YOU want" | am gong to make .
statement, declaration, right here
r If the Democratic party is regenerat
ed; if 1t is now what it ought to have
been in 1892; if it is now such that il
it had been the same in 1892 you woule
l. not have left it, then you ought t
), break your necks going back into thu
Democratic party, for there would 3,
- use for the Peoples Party. Blu
: has 1t changed? The same leadershl,
J. that controlled and dominated tn,
party in 1892 controls it today. 1t il
/ not regenerated today and Buck KIT
n chen and every other sensible maj
knows it is not regenerated. Was i
regerated in 1896 and fell from grace
d No, if it had been once in grace i
= would have been always in grace. L
was not regenerated, and the grand
est piece of political hypocrisy eve
perpetrated before the people was tn
It canvass of the leaders of the Demo
~ cratic party in behalf of free silve
8 and WI. Bryan in 1896. We shove,
st their hypocrisy when they refused gu
Is proposition for cooperation. W.
:. proved it after that. Somebody Nigh
Is rise up and say: "Ob, the Democrat
h Convention was a white shirt brigad
controlled by railroad lawyers, but j
is not so in the counties and districts,
Let US see. In the third COngressiona
j. District the Popullsts renominate
~ John E.FOwler for Congress. What wa
- there in his record as representatiy
a. that any Democrat who honestly be
" lieves in what the party advocated il
. 1896, that that Democrat could nc
d stand up to and endorse? Was Their
N anything3 Not thing. One of tn
g most prominent Democrats in tn
- Third Congressional District, not no,
in politics, said to me in Raleigh: g
hope our friends the Democrats vii
q have sense enough not to put up can
u" didate against John f. Fowler. bu
20 will go and endorse him." l said
j. "Yes, my dear sir. if they were SINGER
!. they would endorse him." Did they d
it? They did not do it. Why? They Wer
al insincere, and wanted their ow
man. They wanted the office them
selves, and If they could not get II
then they wanted the Republicans i
s. have it. The same warfare that the
made against POpulist in 1899, whe
y they set out to make POpulism odiou
0, in North Carolina, is the warfare tia
ar they under secret form, urge nov
Well, we gave them another test. Tb
POpulists nominated Morrison e
Caldwell in the Seventh District, tn
man who was on the committee Whic
offered the proposition to the Demo
cratic party to cooperate on lines {
ne principle. But did the Democrats en-
at dorse Caldwell, a man of ability,
:h man OF honor, man of integrit!
n. commanding the respect of all men
Va No, they did not do that. They m,
= about ten days after that and stuck u
~ Mr.. Kluttz, who may or may not b
a sincere in his silver views, but il he i
~ sincere he is no more SO than M
m Caldwell. Why did the Democrat
r. party put Mr.. kluttz in Mr.. Gallo
be Welps way, If they wanted a silve
Congressman? Why not come an
. take ours. Because if they cannt
y rule, they want to ruin.
Us Now | am going to make a predi,
q, ton. Over here in the second distric
RS George ii. White, a colored man.
is the Congressman. The Populists q,
d. long ago met and nominated Mr.. ia
a B. Iloy d, and old time Popnlist, fl
"A Congress. Immediately after his non
= ination was made, the News and OF
n server, In the City Of Raleigh, a Den
ocra6ic paper, came out and said tn,
the Popuiists had nominated Lloyd ,
the second district Just to elect Whit
the negro. Did they have anv cand
date up at the time? Have thew o,
oe up any candidate now? No: if the
~ DO not want to elect George Ii. Whit
as what can they do? They do not donI