The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-08-19

The taxpayers have paid the bills. The
tax-eaters cry for more" The tax
payers say "Stop. You promised to
/ reduce salaries, fees and all expenses
When are you going to begin to re-
trench? In the face of such uncomfort-
able questions, the pie-eatcrs have lcok-
ed to Harry Skinner as their Moses 10
lead them into larger lands of plen-
ty. Harry suits them to II st." lie
wants Il salary of $1,000 Il year, a seat
in Congress. and the perquisites. 1t
makes no difference how he gets it. He
will advocate gold, silver, copper, pewter,
or any old thing for $1,000 Il year. Eel
lows who want pie at any sacrifice find
him an ideal leader.
But-thc country people have long
memories.
They do not forget. They recall the
expulsion of Harry Skinner and his 10
tools who supported Pritchard. They re-
member the resolutions of expulsion.
They attended Indignation meetings
They boasted: Democrats permit
their traitors to remain in the party. We
kick ours out in disgrace" The honest
ones felt that the expulsion of Skinner
cleared their party of traitor. When
called to conduct the campaign, they will
ask: HAS he repcnted, and has he
brought forth fruits meet for repent
ance?' When they are answered that,
instead of SINNERS repenting, he has
gloried in his shame and their Executive
Committee has gone over with him into
the arms of Mark Hanna-when this
fact is known to the honest Populists
as it will be known. the leaders will
wake up to the realization of the truth
that there are many of their followers
who will repudiate such dishonest and
disgraceful leadership ana refuse TO
countenance it.
The country people have long memo.
ries. For twenty years the Southern
Democrats promised free coinage.
Cleveland promised it in his letter of &C
ceptance. The Southern Congrcssemen,
with very few exceptions, were true to
their promises. Cleveland's reputation
of the party pledge and his own promises
outraged thousands of those country men
with long memories. They walked out
of the Democratic party because of the
party's failure to keep its PROMISE
faithful. In 1896 when the party re-
pudiated Cleveland and Clcyclandism,
$1,000 of these men walked back INTO the
Democratic party on the Chicago plat
form. And they are back to stay.
The country people have long memo.
ries. They remember the promises which
the leaders of the new party made to
them i'll the campaigns. Go into the
humblest home in the remotest corner of
the State. sit down ON the porch with
an old farmer, and he Will recount with
what the pie-eaters would now call
''damnable iteration" the pledges of re-
form which the candidates made. These
toil-w0rn, economical, Woodworking
60, ho Il ,,.I fl,,
protective tariff have forced to Il grinding
economy and narrow life are not being
heard from in the IDEALS" They are
quietly at home, working hard to pay
the increased taxes, and whetting their
knives for the day when they can
avenge the receptions practised upon
unmindful of the volcano upon which
they are treading, the pie-eaters call a
gold traitor and monopoly tool to the
head of the party, shamelessly repudiate
Ill their professions, and brazenly ask
the white Populists to ratify their dis
honorable and disgraceful dickers and
deals. They actually think the rank and
Gle as tickle and dishonest as they are,
and appeal to them ''to beat the Demo
Gratis one more time" They will wake
up on the morning after the election TO
lind that, though they have bowed the
knee to Baal and consented to the dis
grace and humiliation of their State for
4,
believed in them in 1892, 1891 and 1896,
who have seen that they have sold out
their party for more than thirty pieces
Of silver, and who will vote for the party
Of 1.-The white man and the white metal"
The country people have long mem
cries.
Referring to Governor Russell, the