The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-04-17

ton at least may be in the nature OF
cooperation toward common end en-
stead of a surrender by either party OF
anything of its definite autonomy or
policies.
Then again suspicion, after the acer-
beties Of the past party rancor. natural
~ turks i'm the minds of some of those
now set against one another as Populist
and Democrat There should be an at
tempt ut least to arrive at Il basis
of action based upon good faith.
1t can he DONE il only in the analy-
sis of the question: the matter of
Polulist and Democrat he set
apart to itself and the other matter of
white government have it's separate
place in the judgment and will. Just
why mems asserting honestly such II
motive as this can be m:sjudged is Il
mysterious phase of the present com-
pick situation Just why men conscious
Of such high motive should care for un-
just suspicious of them based upon
their desire to see the white voters of
the State thus cooperating is another
troublesome element in the aftermath
of fact:onal party strife.
This much for the State. but n step
further and the action seems to get
more complex. namely in the arrange
mcnt for congressman. Without going
further. tt is enough to say that nine
silver Congressman. six Democrats ana
three Populists would better represent
this State than such Republicans as
Pearson. who stood up in Henderson
vile during the campaign leaving the
IMPRESSION that he was silver man
ell 1ov.
against the Teller resolution. If the
white people want representation in
Congress. this is the only way for them
to get it under the present status of
parties.
If there be objectors-what is their
| remedy? They reply that the State may
be carried in straight fight. and if il
cannot. the people will deserve the CON
sequences. The Democrats have stood ur
and been counted twice and it is Il
mere matter Of arithcmetic. If we get
| those 10000 votes of the Populists. we
will win: if we do not get enough of
then we will lose. And it is no more 10
be supposed that they will. in the alb
sence of ar agreement, desert their par
tv ticket now that they did Maj. Guthrie
in 1896. not as much As to the people 5
''tt'
is true, but it should be clear that the
people are doing the talking and not the
leaders. The populists and Democrats
should see to it that the delegates TO
Their conventions are not packed by tie
Southern Railway. through the machi-
nations of Nice-President Andrews.
This adroit enemy of the
peoples triumph will have men
there against whom no objection person
ally may be raised. They will be highly
respectable gentlemen. and they them
selves will not in some instances, know
that they are owned by the big corpora
ton. The adroitness of their moves is
going. TO be something most interesting
to witness at the proper time. unless the
people are faithful to their own best in
terests. in selecting plain. honest repre-
sentatives from among themselves, who
stand in favor of redeeming the State.
OF course Democrats cannot subscribe
TO the Populist platform though the
Populist in practice insists upon little
now that is not advocated by the Chica-
90 platform. Certainly the two parties
are together on silver and corporations.
and the white man question.
While this fractional splitting off from
the Democratic party in Southern States
has brought much distress in the way Of
making negro rule possible. and in other
States by making white rule uncertain.
the question should be looked at with
some sort of philosophic spirit. Before