The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1898-04-28

vent such cooperation SO as TO defeat
any legislation for financial reform or
against monopoly. Surely the Pro-
gressive Farmer has not joined the
Charlotte Observer in its efforts to
prevent such cooperation.
Al ALsEHOOD AND ITS PURPOSE.
As it is well known the Charlotte
Observer is exertIng every effort, both
fair and foul, to prevent cooperation
OF those who pulled together to pre-
vent Mckinley and Hanna from
capturing North Carolina and to carry
it for Bryan in the las: campaign. 1t
is we'll known that the Charlotte OBJ
server opposed the cooperation which
alone saved the State for Bryan in
1896 and while protesting to support
the ticket, sneakingly did everything
in its power to defeat Bryan and de-
liver the State over to Hanna and
Mckinley. 1t Is we'll known that the
Charlotte Observer is q gold and mo-
nopoly organ. 1t is well known that
that paper is to-day using all of its
efforts to carry out the recent instruct
ions of Cleveland to his followers to
the effect that they should exert every
effort and pursue any method which
would defeat the silver and anti-mo-
nopoly forces and secure the triumph
of the gold ring and the allied trusts
and monOpolies.
Recently Mr.. Bryan il public
letter appealed to the honest free
silver and antI-monopoly Democrats
everywhere to join in a cooperation
with the POpulist and silver Republi-
cans on any honorable terms to over
throw the gold and monopoly ring
The masses of the Democratic party in
North Carolina are rallying to the
suggestion and appeal of Mr.. Bryan
and it now looks as if the Democratic
State convention will be controlled by
Mr.. Bryan's friends instead of his
enemies.
This has greatly alarmed the editor
of the Charlotte Observer and all OF
the other gold and monopoly organs
and agents. The editor of the Oh
server is SO alarmed that he is now
making last desperate effort to pre-.
vent such cooperation. He is not
only appealing to prejudice, hut has
gone to the extreme length of Gown.
right falsehood.
Speaking of the silver and anti-mo-
nopoly Democrats who are standing
by Mr.. Bryan and favoring a cooper.
alton, he says:
These men close their eyes to the
fact that Butler and his gang two
years ago led the Democratic party tC
make advances to Populism and ther
when the Democrats got down finally
on their knee, to him and Of
fered him fusion, he spit in their faces
while they were in this humiliatina
position and told them to begone that
he could make better trade than they
offered with the Republican party
which he did. The fact that The Dem.
Ocrats had so Inundated themselves
and their party, shut their mouths
during the following campaign, to the
real issue that the fight should have
been made on-the incompetency and
rOttenness of fusion government: fol
had not Democracy herself offered tt
fuse? 1t is patelt to all that Butler is
up to the same sort of game again, ant
he is perhaps working Mr.. Bryan thls
time to accomplish his ends.
: There is not an Intelligent, we'll in
formed man in the State who does no
know that the above is absolutely false
The editor of the Observer ought t,
know it is false because he is a membe
of the Democratic State Executive
Committee, though he would be muc1
more in place as member of the Re
publican State Executive Committee
Every member of the Democratic Eek
, ecutive~ Committee, from Chairman
Manly down, knows that the People
party not only agreed to cooperate t
. carry the State for Bryan, but by writ
) ten proposition or memoranda propos
: ed a fair and honorable cooperation t
the Democrats from top to bottom, s
! that the supporters of Bryan, Nigh
: not only deliver the electoral vote O
D the State for silver and against me
. nopoly, but might elect an anti me
nopoly legislature, a silver and anti
? monopoly. Senator, nine silver Con
e gressmen and so on through the entir
; list. This proposition was made b
. the Peoples Party State Executiv
| Committee to the Democratic Stat
Executive Committee, both in session
in Raleigh on the same day, and on
, day before the Peoples party Stat
Convention met. The proposition wa
q made by the Peoples Party State Com
. mittee on that day so that 1T coul
: be officially endorsed and rati
. fed by the Peoples Party Stat
. Convention while in session. Ths
4 such a proposition was ma de by tn
A Populists, that it Was necessarily, IN
!. der the circumstances, made in goo
+ faith, that the Peoples Party Stat
. convention was ready to ratify it, bu
q that the Democratic State cOmmitte
4 refused it, isknown to every membe
; of the Democratic State committee an
!. to the public generally.
We do not refer to these things /.
: this time to call up unpleasant histor
or to lecture the Democratic part,
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