The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-09-25
OPPOSED TO M'KINLEYISM
WANTS THE SUPPORT OF ALL
WHO STAND BY WILLIAM
JENNINGS BRYAN.
OBJECTS TO DlcTATIoN BY GOLD BUGS
Mr. Atwater Says that the Silver PopuIists will
Hold Great Mass Meeting at Piusboro
on Tuesday.


Mr. John w. Atwater, the first Popu
list elected to office in North Carolina
was in Raleigh yesterday.
When the Democratic party nominated
Mr.. Cleveland, among the men who
walked out of the party Mr. Atwater
was in the first column, and he has been
fighter in the Populist party ever since.
Before he left the Democratic party he
was an earnest advocate for silver and
he has been for the white metal all the
time he has been a Populist.
When the Republicans declared In their
recent State convention for the gold
standard, Mr.. Atwater told his people
that he quit the Democratic party be-
cause Cleveland was for gold, and that
he would have nothing to do with the
Republican party, no matter II 1t dld
promise offices. And so, when the Pitts
boro court house ring arranged fusion
with the Republican gold-bugs last week,
Mr.. Atwater and fifty more Populist dele
gates protested against this converting
the Populist party into Republican
gold-bug party, and fought the ring Wig
orously. 1t was a dramatic scene when
he and fifty other delegates, followed by
many more Populists, walked out of the
county convention, and held meeting
and issued a call for a mass-meeting of
straight Populists. The news from
Chatham is that this action is endorsed
by the great majority of the Populist
party in that county who have made up
their minds, ''sink or swim, live or die,
survive or perish they viii not have any
part or lot with the Republican party
or with any so-called Populists like Jen-
kins who have delivered the party ma
chine into the hands of the Republicans.
The mass-meeting of Popuifsts Is callen
for Tuesday and Mr.. Atwater says that
Pittsboro will be crowded on that day.
1.-THE people are aroused" he said yes
terday, "and will fight the gold standard
to the DEATH"
Mr.. Atwater announced himself as n
candidate for Congress in the following
card:
A CARD.
There being great clamor by the rank
and file of the Peoples Party for can
didate for Congress, representing true
Populist principles, without the faint OF
McKinleysm and the dictation of the
Administration Gold-Bugs, and having
been solicited by letter and in person.
from every part of the District to become
n candidate. therefore, | deem it duty.
in consideration of the short time until
the election, TO declare myself a candi-
date for the T'ifty-Fifth Congress in the
Fourth District on the principles enun-
ciated in the st. Louis platform and as
advocated by our great National cham
pion, William j. Bryan. and | earnestly
ask the hearty support of those who
favor these principles to-wit: Those who
are opposed to the present financial sys-
TEN of our government. who are in favor
of the free coinage of both gold and silver
mt the ratio of IL to /, who favor a furth-
er increase of our legal tender currency
without Intervention of banking corpora
tions; who favor a graduated income tax:
who oppose railroad consolida ton and
who favor the freedom and sanctity Of
the ballot.
J. w. ATWATER.
September a 1898.
II will be glad if you viii ask in your
paper every Populist. Democratic and
Independent paper in the district to print
my announcement"
Mr.. Atwater returned to Chatham yes
sterday afternoon, after having had a
conference with many Of the Wake coun-
ty Middle of the Road Populists.