The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-03-16
"p1oUg' Pops TONIGHT.
The Conference Tonight to be Held a
Capitol.

The Conference Tonight to be Held at
Capitol.
The Populist conference meets heEe
this evening at 5 O'clock.
1t WAS Thought last night that it
would be held in the Senate chamber,
though the place has not yet been deh-
nttely decided upon.
AIS yet only a few of the leaders
have arrived. They are expected to-day,
though, in focks and droves. Senator
Butler among the number.
Among those who came III yesterday
afternoon were b. +. Scarborough, of
! Lenoir; DIR. j. e. Person. of Wayne; G..
G.. NIcCleland, of Cumberland; Henry
T.. King, of Cumberland; Capt. A. 5.
Peace. of Granville; DIR. A. j. Daily, or
Granville: r. S. Clark, of Wilson; MIR.
| Yount, of Lincoln, and X. w. Daily, Of
Granville.
just what they VIII do cannot be
foretold. The truth is they do not know
themselves. 1t is evident, though, that
| they have come to do something. What
that something is nobody knows.
| The best opinion, though, IS that they
| will try TO put the Democrats at a dis
advantage before the people by making
such a proposition for cooperation as
they know they cannot and will not ac-
eept
A Republican politician who has Off
| ciated prominently in two fusion move
ments, said yesterday, in answer to the
| uuestion what he thought the Populst
| conference would do:
MAKE such proposition to the Dem
| ocrats for cooperation that the Demo-
| cratic party cannot and will not accept.
| That will put the Democrats in II hole
and make Republican and POpulist fu-
| sion easy to carry out again. That is
what the conference was called for, and
you will see that l am right"
| DR.. Mott, however, seems to have more
confidence in the POpulist crowd. He
| thinks they will make a fair, candid pro-
! position to the Democrats. Discussing
| the matter last night, he said:
| "Since the speech of the President in
! New York and that of Secretary Gage
in Philadelphia, and the Republican vote
on the Teller resolution, all following
| the failure of the WOlcott commission,
| the Republican party is committed to the
gold standard. 1t is now the gold party.
THE Republicans in North Carolina
are all silver men. They are too poor
to be anything else. They stayed with
the Republican, party dn the last Presi-
dental contest, because the leaders told
them that free silver would come through
| international agreement. The rank and
file are now ready to vote the ticket that
gives an honest show for free coinage.
''The national addresses of Chairman
Jones. Of the Democratic party, Chair
man Butler, of the Populist party, and
Chairman Towne, of the Silver Republi-
| can party, show a plan at once honest,
plain, and practical.
IF the silver Democrats in this State
will act in accord with this plan, the
| Populists are obliged to coincide with
them, for being silver men there is no
alternative There may be individual
| DIRECTORS, but cent cotton and poverty
| will settle the matter In such an event
the silver Republicans will Immediately
| organize an the State under Chairman
F0wne and Governor Russell. This will
| give the triple alliance in the State, as
| already outlined and officially recon-
mended in the nation.
"The victory will be won as soon us
| the tickets in the counties are framed
under this plan.
Under the plan, there will be nine sill
| from this State.
IF the silver Democrats who are in
an immense majority in that party, side
track the money question now that the
people are thinking of nothing else, and
| refuse to cooperate with the silver men
of the other parties, whose help they
must have to succeed, the people will
surely mold them responsible.
In the event that they do refuse to
cooperate, then the Republican Govern
or Of the State, who is the natural lead
er of the party in the State while he
holds that office, must be looked to for
| an alliance that will keep the money
question supreme. He has got the CON
fidence Of many silver Democrats. who
have believed in the sincerity of his rail-
road fight, and this confidence as it will
he seen in the near future will not have
been misplaced. The Populists should
insist as the terms of fusion in the coun-
ties and Congressional districts, that
the Republicans send delegations to the
State Republican Convention who will
endorse the reduction of railroad fares
ana put silver plank in the Republican
State platform.
hey must insist on this TO have
winning ticket. 1t will win becansa II
VIII not have side-tracked the money
done" WIZ nave