The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1898-09-15
STRONG PRESENTATION,

ton is made by Mr.. j. B. Young, OF
YoungsviIle, Franklin county, in an
| open letter, published in the Louis
burg Times. He left the Democratic
party six years ago and joined the
PopuIist party. He says his purpose
was pure and patriotic. He believed
the Populist party had the best
platform which any political party
| had ever promulgated. With this
condensation of Mr.. Young's intro
duction, we make the following ex
tracts from his letter and commend
them to the earnest consideration OF
every honest Populist:
For two years the Populist party
met nv views and fulfilled my high
est ideas. / saw the whole country
shaken, as by storm with the grow
ing strength of this young giant.
Both the old parties looked In alarm
at the increasing host of those who
arrayed themselves beneath our ban
ner. In the declared purposes OF our
growing army was the promise OF
sweeping reform.
Suddenly in North Carolina,
seemingly without cause, certainly
without excuse, | saw this party,
which boosted a purity unknown to
both the old parties. begin a system
of trading and traficking in political
honor and principle, more degraded
and more disgusting than has ever
before disgraced any political organ
ization in the world.
81 saw men protesting the same
principles which L held, and more
vehement in their utterance than |
| had ever been, vote for the gold bugs.
| and barter their party's honor away
with. no thought of anything save
the Die counter at which they were
being fed.
81 saw them deliberately abandon
their platform, disavow their prinoi-
pies, unite on equal terms with their
lie long enemies-the Republicans
and leave the few of us who value
our political integrity, without plat
form or party.
81 saw the Populist party taken
by it's leaders and delivered, like a
flock of sheep in the open market, to
the Republican organization; its
votes relied on to elect to Office the
same crowd of vandals and carpet
baggers that had looted the State in
1896, and an Infamous and corrupt
trade dignified by the name of SEQ
operation"
81 saw the Democratic party purge
itself of Cleveland, and, plank by
plank, adopt as their own almost
every demand of the Popuiist party
in it's first great charter, until the
Populist leaders boldly charged that
the Democrats had stolen their plat
form, and then saw the Populist
party deliberately walk off that plat
form and coolly put on the Republi-
can uniform.
"This fall another election will be
| held making four in which the Popu-
list party has participated since it's
birth. Again we are called upon to
violate and belle every solemn decla-
| ration of cur platform, and to fuse
with and vote for gold-bug Republi-
cans and incompetent negroes. This
in which we have been sold out, ira
| ded away and trafficke1 for like
| chattels, 10 which we have been asked
| to vote for men whose lives and pc.
| litical principles are fat contradic-
ton to every line of our platform.
81 know not how it may be with
the other voters in Franklin county,
| but as for me / have made up my
mind that no man with an atom Of
| self respect, no man who is honest
| with himself and who votes from
| principle and patriotism, can follow
| these treacherous leaders any longer
81 have left the ?opulist party, ex
/ actly as / Joined it, for the sake o.
principle. | sclemnly appeal to al
good, honest white men; to all the
men who love their homes and their
| country, and to whom their wives
and sisters are dear; to all who desire
to rebuke traitors and political ad
ventures, to abandon it as I did
| For a Southern white man the Dem
ocratic narty is the great, the only
| party now. 1t holds within it the
only possibility of relief from the
| diegraeeful conditions that now make
the name of our State a reproact
and a by-word. To those who fol
owed me out of the rarity In 1892
and voted for me, l have only 6
sense of deep gratitude, and for theil
sakes now appeal to them to follow
me Lack into the party that we left
1t promises most for our country, il
promises all for our manhoodl'
THE Union Republican of last weeE
contained bitter and dirty and I'M
called for filings at The SENTINEL
one of them, particularly, being
| susehptihlp of fha construction ~