The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1898-04-14

what til. Brilliant Editor Of the >~~ Time
says tbou, the Vain Tone.it and Peculiar
Antir. 81 the ''N.w Born In the People,
Party Ranks"
Hon. Il. .. Flower, for long time
editor of the Arena, and now editor of
"The New Time, Chicago, in an edito-
rial article riducules the peculiar an
tics Of Mr.. Wharton Barker in the
following manner
The eastern papers are having q
good deal Of fun at the expense Of our
good friend Wharton Barker, who,
though | believe he is the latest born
among the converts Of the Peoples
party, is said to be most tenderLy nurs-
ing Peoples party presidential boom,
thanks to his good friend the professor
| from Maine. Mr.. Barker, its SCENE,
has so recently severed himself from
the party Of Messrs. Hanna, Plat, and
| Quay, that it Gems the old Republican
haunts still have q strange fascination
for him. When recently seeking to set
the now Republican New York Sun
right from his point OF view on Peoples
party matters, Mr.. Barker sought the
famous headquarters OF the Republi-
cans of Philadelphia from which to
write his epistle. The fact that the
latest born Of sons OF the Peoples party
intimates chat the National ChairmaD
Butler does not represent the rank and
file OF the Peoples rarty, because q
faction Of the party met short time
since in st. Louis and took it upon
themselves to pass on the orthodoxy
OF the membership Of the party, natu-
rally is amusing, especially when such
q char ge from such recent convert
comes from such citadel of Republi-
canism as the rooms of the Union
League Club, of Philadelphia. The
New York journal Of the 2lst thus
noticed the affair under the head of.
"New Middle Of the Road Headquarters
"a letter to our contemporary, the
Sun, conveys the interesting tidingt
that the headquarters of the midjle-O1
the-rOad POpulism has been shifted
from the domain of Tom Watson tt
that venerable Republican and pluto.
cratic institution, the .Philadelphi.
Union League We quote:
, "'TO the editor of the Sun-Sir: IL
the Sun Of yesterday | read your edi
torial on the joint action of Chairman
Jones, Butler and TOwne.
"'If you know OF the action of tn
Peoples party Organization Commit
mittee at st. Louis on January II AM
IL, you know that Senator Butler doe
9 not fairly represent the rank and al
S OF the Peoples party. Union unde
. Democratic banners is impossible.
y "'WHARTON BARKER.
I CT Mon League, Philadelphia, Eel
1879
"The Union League, of Philadelphia
is as good club as that not very club
:. able town affords. Its cocktails ar
r stimulating for the epistOlary energiel
d Its terrapin and burgundy are enOug
: to set any soaring intellect dreamiD
of happy days of q POpulist president
% Its Republication is undoubted, and
is an entirely fit place for Mr.. Whar
ton Barker, who has been Dem0cra
II only when national nominees were t
Q be selected, to launch his declaration
Of party policy from.
d "But we think the Sun was indiscree
}. IN not suppressing the date line of M
d Barker's letter. 1t may discOncert sin
a cere POpulists in the South and Wet
to find their Eastern headquarters i
millionaire Republican club"
We would counsel brother Barker
fight shy of the "Union League Club
il he intends to cast reflections up0
y such men as Senator Butler, who hav
bravely fought the battles Of the part
"a during its darkest hours, and who's
record in the Senate is highly cred
table to his party, his State and natio
| ~ Ev