The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-10-02
fOPULIST LEADERS REGULATE
SILVER.

There :: even more evidence That the
Republicans control the PQpulist county
conventions. This is notOEOusiy true ii.
Wake--so true that at the last conven-
ton a large number ofrthe delegates
bolted Il g cOnv, n j DECLARING that they
were not ready to. beoome Republicans.
Eand had not Joined the POpulist party TO
do the bidding of ,McISinleyS ple-eaters
and negro ward heelers. In the Wake
Pcpulist convention there were i've dee
gates. all Republicans, frOm Neusel River
township. There have never been hut
1.-TWO PopuliStS in that township! andthey
have. 10th quit it. {rlhs iS,iI sample Of
I'thp methods employed 10y Republicans to
have men nominated 10y the POphlists
who win do what Pritchard wants done
I'm Chalnham the dictat'6n by gbld4Dugs
was SO plain that 700 Popnlists openly
repudiated the fusion arranged, In
Caldwell county the Popufist county con
vention was held in. the post office where
McKmley's appointee ran the convention
TO suit his party. In Orange the, Pppu-
list nominee for, the Senate voted for
Mckinley. In twenty other counties.
after fusion had been arranged with
Republicans. there were a number of
Populists who openly bolted the conyen-
TONS and many others who retired in
disgust. The proceedings in Randolph
affords the best illustration or how com
pletely the PCpulist machine is dominated
by Republicans. and how it makes Fopu-
list conventions repudiate all that POpu-
lism has stood IGr. \ leading Randolph
Populist introduced this resolution in'his
county conventions:
Resolved. That we will support
no one for office, legislative, eXecu-
tive or judicial. who is not in favor
of the free and unlimited coinage of
silver mt the ratio of 16 to l..
That resolution. which always passed
unanimously in populst conventions
when Populists controlled them, was de-
feated by a-v0te of - to 6, whereupon
the Populists in the convention bOlted
and said that 'the party had been swal-
lowed by offce-Scekers." The leader of
that convention, who was a P0pulist
member Of the last Legislature and voted
for Pritchard. made Il speech in which
he declared:
Il am for cooperation. Free. silver
is RIGHT SMART HUMBUG-
gerry. / am sorry | voted for Bry-
an"
TO quote from more such men and to
tell of other such conventions would bur
weary You with repetitiOns. Is-there any
doubt in the mind of honest Populists
that in North Carolina Senator Pritchard
has installed Harry skinner as leader
and Republican Mckinley office-holderS
control most conventions? The evidence
here presented would be sufficient to es-
tablish these facts before any jury in
the world Has not the time come Of
Al -, a..
of February Is, 1896. when it said:
THE life and existence of the PeO-
pies party is based on principle.
ANY surrender of the prin-
ciples which gave it birth and which
has thus far sustained it would be
Il gross stultification-wOuld vitiate
the reasons for its existence and it
could do no better than to disband
and go back into the old parties
against whose dallying and trifling it
has rebelIed."
Come out from among them my peO-
pie. and be We separate"
As long ago as 1895 Populist leaders
had begun to repudiate the free silver
pledges of PopuliSt platforms. Thus the
following resolution was introduced in
the Legislature of 1898:
''Itesolved. by the Senate Of North
Carolina and the House of Represen
tatives concurring, That our Senators
and Representatives in Congress
from North Carolina be. andt they
are hereby. instructed to use all
laudable means and every honest ef-
for to secure the immediate enact
'ment of law for the free ana unlim-
tied coinage of silver ut the ratio of
Is to L.
The resolution was pigeon-holed on mos
ton Of Cook, Republican, of, Warren,
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