The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1898-04-28

bonds, and to insert an income tax pro-
visions in the measure.
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LAS WE SEE IT."
Under the above heading there ap-
pears a leading editorial In the last is
sue Of the Progressive Farmer, which
it seems to us that any POpulist who
claims to be fair or truthful should be
heartily ashamed of. For sometime
the editorial writer of that paper has,
by indirection, been attacking The
CAUCASIAN and Senator Butler by more
or less covert insinuations. While
our attention has repeatedly been
called to such insinuations, intended
to appeal to prejudice aDd create false
impressions, we have paid no attention
to them, but have devoted our time
and energies toward battling for the
advancement of the Peoples Party
principles, and surely Senator Butler
has done as muchIto advance the prin-
ciples fthe Peoples party as has the
editor of the Progressive Farmer. But
at last, that the editorial writer
has seen fit to devote leading
editorial to direct attack upon
Senator Butler, which, however,
is filled with many inaccurate
statements and unworthy insinu-
atoms. We do not intend to reply at
length to this attack, for We have some
thing more important to do, but in or
der that our readers may know what
that attack is, and divine if they can
the motive behind it, we publish it in
full. 1t is. as follows:
"Chairmln Butler, through his per.
sonal organ and otherwise, is advO.
eating State and national cO-Opera-
tion With the Democrats. We are no,
at all surprised. In fact, this has been
plainly apparent since 1896. Doubt
less MIR. Butler was laying his "harboI
mines" when he and others delay led
the National POpulist Convention In
1896 in order to allow the Democrat:
to get on the ground first with cand.
iuotC ouu RIotlOi LIE 4Aouy 6OoA AhSA
were misled in that matter, but W.
hardly think Senator Butler was
caught mapping. At any rate, his pO'
liticAl course since has been such tina,
no one need longer doubt that h'
Dem0cratic camp and carry as manJ
as possible with him.
1--WE care but little about Chairman
i nd hos =
heartily in favor of liberty of though
apd speech, we must say that If h
thinks it best to 90 in some other pc
litical party, he should do SO. But b.
should 60 like q man and seek to CARY
his personal follows IN the same way
i"As we understand it the People
party is made up of men who believ
in certain cOmmendabfe reforms. Vi
to 1896 this movement grew rapid.
and bid fair to revOlutiOnize the polit
ical affairs OF this country. To side
track or impede the progress of such
party is almost criminal. Since tn
Spring of 1896 every step taken by Sen
ator Butler has ha0 tendency to de
moralize, to destroy the greatest Of al
modern reform organizations. Viii
the people longer submit to this de
structive policy? Are they willing t
be gobbled up by a party that mas bro
ken ten promises to one it has kept
We shall see.
1t seems to be the heighth of foil
to expect reforms from party that "
were forced to leave on account of it
iDsincerity, . party which has Tough
US at every point, that declined to Civ
US q single reform when it has had full
| do hat
tgreat number Of reformers have an
! ses are not willing to be traded ava
i. There is not . charge in the abov
that is not wholly false, and there
not an insipuation lie that is nc
unworthy of any true Populist. Tn
Progressive Farmer has had q larg
circulation among the Populists IN
Alliancemen Of the State, has ha
their confidence, and has deserved i
But the above editoriai is so out G
keeping with the past conduct of th
paper, and on q plane so low, that v
feel reasonably certain that it will nc
have the endorsement of one per cen
of its subscribers. In fact the Pre-
gressive Farmer has stopped to th
methods Of the partisan and unscrt
pulous old party monopoly press.
When the Peoples party cooperate
with the Republicans to secure fire
; ballot and fair count in 1894, the d.
mOcratic press charged that the pul
pose of all Populists who favored tb.
cooperation was to deliver the Pc.
Piles party into the hands of the Re-
. publican party, and that the so Gale
leaders were doing it for personal gal
: and profit. At that time no one w.
louder in branding the charges of th
Democratic press as baseIy false an
malicious than was the feditOr of tn
Progressive Farmer. 1t will be re
membered thst that paper was yer
istrong in its denunciation of the edi