The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1898-05-05
BUTLER REPLIES
TO JONES.
County Commissioner joiner, Of
Pender, Writes Asking Ger
tain Questions.
SENATOR BUFFERS FULL
AND FRANK REPLY.

WHY Those Who Oppose the Domination |
of Gold Monopoly should Cooperate.
II Democratic Leaders Are Insincere,
III. way TO Test Their ~incerity-The
Mas~e. Of All Parties Are Patriotic
They Make Up "A Majority Of the Voters.
Til. Way to Get Them Together and
Defeat Monopoly and Restore Good
Government.
The following is a letter written
by National Chairman Butler to
Mr.. Jones, a prominent Populist and
OF Pender county:
WASHINGTON, April -, 1898.
Mr.. GRO. II. JONES,
Rocky Point. y. C..
Ny DEAR SIR. Your esteemed
favor received and ca nially con-
sidered. agree with you mnch
that you say, and were 1t not that
most evil and dangerous influences
were controlling our government
and producing hard times in the
midst of plenty, it might be proper
for us to be Influenced by the senti-
ments you express.
But i'm times like these, when
the welfare of seventy millions Of
people, including our own wives
and children, is at stake, our judg-
ment and conscience alike call upon
US to meet the situation from the
highest plane Of patriotic duty.
You say that you endorse and
that every patriotic man should
endorse the sentiments Of the recent
address issued by the twenty-five
POpulist congressman and Sena-
tors, appealing for cooperation OF
all who are opposed to the rule and
domination of the gold ring and the
allied trusts and mOnOpolies but
you say it will not work in practice
because n large number, if not a
majority, of the leaders of the
Democratic party are not sincerely
for the principles of Jefferson and
Bryan.
| Now this may be so and it may
not be so, but, for arguments sake
let us admit that it is so; let us
admit that there is large number
of Democratic leaders and Demo-
cratic newspapers who are more in
sympathy with Cleveland and his
policies than with Bryan and hi:
principles; let US even admit that
this class makes up majority Of
| thn Annlnnrofio ord hf
| Democratic State Committee; but
do these men and these newspaper:
represent the sentiment of tho
great rank and file of the Demo
cratic party: We know that there
were from fifty to a hundred thou
sand Democrats in the State wht
were on thu eve of leaving thu
Democratic party when the Demo
cratic national convention con.
vened in 1896. They would hav,
left if Cleveland had been nomi
mated or il any straddlebug hat
been nominated. These men wer
then about to take the patriot
course that you and l took in 1S9:
They are no less patriotic now tha
they were then. These voters il
this State are the rank and file Q
their party. They have to-day II
more confidence in the Democrat
leaders who supported Clevelan,
and who up to 1886 ridiculed silve
and every other reform that tn
Peoples Party were advocating
than they had then. They are sim
ply staying in the party becaus
they have faith in Bryan an
Organism. They were going t
: follow in his lead then, and the
are simply following his lead nov
If we ever get these voters in tn
future, and our only hope for re
/. cruits in the future is chiefly frOr
this class Of voters, we must do
by pursuing such course as wi
commend itself to these men and a
, the same time expose the hypocris
, Of the pretended Bryan Democra
, who is at heart Cleveland Demo
crat. II we pursue such a cours
they will come il their party back
slides, and, might say, if it fail
to progress.
believe that the great majorit
, Of the voters of the nation, as we
as of North Carolina, are homes
and patriotic. They sincerely be
iieve in the principles advocated b
Jefferson, Jackson and Lincoln.
this were not so then there woul
be no hope Of ever redeeming thi
government from the dOminatio
OF Shylock and the monopoly torie
that now have us in their clutches
But you say that the Democrat
machine leaders, who are at hear
monopoly and Cleveland goldbug
will be able to fool lot of tn
honest rank and file and thus sue
, coed in controlling the Democrat
State Convention, and that part
controlled by such men ought
be fought to the death. If thi
happens, then 1 agree with you.
the Democratic party is not hon
I estly with the people in this figh
II 1t will not prove its sincerity b.
repudiating it's traitors and strad
dlers and marching boldly up an
hCApAhS Us W uSuC luc dllloO du
combined enemies of humanity
then it ought to die and the quicke
it dies the better. But the onl
way that the party can be killed
that is, the only way that the dis
honest and insincere men in it ca
be thrust into the Republican
party, where they belong, and tn
honest and sincere men taken int
the POpulist party, where we hop
to see them-is by showing tn
honest rank and file Of that part,
that their leaders are not SINGER
and that the party will again be
tray them as it did under Cleveland
We are now in position to pu
this test to the party and to accom-