The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-11-06
'CY IS HIT HARD
An Answer to His Last Secret
Circular.
ONLY TWO PARTIES NOW
ONE is THE WHITE MANS PAR
TY AND THE OTHER THE
NEGRO PARTY.
WHITE PoPUusTs TRUE 70 HONS
They Repudiate Tax Machine that Is in the
Control Of the Negro Patty. Cy
Wants an 'fxhi|arating
Victory"

| tFCiults
| The Fusion committee is trying to put
little life in the old dead hulk of the
| Fusion party.
! On the Doth of October, DR.. Cyrus
Thompson issued a secret circular, which
he sent out to Populists. 1t is like Cy's
men. He SANDERS the best men i'll the
State. by saying that their meetings are
drunken revels, and thus make law
abiding citizens feel uneasy at the pos
sible violence of drunken mob"
Major Gutnrie, Mr.. W.. e. Fountain
and Mr. John w. Atwater are denounced
by name, and it closes with these words,
which show that DIR. ICY" is something
of Mark Tapley:
AS to the general condition of the
State politically. we declare to you that
everything is unusually encouraging and
bright looking Our official reports show
that we have made large gains. We have
not the press to announce these facts i'll
IL
are nevertheless facts. We are going to
reduce majorities in strong Democratic
counties. We will lose nothing anywhere
except in places where it is necessary to
keep away from the polls (such as above
mentioned) in order to prevent riot and
murder by the Democratic machine.
These little LOSSES it is thought best to
submit TO for the sake of peace and
quiet.
We are going to carry this State by an
exharating majority. If our people will
be as active during this week and at the
polls as they were in 1894 and 1896, there
will never be another riotous RED Shirt,
lawless, anarchistic, threatening Demo-
cratic machine in this State to contend
with. Tell these facts to everybody.
| Now it CHANGED that DR.. "Cy's" letter
F., fell into the hands of Mr. T. l.. Oliver,
of Stainback, n. c., who had voted the
populist ticket before the party was sold
ont to the negro party, and he replied as
follows:
Stainbuck. y. c.. Nov. 4, 1898.
! Dear Sir-I will reply to a printed let
ter which | received to-day. You are
looking after the wrong man for help.
The Popuist party, by itself, is too dead
to skin in this part of the country. Why
don't you call your party Republican or
Negro ticket, and / could have under
stood you, as the Peoples party men are
so scarce around here / had almost for
gotten what it meant. Oh, yes; voted
{, Il FUSION ticket four years ago, partially.
and my vote helped to bring on this ne
gro domination which is existing in so
many places in our State now.
I No. / am not with you under any cir
cumstances. You have already led a
goo, many of our good, honest men IN
to the Republican party. The Peoples
party claims to be i'm the middle of the
road. but you leaders have gone out III
the side bitches, and want lis men to fol
low you: but no. no, we Will not need TO
your call any longer. and now we propose
to drop the Republican party III Popullst
disguise, and vote with the white men
and for the White Mans party, so long as
we are white. and if I've got to vote a
Republican ticket let me be black.
Oh yes. your trap has caught many
good. true man that had white mans
! principle, but your trap has begun to de-
cay and they are getting on. You never
catch bird in trap but once, if he gets
out. SO you caught me once, and | got
out. and so you will never catch me nap
ping again SO you had just as well fake
down your sign as Peoples party men
and run on the Republican ticket, so you
can catch the negro in your trap, as our
good white men will not bite at your bait
any more.
You claim that you have made large
gain in Democratic counties. guess it
you would visit this county You would
think differently, as | am sure you have
lost considerably. as the most of our Pop
uists that were honest i'll it and not of
fce-seekers. have gone back in1 the
Democratic ranks, and some few nave
gone with the Republicans.
You seem to think very little OF Mayor
Guthrie for leaving his party. II" was
one among the honest and true iopEi!sts.
He had desire to be on the white man $
side. and saw that he could not get there
through that party. He was a People S
party man. and is with that party yet l
take the white mans party to be the Ieo-
pies party. don't know what you might
call the black mans party. If he is gong
to be true white man, he must be with
the good white men of our country, ana
that is where all good white men belong,
as there are only two parties to vote Tor,
one the White Mans party. and the 9th
er Negro. Now are we going to sacrlfict
/ our principle, our homes, mothers, Sis
tiers and follow such, and have negro
rule us? No; if you want it, you can
go to Craven, or some other of our East
ern counties, and be dictated to by them
if you still remain in the position thai
You are that is where you ought to be
and all t4ler men like YOU We already
have seen enough of the negro. and only
wish you had some of them down with
| ron from this county.
You say if your people will be as activ,
during this week and at the polls rs
they were in 1894 and '96, there vii
never be another riotous Red Shirt, law
less. anarchistic, threatening Democratic
machine in this State to contend with
Well. / am going to q Red Shirt parade
in Burlington on the 9th. and will do all
/ can against your Republican party, SO