The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-07-28
Republicans Had the Money
and Dictated the Ticket.
HEADED BY A GOLD-BUG
Populists Asked to Vote For Gold. Bug
and Corporation Tool.
SHALL WE THROW AWAY STATE TICKET?
Because We Must Have the Legislature. I"
Everybody and Everything Sacrificed
to Reflect Butler to The United
States Senate
States Senate

to Re- Elect Butler to The United
States Senate
The dickering is over and the Re-
publicans have forced the Populists
to take down Thompson and to agree
to support Adams.
1t is another case of money talks.
The Black-and-Tan party is running
the most expensive campaign ever con-
Quoted in North Carolina. The Re-
publicans furnish all the money and
Butler is the Judas. He carries the
bag. The Republicans have given him
the distribution of the Doodle as well
as the offices. That makes him die
tator.
Ever since that night in Washington
City that Hanna, Butler, Pritchard
and Thompson made the trade in a
certain room in Washington City, the
Populist leaders have had money in
plenty. Up to about that time it was
supposed that Butler and Pritchard
were not friendly. Since then Butler
has been welcome visitor at the
White House, he has q share in the
distribution of Federal offices, he gets
his kinsman appointed to one of the
best postoffices in the State, and the
whole machinery of the Republican
party is set in motion to secure his
reelection to the Senate. Why is this?
Ask Mark Hanna.
Why has this so-called tWO-faced
Populist Senator the purse strings of
the Republican party in North Caro-
lima?
Ask Mark Hanna.
Why is Thompson all of a sudden
to give place to gold bug Adams? In
his letter getting down, Thompson
says:
'sAnd. besides, we have under this
arrangement the united force of the
Republican members of the Legisla-
ture for Senator Buffers return to the
United States Senate, WHICH WE
COULD NOT HAVE SECURED HAD
T PERMITTED MY NAME TO HEAD
THE TICKET FOR GOVERNOR"
WHY is thompson is all of a sudden
ready to sacrifice himself for Butler?
Ask Mark Hanna.
After long conferences between But
Ter and Holton, u. S. District Attorney
and Carl Duncan, Internal Revenue
Collector, it has been decided that the
Populists, negroes and white Repub-
licans shall vote the following ticket:
COOPERATIVE IIChEI.
Governor:
SPENCER Il. ADAMS.
Guilford County.
Secretary of tSate:
CYRUS THOMPSON,
Onslow County.
Auditor:
HAL w. AVER,
Wake County.
Treasurer:
WILLIAM H. WORTH,
Wake County.
Superintendent of Public Instruction:
NEREUS c. ENGLISH,
Randolph County.
Attorney General:
ZEBULON V. WALSER,
Davidson County.
Commissioner of Labor and Printing:
JAMES Y. HAMRICK.
Cleveland County.
Commissioner of Agriculture.
JAMES M. MEWBOORNE,
Lenoir County.
Member North Carolina Corporation
Commission, for terms of
six years:
CHAS. A. REYNOLDS,
Forsyth County.
Member North Carolina Corporation
Commission. for term of
four years:
ALEXANDER S. PEARCE,
Granville County.
The Caucasian prints the ticket and
then prints the following Personal
Letter. from DIR. Cyrus Thompson, the
Populist nominee for Governor:
PERSONAL LETTER.
Raleigh, n. c., July "a, 1900
Nv Dear Sir:-N hen | was nOminat-
ed by the Peoples party for the high
and honorable office of Governor,
expected to stay on the ticket to the
end. whether elected or not, and have
since frequently stated that such was
nv intentions. In view of these state
ments made by me, and approaching
the high honor conferred upon me at
the convention, / think it is now
proper for me to write you, stating
WHY [ think it to be the best interest
of the party and welfare of the State,
under the present conditions, to run
n cooperative ticket which has been
agreed upon by both parties, contain
inc.- nv name for Secretary OF State
(the position / now hold) instead OF
for Governor.
At one time there seemed to be lit
tie hope of electing State ticket,
while we have always had hope OF
electing majority of the Legislature.
Recently the situation has improved
SO rapidly that when the time came
for printing the tickets it seemed
very probable that we could elect the
whole State ticket, if we could unite
on it all the forces which are against
the amendment and the Democratic
machine. Therefore, the problem
that presented itself to us was this:
Shall two STATE lickets be run through
to the end and thus throw away cur
chances of electing all State officers,
from Governor down, and turn over
these offices. as q free Gift. to the