The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-07-31
BUFFERS WORK FOR
TRUST CANDIDATES
He Favors Radical Against
Popu|ist Nominee.
lilo nTTnANAI nncTH
Mr.. Ralph Rowland Tells Plain : nth
About the Sampson Hypocrlte.
VIOLATED EVERY SENSE OF DECENCY
Mr.. Rowland Will Prefer Charges Against But
Ter to the National PopuIist Executive
Commit ee.

Especial to the News and Observer)
Morehead City, N. c., July 30.-Mr.
Ralph Howland, the. leading Populist
of this section of the State, has writ
ten some plain truths to Butler that
have created a great commotion here.
l wire them because of their great
Importance. He was nominated by
the POpulist county convention for
the Legislature, but Butler has or
dered all the Populists to vote for a
gold-bug candidate who is the agent
of the Dukes. Mr.. Howland, who has
been a consistent Populist and a sup
porter of Butler, is indignant. He
was the Bryan elector from this dis
trct in 1896, and stands high with
men of all parties. His first letter
is as follows:
Mr.. James H. Marshall, Chairman Peo-
pies Party county convention.
My Dear Sir:-Having been regularly
nominated for the Legislature by our
county convention over which you pre-
sided, and Marion Butler, Chairman of
Peoples Party executive committee, hav-
ing written to this county to have the
Populists to vote for T. d. Hewitt, the
Republican nominee for the Legislature,
thereby ignoring the right of our people
in convention assembled, and feeling fhat
| owe my party and those who conferred
upon me that honor, l have addressed an
open letter to Marion Butler, copy Of
which 1 herewith hand you for such pub
lication as you may see fit to give it. In
view of the remarkable and unprecedented
conduct of the chairman of the Peoples
Party State executive committee, l think
it is best / withdraw from the contest and
let Buffers Republican candidate and the
Democratic candidate fight it out.
Yours very respectfully,
RALPH ROWLAND.
The letter to Butler is an admirable
and truthful exposure of Buffers political
character and methods. Mr.. Howland
writes:
Raleigh, N. c..
Marion Butler, Chairman Peoples Party
Executive Committee.
"Sir:-I was very much surprised to-
day to see a letter from you to an off,
cal number of the Peoples Party in
Carteret county saying, Don't fail to have
the Populists of your county to support
Mr.. Hewitt etc.
Now you know, for I so wrote you sew
eral days since that l am the regular
nominee of the Populist party of Carteret
county for the House. Mr.. T. d. Hewitt
is the regular Republican candidate for
the same place. You also know, for 1
so wrote you, that T. D. Hewitt is the
Dukes of Durhams agent In this county
and was their candidate for presidency
fhn A nd Iuhn rnn II
Russell removed Hancock. 1t is a fact
of which proof positive can be had, that
Hewitt as agent for the Dukes listed
their ten thousand acres of land in Car
teret county as thirteen hundred acres
and then asked for a reduction of valua
tion on that. What would he do for the
Dukes, alias the American Tobacco Trust,
if he should be elected to the Legislature? :?
What will the Populists of the State,
and the tobacco farmers especially, think
of you when they learn that you trans
cended your authority as chairman of
the Peoples Party executive committee
and VIOLATED EVERY SENSE OF DE-
CENCY AND RIGHT BY URGING POPU-
LISTS TO DESERT THEIR OWN CANDI-
DATE AND VOTE FOR ONE OF AN
OTHER PARTY (AND ONE, TOO so
NEAR TO THE AMERICAN TOBACCO
COMPANY?) BY your act of treachery,
in trying to have Populists desert the
candidate that they had regularly nomi-
mated in their county convention and vote
for the candidate of another party, there
by initiating some of your disgusting eX
amples, you merit the contempt of every
decent Populist in the State.
In the Carteret County Democratic
convention their present candidate for
sheriff received the nomination by one
majority over the old sheriff, and. after
he had been declared the nominee and
the convention had adjourned it was dis
covered that precinct had given him one
more vote than it had a right to. which
gave him his majority of one The dis
covery caused great dissatisfaction in
their party. Their county executive COM
mittee was convened and State Chairman
simmons was present to advise He told
the executive committee as the man had
been declared the nominee of the conven-
tion that they nor himself could do any
thlng IN the premises unless the candi-
date saw fit to come down. Notwth-
standing the many bitter things that you
and others have said about Simmons
when his manly and honorable conduct
In the case referred to is compared with
your contemplate conduct and abuse OF
the trust confided in you as chairman
of our State executive committee, he will
appear to fair-minded men as man of
honor and political integrity while you
will show up as a POLITICAL TRICK
STER AND TRAITOR TO THE PARTY
THAT YOU DISGRACE BY BEING OFF,