The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-10-19
RALLY AT WAYNESVlLLE
It Promises to be the Greatest Demo
cratic Meeting Of Campaign.
JEREMIAH CLICK ON TIE N. C. POPULlsTS
He Wants 10 Know Whether There is PopuIist
Party in North Carolina and il 50
Wishes Its officials TO
Locate Il.

The news from the Eighth ana
Ninth districts, where the Republicans
are pursuing Mark Hanna tactics, is
encouraging. The people in that dis
trict are refusing to be bought. They
have no notion of being represented in
Congress by two men who are aliens
to the best interests of North Carolina
men who will stand for trusts, impe-
rialism and the gold standard. They
will elect Buxton and Crawford to
stand against Force bills and reducing
the representation of North Carolina
lit the halls of Congress.
The greatest meeting of the CAM
paigtn has been arranged to be held at
Waynesville, on the 23d day of Octo-
ber,s 1t will be a grand rally and there
will be a large attendance from half
a dozen counties. Among the speakers
ON that occasion are those two elo-
uuent orators, Hon. Lee S. Overman, of
Rowan, and Capt. w. B. Shaw, OF
Vance. Other noted speakers will be
present and the occasion will SOUND
the death-knell to Radicalism in the
Ninth Congressional district.
Jeremiah f. Click. editor of the Times
Mercury, a Populist paper at Hickory,
who edited the Caucasian during the late
campaign. is in state of mind. He
unburdens himself in this weeks paper
and incidentally breaches the funeral
of the Populist party of North Carolina.
He also takes a few digs" at the Popu-
list leaders as he goes along. 1t is
pessmistic jeremiad from start to finish
We make a few extracts to show the
feelings of the editor. After reviewing
his services to the party and his associa-
ton with his Populist fellow citizens,
Mr. Click writes:
Casually the issues only changed once
in two or four years. But it is different
now. They have changed two or three
times in the last two years. AS party,
we have not taken, advantage of them.
Since ols,slasE conventions conditions have
changed. We have no outlined policy TO
meet, and many of us are at loss what
to say or what to do. The time IS close
at hand when we must and will take some
action. What shall that be?
THE Legislature of 80 changed condi-
tons in the State. We insisted that our
county and State committees call meet
ings and outline some course Of action SO
work harmonicusly together educating
and organizing, preparatory for united
and intelligent conflict when the time
came. This was not done. Our people
looked and hoped for it, They became
disheartened They felt that their brave
leaders had given up the fight. Our pa
pers began fighting different lines
The Mercury was against the amend
ment Our Homo was indirectly for 1T,
and the Caucasian took no stand Ihe
Democratic press kept saying Butler
would soon declare for the amendment
The Caucasian did not even deny the
charge Thus it went. Our people grew
more and more disheartened They be-
came disorganized. Nothing was done
until our convention met in April, this
year. Then the time was too short to
get our people thoroughly organized. 9th
er people had already had their minds
prcjudiceG. and hence they could not be
reached They would not then read our
literature. And our speakers were not
allowed to reach them on the stump. You
know the results.
Just after the recent August revolu-
ton (for it was not an elcction) new
condition was forced upon the people by
fraudulent election. Up to the present
no meeting mas Deen cailed W outline
uniform action in the State on the part
of cur party. What is the result? 1t is
that all we, like sheep, have gone
astray.' Every enc and every section has
been left to paddle his and its own ca
noe. Chairman Butler is for Bryan and
Stevenson; Thompson is sitting on the
fence watching the dog fight Skinner
is saving wood and saying nothing; Sos
samon is for Barker and Donnelly. The
rank and file of the party is divided.
Some will not vote at ali; some will vote
with Sossamon and great number will
vote for Mckinley. The Populists in
some districts have nominated Populist
candidates and in others have endorsed
the Republican candidates. SO here we
go at a break speed. And right
here in three weeks Of the election, a
few courageous PoDulists meet and put
out an electoral ticket for Barker and