The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1901-07-18
OFF FOR
ALASKA.
A LARGE AND DISTINGUISH
ED PARTY OF POLITICI-
ANS AND MINING EX-
PERTS.
MIXING PLEASURE AND BUSINESS.

An Interview With Senator Butler Who
II . Member Of the Party-Hs Outiines
What the Policy OF the Peoples Party
VIII bs.
st. Paul Dispatch, July let.
The Ryan hotel and st. Paul to-
day entertained an unusually large
number Of politicians.
Senator Hansbrough was in con-
ference with Jud La Moure over
North Dakota affairs.
There was an Alaska excursion
party, consisting of Senator John G.
Jones, Of Nevada, and his son Roy;
former Senator Marion Butler, of
North Carolina; former Senator r.
<. Pettigrew, Of South Dakota; Con-
gresham William Sulzer, of New
York; former Senator Stephen w.
Dorsey, Of New York, and a number
of mining experts; Maj. Robert M.
Catlin, San Francisco; his brother,
H. G. Catlin, New York; J. d. B.
Coates, of Atlantic, Iowa.
The party came in on a special car,
and will leave for the coast this
evening. From Seattle they will
60 to Alaska On a revenue cutter,
and will spend few weeks visiting
points of interest along the coast.
The visitors were all thoroughly
disgusted with the hot, muggy
weather, and did not hunt up any of
their friends about town.
Senator Jones, who in point of
service, is one of the oldest, if not
the oldest, member Of the senate, is
a typical Western philosopher in ap-
pearance. He declined to discuss
politics, either from the standpoint
of Washington or Nevada.
Congressman Sulzer, who is sup
posed to revel in things torrid,
made the weather an excuse for say
ing nothing about politics, except
that the democrats in New York
city have cl1nched everything in
sight for the next municipal election,
and will not let the morality or any
other Office worth having get away
The congressman is smooth faced
and boyish looking.
| Senator Butler, chairman of the
populist national committee, talked
more politics than any of the others
''The populist party will go il
alone next time, and we will pol
more votes than we ever did BEFORE y
said he. ''The main issue will be
public ownership-not of everything
understandable of the natura
monopolies. We are not socialists
The so :ialist is like dog. You stel
on his tail and he doesn't turr
around to see who hurt him. HI
bites the fellow who happens to bt
nearest. The populist believes il
competition. Let the public owr
the natural mOnopOlies, and then fol
the rest, let it be every man fol
himself and the devil take the hind
most. All we ask is that there b.
equality of opportunity. We dom
believe In any Bellamy scheme
where the government owns every
thing and everybody works for th'
government. A scheme of tina
kind will never make men. Mel
are made by keen competition
where steel clashes against steel, ant
Greek meets Greek.
ssThe silver question is dead fo
the time being at least, and for on
1 never favored the use of that wort
silver. All the true populist con
tends for is money enough to trans
act business and maintain the equili
brium Of prices. There is probabl,
gold enough now being mined t
supply all the needs of commerce il
the way of money, and it makes n
difference to me or to any one else
whether the money is made of gol'
or something else, so there is enougl
of it. On the other hand. we dom
want too much Of it, for that mean
imitation, which is bad in its way q
contraction is in another. / believ
that coinage and the supply Of none
: should be regulated by law. Th
people can certainly trust the peopl
who fix their taxes to regulate til
supply of money. If the banks al
to control the supply of money the
3 they should also have the right t
regulate taxes.
"Tbe Populist party is the prt
gressive party of the South. In on
state it enacted the legislation to el
l courage manufacturing which b,
brought so much prosperity to th'
Q section. We are now just beginnin
}. to get some of the benefits of pr
s lection. New England had Il
benefit of that system a long tim
+ while the South was furnishing Il
raw material to make the people =
there rich. It is our turn to pre-
per now"
Former Senator Stephen w. Do
sey, of New York, said that Go
Odell had made one Of the best go
: ernors New York ever had, Al
there had never been q more pop
lar state official, especially with q
farming element.
A Big Fire 1t Laurinburg.
d Laurinburg, N. c., July H.
y fire broke out here today in the N
le Dougald Furniture Store at o'clo
p, M, andkraged until 4 O'Clock. !