The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-07-24
MIR. WITTKOWSKI WANTS TO TRY
AGAIN.


Ammo Domini 1896 with S. Witt
kowski, Esq, of Charlotte. as wet
nurse, a grand convention was held
in a 10ffi12 room in a Greensboro
hotel to organize a new party in
North Carolina. Mr.. Wittkowsh and
some other gentlemen, who thought
everybody dishonest who advocated
bi-metalism, held this select mass
meeting, and organized the Palmer
and Buckner Sound Money Democrat
ic party in North Carolina. The story
of that great "uprisinr" in favor of
''honest money is familiar to the peo-
pie of North Carolina. Mr.. Wittkow-
skis bubble of leadership was COM
pletely "busted" by the celebrated
speech of Hon. J. A. Lockhart in
Charlotte in the fall of 1896, the cleo
ton returns showed that his electoral
ticket received only SIS votes in North
Carolina, and he thereupon seemed to
retire as political Moses. However,
the desire to organize a new party
has not been given up, it seems, for
with Mr.. Wittkowski ''hope springs
eternal i'm the human breast, and it
is evident that. unmindful of his 1895
fiasco, he wants to try again.
A few days after Charlotte voted
to drive out the saloons. this organizer
of new parties broke out in a new
place, and in a communication in
the Charlotte Observer made this
suggestions:
1.-THE dictatorial spirit inculcated
since Organism began, so forcibly
demonstrated in the last Democratic
convention, has borne fruit, until it
pervades every section of our coun-
try, city, town, village and cross
roads; today fee expression by the
citizen has been virtually choked off;
the bosses, who by chicanery and
midnight intrigue and abusive Ian
guage fit only for fish-monger women
of petticoat lane; so that the private
citizen who does not like to have his
name placarded and himself abused,
has been virtually suppressed, as was
so well demonstrated by the late vote
of this city. Hence it is high time
that an independent movement be
organized not for political purposes,
nor for acquiring of office, but to be
power. and thus help the fraiHing of
Just and beneficial laws"
1t is a pity that nobody except Mr..
Wittkowski has discovered that the
last Democratic convention" was
marked by "a dictatorial spirit" The
impression gathered by everybody else
was that the big convention did what
the determined 1900 delegates wanted
done and that there was a marked
absence of anything like "dictatorial
spirit"
1t is evident that Mr.. Wittkowski's
new zeal for "an independent move
ment'' has been stimulated by the pro-
hibition election in Charlotte and the
endorsement of the principle underly-
ing the Watts law. If he contemplates
pushing his independent movement
along the whiskey barrel line he may
get plans and specifications by apply
ing to Dr. J. j. Mott, Statesville, and
the so-called Democratic orators"
who joined the Liberal party when
the Republican party staggered into
defeat by abandoning it's principles
ana making a w IllSkey IeIIllJOIlIl It's
campaign emblem. At that time DIR.
Mott had 100000 or more negro voters
who voted the Rum and Radicalism
ticket, and with that as a nucleus, he
counted confidently on SUCCESS. If
Mr.. Wittkowski starts a second Rum
andRadicalism campaign as another
independent movement" he would
have at least 10000 less votes to start
on than DIR. Mott had twenty years
ago, and where would he get the elo-
quent orators who joined hands
with DIR. Mott?
The only safe course for white folks
to pursue in North Carolina is to
follow Vance's admonition, abide in
the ship" of Democracy. 1t alone can
give good government and it alone is
responsive to the enlightened and
progressive will of the voters of the
State.