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9 ft r r . ' . . . - - . I - . H&. . i ' : f ' " """"Tv ' ' to IJae; Xiet oBipsv BClt WHo THey May. .-j : - rrr- : : r- ; 1 - ' : : ' ; f. 1 - : : ' ' VOL. 4. RALEIGH, N: Cl THURSDAY, MARCH 1 7, 1898. : ' : . HoMUm In the People's Partj. empowered to do at any regular state or territorial convention. The members of the present Nut ional Committee, from eacfi. state and territory were orginallv In an unlimited monarchy boss . I 111 may do very wellfor where his kiiiirhii assumes to rule bv nh inc law and sets up as one who, j chosen at St. Louis, in ISO.o, by -anointed by. the Lord, can do no j tlie delegations to the National wrong, the role of boss is quite j Convention oftherespectivostates the proper one for him to play, j arid territories, each state and ter for boss he assumes to he. Put ritorial delegation choosing three in a democracy, where all men member? of the National Com arc held to be equal before the : mittce, to' which representation Lonl anj all men created in His o the committee jeach state and imagf, witii.ejual right andpriv-' territory and also. the District of lieges, Joisui i$ much out of ; Columbia was entitled. Thus "place. Ami as bossism is -out of Was. the 'committee originally place in a democracy, even so is ' chosen. Int it s( .haj)peiis that sum- stte. ims 01 several ,1, states the Populi 1 1 1 1 nave since leit called upon to change their representation on the National Committee. And this they have proceeded to do at regular state con vent ions, as they were empowered to do. remov ing National Comi'nitteemen who it otit of place in . the People's party, which puts itself forward a .party democratic to the core. In a . deijiocrat-ic government those who are cXalted to the olllce sliodld regard 'themselves as the r'rvants of tiie pi'oph and not a-Mime t!ie- role of bossim. If tiiev do assume this rolethev must seemmgiv cared more for the sue be unhorsed, must be pulled dowp cess of the Delnocratic party than from the olliees tp which theyftbe Peojile's party and substitut ive b('eri exalted, or the filem- true Populists, . M-ra'-y will become a mere Farce, ' this action the present chair- eea-e to exist. And so it must i ,,an tlie -National Lommittee be with the People's party. Thosei n:ls ocn seeminglv much dis who have been exalted to the ploasoil, though he lately lias head of thePeoples party organ-! taken much pains o declare that izatfn should comltictthcnisclvcs' ! is as much opposed to fusion as servants, not as' bosses." If with the Democratic party as any they'do assume'the ovearbearing i Populist, that he only favors "fair attitude ojf bosses they must bcjan honorable co-operation," put to ine side or the People's f whatever that may mean. AVe party will cease to exist. Boss- j believe it means fusion in which ism and democracy cannot exist j the Democrats do' some of the together ; neither can bossism and j fusing, some of the surrendering ; the People's party. If bossism "ision in whivh Democrats give cannot be eradicated from dem-:is well as take, somethiiig which ocraey, democracy must dry up, i they (jnite refused to listen to become rum-existent in fact if not! with regard to the national ticket two years ago In short, "fair and honorable co operation " seems to be a new naine by which' fusion, that has becomeso distaste- iu ' to i:ir?: Jlo;'iii Known. self is . foremost among thdoppo-' nents of .fusion. He Mi al been especially insistent on thisljoint since the People's .party (state committee, of Minnesota rrd n sed to declare for fusion with the De m ocra t i c pa rty despite h isbres sure, since the action of . thdlate Indiana convention . lias lore than ever shown fusion to bonnJ popular with tbe rank and'fi "of i jiW the People's part vtHie decliresl h&ti N tliat lie is an opponent to. .fnsti, that he works not for fusion jut for 14 fair ard honorable t o op;r ation"with the Democratic pat But with him "fair and honlr able .co-operatioii " seems t.tte iut. another name for. fusion, 'A so regarded by the rank and of the People's part v. Tln.t is liot the .opHi)cnt but the abet tor ot iitjonal Committee recen.tlv sub I; do so bv the spirit manifested in ufiMed : to the members of that certain quarters to hold early i-on cfjmittee by Mr. Butler. In rr)itting the proposition Mr. Im 1 1 1 e r , h i m se 1 f i s as t utelv n o n - imittal, tliourh he take to characterize the recent conventions that have de- cfisrcu against his lvoiicv and his rvrcmacy ji? snap conventions. the rules adopted by ttie National Convention for;the ance of the National Com- 1 1 it t e e 1 1 1 e .c 1 1 a i r o f that com mi t t is required to submit by ilet- ttjiajiy proposition to- tlie mem of the National Committe t'4 1 1 1 1 e i r a p p r o v a 1 : reuuest- ot ers ot ;s occa- people to rule, will be built up, for in no other wjiv can the Pe- ventions, " the chief purpose of i pie partv le prctrved from dii V 1 . 'TOtr the n solution. And the Mime will lie the rotilt if Mr. Ifutler net in the spirit of such proposition, refiific to ree oirniro ti'iJ hnnL in the mem ic partv .is f oersiiip ot the . H'lotial nunmii- rns ittee or rejection the " National Com i requests Mr. liut- &h has not alwavs. 1h nored. eon- y I it -- - i which is, no doubt, to try to sup plant members of the National Coinmittee. And to supplant members of the Njatiotii! Coni mil tee who are out o;t rm-ord witii i oirrnro the rank and tile oi hi a grave otfence in tlie eves of Mrf ; tee m ude bv state en ventioti or Butler, whose friends now 'jm- i to conduct the chairmathip and pose that this supplanting i iav management of the org uiiat i n be made illegal in order that the of the PeojdeV party in rd committee may be kjept in -'accord ance '.with the- erjecd and un-" with Mr. Biitler, regardless of mistakable wihe of the rank whether or no it is in accord ith and tile. The. people igm ted, the rank and tile of the partv. their convention ignored, a .-elf- Thus there would be establisheVi , iudging .-committee snrole the any. three an oliga'rchy-within the party that-; supreme power in the Pelc lusioil he evidences b V 1 1 r4 v ft 1 e n t.1 a- i v e r 1 n n Ir I n t 1 1 1 o m r 1 1 p n SII propositions were notalong acts, .nn'mistakabl v evidenced iii tl'0 CamnaiiTUS Ot last iintntnn fM4n'-r.trkrtlir.V.Trrti'rl ' him inst I Iflt the request to submi lmit tho Am : if li-tsm is allowed to take root in the Wo. party, ihsap- nxJ the People's pi rty pear. Of tlie bossi.-m in the rule of !(C t ;ld " nttti "rr tile "TTatin we need not speak. Of, when he openly worked ' ajrain: t'he Populist tickets in Ohio, in ' plftositioii of which we ha've now Iowa, 'Kentucky and elsewhere, nnd tor Democratic success. In North Carolina, indeed he op poses fusion with the Democratic party, opposes it- vehemently, at present, but that is because the Democratic party in North Caro. Una opposes him. A " AVe repeat, the. National Com mittee is opposed to fusion. Those members in favor of fusion, ready to aid the Democratic party in swallowing,, absorbing the .Peo ple's party, in the vain hope that the Democratic party will absorb some of the principles of Popii- lism and thereby become a true party of equality arid of the peo ple are very few. But there Are many members who belies that Mr. Butler's declarations of oppo sition to fusion arc s n o o. . f o-;a,sion ' to speak Jie promjtly complied with. This request was mlle by two members' of the Npional Committee troirrMassa clettSfMessrs. Brown and Gard nc4. -and. one member from New . H-iii?shire,t"Mr.: D.S C. Courier. Thj$ proposition which they, sent toJfMr: Bujtler, with the request thiit he submjt it to the members of Ctlve National Committee, was to ifinond the rule of the cdmmit tee.fprOviding for the removal of National Co m m i 1 1 eem en . w h e n sufji committeemen ceased to cofinnand . the confidence of the v an d file of the party. j ic rule as it now stands and as Adopted by the St. Louis con won Id be t he death People's partv. V Thev pith r of t! amendment to the is propoj rules of National Committee that wo riiake the will of Committee superior people, make the greater than the created it, is contained the National o that of (the verition of 1SG, is that " the blow of t he.' party and that party' c oi -O to exist. So, if thi- role f igiirin ctl tin people and u-urpircj power i the 5 assumed bv M r Butler or the N:i- iild i ti.on.il Committee, there remain but two alternati Mr. Butler and hi, National (ommitt e ini.' t committee j be put to otic side, their advice people who! passed-unheeded, their eo?umnU in 'Micj regarded as im.poten'fmd utterly fourth and last of the projoised ; disregarded as coming from mc.ii qualifications to the right of stiate ! having abdicated their power and territorial conventions to re- and left vacant their position bv move unsatisfactory National Com m itteem-en . Th e first th ree qualifications would insure to National Committeemen who have lost the confidence of their people only that which they iow have. It would insure the rim k and file of the party exjressing directly their dissatisfaction with unrepresentative is ational Com- t . . oti1 t t yr-i r-rT-' onn li a I lid- . .A M. mm frtn'en 'orTiri n ei oK1-. i tri ii'fof Columbia, to be eleated of i)artylrims for the emoluments byjtjbb delegations to this (the Bt- otlic To get a few Populists into ! of office, whenpiit forward in thoj Lo)gs) epnvention, and Ken jso ice bv helpin"" .man v Demo- ' name of " fair anSiojiorab.le cp-1 elojelid f ach member 'shall hold that their acts of usurpation, by their ignoring of the principle of Pop ulism and bv taking thcWclve outside of the People's partv, or, the Peoples party timet perish from having ceased to. be a fco pie's party, "perish just as I)em ocracy must perish if it cannot rid itself of bossism. - And perish the People party will not, tor it stands tor a great nuuiu niBUiu uiu lumi;! ui yis-ipcrisi). iui ine supr satisfaction being recorded in the the Peonies -rty resolutiQns; Jt;cwpnHf'rr;f. tft ik . ' i- 7 - ?tu.ii ii.q Tignt tojbossis.il, over oligarchy, iLKsimn in the Peoide's nartv. present or tnreateneu, wew must t,u!' ..v. -r . . , T ; i- t; .,itr.,i.,;,.Ln in Ponulism, but think moreof;those members oi the .iN ational p t.. ,,,tv c ti,.. Vn.'otKce and the spoils of othce than Committee who are oppo : ... ...i.:..t ;t iov nf uriin'inlp. Dnmocrats 1 tusion. who regard Air. uutier .as vet mill ice, ou uicu e ei t .. t i - ' . . who have.no iaitn m words mitteemen in the choice of dele gates to the state conventions!; it ., principle, a principle' that cannot wouiq insure me causes oi qis- neris h. With the sunrcmacv ol ocracy over ll&JrmW fbe heard in their 'defence. But! democr atic ifovernment ii. to Mir- IU1D 1Jolu. ".!, -(oo vivo tnc overbearing bossjsm, Mir- disposition to deny it tp them, fjrid ' vive the encronehments of. nib . they have shown no desire to" feee j g'areh v that siip its strength, the the causes of dissatisfaction with Pe.ojde's party must surviye and ' their conduct spread out in cons itrrow, must irrow until this bo.s'-. ' demnatory resolutions or to luk t ional Com state and territory is entitled to who would quite tie the hands a fusionist, who have no h be represented bv ihree dele-ates,: render powerless the' Popu-, his demals, who see Ins lair ii . i - .1.. licti av i,; m it hrsrt so i'tpt . is be led bv ins acts, anu who oiuu i raiii aiiis uie orvrne pari reiraruiess oi wiiai ma ue inui - - 1" ; . , , . , i .n .i t 'i ... tr ti, ..;. nf tho rnnV nnil filcircmoye him irom the chairman- j thatilwheti it fell ent ot st remain oi me i eopie s pari in 1,v- "' Vl : : ; , . . .V'l v i i - v- X- .t i-.c ; ' i . . :. !rtlii IVnnlA nnrtv. Their a m ; shin of the N ational Committee, J.ima&t bnbrought backim .K,-;,r.... is the recognition, the accept-! are, it is believed, in a minority, j by Mw . -rtmoyal of unrepr was not made in the last National ! ance ot the tenets ot ropuiism, oi , iui a cnange oi ,gui n t Convention of the People's partv, ! equality and true- democracy in j bership ot the committee-would where the states and territories ! the government of the United ! turn the minority into a majority; h,i,r.:.w,f.,:,,h o: States, and unless they, can hd-! and Upon this change the rank l.nU ,ff tlu votin-strength of the! vance this recoirnition by electing and file of the People's party who:j - .- ' - - - . 1 W I B Al do not' have no laith in ur. juniier. are we. see in the unmis- partv in such states and territor-! Populists to office they do not j have no lai ies a"s indicated at orevious elee- care much by electing Populists. ! bent. This tions. Put in a sull bodv. such f They are Populists to help them- ? takable purpose snowimi many as is the National Committee, Selves, not to help a few men into j states to remove those members of division f representation on a office, and they do not want to the National Committee who are basis ,uch as that followed in the : make of themselves stepping- either fusionists, or, putting taitli makim: up of the last National ; stones Upon which a- tew. selt-jin lr. Sutler s acinar, are leim r.wiv.vMtlf.n u ;f.itir..i...1i1i1, Wkimr men mav mount to omceiinjr tnemsenes umnieuiioiinj such division would, of necessity, leave the organizations in those olfifuiiil liii suceessdr is elect- ed ,j.h ldi m ay be don e by any oired&hr fctatc:'"or. territorial con- 'lyion. This rule was so framed th'fdfif itfel "-: National j Committee in i Hit bikpt in touch with the r, ana so touch it to touch n t a tiiircoicthitteem,en and the e tio'-in t"ieir places of! men in full fsyath with the views and pr- ot tlie rank and tile, lint we Jiave a proposition to airfejl;tc rule, take the control oyi he epmplexion of the N!a toff$4uO&nittee out "of the hands b.f :fy? -ras and file and virtually f veism is overthrown, until mrmved themselves portrayed as trait br- 'oligarchy is put .under foot. And, to tneir party ana principles. But the fourth prorrosed qu fication, that, to confer upon National Committeejthe riirhtj R 3? .no.iv surelv as diMiiocracv will ili- i trinmtih over hos.itii. mi will thi he I People's party triumph over b- of j ism. for no more h:o the doctrine revision and reversal ot the acts that- the National Committee can of state and territorial conven-j ,l( no wrontr l.lace in'thc People's tions taken at the behest of Jhe t)artv than ha ti ic doctrifif of rank and file of the partv ajn'd kings, the doeirine that life K ihtr supplanting members of the N a-1 (.an do no wrong, place in our nal Committee, would, uiake ! (leuiera(-v : no more can holism aihd material changes in .tpi'ejfind: final recogiii'tititv in the !V.. senrmle. It woiild diminisll vc i,artv than it can in our dem- the voice of the peolp in thecdn- ocracy Tor its recognition in tlo; trol and direction of jhe People's j Peojle's party would mark the party: it would mrtke the Na- i death of that part v iit a- its final tionai committee paramount, dic tator instead of servant : the rank grea pre and partake of the emoluments of to fusion and the disorganization office xvhile the masses of the pco- of the People's party and replace states where the People's partv pic ret nothing for their pains them with members who will rep is weak without anv representa-l And this is what fusion with resent the feeling ot the rank and the Democratic partv meahs,wlrat hie ot the reopie s parrv,.cariy rep tion at all. It, is to be presumed that the so-called "fair and honorable co in cm hers of the National "Com-j operation " with the Democratic mittce were chosen to do the bid- i party means. It means a sntfer ding of the rank and file of the ance of corrupt methods, the iVnnlc's ik.-irtr. tnr tho tlnftrino ! dronninrr of efforts to secure a of kimrs has no acceptance in that party. The absolutist and mon archist may acknoiedge the doc trine that the king can do no wrong, but Populists will not ad mit that their National Commit tee can do no wrong, make no mistakes, and any assertion of this kind thev will resent. To do the bidding of the rank and file of the People's party .tlie Na tional Committee was then chosen. This we mav assume. But in choosing this committee it was recognized that members; might refuse to do the bidding,' to act in accordance vith the desires of the rank and file that they were chosen to represent. And so it wa provided that the Populists of anv state or territory could remove and replace any member or all three members of the Na tional Committee chosen to rep resent them whenever sueh rep resentatives ceased, in the estima tion of the rank and file of the party, to truly represent them. This the Populists of the differ emt states and territories were pure -ballot and fair county it means toleration of "such meth ods and co-operation with those who profit by such corruption ; of many Democrats to office who proclaim their belief- in free sil ver indeed, but who combat other cardinal tenets of Populism ;"who declare their undving enmitv to the agressions of money oligar chy on the one hand, but hold open the door to encroachments on the other; it means the elec tion of many such men that a few Populists may partake of the emoluments of office, may benefit at the hands of the people but render nothing in return. This is what Mr. Butler's " fair and honorable co-operation " seems to be, this seems toTnTits end and such co-operation the rank and file of the People's party do not want. .The'majority of the members of the Peopled Party National Committee as at present consti tuted are doubtless -opposed to fusion" Mr. Butler declaies that out the wishes of such rank and file and unseat Mr. Butler, who is mistrusted. Evidently alarmed, some of Mr. Butler's friends aim to prevent this by urging the National Com mittee to an act of usurpation, urging it to constitute itself as superior to the will of the people,, to promulgate the doctrine that. the National Committee can u or no wrongthat its judgment is infallible and must be accepted by the rank and file of the Peo- pie's party. ihus to enng to power it is proposed tb overturn the very basic principle of Popu lism to deny the doctrine that the people have the right to rule themselves, that those they'exalt to office are the servants, not tlie bosses, of the people. The purpose of those who would thus hold Mr. Butler in the chair manship of the People's Party National Committee arid hold that committee to the support of fusion despite the wishes of the rank and file of the party, is to prevent the removal by state and territorial conventions of the present mem bers of the committee, except by and with the consent of that com mittee. This appears .in a pro- they are and asserts that he him-posed change of the rules of the le vtUMiat control m the committee ana nie.wpiua no longer ruie t ie itseMl - .The proposition is to i People s prty and the success of afnld br adding these words to that party would give no assnr- , jxnqgijme 3? jl now siaiius anu as ! auvcwi mc ,i uic ui pcujut, mi quired abcye : - y I . ithe pbserivance ot their wishes, ' Ittno member shall be recalled or susided daring: the term for which le f 8 elected without a cause being assiBed br0fore ; (2) which shall apiffar in tie Call as a part of the busi nesfeof the invention ; (3the liiem- be render trial shall have the right to be-Tpard m his own cieience: (4) ana thei jight of appeal "to the National recognition in our government must- mark the death of democ racy, and this can never l 7o merican. the heeding of their voice in t conduct of the affairs of the nation. And in such event the People's A Straight rijrlit. V The Democratic newspaper in the State as far as their opinions, come to our knowledge' arc gen- prty cannot hope to succeed, far j crally very decidedly opNi.ed to there would be no iraiii to the nek I fusion with any -party on eaiidi- pie, no gain to the cause of (leih-; dates in the next general election. -Here,rUf.v we have a propo sition -hat tBQ National Com mi t teerlegate t4 itself the power to thrknk and file of the People's pail in aiyftate' orj territory;: vis man shall be your repre sentive wtether you like hiin c-'rt ; this En i shall continue topresent Ton even though yon demand his reeall ; of his fitness tot flpresent -fn the jNational Cajnittee, of which he himself isrart, shall be final judge." Tp-Jlj would M rule of the Na tional Coirrffiiifee be. made to sti;fsede the rale of the people ; nWratif (rnrprninpnt. n!r n vrth rr i!r ! It does .-eem to US. tllMt H Lfrcat of the rule of oligarchy if it did ' party dating its existence almost- jrom -the tonndatn n ot. the gov ernment, which, whiie.it ha? suf fered some oiisatrou defeats, ed by thisinas won so many great political : Shall the v,ctorics,hot;ld dcjend upon ith mmitteecir ri,rIncV AL' itg Pt record and It people be supremo' 1,U,,:''V '"""f u" 1,1 fls of the People's !tI,0 i,e,I,le' fV,r ..f '" " the wish - oT"theienfiU,n campaign, ' in gaining imittee be done, the Sthe fi"f!Va r Jl majority of the not succeed, and hence it would not succeed, for the incentive to success would be laclving. The question rais proposition is simplv Tcill nftfio VfltlnriQl firmn;ttonr i pH ncl.lCS, ItS pa the willqf the people be snpreiikj PUtpA act ion for the benefit of ih-v the council party Shall Xati on ahCn in mitt ee ,'ri.-r'UA'Tv; -of North Carolina. A Shall the will of thi committcleParty ?1,oultl in1 k i , v.- kn ',Ui merits before an'-intelligent and Snoh rP tho OiiPt on raided: ! hOUC.t ICOple Wh0?C Votes It SO ThA TfiPmhprs of trie National ! Hcit An1. wI,il. w elcoming Committee can giveJ if they arej au. w,, ueMrV i co-operate wiin thflllWotild theuplebe deprived i true to the principUs of Popun Ir' WT- . a,ancc "i any rtf!tlL fa ofthft fitnpsa i li?m. but one answer. If thev dci i otl,er. organization merely for a odlbir ow representatives. not give such answerjif they yotcfT!"! and, probably Wo of the nronosed to constitute themselves an oil tiltlM Commit who, cease to b4jfresentstirf this is in citally adni bJMr: Antler in jps letter to thNational Comi tteiiien .c&panying this prSOsition: an '.ich he writer tWi those TJTOpoipg the amend.- are no &u Pruiupieu io m fail even in attaining that. . trive permanence, to, in usurpa tion; will Cease to find acknowl-1 edgment bv the rank and file of the party, the National Commit-! tee will be ignored as if non-i existent and a new organization, fresh . from, the people, and acknowledging the right of the 4.I hope you asked the count to make himself perfectly at home with, us while visiting in this country." "No." "No! Why not?" "it vrasn't necessary." Chicago Evening Pat. i 1 0 - s - . i 1 mi 't r - ti f i
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