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MARION BUTLER
nat. Chairman
Of tho Peoples Party Eiecutire
Committee His Work In the
Present Great Contest
A NEW FORCE IN POLITICS-
Th, ,.l rarty tli Must I'eifcrt Or-
liilon or am f arllna- Larger la
i,,.r Than Thnt Which Elected
,l Hi first Tlina It Mas Jntro-
i(ll,f, n ! In American I'vlltlra
1f. uutlrr'aChUrWork la to Make E
rJ rr Vote Conot for Bryan
u.eof the very best of monthly
iiin'."'icf'h published ia The li.view
t HeriWt edited by Mr. Albert
Mr. Shaw ha so ably direc-
.i ..-i . r v n-.i
t, i ii 'j oncy t mis magazine uai
c-iiiy it his no superior and takes
r;i:k with the bfst typo of American
.itiuva. ii is ue voted to "topics
ii:j day," gives brief reviews of
riifinit events, and reproduces the
Iv.-r American and foreign cartoons
hat have appeared during the
;ii('iit!i. ;iud many other good fea
tures. It reviews tbe political situa
tion impartially, and its non-partisan
M).,iiinn commends it to all. Tho
October isuo is an unusually good
number. Of tho many interesting
artl Its "Th Three Strategic Chiefs
it ;i. 1. air tat)or in this issue. This
article is divided into threo parts
f.aii. Idea's with a brief sketch of
Maik A. Htnua, chairman of the
t iihlican executive committee, by
Miirat Italstead; part II, with
bh r t tit scription of Jerome K . Jones,
ihiiirman of tho Democratic exocu
live committee, by Willis J. Abbott;
uii'l part III give a narrative of Mar-
i 'i Butler, chairman of the Pooples
i'ury executive, committee. The
article is accompanied with fine half
tone engravings of Mr. 1 1 anna an'
Mr. ItutU r.
Iiik Caucasian reproduces, in
purt, the chapter devoted to Chair
man iJutle::
Murloti If ill lr, Jjr Cnrl Miyiler
of the threo national chairmen
Uutler, tho Populist, ia by odds the
most interesting. Both Mr. Ilanna
and Senator Jones are to the coun
try at largo, new me.;, but they are
not particularly new types. The
Republican party has entrusted its
Civrtimru t, tif miltinnnirn-in-nnli
ticx Veforc. Senator Jones ban thn
Im bcfu chielW notable from the
n intakes he made aud the things
lie hnd better left unsaid. Butler
alone U novel and picturesque. A
country editcr, sprung from the
plain pcopl.i an.l rtareil on a farm,
at .'tf this .young man finds himself
in control of the party machinery of
a political organization larger in
numbers tl an than which elected
Lincoln for the first time; an ac
Knowlotlged leader, and a United
Stntas Senator to boot. Iu his brief
and finite dazzling career he has
fhowu himself a shrewd manipulator
ami a dexterous tactician, with a
genius for success and au unusual
talent for taking advantage of other
men's necessities. There is a grow
ing suspicion that he holds the key
to t lie situation, if there b &uch u
key, on the Democratic-Populist
side, am that even no w h has the
key in the lock and is beginning to
slowly turn it around.
All these things would of them
selves make Uutler quite worth
while. I3ut more than all this, he
ft'tcds as the.rpprec(-pilif,iy' nf
nTCTce which has come iu to
t'liivrtTio ffice" oT
RALEIGH, N. C, THUESDAT, OCTOBER 8, 1896.
a-ar-T;r-T,'j
NO. 4S
htlra and turned th r.artv ;ntJf'
new course. The Chicago platfor
was their work. Hevolutionarv f
it was, it was the single stm, hif I
, -wa
4-OUJU SaV the r.fcrtv frnm I
wreck. Had the Democraev tkpn
an equivalent position upon the iebue
wmcn ropuiism Lad made domi
nant, it wonld have lost the S o u t h .
disappeared from the Weet and been
spurned by the Lst. It would have
onnd itself in the Dosition of tb
Douglas wing of the Democracy in
1HW.
Uut with this Napoleonic ntrnkA
the Populists, when they met in con
vention in St. Louia, found them
selves in a quandary. The Democ
racy had seized their position and
nominated ono of the two men whom
the Populists had already selected
as thair probable candidate. To in
dorse tho Chicatro ticket was to lose
their identity as a party. To nomi
nate a separate ticket was to divide
the eilver strength of the country.
The most prominent leaders foucht
for the former action. Th tempta
tions of power which a united arnr
sEemed to insure weio grs.at. But
tho privates ia the ranks, far more
independent tl.an the privates in po
litical parties usually ate, were not
bo fast.
It wa3 at this juncture that Uutler
of North Carolina came to the front.
His standing iu the party was strong.
Ho had made himself master of his
own State; be wan president cf tho
National Farmers' Alliance; he had
all tho prestige that goes with suc
cess. When he arrived in St. Louis
he had not committed himself. He
had already karned the power that
is often gathered from waiting until
a decisive moment; he had won his
leadership largjy tnrough his abili
ty to gango tho feeling of the ranks
and direct this feeling.
Made temporary chairman of the
convention, in his speech ha phyed
skilfully upon the passions of tho
mas3 and the desires of the leaders.
It was then that with the strength
gained by his foresight in making
himself, so to speak, tho balance of
power, he formulated his plan for
the indorsement of Dryan and the
nomination of a Southern Populist
for second place. The chief leaders,
Weaver, Allen and others, fought
his plan bitterly. But the Tar Heel
statesman carried tho convention
with him by an overwhelming ma
jority; his programme was put
through and Butler found himself at
tho close of the struggle the fore
most man of his party. As a logical
result, he was put iu charge of the
campaign.
This at 33 years of age.
Up to this time it is certain that
Uutler had, outside his own party,
been misjudged and underrated. His
advent in the Senate had tended to
obscure his political talent and craft.
He bad stepped from the editorship
of The Clinton Caucasian to tho
Senate a long btride. It is a mat
ter of history, I believe that on the
gray uecejaoiT day wnen tcis pro
band"
prietor of a village weekly newspa
per dawned npoa Washington, the
dead leaves rustled an;1, the resist
ance spirals f the Weather Bureau
registered a fresh wind. What con
nection thero was between the two is
not clearly eatablishd. But it is cer
tain that on the day mentioned the
venerablo traditions of tho Senate,
faithfully upheld by tho picturesque
old gentlemen who roam about its
halls without being stopped by the
doorkeepers, suffered a rude shock,
like unto the advent of the weirdly
wonderful Tillman. The voice of
the new member was rasping, his
chest capacity largo, his ftyle of
oratory that of the hustings of his
State. And he had a mission- It
was the last perhaps which pained
most. Tho young man came straight
from green Melds and babbling
brooks and his manner was reminis
cent; he was" in earnest, and the
Senate, it is regrettable to s&y is a
sophisticated, and somewhat blase
body. As the day wore on, over the
faces of many of is members crept
a wearied look and they regretted
that anything could have so disturb
ed tho reveries of that delightful
club
It is only fair to say, howesver,
that it soon became apparent that
there was more behind the member
than tho declamatory rustian, as
they regarded it, with which it seem
ed to abound. After a brief season
amoiuextrous nan
Toe farmers were ripo fr revolt
and in the late Leonid ns h. Polk they
found a leader wuobe batracity and
skill in organization should have
had the reward of which they were
cheated by his opportune death.
But the uprising thf.t he had fo
mented and directed lived after him,
and the vacancy which his' death
created was youn Butler's opportu
nity. He had been preparing for it
and when the timo came be seized it.
He was then about twenty-eight
years old and a member cf the State
Senate. He hadbeen elected to that
office when he was twenty-seven.
Mr. Butler himself says that his
political career was entirely an acci
dent, that it was not the one he had
picked ont for himself, and that it
was due almost directly to the death
of his father when the young man was
attending college. He was born and
brought up on a farm and received
the larger share of his early edmea
tion from his mothtr. From her,
with the occasional aid of a neigh
boring afaademy the free kehools of
Noith Carolina are a comparatively
recent innovation he received b.Ls
preparation for the University of
North Carolina. Graduated from
the academic department of that in
stitution, he entered its law school
and was on Lis way to his chosen
profession when he was called home
by his father's demise to undertake
th8 care of the farm and a large and
dependent family.
JIi4 intense ami impetuous energies
could hardly find full employment on
the farm, even though he conducted
an aeademy for the tutoring: of his
own tamily and that of the neighbors,
and a Mtle later became proprietor of
the :l:age weekly newspaper. He
was twenty-five years old and pro
prietor ami director of Thk Clintn
Caucasian, when he joined the newly
organized r aririers' A Iiance.
A supporter of Mr Cleveland in
S?s, the latter's renoinination in (Jhi
eago in J?!2 drove Uutler out of the
Democratic party, and I he Populist
campaign -f that year in his State
found him prominently at the fore,
Though Cleveland carried the State,
the l'opuiists cast -4 4,000 votes, aud a
fusion with the Republicans would
nave neen suceesslul. Jiut all over
tures for a union that year were de
feated by the obstinacy of the chair
man oi tne Kepuoiican committee,
who headed a faction of office-seeking
Republicans who had descended trom
the carpet bag era. Two years ago,
however, Jiutler had not only become
supreme in the councils in his own par
ty, but succeeded in rousing the Jte
publicans to the beneficent results of a
combine, and the two parties "fused."
The campaign that followed was any
thing but like a novel of Henry .lames
and P.ntler was in the thick of the
fray. The Democrats had the count
ing machine, however, and relietS upon
their ability to work that machine in
an appropriate and sulrlciently indus
trious manner to forestall any evi
results. But the day of the election
found every polling place properly
manned by two fusion watchers and
three witnesses, r.very fusion voter
received his ticket from on of the
witnesses, and cast it in their pres
ence; his name was registered in a lit
tie nook, and wnen tne voting was
done the accuracy of the books was at
tested by the witnesses, and they were
mailed to the central committee. It
was for this reason that the counting
machine failed to develop its usual
mysterious capacity for beautiful ma
lorities. Ihe mameuvre was a com
plete surprise, and before the machine
had time to recover the Fusion ticket
was declared elected. There were two
Financial Beforcn Oversnadowa all
Other Issues in This
Campaign.
NO STEADDLING STAUD.
ifTiierican poli
tics, to recast the lines of party di
visions, to introduce new issues and
new ideas and to re-locate the storm
centres of our presidential struggles,
Xo intelligent conception of the
present caiupaien', in fact, ia pos
sible that does rot take into consid
eration the thoroughly dominating in which, like many others, the new
iutluence of the Peoples Party. And Senator from North Carolina seemed
inasmuch as the precise position of to find debate as seductive and in-
tliat organization in this contest is toxicating as an elaborate collection
iiie, whether through luck or leader- of cocktails, he settled to his work.
ship I know not, to Butler's decisive He began to give his antique col-
actiou at the St. Louis convention, it leagues the unpleasant task of think
maybe wall to glance back a little ing about new things, and for this
way and note how events conspired he was not liked. In particular he
to work out an opportunity tor this raised his storm over a bill to pro-
OL. DOCKERY'S
PRONDNCIAHENTO.
acd under ta iabjet No b-ntflt
o Labor," referticg to ilver, fol
lows: It would not make labor eair,
ihe boars of labor shorter, or the
pay better. It would not make farm
ing Ies laborious or more profitable.
. . .
BFSESH SEVERE WIND AUD
and that nobody tioU so ofT5.-r erpt
lor io innr of tbe ttitcr. It you are
a roldbug ot that ticket, if not donl
tullifj jour principle by heiplof to
put a Koiauuf in any tort of o office. I
RAIN STORU.
would not start a factory ncr make would remind Republican, that free
The IocoDnlatcDcy of Soma of The So-call
ed Leader of Th Kpablican Part
Hit Ihey lleen HannaSzed Crgta Tha
Month and Weat to Stand Firm and Ite
dacm Tha Varna of Tha Sat Ion Tha Hal
lot Oar Fawcr.
To Tin Votrt of North Carolina:
Mangum, N. C, Sept. 30. Iu
view of the complicated political
conditions by which we are surround
ed I deem it proper to state fully asj
position.
I believe the approaching election
is the most important one that you
have been called upon to participate
in. Whatever may oe the result the
strong common-sense of the man
hood of America will array ltsulf on
that side which believes in the arbi
trament of the ballot, and while this
election may not be accepted as fi
nal, recourse will continue to be had
to the ballot, until prejudice, ignor
ance and precious thought shall have
been eliminated from the contest
and by a process of judicious reas
oning one side has gained a perma
nent victory. Tne silver forces
will not disband. It is a battle of
the great common people for the
people's money and their standard
will never be furled until tho victory
is won and they are prosperous
i mancial reform overshadows all
other issues in this campaitru, and
until that is settled the people can
not be driven or cajoled into politi
cal by-ways. Who that is not foj
the rehabilitation of silver is against
it, nor can a profession i. fvor of
silver to-day and for gold ? ' r r next
March hoodwink even the i.msi ig
norant. Ihe issue is squan ly with
us and must bo squarely met.
I am a silver Republican, and as
euch am constrained to east my vote
for Bryan for President as only
feasible way to secure the tree coin
age of silver, and with this declara
tion goes my support of every man
down to constable who is favorable
to that cause. I fail to see any hon
esty in a genuine silver man sup
porting a goldbug for President or
for any other office whereby he may
be enabled to further retard the
course of silver money.
Unlike Mr. McKinley, I have not
changed my views on this question.
Only about four years ago, in Con
gress, he voted for silver today he
Miter ia one of tbe to oat chrrtUd
principle of the Populist Party, and
aUo t hat but f or tLia party aame Re
publican would not have made aucb
an ut)emlj acramble for nomination.
Tbe uden autimiertautU and fliruj
reafona therefor can only be equalled
by Rusaell'a audacity in aevkinc the
opport of a rrf wborn he denounced
in in declining to run on tbe Re
publican ticket, a -largely aavacea
ana rogwr How can any aelf-re-
pectir g cole red man endorae him
will not the brand of avar and tbirf
ne inderareably atampod upon hi
brow? Won't he be a at-lf-admitted
high privilege
-Truth is irreaiatable In a time when
public confidence ia badly thaken:
the people' meature of onnreaion.
misery, tnMeadit.gs and disappoint
ments Ufull: a a ito in a time when
the tall of fate ha fallen into the
ea7 re&Ph of almost every honest and
patriotic citizen, and when there is in
telligence and w isdom enough to put
it in motion."
The ballot is your power sfrt that
ball in motion and secure your disen-
thrallment.
Reyperf fully,
O. II. 1,h aKUY.
THE REMEDY FOR THE DISEASE.
Let all la Favor of Fiac Hlltar la I'nitod
Vote For Uome and Country t It row off
The Sharkleacf KrIIUh Mm.
Vote
unknown politician to put himself at
the front.
A year ago the Democracy found
itself between the Devil, as personi
fied in Mr. Cleveland, and the dark
deep waves oi annihilation and
weet forgetfulness. Under the
Preuident'a leadership, the party had
beep forced into positions antago
nistic to its natural tendencies, and
ia much more important antagonism
to the sentiments of its rank and
tile. The Populists, with a compact,
earnest and aggressive organization,
were forcing financial issues to the
fore. The tariff, pension?, the Force
hill, and their antique kindred were
growing decrepit and decayed. As
political issues they were back num
bers. Meanwhile the Democracy
had sustained heavy losses in the
Kouth and was quite fading from
view in the West. Alarmed at the
shadow of free silver, the business
interests of the country wore grow
hibit the further issue of bonds,
without the sanction of Congress.
He had other measures designed to
prevent a recurrence of the famous
or "infamous" bond deal.. He sought
to have convened a constitutional
convention which should reform the
Supreme court's conception of the
validity of the income tax, and he
raisfd another storm by his amend
ment providing for a trial by jury in
such cases as that of the recent Mr
Debs in Chicago. In behalf of these
measures, he spoke often and long,
incidentally quoting from Jefferson,
whom be took for his political mas
ter, in a way that gave additional
weariness and pain to the comely
old irentlemen who for years had
been prattling of their Jeffersonian
Democracy. Altogether, they were
hot times, in which, nevertheless, I
fear the young man from North
Carolina experienced a deep and in
sidious joy. Butler is a fighter, and
United htates benatorships for the
legislature to choose, and of these Mr.
Uutler appropriated the long one and
gave to a KepuDiican any, .leter u.
l'ritchard, the short.
Of Rutler's work in the present con
test, the public has heard but little.
You will remember that the first bril
liant blunder of Jones was to invite
the Populists "to go with the negroes,
where they belong." A little later
Jones learned of his mistake. It is
clear now that without the full strength
of the Populist party, Bryau cannot
he elected. To swing this full strength,
to concentrate it, to fuse with the
Democracy and free silver Republi
cans at every possible point in a
word, to make every free silver vote
count, has been Butler's chief task.
He had no party to educate. At the
beginning of this campaign, the Pop
ulists were really the only men who
actually knew what they were about
The Republican and Democratic com
mittees report an enormous demand
for literature for educational pur
poses. It is a part of the fact that this
campaign is being fought on l'opulis
tic issues that the Peoples Party com
mittees have felt no such demand
But the work of fusion has been far
from easy. It has bad to deal with the
most diverse situations, the strongest
antagonisms, the most deep seated
prejudices. For the task was required
all that knowledge of human nature
and ability to play upon its weaknesses
and its passions which is allotted to
the subtlest of men. In my interview
with him in Washington, Butler gave
me a graphic sketch of the situation
ie said:
"ou will understand mat every
ifferent section, indeed almost every
State, has presented a different prob-
em. In the far West the fopulist
strength has been drawn from the Re
publicans: in the South from the Dem
ocracy; in the middle and Northern
Stalls from both. More or less, in
many sections, the man who broke
with ins Old party and joined our
ranks has been under a ban. He has
been subjected to every sort of perse
cution, petty and great, that it was in
apprehensive and were turning he has that pleasing quality which
to tho Republican party as their goes to make the thorny path of the
natural ally. Iu spite of the frantic innovator and revolutionist less irri
fforts of the Republican leaders to tating than it is to the most he does
prevent it, the country was forming not know when he is thrashed.
m two divisions, with the money A turbulent spirit in the Senate
inestion as the line of cleavaze: the I in the St. Louis convention, as
Republican party was forced to be- said, he showed his craft. It -was
come the champion of gold: the these two qualities which his politi-
champions of silver were the Popu- cal career up to this time had tended
hsts. It was then that the Demo- chiefly to develop. The pohtica
Tatic leaders betran to ask them- school in which he had been tutored
selves: Where do we come in! was a stormy one. He entered the
They did not come in. Divided on arena about at the inception of that
the single vital issue of the hour, movement which was to disrupt the
d thrust into an anomalous posi- old Bonrbcn regime m the South
"on by their adherence to Cleveland- irwas simply tne struggi
isuf, the Democracy was simply be- of the newer element, the younger
lnK ground between the upper and mell, umtlUU Willi the farmers
tether millstones. To shift the met- aeainst the old oligarchy that had so
Phor, it was at this point that a long held the political power of that
new set of leaders boldly seized the section in the hollow of its capacious
stands for the gold standard and for
all the evil it carries along with it.
I Lave never been, for the gold
standard, and while I regret the ne
cessity which compels me to sever
my connection temporarily with a
party that has honored me. and one
which I have gone out in all weath
ers to serve, yet my conscience tells
me it is right in order to secure the
end in view financial reform at the
hands of the friends, not the enemies,
of silver. Furthermore, in advo
cating this cause I do not feel lone
some in company with a Grant, a
Blaine, a Matthews, a Teller, a Du
bois, and even a McKinley up to four
years ago. JNor do l consider niyseil
more of a traitor than the aforesaid
illustrious Republican statesmen, and
McKin ley's eye-servants and satel
lites, Pritchard, Pearson and Rus
sell, who within a twelve months
were setting the woods afire for free
silver, but having been Hannaized
are now goldbugs. Only last spring
their cry was McKinley and silver,
and it is well known that a goldbug
had little chance to bo elected as a
delegate to the St. Louis convention
'the aforesaid combination swept
this State and went to St. Louis for
silver. Whv this precipitous change
of base? How much brazen effront
ery does it require to denounce oth
ers who did not go to St. Louis to
become hypnotized by Hanna in a
short interview and then flop over to
the gold standard?
At our State convention just one
month before, the platform, a crea
tion of Senator Pritchard, and sup
posed to be inspired from Ohio said:
"weravor the use of gold and
silver as standard money and the
restoration of silver to its functions
and dignity a3 a money metal."
Whereas the creation of Hanna at
fho h net" ri f t lifl trt A CT7Hniiata qdvc
"We are unalterably opposed to
every measure calculated to debase
our currency or impair the credit of
our country. We are, therefore, op
posed to the free coinage of silver
except by international agreement
a demand for an additional day's la
wor. it wonld not add to tbe com
fort of the masses, the capital of
tbe people or the wealth of the na
tion." If McKinley wat right then he is
wrong now, but tbe syndicate made
him take his medicine and bis hench
men here who went to St. Louis for
silver gladly say me too'7 and want
what was left of this medicine.
How about Senator Pritchard's
record? Ia a speech in Congress,
he said; "I am a friend of silver and
believe it should be RESTORED to its! outcast unworthy the
uijdu) jj a precious metal." And l rnwpuip:
he signed a paper with Senators
Toiler, Mantle, Dubois and other
Republican Senators declaring that,
"-(ie unlimited coinage of silver at
16 to 1 by the independent action
of the United -tales" is the only
methed possible of securing tho peo
ple of the United Slates from the im
pending danger of the difference of
exchange between gold standard
countries.
Her.atcr Pritchard further said:
"I have proved my loyalty to the
causa of silver by my vote in the
Senate. My record will parallel
Senator Butler' on that great and
vital question. They rtlleec not only
the SKNTIMENT OF THE PEOPLE THAT
I REPRESENT but they EXPRESS MY
honest convictions and my honest
PURPOSE TO SECURE AN AMERICAN
system of finance.
Bat the Senator also said October
17, 1SU5: "I consider that free trade
and gold monometallism are twin
brothers, and he who courts gol
monometallism invites the disasters
which must follow in tho wako of
free trade."
The Senator might now add that
the McKinley plank now favoring
a continuance of civil service is an
other free idea imported from Eng
land. But when was the Senator con
scientious on the money question
then, or now when he is trying to
switch off on the tariff, well knowing
that no tariff brings employment in
the protected cotton factories to a
single one of the 100,000 North Caro
lina negroes. The Senator's views
on the money question have like
wise been shared by Pearson, Rus
sell and others who are for McKin
ley, and also by Walser who unfort
unately occupies a straddling atti
tude on the co-operation ticket in
the hope of fooling both Republi
cans and Populists out of an office.
I have shown you not only the in
consistencies of some of the so-called
leaders but also that they have been
very favorable to the 5a cent dollar
until recently. But as to the 53 cent
doll? was it not amenable to the
same. tVuarge in 1883 when McKinley
voted for free coinage, and was it not
on same grounds equally to be dis
credited in 1892 when McKinley so
ably defended silver? "What became
of this charge only a few months ago
when Pritchard, Pearson and Russell
so gallantly espoused the cause of the
white metal? They claim to be Repub
lican leaders, now" what sort of a de
vious lead is this?
mi c 4- : .j . : . : ,
ucuiuucu... u conflict before us is wonderful, but
ver bullion. When that infamous le.1 3 faht valiantly and be drawers
act was surreptitiously passed the sil- o water and hewers of wood no
ver dollar was worth more than the longer. Our homes are the unity of
gold dollar, but since then it has been I the church, society and schools.
steadily declining, and now, when sil
ver has been discredited by the gov
ernment, refused mintage and the law
for its payment of government obliga
tions openly violated, the demand lor
it has decreased and the bullion has
alueonly for use in the art9 it is no
longer a money metal.
Remonetize it, admit ittothe mints,
coin it into the standard dollars and
then contrast the money value of each
metal. If conditions were reversed
and the seal of condemnation set on
gold, and silver alone was honored,
then indeed would like results follow.
The people should see to it that the
jugglers and their henchmen, the pie
counter fellows keep their hands oil
the money of our fathers.
Bismarck, the wisest statesmen in
Europe, advises America to get it
alone, take the lead and other nations
will-follow.
Shall we longer submit to the selfish
greed of England whose statesmen de
clare that as she is the creditor nation
ot the worm aeDis muse oe paia in
gold. Ours is a debtor nation and our
people are alarmingly embarrassed by
this monied strain upon their every
interest this destruction of the money
in which they might pay their indebt
edness. How need we' fear results
with our abundant "resources, our un
rivalled facilities and our unprece
dented vim and push?
We want and must have good money
no sane man thinks or desires other
wise; and the term sound money is
merely a catch phrase used by dem
agogues for purposes of deception.
if, then, the gold stanaard has pros
Sweep. Th Atlantic Cout Froa
Floridi to Maine Much Dn
age Djoe.
GREAT LOSS OF LIFE.
Cf M '(-- bark C,
tCwfN.,r,, bart K.
ei. atdt tital ka ..f
Robert Tarter. The sleaa
re
i Mel.
o.
For The Caucasian. 1
Warsaw, N. C, Sept. '1.1.
for liberty and freedom.
rour and two years ago, I took
upon myself the star of banner aud
fought for freedom and liberty. And
to-day 1 am wot king for the same
principles, and hope to obtain that
freedom and liberty, that God creat
ed us with. We, tbe laboring people
of America, have become poor by
classic legislation and goldbug rule.
But may that not be so always? Let
the oppressed and laboring people
vote together and come from under
goldbug rule, and be a free people in
a free country, as Washington de
clared us. Goldbugs say that we
don't need any more money to make
us a prosperous people but that it
is only a lack of confidence. They
(our opponents) are widely dissemi
nating such foolish talk as that
among the hard oppressed people.
How silly it is. It is intended mere
ly to deceive. The hand is that of
Esau, but the voice is that of Jacob.
Isaac was deceived on account of his
being blind. Populists (Isaac) are
not blind, though these modern Ja
cobs think so. There was some ex-
cuse for Jacob's having deceived his
father, becsuse hsau bad sold him
his birth-right; but these modern
Jacobs have not bought Populists
birth right. They (our enemy) are
only attempting deception without
any excuse, or even a decent pretext.
Brother laborers, let us pull togeth
er, and carry out these measures that
are pending upon us. Our rights
and privileges have been taken
away by goldbugs, trusts and com
bines. May it not be so al way s. There
is a remedy for every disease; and
let's apply the medicine at once. The
till 14 al aaaaaat ril
at4 f hat fcaartf t.fro) f ria
"r llrof4-rirMa a4 .
alaftaSTvr Mxt-IW Hlmn't l-trs.
Uo Wh la BlAlvtgh lthaa
krur Kaawrta rraaa Muf fstata.
The greatrat strtu we Lave bad ia
several year r a ;d in Ka'eih lait
Tuerday iveniog. Toe rain was a
coraDted by a tcrnfle wind
ereaticg havoc and d -iig dam
age to ptotn-rty anJ tre-a fn-
er.lly. luestira was rj'vt a-ver .
from b.. to S:3. Tre a art r blown
down, fences loppb dovir. sign at
railing up the street and all manner
of damage done.
Tte stteefa were blocked with
fallen trees, limbs anJ ttlcgraph anJ
telephone wires, making it almost
impossible for ;tdetrian to walk.
On Kayettcvillc and other bus
int s rtrtets awnings were tore au 1
tattered. The wind blt-w with great
velocity, sweeping all ma"l objectj
bwfore it.
Many buildings were cnrcnifed
during the stotm. The matket boue
roof was damaged very badly, the
tin roofing on one side eing nearly
all torn away. The roofs to the Var
horo and Park hotels and other
buildings in the city were more or
less damaged.
V?athtr officer Von Herman re
ports that the galo traveled at a ve
locity of 110 milts an hour. A few
years ago the wind blew at the rate
of 'i'J miles per hour, which was the
most severe wind storm ever known
in Raleigh.
I a Tha Cwuaiy.
The itorm was not so severe in
tbe eastern part of tbe county, but
all reports from other sections tell of
great destruction of property. Mauy
farmers report that the wind strip
ped the fields of cotton. One farm
er reported that the ground was
covered in his section with loore
cotton, and the fields presrted the ap
pearance of a snow. Trees were
blown down and farm houses iuinr-
ed.
A sad aud diotreising story comes
from St. Matthews' township mar
(iarner. when one of tbe strong
est blasts of wind was expending its
fury, a giant oak gave way to the
force of the elements and fell on tbe
house of Mr. C. N. Trice. The weak
timbers cf tbe house gave way be
fore the tiee, which crashed in on
Mr. Trice, his wife and little bod.
Mr3. Trice who had just retired was
caught by flying timbers and crush
ed to death. Mr. Trice and little
son, who were sitting Dear the fire
place, were knocked to the floor
when the house gave in, but their
injuries were only slight and they
managed to find the way ont from
under tbe wreckage.
At Other Polntala Tha Htnla.
At Durham A terrible wind and
rain storm struck here last night
causing considerable damage. The
large prize house of W. T. Carring
ton which contained about half a
million pounds of leaf tobacco com
pletely collapsed and ii an entire
wreck.
The following is a lif t of the fac
tories unroofed by tbe storm: Black-
wells factory, about two-thirds ot
the roof blown eff, Z. I. Lyon To
bacco Works partially unroofed, R.
F. Morris k Son Manufactory Com
pany completely unroofed. Last
Durham and Pearl Cotton mills roof
badly damaged and partially un
roofed. T. D. Jones prize bouse, one-third
roof cone. Several stores on Main
street were slightly damaged and a
number of trees and small sbantiea
were blown down.
The storm created a great deal of
damage at Louisburg. The immense
tobacco warehouse constructed last
summer was knocked down by tbe
wind. Tbe warehouse was well filled
with tobacco and tbe damage done
will run up in the thousands.
At Henderson tbe storm was very
destructive. A large tobacco ware
house was knocked down there.
taof racrd. of fUarh a&4 MAlr
lite. crtaaJ ta Co;r ne.. atd
all era'ts bava a3rl aawa. taaay
fi'.Mta Uacss a4 mail a.bf
veaaal bavlaff &te out to .
Jaa!U.a. , Sert. .h
is a et.rratia ntta.u t aat
that fifty peo, ! U. Uat taa.r l,,.
froa ;eirr Jay'a bamraa aJ tt
B amber bia j ran tnaeb lifter.
Tia LatrteA&e struck a: I'edar
K).acdtt reprtta sbow Ik at it
passed m its iata f 4tret)oa
over Ivt-ttT tot. and vdlac. as4
that Win-o thirty aai fvr.y f-ror-U
wer Lilied.
Am a tbe ha iat4 tiaort;; da
strcclioo aa eonttaued. At Kola
tna. near the Uktfeaokr Hwmp.
ice school bout wieckad at.J
!fer children killed. Several rao
a i'ua are rrpvM trd in Camden roan.
ty.ia.
T.ie tin ttfi xu'.i3n J , j,
way t Brunswick i'a ait.t .
Tncre is t r,imI of the loas t
j rcpeMy iu Florida. Tn lo say
eem heavier now than the wiil
when mare clvaely eaaau&eu, but
tbe talk amorv iuiuraac mm her
is that Pior.da lost about iJ.UJ.i"aj.
This eesoxs Lnnr, aa eirar
atiauate.
with the leading commercial na- trated j our dear interests, of what
tions of the world, which we pledge
ourselves to promote, and until such
. i i. i .
agreement can do ontamea tne ex
isting gold standard must be preserved."
a
Mr. McKinley in a speech by him
in the Presidential campaign of 1892,
the province of his neighbors to be- before the Ohio Republican league,
. f at i- . l - a- , ' t A I l- -a s- - . .
fctowr. In the South it was social ostra
cism; in the West if a man had a debt
ie was harassed with it if he could be.
Everywhere, alike in social and busi
ness relations tbe Populist has been at
a disadvantage, lie is only human if
many times it has made him bitter
At any rate it has served to deepen
the hostility natural to political con
tests, and when we have come to eflect
a union of all these estranged and an
tagonistic elements we have had to
deal with the strongest passions of
human nature. A man's devotion to
his party may be great, but he is only
human if'his enmities prove stronger.
"1 urthermore, tbe Populist has been
a sore oi political Parian, xo aeai
with us now and accord us the rights-
to which our present power and num
bers entitle us is often a sore blow to
in speaking of Mr. Cleveland said
"During all his years at the head
of the government, he was dishon
oring one of our precious metals, one
of our great products, discrediting
SILVER AND ENHANCING GOLi."
"He was determined to contract
the circulating medium and demone
tize one of the coins of commerce,
limit the volume of money among
the people, make money scarce and
THEREFORE DEAR.
"HE WOULD HAVE INCREASED THK
VALUE OF MONEY AND DIMINISHED
THE VALUE OF EVERYTHING ELSE.
MAKING MONEY THE MASTER AND
EVERYTHING ELSE ITS SERVANT. He
was not thinking of the 'poor' then.
He had left 'their side. He was not
standing forth in 'their defense'
and dear
remedial use will the election of Mc
Kinley De when he proposes to pursue
the line of policy dictated by Wall
street shylocks?
The effort to maintain the present
gold standard under Cleveland has al
ready cost the people two hundred and
sixty two million dollars in bonds
which will hang as a mortgage over
your children for generations to come.
Let us come back to genuine bimetal-
Omnes inter conttat, that the above is
true. Let us heed the warning. Gcd
demands us to protect our homes;
yes, our wives demands it of us,
our children demand it of us our
neighbors demand it of us; lastly, our
country demands it of us. Thjn,
let us decorate and attune our hearts
and be kind towards one another.
Let U3 work to subdue ourselves
from the wilderness of nature, onco
so beautiful, now so weed-grown,
and become a good, loving and use
ful people. Work brings success
home or abroad. Populists should
take a delight, a pride, a stiength,
yes, a deep and active interest in
working for their rights. Jefftrson
said, "The men who controlled the
money controlled the country." Such
is the case, but it is not right; and
we should fight against it.
In 1S70 we had something near 50
dollars per capita; cow abcut 4 dol
lars per head. What is the matter?
We are paying Ureat Britain about
150 millions of dollars interest an
nually. That is one cause of pro
duce being cheap and the dollar
dear. Then we have a decrease of
currency in circulation. In 1894 we
had a decrease of fifty-nine millions.
In 1895 ninety-one millions. Total
amount in circulation for the two said
years one hundred and fifty millions.
Instead of there being a decrease of
currency, there should have been an
increaso. To be a prosperous peo
ple we should have an increase of
currency in proportion to the in
crease of people. Admitting that
to be true, we would have had about
fifty millions of dollars increase
making a total gain of currency in
circulation more than we already
1 I J 1 1 A . -
nave, one nuuureu sum awwiiy urn- ComDanv and two pril;rie of J. A
iAna taf ran a nr Trio ciin vfiora i n a r i .
in part accounts for hard times.
Wahhin..tn. I. C. Sept. X Re
ports received tb; tuoinig fioiu the
suburban t "to about b:3fftoii
show that gieat dania'e was dot.
tbroug!itut the surroccdiOa ejastry.
At the Citbo!i UniTtrmty, ;ut at
side the city, tbe do tut cry in prt
cem f d'structijn wa drroi)Led.
The train sued at AUia&dna was
Idowu down aid tbe debris is aeioaa
theltacki llcnc- the ttaias tbatl eft '
Washington lateUat afternoon left
over the Southern Ra Jway and tbe
Chesapeake and "Ui". Three ttaias.
due in Waatiiogtoy this m rnitg
from Southern t lata va the South
ern, Chesapeake A. hio and Allan
tic Coast Line, bate not teen beaid
from ard ate stopped at soma oiLt
south of Alexandria.
Iu this city the Papal Legation
was unroof eat.d thet'binoe Lega
tion was damaged about tlVM.
Communication by telegraph and
teUpbone within the city is practi
cally stopped.
Tbe Wbito House was tdiphtly in
jure I by lh storm, a orUon ot tbe
topper roofing bing strippM off
ard other damage done. The tall
Iltg ntsff fiom which tbe signal was
given to tbe city that tb President
was in town disappeared completely.
In tbe beautiful gronu Is surronud
tog tbe bouse tw'nty fiv of tbe
splendid trees, elms, sy canon a, wal
nuts, magnolias, ioiud of historical
association, were coro letely level
ed, whiU fully fifty of tbe surviving
tres suffertHl the toss of their tops
and principal branches and are
permanently defaced.
Tbe vast pile, occupied by the
State, War and Navy departments,
wa touched on tb southern side by
the storm and lost tortious of its
roofing and many of the slates, while
a structure erected by th Signal
Service for the study of clouds, was
partially demolished. Tbe Naval
observatory building suffered in tbe
same fashion to tbe extent of about
1,A;0. At the Washington tavy
yard tbe big ship bouse was partial
ly unroofed and tbe gun shops were
damaged slightly by stripping of tbe
roof.
Richmond, Va.f Ktpt. 20. Tbe
city of Staunton, in tbe Shenandoah
valley, was .visited by a terrible
flood to-day. Many lives were lost
and great dasage done to property.
Tbe great storm of yesterday caused
tbe lake to rut and flood tbe city.
All the watet courses in the vrJley
became ragitg torrents and over
flowed tbeir banks, carrying de
struction in tbeir paths.
Tbe water invaded tbe lower
portion of tbe city, rising ra;idly
that many wtr unable to escape in
time and were drowned.
The entire Atlantic coast, tbe great
lakes and tbe Eastern States gener
ally, suffered severely by tbe wind
and ra:n storm of Tuesday night and
Wednesday morning. The greatest
aggregate losi was in Pennsylvania,
the storm being general throughout
that State. Tne known loss of life,
due diiectly or indirectly to tbe
storm, ii so far about twenty. Tbe
property loss will aggregate millions.
For a period one minute ia Wash
ington the wind attained a velocity
Last night between tho hours of 0 o e;ghty mil(., an h()ar
and 9 o'clock Roxboro was the vic
tim of a most terrific storm. Trees,
houses and fences yielded to its pow
erful sweep and this morning fouDd
the town in a deplorable condition.
The large prize house of Foushee
and Stephens, containing about
$12,000 worth of fine tobacco, was
completely demolished. An acjoin-
intr Brizerv of J. J. Brooks was also
swept away. Tbe Alliance prizery
was likewise blown entirely down,
The heaviest single loss was in the
destruction of tbe big Pennsylvania
Railroad bridge across the Sutque
hanna Rivtr at Colombia, Pa. Tbe
bridge was bailt in lbG9 at a cost of
fl.0U0.00U.
The telegraph and telephone Mr
rice within the storm area was badly
crippled.
The U. S. Weather Bareau says:
'The Path of tbe sttrtn across the
There is a big combat before ns.
lism the mintage of both gold and sil- Capitalists, trusts and combines are
We hope to check them
against us.
on election day. We must have pe
cuniary relief. We may work upon
our farms until we become old and
decrepit, but it will not avail ns
much until we come out and fight
manfully for our rights and win the
battle; then we will be freed from
even carrying with it the brick nn- Caribbean Sea atd tbe Ualf was not
i i fTi i - at t. : I
aerworit. ioe large lour-siory pr.te i D(ar ecoagb to any of ow stations
house of the Amenean J.oiaccoft rive anv intimtion of its violent
hriitr. onlv liirht to fresh winds
Long were also shaken from their being reported from that regioa dor
base, one losing- its roof and the oth- ing iu paMsre. After it rtrack in
er two bing so dislocated as to ren- on tbe west Florida coast, how
der them dangeront. It is thought eTer. and during its movement north
they will have to be rebuilt. One WArd through the south and middle
of the churches was severely 'dam- Atlantic fcutei, it contracted in area
aged by the falling of a tree across and developed almost toraadie foree,
the roof. The depot and one t the ean,jnjp great destrnctioa alone iks
warehouses were partially unroof 1 d. patb.
The total los is estimated at Velaeitien of 5 miles occurred at
about $20,000. Most of the. loss is Charleston. 42 at Wilmington. 40 at
the pride of political leaders, many of
whom vcp nave unnorsed and relegated
to private life. In States like Ala- Cheap coats, cheap labor
bama, Texas and Kentucky, we have
heenl trying to onng togetner men
who ja year ago were fighting each
ot.hpr! t.i tha ilooth Tn soma other
State's we have bad similar difficulties.
But in tbe whole, our success has been
gratifying, and I doubt if we shall lose
a sirigle IState through our failure to
coalesce all the adherents of free sil
ver.
"me result will, 1 think, prove a
surprise. You must remember in the
(Continued on third page.)
ver tne metais 01 the constitution, the
money of our fathers and the poor
man's only acquaintance and friend.
Dear money makes cheap labor, cheap
products, cheap clothing, cheap food
and a cheap people. Dear money
makes it easier for the few to control
the masses. Already our country is
.-ji- , : -1 .
r m 111 1 1 1 im iiiv iim iiruki 1 wwmm iii .11 1 111. 1 n.Ti la nun wh w ill kim rm mM I mill
mensely prosperous peSple through the e'nemv. We are enslaved and eovere,i "7 tornado insurance, w ork-1 xtlantie City, and 5G at New York.
the concentration of all money into shackled by goldbugs, trusts and com- me.? re " wox TCPlTlDK re" The maximum velocity at wa-bins;-the
hands of a few men and the con-K;i a a .i,.ii i,., kbuuding. I ton was 00 mile for fire mi a a tel.
sequent destruction of the great mid- , . G d f ..j Q JfaTmB Tb.hu.r-n. orai. d abfat go je, iot one ainnte.
die class,the backbone of every coun- "set UCd lorDia. uar tanas 2nThe Information of the approach of the
: 1 i j i 11. h.n;..Tii;.k ir nr.. Kin. I atnrm was ant to tha Oall porta on
paup . . I &. .. , V 1 , . ... .-5 - I u . J . ....I. . k (h an', tha ihinn:ne in that rs.
The west and South must come to- ciotnea, our aeots getting Digger in-1 du jw:tuy ai uwu, v.v " -1 - --- ,, rr 7"
getherand redeem the fame of the stead of less; all on account of there dozen Uvea and entailed a financial gion wax ktpt loair inxormoa 01 us
Nation by securine the enactment of v.ir.. too littlivmonevin e.ire.nlation A loas of nearly $1,000,000. Each re-1 movement on the 27th and J3n ana
wise, just and equal laws for all citi- to do the business of the country. II port that ia received is worse than the
anneal to all Populists to stand firm. laat. At first it was thought only
. a ww nun s'ancinaTiTini wi nm inariAfi ins wat a m m m a a . at a
money. He the sponsor and pTomo-1 f"B.,rtT,n;,h . -7.V;'"T I and vote for your candidates; from one deatn wouia oe tne resuu 01 we
ter of these, professing to stand ,?;f-ai? i.es iLiiTJJ Pnaident down to constable. For a hurricane, but the number has in-
guard over the poor and lowly! Was Lnt. it vn iiin ffi.n; ,n.t.ni.a.f change of finance we must have. I creased until there are eleven people
there ever more glaring INCON- nublic dereneracv and" debancherT otherwise suffer the desolation that reported dead. Manr prominent
sistency or reckless assumption I ever characterized the later days of I seems to be in the near future. 1 1 buildings were damagtd, while ban
He blievs that poverty is a blessing I the Roman Empire than we have late-1 most gladly welcome all silver Dem-1 dreds of residences are injured and
ocrats and Republicans who are I tne most oeauuini trees in ue enj
friendl v with the Ponnlists to come I are down.
over and yote with us. We want The lost to shipping will amount
more money and better times. Sac- to over f 100,000. The .most serious
cess to The Caucasian.. casualty was tbe capsizing in mW
E. L. Gavin. stream of the Savannah, river of tho
to be promoted and encouraged and I ly witnessed in the Hannaizing sya-
thftt n. chiHnlrn cra in th n rf a-ravc- ui auuuicu iu our country.
thing but money is a national bene- When moDJ is Plentiful the people
faction are prosperous, not otherwise. If you
1 action. have plenty of money go ahead and
In his letter Of acceptance Mr. heln the shTloc.ka mak that mnnev
McKinley says, near the beginning harder for others to get and therefore
warned that it was not safe to leave
pert for ttbe eastern GulL'
in CLUBS OF TEH 0
PER COPT IQG.PBl COPTd
DURIHQ THS CAHPAICB. X