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Vol. No. 2709
CONCORD, N. C. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 15 1898
Whole No 11795
HONESTLY CONVINCED. shaker, as by a storm with the grow-1
What a Franklin Populist Hays of the J 6 oiaciigm kjl tmo juuog giant.
in ift ornis party-Appeals to His Both the old parties loofced in alarm
I'ellOWS. Pa f tlio innrooainn linoi n(
To the Voters of Franklin County : -
t i l t anoycu. bxjciuociYUB ueneatu oar Dan-
civ T-onra aim I left tn TiAirtn.l '
u u ner. In the declared purpose of our
cratic .party and became a member . . ,
i t j t .. . bautik muiy was tne promise or
of the newly organized Populist . J r
My purpose in doing this 0
Suddenly in NorthCarolina, seem
parly.
nrrA and natriaho. I believed
. A - . ni k Jingly without cause, certainly with
that it represented the best set of n J ' 3
v I H 4. T a " J
i j i. - j iv i. i ir iwufc c&uuee, i saw mis parry, wnicr
principles and had the best platform ! i . Ji
which any political party had ever
promulgated. 1 believed that in it
was the hope of deliverance from the
domination of Wall street and or.
cran:zed capital. I believed that the
Democratic party under Cleveland's
administration, was unsafe, and that
it was fostering the brood of trusts
and combines thathad grown up
nnder Republican regime. I saw that
slowly and surely trie single gold
standard was being fastened upon
the country, and that Democracy,
nnder Cleveland, was permitting this
work of ruin and robbery to proceed.
To my mind Populism was a protest
against the iniquity and ring rule of
both t:e dominant old parties.
I have no apoligies to make for
party are not in the organization for
for the sake of office, and they can
I hardly realize that they have been so
bitterly deceived and betrayed by
their leaders. , V
This fall another election will be
held, making four in which the
Populist party has participated since
birth. Aagain we are called upon
to violate and belie every solemn
declaration of our platform, a&d to
fuse with and vote for gold bug Re
publicans and incompetent negroes.
This will make three elections out of
four in which we have been sold out
traded away and trafficked for like
chattelSjin which we have been asked
to vote for men whoee lives and pos
I saw men professing the same j litical principles are a flat contradict
principles which I held, and more tion to every line of our platform.
vehement in their utterance than I I know not how it may be with
had ever been, vote for gold bugs, the others voters in Franklin ceun
and barter their party's honor away ty, but as for me I have made up
with no thought of anything save my mind that no man with an atom
the pie. counter at which they were of self respect, no man who is hot-
being fed. lest with himself ana who votes irom
I saw them deliberately abandon I principle and patriotism, can follow
their platform, disavow their prin- these treacherous leaders any longer,
ciples, unite on equal terms with I have Itf t the Populist party, es
thete life long enemies the Repub- actly as I joined it, for the sake of
licans and leave the few of us who principle. 1 solemnly appeal to all
boasted a purity unknown to both
the old parties, begin a system of
trading and trafficking in political
honor and principle, more degraded
and more disgusting than has ever
before disgraced any political organis
zation in the world.
wvins uccu a x uFu4i0w. , nnll-nai intparitv without eood. honest' white men : to all the
joined the mrty it was, in my judg- 7 1 I, ' , v,
nii tr nail Wai in nnV Porm or party.
national affairs, and to change in our
ever increasing tendency towards the
despotiem of a heartless plutocracy.
,1 was born and bred a Democrat,
and inherited a hostility for and a
repugnance to Republicanism. For
the teaching and tenets of that party
1 have neither sympathy nor toleras
tion. Its trend toward centraliza
tion, and its record of corruption in
State and nation, have- deepened my
enmity toward it, till there is not
one doctrine that It holds in harmony
with my views. 1 left the Demo
cratic party, as did thousands of
others in tne State, because it was
growing under. Cleveland, more and
more like the Republican party. Its
financial policy was exactly similar
to the financial polioy of . John
Sherman and when, under the whip
and spur of President Cleveland, it
finally struck silver its death blow, I
joined with the political party that
was born of this incident. I did
Dot unite with .Populists to fiht the
Democrats only, but the slogan of
our party was to do battle to all
political organizations which did not
stand on our platform and espouse
cur yiews. The Republican party,
the author of all our ills,5 was our
arch enemy in the conflict.
I made the campaign in Franklin
county, in 1892, you will remember,
a3 the nominee of the Populist party
for the office of Sheriff. I entered
the fight, and carried the bur
den of the whole ticket, with the
profound conviction that l was
right, and I believe now, that in its
origin and first existence, the Popu
list party was right.
The central and main pank m
our platform was the reformation of
our finaccee, especially the free atd
unlimited coinage of eilver at the
ratio of 16 to 1. I Delisted in that
doctrine then. I Implicitly believe in
it now.
For two years the Pcpuliat party
met my views and fulfilled my high
est ideas. I gaw the whole country
o
oened
Today !
w
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men who love tneir nome in tneir
I aw the deliberately abandoned country, and to whom their wiyes
whose every; political thought idea and sisters are dear; to all who d.a
and purpose, was at utter variance sire to rebuke traitors and political
with our avowed principles, put into adventurers, to abandon it as I did.
office by Populist yotes and honored -For a Southern white man the Dem-
with Populist ballots. ocratio party is the great, the only
I saw in my own county negroes party now. It holds within it the
elevated to positions of trust and only possibility of relief from the
profit, appointed to administer the disgraceful conditions that now
educational and financial matters maKe tne name or our oiate a re-
and affairs of white institutions, and proach and bysword. To those who
the yotes of Populists required by followed me out of the party in
their leaders to bring about this re- 1892, and voted for me, 1 have only
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sut; I a senBe or aetp grainuue, aau iur
I saw the Populist party taken by their sakes I now appeal to them to
its leaders and delivered, like a flock follow me back into the party that
of sheep in the open1 market, to the we left. It promises most for our
fo country, u promises all tor our
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crowd of vandals and carpet-bag
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1869, and an infamous and corrupt
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manhood !
J B Allen.
PERSOMAL POINTERS.
last
Mr. C T Troy is spending this
afternoon in Charlotte.
Capt. A H Propst returned
I saw the beginning of a reign of home 'from , Gaffney, S. C,
debauchery that did not spre even night
the poor insane in the State Asy- Mr. Arthur Anthony, son o
lnm ' Col Anthony, of Charlotte, is visit
I saw the Populist party that had ing in our city today.
begged for a lease cf power in North Miss Connie Cline, together
OaroHna. so thev mif?ht demonstrate with Miss Abbott, returned
n - r, loiflh Elizabeth college last night, where
the excellence of economy, lavish "u
the State's money In wild extra va
YOU FURNISH THE FEET
WE DO THE REST.
That's all we ask you to dof r-
nish the feet. We will not only do
the rest, but we will do it , well for
$2 50.
We have everythiDg in Oxfords
exoept your feet.
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An ounce of satisfaction Is worth
ton of talk. Satisfaction goes
with every pair of hces we sell.
Respectfully,
Shoe Furnishers.
Miller
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gance, and create new effices by the
score ty Order to feed them at the
public table.
I saw the sincerity of the Popu
list party tested time and time again,
and whenever the fight came between
principle and pie, the latter tri
umphed. I saw the Democratic party purge
itself of Cleveland, and, plank by
plank, adopt as their own almost
every demand of the Populist party
in- its first great charter, '-.'until 'the
Populist leaders boldly charged that
the Democrats had stolen their
platform, and then I saw the Popu
list party deliberately walk eff that
platform and coolly put on the Re
publican uniform.
The rank and file of the Populist
they teach this year
Mr. Theodore Parker, of Greens
boro, and Mrs. Lawson Parker, of
Salisbury, are spending the night
at the home of Mr. Lacy Dick.
Mr. H M Barrow returned
Lome last night from Raleigh,
where he want to attend the funeral
of Col. W F Green.
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