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RALEIGH, K C., THURSDAY, APRIL 21, 1898.
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-WHITE MAN ANO WHITE METAL."
The above is the motto in
scribed on the banner of the
'Democratic party, and will belts
slogan in the coming contest at
iieballot box. . .
What does, yhite . man and
white: metal as used by the. Dem
ocrats of North Carolina -meari?
it does not recuire uu astute v
itician to see that it means any-
thirtr and everything Inecessary
for the Democrats to get into4
power, and but; little, n xinyiaing,
Vise;; Free silver was their slo
gan when at the election of 1892
They elected gold-standard Gro
vel Cleveland .President, with a
goribug , Congressyt and secured
. the repeal of the Sherman -eilver-purchasing
act, : thereby remov
ing the- last vestige of silver as a
' basic money. "No -Democrat
j - need charge Cleveland with, de
ception in Jthat campaign, lie
made speeches .and. wrote letters
living his position on the silver
question, albof which were pub
lished in the NorthernVpapers.
These letters and speeches'were
scrupulously kept from publica
tion in the Democratic papers in
; North Carolina, lest the people
Should be informed and refirse to
vote lor Cleveland aed his party.
Their public speakers in this
State' vouched for Cleveland's
fidelity .to : silver and dissuaded
' vhe pronle from reading Populist
literature-, which WS full , of
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Cleveland's position. They also
-.induced Democratic, voters- to
remain away from jpulist meet
, iigs -ay here every speaker pro
claimed Cleveland's opposition
to the use of silver as one of the
. standar ds of value. Tliis ,we!2
' known position . of the-Democratic
pr.rty was one of the great
. causes V. hich induced many hon-t-st.
Democrats to -express a pur
port- 16 withhold ;their support
fri)ir. tic National ticket. jXhis
information cominjrto thenars of
Hon.. I. M." .Simmons,, then
Chair man. ;f the Executive Com
irnittct of the Demo.cratic;juirty.
! 1 ie prompt' issued .orders .that
.all men who refused .to vote for
C 1 e v e lfiii d -ah oul d be re f use d a
voice is th-j Democratic prima-
ries. ,
Being thus .expelled from their
Yarty because they asked, to be
. recused from voting forrthe jg.old
" standard under a free-silver, slc
g;i!i, there was "nothing left for
them, but to join themselves to-
eirier in the People's party -arid
light the-, Democrats who., they
iielieved, .would fasten the gold
standard upon 'the people. ' ,
All . men now -see how vell
'ieir. .fears were founded. If
Je Democratic party were sJb
(e.'f about silver they would ac
. khow.lof'ire that they were wrong
untjthat the Populists were right 1 White MetaJ."
and woiiW join us in. our light
.i-'aicst . th- sinjrlexold standard.
They have never acknowledged
conditions, however, that they,
the god bugs, shall control the
party machinery.
Now let us suppose that this
corribinatipn -shall, by the aid of
Populists get control of the State.
What will foe the result? The
first thing the Legislature would
do would be to. restore the old
election laws and take the county
government out of the hands of
the people, - but would let the
election machinery remain in the
hands of thegold-standard Dem
ocrats. The next thing would
be to call a Constitutional Con
vention, or toy Legislative enact
ment, to make provision in our
organic law to allqw the Legisla
ture to prescribe an educational
and property qualification for the
voters of the State.
Itais reasonable to suppose they
would do like other Southern
States have done.
It would seem that the Missis
sippi and South Carolinadection
lavs woulfl about suit them, that
is to sa'that no raxm shall be
allowed to vote at any popular
election unless he is able ito write
and also to. read andexfllpin the
State Constitution to the satisfac
tion of the inspectors of-election,
the real heart and soul of this
controversy about money is not
as to the material of which money
should be made, but who shall
make, issue and control it This
class, the fiatists, have embodied
their financial principles5 in the
National platforms of the Peo
ple's party as adopted at Omaha
and St. Louis. '
In view of these facts, open
and manifest, how astonishing it
is to often hear intelligent tnen
who profess to be Populists, and
are undoubtedly sincere in their
professions, say " the Democrats
stole our principles at Chicago;
the Democrats have come to us
on the money question." The
truth is, the Chicago Democratic
platform and the t. Louis Popu
list platform are as wide apart as
the poles on the money question
They do not even agree on the
silver question, auout vynicii sutu
a -din is being made.
The silver Democrats still ad
here to the old delusion t that
money must have so-called in
trinsic value,: and therefore the
precious metals, made so by ar
tificial demand mainly, alone are
money, and that any-paper used
as money is only an evidence of
or eke own property valued for debt, and must be redeemable, in
taxation at three hundred dollars, metal money. This is the fly in
Such a law would disfranchise the ointment that ruins the whole.
in Ncrth Carolina say seventy This chains commerce to a com
thousand white men and about plicated, system' of barter Avhich
the same . number of .colored is, a ; relic of barbarism. This
voters.. Then-we have the spec- "redemption'" of money has ever
tacle in the State, of seventy been a most cruel engine of op-
thousand poor and illiterate yhit,e pression,. enabling the speculat-
men deprived of their vote while mg cliques, aidecw by the banks,
about fifty 'thousand, negroes who to expand and contract the circu
can read and write march up to latino" medium largely '.at their
the polls and .vote, while these, own sweet wills, and thus raise
white '.-anen with their political and -lower. prices'to stihv.ljheir pur-
privileges taken from them are poses. Like the car of iucrffer-
kforqed an: an equfiltty with con- naut it hasf gone forth at intervals
victjsand p.enttentiary.birds. Just to maim and crush our people.
think of -it, fifty thousand negroes The Democrats claim the free
elevated above seventy thousand coinage of silver, as proposed by
white men, and this done under them, will give us bimetallism .
the sloganiof ' white man.-" It For the sake of argument only, I
is no use?to say4 thct this cannot will accept their contention, and
and will not be done if theDem- what then? We will have the
ocrat again iget possession -of aid system of finances that ex-
this btate- just let 'us get pos- isted in our country from the
session qf :tne legislature one foundation -of our government
mere time is the word passed until silver was demonetized, and
from leader to leader in stage what is jits record? Do .you say
whispers. With nearly one huai- this wiSl bringv us back t the
dred.and fifty -thousand voters in conditions in. the days of JefFer
the rotate, most of whoah are for son and Jackson? Very true,
tree silver, disfranchised and the but were these great snen pleased
election-machinery in the hands with the financial condifions of
of gold bugs the &tate.wi31 wheel their , time? Far from - it, as
into line with' Cleveland Democ- could be easily shown. In fact.
racy. While the precent free silver they, in" a measure, .advocated
element is content with btate the fun dametatal principles of the
cflices, :and the fifty thousand People's party. In these happy
educated negroes are happy m times which bur Democratic
their proanotion over white men, frieoxis want to .restore, our coun-
we will get both the old stand- try was cursed with periodical
ard.and negro supremacy under cyclones of financial ruin. Wit-
the' slogan of ' White iMan awl ness the panics of 1837, J&f6 and
. But the free coinage of silver.
made the' Democratic plan of
TYPICAL. ,; J v;, '
How long would it be before
the g Democratic u silverites '
would control the legislature,
pass a Mississippi or South
Carolina election law, and then
throw ofl the silyer mask, with
everybody disfranchised except
themselves? -',
The Populists in this county
do not want fusion with Demo
crats on any (terms, nor will
they have it, and itpon the first
indications of such a movement
they will go by the hundred
straight into the Republican
camp for refuge and protection',
from a return to their former
slavery- in which they know
their last estate mnst be worse
than their. first. '',
The writer of this is a Popu
list, straight and unadulterated,
and belieyes in the principles of
the party, but believes first in se
curing his political liberty, to
vote as he pleases and have that
vote counted as cast. Henry E.
King in Progressive Farmer. ,
" The above effusion is pointed
simply becauseit reveals.in every
asinine line of it the animus of
your true, blue Populist states
man. The writer is evidently a
Populist, and several other things,
"straight and unadulterated," as
he says. The Populist states
man, in the main, is a man who
lacked the brains to.cven attain
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the Democratic party. And it
seems these are the only terms
upon which co-operation of all
silver forces can be had in the
next campaign., l. Will Populists
accept co-operation on such con
ditions ? This is the question to
be settled at our j State Conven
tion in Raleigh on: the 17th.
It therefore behooves all Pop
ulists who are unwilling to
abandon their paity and join the
Democratic party to go to theh
primaries and send no5 Democrat
fusioriist as , delegate to the
County Convention.
The right- to vote is too sacred
to be thrown away. .While we
advocate free silver and would
be glad for the Democrats to help
us secure the same, we cannot
afford, even for their, help, - to
give up- our right as American
But it is said
Democrats on
citizens to vote,
we can fuse with
prinpiple upon the free coinage
of silver. Yes, but how about
the principle of a free, ballot'and
a fair count, local self-government
and such other, home rights
as the great common people now
enjoy ? There is not a scintilla
of principle in" common between
Democrats and Populists on these
domestic questions. How can
we' join with them without sup
porting their scheme of disfran
chising all white men who can
not read and. write or who do not
unto the distinction of rnnstahlp own as much as 'three- hundred.
or magistrate in the Democratic dollars worth of, property? Of
party, His elevation in the Pop- course it will be claimed that
ulist party has fully confirmed their object is to get rid of the
his previously conceived ideas negro and that they will, dis
that his was a case of great abil- franchise; as many j negroes as
ities overlooked. lie therefore whites in this State. We fail to
hates the Democratic party as see what consolation; the seventy
only a man of small brain "and thousand white men who will be
large perjudiCes can hate. The disfranchised can draw from the
write above is a member of the fact tfiat as many negroes are
State Executive Committee of deprived, of their votes. This
the Populist party. He is fairly condition will be to them pohti
representative of the Populistic cal equality with th negro, i '
brains and Ponulistic methods. democratic politicians do not
H hnc ViHirviSc whlnA v.af ;c care about the color of the face
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THE NEWS AND! OBSERVER.
What is the matter with the.
News and Observer?
' For the last month it has not
dished out to its readers the
usual amount of scandal.
Has it finished its job as politi- ;
cal scavenger ?
Are all the official back. yard
of the
administration!
present
Cleaned up r
If this most excellent paper,
wishes to perform a patriotic duty
it could be most profitably em-l
ploy eld j for the next quarter in
wasning out tne airty . linen 01
ot the late I Uemccrat olti-
some
cials.
Such an exposure of 'Demo
cratic weakness and short com- y
ings--would be-interestinrr reading
to the people just now. v
" If this popular organ of the
Democratic party will undertake ;
the job! we would suggest that as'
a beginning it might explain ;
how it happened that Democratic
legislatures have from.' time to
time passed bills purporting to
authorize certafn towns and coun- ,
ties to issue bonds, and after
these, bonds were sold and the
money received and spent thpse
counties and towns repudiated
their bonds and defeated their
recovery in the courts under, the .
plea jhat the legislature did not
observe the constitutional require- :
ment in passing the act authoriz
ing the: same. ; V
Let this , - good, work begin
without delay and we promise .
Populist co-operation yith thNj , , ,
Democrats in this labor of love .
to the good people of the State (
THE POPULIST STATE CONVENTION;"
'Under this heading the Cauca-'
sian of April; 14th, among other .
things
says.
would "
ear-mark of all his kind. He of the nro' il is only the com- . declaration or tact co.ll
ares that the - Democrkts pinion of' tlie ballot to which S organ of the Dcm-
is misieauing.
w . . i 1 TnPTT friti'r: I nci-tv nniTa o iron h
pass a iMississippi or j yjv-- "v
jlectjon law
everybody disfranchised
ocratic; fusion ist
e majority
of the c6mmitteelavor co-opera-1
tion -ot all wno are opposed u-
the ffold -standard , and' the elccf
'fo A ' I 1.- 1 1
an anu-monopuiy lc-yisui-
ture.
c.t, r aeciarea m tneir tate niattorm Xlt hwwiw uij wciHutiduv;- iu-
vat viiua civliuu Jcl v .. I , ir I . r . x ti
disfranchised or 'new election law, and this pu oi tne
witK ;cfro;ciror a new election jaw, ana tni.s V"i:u iuuy jmchi
v r. is one of their nromises thev mnv were only four," and th6se.four
a.. be relied unon to keen if thev arp voted for calling the convention
W1UC1 mcau iu &ay- .uiai uuiy i . , 7 .!""J . -. v A ' r Li .i.,. -.i.n . .i
rwVoo ni,u .j - j affammaced in nower either with u c nuuiryi .in wuir
xv,mvt aia nuic lu itau unci I --' . I . v j r t .
necr o nacca' X rOpUilSt IUSlOh Or J WlthOUt it. llc puipy Ul lUIIUUiUl'
stitution? Cannot that savior, of 1 nere was no use" tor ropulists "& P111 "J, mu-
his coamtrv. to whom the initinJto advocate or-cast a vote for free; crane convention which; meets
:h:it Thev" v.ere wronij, or that
they." had deceived .the people
IJow'th n can the people i)elieveJ
that .the party is now. -regenerated?
Their -battle cry .. in the
Cleveland campaign was ii Free
Silver,' .'long and loud. Sow
or national policy the cry is
White Metal." Will they tell
iu 'the ' difference ' between free
silver--'and' -the white metal. If
they proved false to free silver,
will they not prove false to the
white metal? Are they more
sincere, now" than then? Where
' the evidence of their reg-enera
tion? They halloo -for free sil-
wr a little louder now than then
KVause they are farther remoyed
irom,- the people, having alien
ated themselves from the jrood
citizens b violated pledges and
broken' promises. . The great
common people, when they look
upon the thing called the Demo
cratic part- will see that it is the
same old' coon '-'with another ring
around" its tail. '
Xow let us- consider the use. to
be madej of 4 white mart." as
contained ' in the Democratic
motto. This is the plank upon
which tHe gold-bug element in
the party is induced to stand with'
the free silver' advocates on
.- THE POUTICAL SITUATION.
Iq'Bjy last article I undertook coin redemption will'not give us
to. show that pur people are di- bimetallism, but th,e single silver
vidyed uitOi two. broad classes on standard,rm lieu of the single
the money question. On the gold standard, and no one can
one hand we liave the metallists. predict with "certainty., what the
This class comprises two types, effect would be, but I believe . it
those w'ho believe in the single would be disastrous. It would
gold standard, or monometallists, certainly greatly anger the money
and those who believe in the free power, and would leave the in
coinage of silver and gold,' or .strument coin redemption with
the bimetallists.' " which it cduld punish us. This
These tzco types are the Same punishment .would. 'be so severe,
in kind andWffcr only in degree. perhaps, as to dishearten our
tish that gold or gold and silver against reform that might prove
are money created so by nature, ruinous. For ' these reasons,
are. rapidly diminishing Intel- whilst I approve of the free coin
ligent metallists are now rapidly- age of silver as advocated in our
coming to the conclusion that platform4, I. earnestly oppose it as
they are commodities, and claim advocated by the silver Demo
thatthey should be tised as money crats. Shall , we throw avvav all
because they are m.bre uniform in the financial principles for which
production and less liable to flue- we have! so long contended for
tuation in value, and should be such a wild experiment, to state
maae ine .sianaara Dy wnicn to it mildly ' as this? ; .
measure all other 1 commodities. In another article I will state
silver or other reforms until we on tne 26th,of Mhy.
secured fair elections. It was The vote stood 16 against the
for that reason we 'co-operated 25lh to 4 ior the 25th. It was
with the Republicans in 1894. considered then i as a. complete
Shall we now throw ,awav this test of the committees position oif
ucational qualification? Cannot priceless poon oy ..rejoming tne iT
the political marksman who can emocratic party., up to 1835 iyvy T ' ' 1
' ;(,--:" u the. free necrro voted at all ourMavor of making proposition to
nerable part ofhis anatomy a half cnons.1) . In: that year Ae Dmocniti. d order to ihovr;
k oi : a tate Uonventn
tive and referendum, are but as
crystal streamlets and from
whose massive brain - wise
schemes of statecraft rise like
votive incense stand a simple ed
mile away find the slot in the
ballot-box ? it reensbdro
ention was called t0 Populists that the Democrats -.
Tcle- cuiisiiiuiion was so '"v wjvpiuuuu twi.tf
amended as to deprive him of his I un "onorauie terms.
wt t, t voic. riis nonunion in less tnan r ucm.-i 01
show tha. the '..e.old hafred twentyyep hasfbecome so in- A7therUhe;capt.on of
of Populists by Democrats isa ux' 1 laiure was - y- - -r i".! ,
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manny to; pass an act compelling ting in the comhiittee silent on
him to choose a guardian or pro- the question of i fusion with tlie-
tector frorrt whom he carried a Democrats.. . Well, we . vo5ed,;
pass. : : v'1' ..:" .v. down what -was considered " sl.",
Can a white man hope for bet- proposition to fusion by 16 to a...
ter things when he is Cenied the ancJ stopd ready to do, the same
ay you, 1UI ,uv propositions or
surrender Hke import,' but there being ho
shining virtue in that set.
To show who has the assive
ear-marks we call the attention
of the Telegram to the methods
of all educational qualifications
under Democratic, manasrement.
.
You make ability to interpret a - " vv;ini i5 cen.e
clause of the constitution a re- right t0 yoter Vhat say
quisite to" vote.'then make a ma- J opuhsts? AVill you sum
chine tool the judge, and he ju- U1U"U
ri;n' rlPtPrmfriP.: nnd Democracy,
this admission is a matter of the swhy I accept the financialprin
utmost importance, as I shall un- ciples of the People's party, Un
dertake to show later on. eluding the free coinage of sil
The other class consists of the ver.-r-Gco. E. Jogs, in Pro-
natists. they reject the idea rrcssive Parmer.
that money is a product of na
ture and claim .that it is a crea- All business letters and com-
ture Of law entirely that the munications for this paper should
material of, which money should be directed to the Home Rule,
be made is a minor matter ; . that Raleigh, N C v '
'grain of salt. If the writer will
take Cumberland county election
methods as a sample and find the
facts, Jie'.will, if honest,. "Jess
nfr . ...
THE THREE ADDRESSES.
, It is a significant fact that
Jones alone of the three chairmen
signed his address in his official
capacity, wrhile the other two
with a few leaders signed their
names as private, individuals.
Does this mean that there is tb
be but one organization, and that
the 'Democratic party? What
else can it mean ?
. It is too .plain for doubt that it
is expected by these leaders that
the 'Populists., will disband and)
leave their organization and join
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TO YOU, AND YOU, AND YOU.
. Brother, this copy of, The
Home Rule is sent to you this
week as a. sample copy, hoping
that you will give it a careful pe
rusal, and if the matter contained
ih'if is worthy your attention and
you want to . follow up the argu
ments that will appear ii this pa
per from .week to week,' we hope
you will allow no time to be lost
in sending your name and your
subscription, so that there will be
no break in the paper from the
first number. We Cannot aflord
to - continue '' Sending sample
copies without a little oil to greese
the wheete." I wentv-five cents
for the campaign
i uiauc tu v u lc:, men ma is. c 111a-i , . . , ... Aiwl-.ai' .....j- 1 i .
. . 1 f f fho rri-ilHKir. m nr sxrml i-l A A liUrther OUeStlOTl M 5Pf nn 1 h 'I t
kij. vuiu-Lu.uiuiiuuui v iiuuriif . 1 , - -. - . . -
o o ' - mt j " 1,. . ;
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dicially" determines, and he v w mjuu auu ipr
does. the. rest. Whoever is not freedom and the riht? Answer
familiar with the machine meth- oy ana through youi- delegates
ods of frauds, in elections are al- at tieAPoP1"1,8rt Convention
lowed to take these facts with a 1 -.' . w nexi.
line we of coursje had nothing
more 10 say. - j
JThis 'organ of 'he Democratic
party in the same xirticle grows
indignant over the purpose of
Populists to run iii pappr devoted
to' our doctrines, i It draws its
gladiatorial sword wreaking with
the life-blood of the Populist
party, flourishes itj in the fdee ot.
Populism and threatens destruc
tion To the last remnant 'of our
party. Has it come to this that
the News and Observer,' the late
gold bug Democratic organ, is
championing the cause of Popu
list fusion with the Democrats ?
To-your tents, O Israel.
Mr. Burns, Keeper of the Cap
ital, is giving uch attention
this spring to beautifying the,
Capitol Square, and it is now one
of the most attractive places in
the State and a great resort for
the citizens of the Capital' city.
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