People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 January 1895 — The Situation in North Carolina. [ARTICLE]

The Situation in North Carolina.

“The simple truth is, the democratic machine methods in North Carolina, devised at first to cheat and oppress the Republicans, became so utterly unbearable that the populists and republicans were forced to make common cause, and unite to smash the machine. So they got together and agreed to leave their differences in abeyance for a time and unite their forces to smash the machine and bring about such political conditions as would make a life of freedom in this state possible. This they have done. And they have done this without the surrender of a single principle. No populist is less a populist because of co-operation. No republican is less a republican because of cooperation. They have simply united their forces to bring about the overthrow of an unscrupulous political oligarchy, as the first essential step toward good government in North Carolina.”—Raleigh Caucasian. The machine has been more fortunate in Georgia and Alabama, which states have for two years been heavily populist. The time is approaching however when even in those states a corrupt minority will have to succumb to the inevitable, and give the people an honest; electipu.