Populist Party

Hoo-la-ray?

Wilson Times, 18 September 1896.

  • The Pops — the Populist Party.
  • McKinley — President William McKinley.
  • Pritchard — U.S. Senator Jeter Conley Pritchard, lead of the “Lily White” faction of North Carolina’s Republican Party, who later removed Samuel H. Vick from his federally appointed position as Wilson’s postmaster.
  • Sim Smith — Simeon A. Smith.
  • Sam Vick — Samuel H. Vick.
  • Meares — John D. Meares of Elm City, a Republican turned Populist.
  • Cherry — Sheriff John N. “Jack” Cherry, a Republican turned Populist.

Populist vs. Republican.

Up until he killed his wife, Samuel Vick‘s sister Nettie Vick Jones, — A. Wilson Jones enjoyed a reputation as a gifted, if wily, orator.

Wilson Advance, 25 October 1894.

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  • Jeremiah Scarboro — Jeremiah Scarborough, a Baptist minister and white supremacy apologist, as well as Populist politician.