The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-12-22

cOmtOrted when the party idol and the
nominee of Wall street, Hancock, sale
I hat the tariff was only a local ques
ton Fearfully local to this locality
! And now Cleveland is named as the
| only GUIildbie candidate Tammany
! Is recOnclled to him because he mOdi
! fled his civil service views, and Wal
! street fayorS him because of his OppO
sItiOn to silver money Will the nine
| million mOrtgagOrs in the United States
! who must pay their debts in q con
! st8ntly depreciating currency feel they
! have won q victory by his nomination
! VIII his name at the head Of the elec,
! tOral ticket add strength to IL among
| the debt-rlddcn people of the South and
| Vest VIII the millions of citizens in
| this debt-enslaVed section of the Union
| feel they have won q victory when the
national convention dominates leader
| openly pledged to oppose the dearest
interest and to veto free silver bill if
they get 1t through COngress2 VIII
the people remain recOnCiled to the
prostitution of the electoral system
which smOthels the distressed cry OF
two or three million voters for the sake
Of harmony between Us aud Wall street?
Does the spirit Of an accur~ed utility
dominate every rumIfi"atIOn Of politics
l. God dead because many Politicians
DO not believe IN the final triumph Of
right and are afraid to advocate it,
Our unhOIy partisan alliance with
Wall street ~ tig ltening every year;
the tariff and the pensions Increase
with mOu7JrOuS growth. the interests
of agriculture are devastated with the
blight Of unseen taxation, and yet Our
politicians tell us that our pension
plundered people will not vote tho
electoral ticket unless there i7 some
convention named Yankee at its head
Shame upon the people of the South If
they are 50 fatally blind.
But the election may be thrown
into the House Of Representatives,.
Yes perhaps, sometimes, and it
iS far more trustworthy than a p0-
litical ncmlnating convention. SIch
body seiec;cd Jefferson oure, til"
Statesman. philosopher and prophet.
such body Is less sectional now than
such a political convention, for it
lately elected a Southern man Speaker.
If the agricultural people Will dives
Themselves e their uuhOlY partisan
alliance with The Mercantile interests
of tha North, another child UfmiOnOpcIy
like Ben. Harrison Will be al nnpo9@i-
bIlty ;3S President ana The menace Of
another force ulil will be " felt anG
feared no more
The II. ..npn.y # Our E"+int'.i p1l;;j
cIl parties, DriucC Of mOuOpolIeS Il un-
deTmiuin- ,octi self government. and
the autonomy of The States, and killing
their natural God made diversity Of
conditions to Facilitate the exploits of
centralized capital. Under the thraI-
dom OF this mOnopuli7tic pirtyism,
North Carolina farmers have been
singing hnSlnnahS t. 4 presidential
nominee who fav0ra the protective
tariff tax on agriculture. In another
year three mLlion farmers III the
Southern States may be hOWled into
burymg their local interests ard into
supporting u candidate who viii Join
Wall street In its centraiiZjng financial
DDI.y. And under the national party
S} stem these farmers must forever
bury their local intereSts-the very i'll
tere@tS the electoral college system was
designed to keep from being buried
For this cause the electors are chosen
ley the several States and required by
the Constitution to ballot in their sew
er3l States as far from Wall street OF
any other foreign influence as possible
would never run as an eleCtor if
nv choice must be furastail0d by a
Utilitarian partisan spoil hunting mob
at Chicago Ol st. Louis, even though it
is called a national party Couvon: ion
To my mind any man such body can
hrm0niZe on Is tainted with the SUs-
plclOn Of corruption or sympathy with
monopoly. Then, too, even if the mob
was honest, it could not watch the III
tere~ts Of every State at thas dI"t dle
tance IS we'll as , body sltW"E ID eur
midst Under the gOve- n'sl4II ~ ~ |
national party convent"I9, al ,It. ti.s |
evils which afii'ct u h'1NC = ta'L1
grown and multiple "'pl Ht:P 0,o~
lng and n'lltiply"&;; IdA"'Io", tGIl
si0n1 tariff sPHloHau~iN mphppol}
g,r;I 'hnotino, md corruption IN office
Lt,,,o,.,.,!, cas- punishment Is the fruit
If ,,-bIIn eIIl Is the flower. \ late North
CsrnIina statesman said national sins
Lo,ra no remission nations cannon
o.I.ann the iron law Of punishment.
Tf IT, be true also that natures = pIniSh-
,nnnt il commensurate with sin, what
fearful iniquitie5 must have been the
cauaa Of oar political iilsI 90 not
stand upon the watch tower, but can
hear the angry tide Of human passion
heating high against the hollow walls
of party fealty, and these will resist It
not much longer. The rebellion against
the adulterous alliance with Wall
street will not down at the cry against
the Third party. Financial reform
will be accomplished through parties,
without them or liz spite of them.
care very little for parties a7 such,
but have suggested plan by which
aII legitimate reforms can b accOmp
lished without putting IN jeopardy the
rule Of the white man III the south
The white mans rule is weakened by
the unnatural and unequal marriage of
aoricultllra with the mercantile inter
ests of Yaukeedom, accomplished
through cur national party's Organiza-