The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-10-04
THE NEW NATIONAL DEMO-
CRATIC PLATFORM.

aIQrm our allegiance 20 Gn0 principles
of our great party.
FORCE IN FEDERAL ELECTIONS.
Sec. 2. We warn the people of our
common country, jealous for the
preservation of their free institutions
against a certain party known as the
Peoples party, led by Gen. j. B.
Weaver, a party that threatens to
overthrow our schemes, and also those
of our respected opponent, the Repub-
lican party.
Believing that the preservation of
Republican Government in the United
States is dependent upon the defeat of
this party, we invite the support of all
citizens who can and will join in riots,
and especially the throwing of eggs,
either sound or %unsound, said eggs to
be thrown at the leader of said party
at any time and place convenient.
TARIFF REFORM.
Sec. 8. We denounce Republican
protection as a fraud, a robbery of the
great majority of the American people
for the benefit of the few. We de-
nounce the Mckinley tariff law, en-
acted by the Fifty-frst Congress as the
eliminating atrocity of class legisla
ton, and regret that we only had 148
majority in the House. If we be for
tunate enough to gain another mem
Der we expect, with a majority of 149,
to be able to pass a similar bill under a
new name and thereby hold the vote
of the large manufacturers. AS the
aforesaid Peoples party has suggested
the wiping out of this iniquity, and
suggested the income tax as a just and
practical way to raise revenue now de-
rived from the necessaries of life, we.
earnestly call upon all good people to
fill their pockets with eggs, either
fresh or stale, and egg the Presidential
candidate of said party at such times
and places as may suit.
SHAM RECIPROCITY.
Sec. 4. Trade interchange on the
basis of reciprocal advantages to the
countries participating is a time-hon-
ored doctrine of the Democratic faith,
therefore, as the aforesaid Peoples
party has got ahead of us at nearly
every point, Resolved, that we throw
eggs with all our power and endeavor
to head them off.
TRUSTS AND COMBINATIONS.
Sec. 5. We recognize in the trusts
and combinations, which are designed,
to enable capital to secure more than
it's just share of the joint products of
labor, many evils, therefore as the Peo-
pies party platform makes such com
binationsnex to impossible, being made
after our regular campaign drunk at
Chicago, and being so much better than
our platform, we recommend that eggs
of a doubtful age be used freely, as
well as other radical means, in the
united effort to be made to drive said
party out of the race.
PUBLIC LAND FOR SETTLERS.
Sec. 6. The Republican party has stole
all the public lands and given them to
railroads and other corporations. We
helped to steal them, but in conven-
IUion assembled denounce the great
steal. The Peoples party declares that
every foot of said lands must be re-
claimed at once by the government,
therefore all lovers of liberty and good
whiskey are requested to lose no time
in filling their pockets with eggs with
which to pelt the leaders of the Peo-
pies party.
THE SHERMAN SILVER ACT.
Sec. z. We denounce the Sherman
silver act of 1880 as c~owardly. We
know that it is much nearer free coin
age than Mr.. Cleveland would have us
go, hence we denounce Sherman and
his act. If he and Cleveland were not
20 much alike we would recommend a
dose of eggs for old Sherman, but that
would be inconsistent. But Weaver,
is for free coinage, a measure that
two-thirds of all the people want,
therefore he must be egged and CIeve-
land must furnish the money to buy
the eggs by means of a liberal cam,
paign fund.
GOLD AND SILVER PARITY.
In order to stand well with the bank
ers we made our financial plank as
much like the Republican plank as
possible. 1t is the same, in the same
words, but hindside foremost. We both
put lot of stuff in about the parity"
of gold and silver with which we hoped
to fool the h~ayseeders, but they got up
a mor taking platform at Omaha, one
that means business, and most of the
~hayseeders are going to vote for that