Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1892-06-02
CALL FOR A STATE CONVENTION
By the National Central Committee of the
Peoples Party of Mississippi
WEST POINT. MISSISSIPPI.
April y. 1892.
To all Good Cltilcns o. MISSISSIPPI:

April %, 1892.
To all Good Citizens Of MSsiSSipp:
Pursuant to provisions made by the
great conference of the farmers and
industrial unions held at st. Louis on
22nd of February. 1892, the National
Central Committee of the Peoples
party for Mississippi. at meeting held
at West Point on the 2}rd day of April,
| 1892. resolved that State convention
| be convened in the hall of the house of
representatives at Jackson on Wednes-
day. the 22nd day of June, 1892, and
that Wednesday, the 18th day of June,
be fixed as the day for the people of
the several counties to meet and select
their delegates, who are in each county
to be double the number of its repre-
sentatives in the lower house of the
| legislature. Attention is called particu
| larly to the notice required to be given
by county committees in regard to the
/ selection of delegates to State conven-
/ tions. The laws recently enacted con-
corning elections should be strictly fol-
/ lowed.
/ We call upon all good citizens of
/ Mississippi. regardless of former party
/ affiliations, who have the best interest
of the State at heart who are tired of
the deceit. the incOmpetency and the
violated pledges of the two old politi-
cal parties all who are sick of false
pretensions. false promises, of contin-
ually receding hopes and constantly
I darkening prospects to join us in the
/ great movement of the people to re-
/ lieve themselves from their unhappy
condition.
/ We ask all good citizens who stand
appalled, at the utter and inevitable
ruin now flowing over the land from
I the ccaselnSS source of reckless parti-
san devices and the rule or ruin poll
/ ces of the two old parties; all who are
( disgusted with the combination which
they have finally made against the
dearest and most vital interests of the
great mass of the people: all who are
dshcartened and indignant at their
practical blending into one for the
purpose of defeating all measures look
ing to the reduction of taxes, the sup
pressing of mOnopolies and the in
crease of the circulating medium, to
buckle on their armor and help us.
/ We invoke the aid of all good citi-
/ zens who are in favor of a just, impair
( tial and economical government, ema-
mating from the people, administered
, for them and controlled by them in
/ the interest and for the prosperity and
! happiness of the owners of the soil,
and the sweating brows of honest earn
! ing the honest, intelligent and long
4 suffering labor that produces the
wealth and the worth of the land, but
which is now robbed of it's just reward
! by discriminating legislation and the
practical conSpiracieS of the two old
! parties. banded together and virtually
pledged to the same policy under the
influence of Wall street and the money
power of the North
We entreat all good men to join us
in this great movement of the people
to save what is yet left to them of land,
of liberty and of living from the grasp
of gold bugs, money lenders, monopo-
| lists, office holders and Oftice-seekers.
We call upon all who are willing to
stand up once more for the rights of
manhood; who desire to tread once
more the prosperous soil of freemen,
and who wish to secure to themselves
and their children the blessings in
tended for them by heaven, but of
which they are deprived by the in
trigueS of avarice and the two old par
ties, to act with us.
! Come out, fell citizens, from the
green tooth abodes of partisanism,
prejudice and poverty, turn your backs
alike upon the frowns and blandish-
ments of those who would still be your
masters, and come and sit down by the
great wide, warm, friendly fireside of
the people, and may God help us to
redeem our country and restore it to a
state of happiness and prosperity.
JAS. ID. LYNCH,
Chairman.
Attest ~ W. BRADFORD.