The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-06-07
LETTER FROM OHIO.
Matters Paramount to All.
BURTON Co. Ohio

BURTON Co.. Ohio.
Mr.. EDITOR:-The people ought to
rule in all Republican and Democratic
governments The people can if they
will, perpetUate this nation, but not by
giving their sUffrages to either of the
old dominant parties Of to-day both of
which have been weighed in the bal
ances and nave been found wanting.
No machine candidate, for any office
in the gift of the people is to be toll
Grated or supported by the people in
or for any office of trust. [ will offer
just one reason why, and 1 believe it
is eminently fair to judge of the future
by the past, because we know that his
tory repeats itself, long cOntinuancein
power means and works corruption.
decay eminates from corruption and
death is the ultimatum Of decay, A
house that is divided against itself can
not stand. The antagOnism that has
existed in this nation for the past
three decades cannot be allayed or
overcome by the two present domi-
nent machine political parties. Now
for the remedy that is within the grasp
of the pie, (namely) let each State
of this Union call a convention of it's
citizens, and place in nomination and
elect delegates equal to twice their
representatives in Congress of both
Houses with ~alternates, whose duty it
shall be to assemble in national cOnven-
ton, at Omaha, Neb., or some other
convenient central point on the fourth
day of July 1892, then and their to
place in nomination a President, and
Vice-President of the United States, to
be voted for by the citizens of the
United States, and to be known IS the
citizens ticket. thus there will be no
communicating stigmas like the two
machine tickets that Is soon to be
thrust down the Threats of an unwill-
ing people, no cliques, no rings, no
bosses, no churches, no Doodle, no mo-
nOpOlieS, no North, nc South, no East.
no West, but one fravernal band of
brotherhood throughout this broad
land, without naming any man as
standard bearers to u second declara-
ton of independence. | beg permission
tx Submit, that someone who is mot con
taminated with any party trickery,
shall be named at the convention for
each place, one from the North land
and one from the South land, let them
join their hands in fraternity across
the desiSting line of past differences,
and say peace be still, IN this aSe as
in the days Of yOre, let the citizens
find the men, not as in the case of the
peasant and dominant parties, the man
to choose the people. 1t may be asked
by some who will the citizens choose,
in answer, l viii say, in this great
land and nation, their names arelegiOn.
l would further state that for the
we'll being Of nation and it's pros
perity, such men as Grover Cleve-
land, Benz. Harrison, J. G. Blaine,
Calvin Brice, Major Mckinley, j. B.
Foraker, James B. Campbell OF John
Sherman, or any Of the machine can
didates that have been pnt upon the
slate, are all dangerous men for the
welfare and prosperity of a downtrod-
en- people. 1 believe in Lord, one
faith and one baptism, and he that be-
lieves and is baptised in the citizens
cause shall be saved, and he that be-
lieveth not shall be damned, and what
is true of the person is equally true of
the people. Most respectfully a citi-
zen GEO. w. JOINER.