The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-07-19

selves to vote for no man who does not
accept the ST. Louis platform and eUerg
part Of 1t; and the candidate for Pre- 81
dent nominated by the Peoples party
!s required to accept one of it's most
important planks 1Uith o. prOUiSO, while
the organ Of the party in North Caro-
Ina advises that that plank should be
cropped altogether. Now how can
these pledged people vote for Weaver?
The Omaha convention took sUbstan-
TALLY the position which have main
talned all the time-amend the cOnsti-
tuition and have all Federal officers and
employees elected by the people or Sc
lected by competitive examination
the members Of the cabinet, the judges,
etc, ETC., down to the lowest paid
Iaborer. Do this and the way will be
open for entering upon such reforms
as the menace of executive patronage
deters us from now. There will have
passed away the cause Of bitter dissen~
si1ns among the people,
l need not tell you that my Warmest
sympathies are with the unprotected
and despised masses as against the
protected and favored classes, but in
seeking remedies [ muFt be governed
by my conscience and my best judg-
ment. And if cannot get all want |
will take the best can get The Fed
eral despotism controlled by the pluto
Gratis and their benefciaries and hench-
men, re enforced by all the monarches
in the country, must be checked in it's
mad career, if civil liberty is to be pre-
served-or, rather, re-established for
our children. In order, however, to
accomplish anything for themselves,
our people, in my Judgment, must
stand shoulder to shoulder In their
anger-justifable as it is-they must
learn to exercise patience and tolerance
and maintain a prudent regard for the
consequences of their actions. Sup
pose that, failing to do these things,
the Peoples party nominate nine can
didates for Congress in North Carolina
and the straight" Democrats do the
same thing, there would be danger of
having in the SD Congress nine Re
publiCans from North Carolina to vote
with the tyrants and plutocra5s, and if
other Southern States we're equally un-
wise, Mr.. Reed might carryO out his
threat made before the Americus Club
in Plttsburg two years ago: 1T seems
to me that the only wise course is to
take into Federal hands the election Of
L IOSAOClIU C6l1O OSCl1OtbUlNS % Ill OO14-
gre s Let us cut loose from State cleo
tions. do our own registrature, our
own counting and our own certifica
ture." Mr. Harrison urged this course
in one Of his messages and the Mime
apolis platform re-echOes the demand.
The result of our dissensions there
might be that we should be bound hand
aEd foot by a tyrannical plutocracy,
& .E no power to rescue ourselves.
Some people are disposed to pooh
pooh the Force bill, but they have not
correctly interpreted the signs of the
times. Just as Andrew Carnegie's man
Frick brought in a band of armed mer-
cenaries to compel the submission of
his discontented laborers, so will what
Mr.. Kingsbury calls the ''money-devil"
urged by fear as we'll as desperation,
resort to any effective means of deriv-
ing the people of any voice in legisla
ture.
These, my dear Colonel, are the
views expressed to your son. I have
given them to you at his request and I
begyou, if you see things as 1 see them
to exert your influence for harmony
among the people and against hasty
and perhaps dangerous conduct.
Trusting that the God of our fathers
may guide us in the paths of safety,
l am truly your friend,