The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-03-22
THAT TICKET.
It's object-The Result.

o-r0aniEed labor that ever assembled
foT elaboration will have met and re-
1o1vod ON such action as in their Judge
Tant NAV seem best for Industrial
omancination. Never before nave Ino
~onresentatives of labor felt so keeniy
their responsibility. A single hIsCahe
there may be irreparable;
There is much less danger 70 10
feared from any mistake IN plaItOrIn
of PRINCIPLES Enumerated imam L[0M
methods of carrying them out. o.
there is a general c~Oncensus OF opinion
that financial reform must be n Key
zone of the arch. Indeed, IN tne
opinion of many it should be the
arch and the more closely we adhere
to that central thought, the better.
With financial reform settled On as
a basis. every additional plank aGdeu
viii make il weaker. There will be
more difficulty in uniting on the menu
4 We must be prepared to c0ncede
honesty of purpose and fidelity TO prln
eiDIes of every r~epresentave OF labor
there. If there are those who honestly
believe that the demands should be pre-
senteo to the respective political parties
and that such action would prove bene-
fetal TO the cause h9n that much
shOuId be con seded. We are well
aware that it is useless to expect their
adoptiOn by a political party that
is fighting them, Our independent
friends need not worry over n
thought or expectation that they viii
be deprived Of the honor OF carrying
the banner to victory. The vital cues
ton is one that has not yet been tested
because our campaign has az yet been
limited t. States? Has u devotion
to principle grown to be truly n~at1Onal3
Has section ii prejuice been Eliminated
sufficiently for the South and North
west to unite on and vote for a COM
mon platform of principles? Has the
bloody shirt been retired to "innOcu-
Gus desuetude?' A great many honest,
earnest men believeth that sectional preJu-
dice is still toe strong. That the sores
Of the fratrIcidal war are not yet and
cannot be healed We realize fully
that success Is impossible until we can
unite regardless of where the candida e
may come from. We believed that
South Dakota was pre- emmently a
good State In which to make the test
in advance of that great meeting; that
ext erience might, be a guide for
action there. Perhaps no other State
in the union has a larger percentage
of union soldiers than South Dakota.
We believe that Is per cent. Of them
realizing that the nation is again in
peril; have identified themselves with
the independent party to save 1t with
the ballot. Without consultation with
any one, without givinga hint directly
or indirectly of What u purpose was,
we deliberately planned to make a
thorough test, by placing where we
expect TO carry presidential ticket
the names of two men prominent In
this movement We know they would
be taken as OUr candidates. 1t was
not necessary TO say so. At the head
we placed the name of L l. Polk, an
eX confederate soldier. A man hated,
maligned and reviled by the Democrats
of the South as well as the Republicans
of the North. A man who had been
charged with the most atrOciOus cruelty
to union soldiers in prison by the re
publican press of the North and ee-
peCialiy in South Dakota AMI though
thoroughly refuted when that name
appeared at the head of u columns,
the attack was renewed with all the
zeal a partisan press could muster and
with all the viruienee and hatred tha5
depraved genius could invent. We
SO4AANNS lis W. II 80 VIZ
result. The attack fell harmless. Up
to date of writing we have not received
a protest from an Alliance Or al mdl-
viduI AllIanceman in the State, nor
farOm an independent In the State except
C1frvS- who thought the action pTema
ture or outside The funCt OEs Of the
official organ. Not a word against the
man on sectional or any other grounds.
Not a protest from an old soldier IN
the Alliance Or independent party.
We are glad we made the test. We
are personally gratified beyond express
sion with the confidence in us shown
by the Alliancemen of South Dakota.
We are proud of their fidelity to prin
eiple, their patriotism broad as the
nation. We an assure our friends at
St. Louis that The Alliancemen of
South Dakota, the birthplace of the
independent party, have buried Sec
tionalism so deep that it Is beyond
resurrection. That they are read, to
join hands with the Alliancemen of the
South on a common platform of princi-
pies, on a perfect equality as to the
candidates. Can any one doubt the
effect of such a message on our breth-
rem of the South. Locally and Incl
dentally it has been of great service in
demonstrating that thereNare very few
in the Alliance with chips OH their
shoulders or on the lookout for chips
on somebody elses shoulders. We will
enter the contest this year thoroughly
united with An assurance of a sweep
ing victory. Our ticket having &C
complished the purpose for which it
was hoisted will with this issue be
retired for a time, we hope to be re
stort d on a st. Louis platform adopted
by a 4th Of July convention and car
ried to victory next November.-D1
kotd RttrGList.
WHAT HURTS FARMERS.