Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1892-09-30

Generals Weaver and Field, the Peoples
Party candidates for President and Vice.
President, accept the nominations of their
party in the form of an address to the
people of the United States. which was
given out for publication in Pensacola, Fla.
After announcing their hearty accord with
the Omaha platform, they say:
1--WE have already, one or both Of US,
visited fifteen States in the Northwest aud
South, and If health and strength are
spared we intend to continue the work until
the campaign is closed.
1--WE have been received by the great body
of the people with marked cordiality. The
enthusiasm manifested everywhere is simply
without parallel and extends to every part
of the Union thus far visited.
'By contact with the people we have be-
come acquainted with their wants, their
sufferings, and have been brought face to
face with the manifold perils which so SER
iously threaten our civilization and the over
throw of popular government. The people
are in poverty, their substance is being de-
voured by heartless monopolists, trusts,
pools and money sharks. Labor is largely
unemployed, and when work is obtainable
the wages paid are for the most part I'M
rsmunerative.
''The old parties are in hostile camps
arranged on sectional lines and represent
the bitterness and cruelties Of the past,
every four years discussing the issues Of the
late war, which should long since have been
allowed to pass from the political dis
cussions Of the day. Notwithstanding the
bitterness existing between them, they vie
with each other in their subserviency to
capitalistic and corporate greed. They are
incapable o. dealing sincerely with the vast
problems evolved by the growth of the past
quarter Of a century.
upon the great economic questions of the
age tney are practically one in purpose, diff
fari 1.Hcfo po0I xPh RI 10 hnr 70 rrU
on q sham battle, while the work Of robbery
and spoliation proceeds undated.
''In the meantime the farmers and plant
ers North and South and wage Garner every
where are prescribed, maltreaGed, brought
into competition with convict labor and in
many instances are shot down by hired mer-
cenaries, acting under orders Of arrogant
corporations, which have unblus lingly
usurped the functions Of government and
presumed to act in its stead.
These corporations dominate the daily
press and control the lines Of daily COM
munication with the people"
After denOunclng the lmpurlty Of cleo
tions North and South, the address says in
conclusion: 'All who desire the revival Of
business. all who wish for the return of pros
perity to our country, all who desire to re-
ieve the depressed industries and wage
workers of our common country, all who de-
sire an adequate increase Of our currency
and the free coinage OF silver, ali who desire
the abolition Of banks of issue AMI constitu-
tionaI control of the great instruments
OF commerce by the Government OF
the United States all desire
that the laws Of taxation shall be
equitably adjusted to the properly OF the
country, all VINO desire that the public do
main shall be sacredly held in trust for the
people, all VINO desire that the highways BE-
tween the States shall be rendered sub.
servient to the popular good, and. fiuaIiy,
all who desire the restoration of fraternity
among the people and the obliteration o.
sectional animosities should at once regar
it as their conscientious duty TO align them.
selves under the banner of this great indus
trial an fraternal movement"