The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-03-15

hopelessly to a candidate named bT
Wall street or Tammany Hall! EverT,
body knows that the Constitution in.
tended that the electors should vote
untrammelled and uninstructed as IN
men. Let us go back to the pure gov,
eminent Of our fathers. The prOstim.
ton of the electoral system has alreadv
cost us a bloody civil war, and the
partial destruction of local self govern.
ment. Why do we allow ourselves In
be wagged as a tail to the corruption
of New York politics? Is it because
few of u politicians have made bar.
| gains with D. B. Hill or some other
candidate for the spoils of Federal
patronage? It is aninsult tothe honesty
of our people to say that such a man
as D. B Hill can add weight to our
electoral ticket. 1t is an insult to the
intelligence Of our people to say that
Grover Cleveland, with his views Of
finance a add weight to electoral
ticket. In these times an electoral
ticket uninstructed as to men, elected
upon a platform embracing the two
reforms now demanded by the people
of North Carolina, will be the strongest
that can possibly be placed in the field
will sweep the State by forty thou.
sand majority and will insure the Der.
| manence of a "white mans govern.
ment." w. j. PEELE.
P. S.-Of course no friend of reform
will vote to send delegates to the
Chicago Convention.
P.s -FINANCIAL REFORMATTHE CHICAGO
CONVENTION.
Hardly anybody is stupid enough to
believe that the political mob which is
to meet at Chicago can, by any posi-.
bility, reflect North Cardinals views
and interests on the money question.
% Everybody knows that the free
and unlimited coinage of silver, which
our people demand, will be laughed to
scorn in that mob. The most tina: can
be by any possibility expected is a
meaningless non c0mmittal clause re.
vised and mistyfied from Hills myste,
riOus and non cOmmittal speech. This
is the platform the politicians say they
can "win on" Once in thirty yearsby
their time serving platforms of glitter.
ing generalities they have won spoils
for themselves, but such victories do
not relieve the debt burdened people Of
North Carolina. A mere change of
Office holders is no victory for the peo-
pie at large.
C) There is no hope of the Chicago
Convention adopting a plank looking
to the financial relief of North Carolina
by increasing the paper circulation.
No candidate for President has dared
to intimate that the country needs
more money. 1t is wildly idle TO de-
ceive ourselves with the hope that this
demand for relief, though re echoed
through the South and West, will re.
ceive even a moments consideration.
They will not even think enough of it
to cloak it in a few hypocritical
promises of relief.
81 They-Will not and cannot reflect
the senJimenf and interests Of NOFI
| Carolina on the tariff after ten yeaE
of the fercest partisan agitation and
party economic education.
So what can be the benefit of confer.
ring with those fellows any long0rl
We Ire hOpelessly apart from themOn
every question of vital interest. There
is but one single solitary bond that
holds North Carolina to the Chicago
mob, and that is the common desireOt
our politicians and time servers fOTthe
spOils of Office.
They will never respect us and ought
not to respect us until we have the
manhood to demand all that our people
want, and until we elect our Presiden-
tlal electors upon a platform which
| Will express those demands, We have
| compromised our interests long enough
in order to hatter the vainglorious aspf
! ratlons of a few prospective spoil dis.
%tributOrs. North Carolina saved this
| country untold misery once by reject
ing the Constitution of the United
States until there could be inserted
therein ten amendments guaranteeing
local self government and otherLsR
guards Of liberty! Now she has az
opportunity to save it again if she viii
reject a miserable party constitution
which forces our people to comprOmis9
their dearest rights and interests, end
to express the grievances of an cut
ragged people in the ambiguous and ly'
ing language of a national party plat
form! Is it possible that a peopR Be. \
lieving what we believe and suffering
what we have suffered a De longer
duped by the Yankees into expressing
our outrages in language SO vague and
tame that the world believes we are ~
ing?
[, for one, have stood this business
as long as l can without protest.
nave made up my mind what course. r
intend to pursue. l shall cast my vote
wherever | can against any recognition
OF the Wall street convention which
meets IN Chicago. l shall vote where
ever l can for electors which will rep
resent North Carolina and her inter
ests. The strength of demoefaV il
IN local self-government-in diversity I
ing platforms according to the varing
needs OF the several Scates-jn acR
States representatives and eIecors |
r. presenting and rejecting the ir5er-
ests ana sentiments of it's people tothe /
IqIIes1 extent-ln making as many
as separate interests Of he
separate States may need ia hive i'd
distinct views formulated
If North Carolina. bv her oln5,,nH
and eTamnln can dn- ~