Mississippi leader., 1892-07-28
THE OMAHA CONVENTION.
Delegate Hollingsworth Gives
Some of His Impressions.
The Peoples Party Against
the Force Bill.
The Old Parties Severely Ar
raigned for Trucking to
PlutOcracy.
Editor Mississippi Leader:

Editor Mississippi LEADER
l thought it might be of interest to
many of your readers to write some
thing of the impressions made upon
my mind by the great Omaha conven-
ton. 1t was indeed great conven-
ton composed of delegates from all
the important, yea, essential indus
trial pursuits of our great country.
PlutOcracy was not represented there,
unless perhaps secretly to corrupt aud
mar the peace and harmony of the
convention. In this it failed, for the
platform adopted was such that every
American citizen can stand upon it ON
principles of justice and equality. 1t
was adopted with perfect unanimity
amid the greatest patriotic enthusiasm.
If our negro domination alarmists had
been there it would have put to 81
lence their cry of "negro in the wood
pile" The following resolutions, in
dependent of the platform, was unan-
imously adopted as expressive of the
sentiment of the Omaha convention on
| this subject:
Resolved, That we demand free
ballot and fair count in all elections,
and pledge ourselves to secure it to
every legal voter without Federal in
tervention, through the adoption 10y
the States of the unperverted Austria
lian secret ballot system.
There is no equivocal language
in this resolution, and expressions
from all sections of the country
show that Federal interference
with elections is as unpopular
in the North as in the South.
Away with such flimsy excuses for
pitting solid South against a solid
North. There was no sectional feel
ing at Omaha. We met as brothers
and friends. We met many who were
against us in the late war, bearing
wounds in their bodies received in
that deadly strife. They clasped our
hands warmly and cordiallys and as
sured us that the war was over. We
reciprocated their feelings. We of
the South and they of the great North
west realize that our interests are the
same, our enemies identical. And
now we have joined our hands and
hearts, and locked our shields to
rescue our common country from plu-
tocratic domination, and restore the
government to the great common
people with whom it originated and
under whose control the people were
prosperous and happy.
The Democratic and Republican
parties have so muddled the financi-
al plank in their platforms that there
is nothing tangible about them. They
can be said to coincide. They both
recommend an international confer
ence to regulate the standard of gold
and silver. o, ye shades of the patri-
OTIS of '76! What would jefferson,
Henry and Washington have said of
referring the financial policy of the
young republic to George III That
naughty, aristocratic king who hated
republican government as tyrants
always do. Now under the name of
Democratic -Republicanism, the plu-
tocracy of America would bow before
queen Victoria, lineal descendent of
the old tyrant George III, and her
naughty, liberty hating grandson, the
Emperor OF Germany and ask: ''What
shall be the standard value of Amer
ica's money! America, the greatest
country on the globe, whose resources
are beyond computation and whose
annual commercial business already
amounts to the enormous sum of thir-
/ teen billions of dollars with scarcely
enough money i'm circulation to do five
per cent. of it on cash basis.
We have already allowed the plu-
tocracy of England and America to
fasten upon us the financial system
that has reduced to serfdom the
wealth producers of the old world.
and it is fast reducing the wealth pro-
conditions. The lords and dukes OF
England already control more land in
the United States than George Ill
contended for in the war of the revo-
luton, and we pay ten times more
taxes now than the patriots protested
against in seven years war.
five would prove ourselves worthy
sons of noble, patriotic ancestry, we
should rise up as one man and hurl
from power the vampires that have
fastened themselves upon the vitals oi
our republic and are fast destroying
the liberties of our people.
This can be done peaceably at the
ballot box by voting for principle first
last and all the time. This is al
ausplcious time for a grand reform
movement. The old parties ignor,
Everything but the tariff hobby. Thii
| will not take with the people. The,
demand substantial relief from tn,
thralldom of the money power; an
this they intend to have if they hav,
to utterly wipe out both partiei
from the face of the earth. Plutocra
| cy might as we'll take notice thereo
and govern itself accordingly.
N. NJ. III.