The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-08-02
WHAT THEY SAY ABOUT THE
TICKET AND PLATFORM.

| VOICE.
Now that the convention has done so
well by us and our cause, let us take
our coats off and do our best to carry
the ticket to success .-BOStOn Ne Ma
ton.
The nomination of Weaver and
Fields was the strongest that could be
made. They will win the votes of the
intelligentlaboring classes everywhere.
STOCKTON Signal.
General Field, the Omaha nominee
for Vice-President, is the present At
torney General of Virginia, and was a
Confederate General. WInnemWccG
SIIUer State.
The ticket is all right. The head of
the ticket will fill in the web, as he is
a Weaver, and our second man on the
ticket will cover the ground as he is a
F1eld.-Gri6in PlO1C and Hammer.
Grand men as candidates, grand plat
form, grand principles and let us make
a grand fight. Weaver and Field! Sig
nlicant names, representing the arti-
sans and agriculturists-combin for
industrial freedom.-St. Louis Forum.
1t was a glorious convention. A
grand gathering Of the common peo-
pie And, best of all, the delegates
all paid their own expenses and were
actuated solely by patriotic motives.-
Kansas City PhGtanr.
The Omaha convention was never
surpassed in brains, oratory and states
manship by any party in our national
conventions, and never equalled in pa
triotic devotion to patriotic principles
IN the last thirty years. WInnemuccG
SjlUer State.
1t is the Blue and the Gray. 1t is
the great grain raising Northwest and
middle West uniting with ~cotton-rais-
ing South. 1t is the producers of the
nation, those who feed it, those who
clothe it. These have chosen u can
didates to lead the Peoples party
Chicago Vanguard.
C~onnecticut's banner said: Con
gress-not the people-be damned"
Massachusetts banner said: THE spirit
of rs" Ohio delegates wore buckeyes
in their badges; IOwans wore punches
of wheat; Connecticut men wOre
wooden nutmegs. The women dele,
convention. They are not ~theorizing
about equal suffrage. They are get
ting in practical work. Chicago VGn-
guard.
From the standpoint of the NeWS the
essential point is that General Weaver
believes in the free coinage of silver,
and that he agrees with the people of
this section in repudiating the treach-
erous crime by which silver was demo
netized. His party demands a return
to honest bimetallism and he is a relia-
BILE exponent of that doctrine. Of the
three candidates for the presidency,
Mr.. Weaver alone stands for the con
stitutiOnal rights of silver, and he rep
resents a party which has had the cOur-
age to express it's demands in unequiv-
Ocal terms. Those who believe in the
equal rights Of silver with gold as a
coinage metal have no choice but to
vote for the Peoples candidate, or sup
port a man, whether Democrat OF Re
publican, who is known to be bimetal-
ism's determined enemy and who may
be relied upon to uphold the single
gold standard now advocated by the
money power of Great Britain and the
United States. -DenUeT Meas.
The new party should not be misrep-
resented. To meet and defeat it, it is
best that there should be a clear under
standing of the situation. When it
adopted a platform and nominated a
PRESIDENT Il ticket at Omaha, on indie
pendence Day, it leaped into the arena
Of national politics, thoroughly organ
lied, completely equipped, with an
elaborate declaration of principles,
with active leaders and with a follow
ing in every State in the union. The
nominees, Weaver and Field, need not
be discussed just now 1t was a stroke
of policy to nominate a presidential
candidate from the South, who were
Generals in the Union and Confederate
armies. But the names will not do to
conjure with; and the platform is of
infinitely more Importance than the
two candidates. 1t is almost %unneces-
sary to say that the planks in favor of
free silver and government ownership
of railroads will be the most generally
discussed in the campaign, The planks
against the force bill, and the demand
for financial reform and tariff reform
are practically in accord with the de-
mands of the Democratic party.-At-
LGntG Constitution.
While there was not intense anxiety
in the minds of the people about the
Omaha convention, that, perhaps, there
was about the other two conventions
Yet, many hundreds of thousands of
people have been looking forward to 1t
with profound interest, as a time when
the second great declaration of indie
pendence, should be placed before the
American people in a more tangible
shape and in a nor effective operation.
This, the largest political convention
ever assembled, convened in Omaha
with a well defined and definite pur-
pose, on July 18th and was a wonder to
tbe civilized world for its harmony and
absence of petty strifes and jealousies
so conspicuous in other CONVEX tions
where the officers and their accompany
ing Doodle is the chief objects of the
interested participants. This conven
ton was composed of people from every
conceivable faction of reform in the
| nation. h-nrnonnio,1n in oil thnir dalih.