The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-02-06

and the pledges to their constituent
which secured their electionH They
realized, if you did not, that in doing
the bidding of the money power they
violated the. traditions and cardinal
principles of the Democratic party and
that it would humiliate and degrade
them to allow the influence of money
or the owe of patronage to subject
them to the will of concentrated
capital.
The people are surprised at your as
constituent to find American Senators
with sufficient honesty. manhood and
~self-respect to maintain their convic
tions and observe their pledge. You
seem to have forgotten that the Demo
cratic party has eve been victorious
in a national contest since the war in
the absence of a plea to the American
people to restore silver to the place as
a money metal which it occupied pre-
vious to 1873. In 1884 the Democratic
party platform declared that 1--WE (the
Democracy believe in honest money,
the gold and silver coinage of the Con,
stitution" and the people elected you
President on that issue. In 1883,
through your influence as Chief Execu-
tive, the platform of the Democratic
party was silent upon the paramount
issue of the free coinage of silver, and
YOU were defeated. In 1892, as we
have already seen, the Democratic
party renewed it's bimetallic pledge
and you we're again elevated to power.
Your victories when your party de-
your defeats when your party refused
to take sides in favor of the people
against their oppressors ought to have
admonished you that the people r in
favor of the free and unlimited coinage
of silver.
If you had been guided by the prin-
ciples of your party, and refused to
follow the advice of the gold com pima
ton, you would to-day rejoice in the
of a grateful people made
prosperous by your wisdom and patri-
otic efforts. If you had obeyed the
voice of the people the party which
discovered and honored you without a
parallel would not be divided and dis
but would be united and vigi-
liant in the prosecution of the reforms
which the convention at Chicago de-
were essential for the prosperity
of the country.
l do not wish to intimate that you
are so destitute of feelings of gratitude
and sentiments of obligation to the
party which has made you what you
are as to willingly distract, divide and
humiliate it. But you must know that
the party in power is held re
spOnsiOle for hard times, and that the
lesson you are furnishing Of
prices. stagnatiOn and want are
dangerous to party supremacy. Have
you no apprehension that a suspicion
may arise that the influence of the
gold combination is paramount with
7Ou2 The people realize that the gold
3yndicate Of London and New York
lse without discrimination any party
which will best subserve it's purposes.
The money power has reason to believe
hat the Democratic masses are more
dangerous to the rule of the gold king
han the Republican party, under
whose administration silver was de
.nOnetized and which has always
when IN pO Ter) furnished an Execu
and a majority in both Houses of
congress opposed to the free and I'm
coinage of silver.
Your gold associates may not realize
be great injury they are doing to your
equation when they advise you to
dept methods of administration for
be purpose Of securing a successor in
our high office, who will do their bid
ing and submit to their dictation.
he evils Of the policy which they have
ursued for the last twenty years has
the people that a President
tho serves the gold combination must
Q hostile to the best interests of his
0untry.
In conclusion, 1 desire to inform the
honey power through you that the
Ombination betw, en- the managers of
le Democratic and the Republican
arti s in favor of gold monopoly will
OF unite the people for the gold stan
ard. The furnace of contraction will
3 too hot in such a combination.
The union of the Wing and Demo
attic parties from 1913 to 1860 on the
of extension of slavery de-
them both and ruined the ca11sn