The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-07-24

favor for North Carolina the enact
ment of the Australian system Of vot
ing with such improvements and safe
guards as the experience of other States
where it has been adopted and tested
may suggest. We favor the election
of all officers by the people. We are
utterly opposed to the acceptance OF
free passes by public officials. We
hereby declare that the Democratic
party has, by the failure to carry out
it's pledges, provoked the indignant
contempt of those who accepted its
PROMISES in 1892 as well as all men
everywhere who favor heavens justice
and mans fair play. 1t needs no
declaration or boast from our Demo
cratic opponents to spread abroad the
information that they are again In
control of the national government.
Their ''chance" has indeed come. eve
are confronted with a condition, not a
theory" Unemployed labor, closed
factories, suspended banks, countless
failures and the utter prOstration Of
business are the melancholy monu
ments which mark the destruction
wrought since they regained control.
Democracy, with all that that means
to the country, reigns supreme at the
Nations Capitol; it has ample major
ity to do what it will; it need make no
compromise except with its own tur-
bulent factions. Nothing but its own
incompetency will be deemed an ex-
PLANTATION for the failure to give the
people prompt and full relief. We de-
plore the corruption and intrigue in
the Democratic party that barter
away high diplomatic Office for lavish
donation to campaign funds. We are
utterly opposed to and do hereby de-
nounce fusion with any other party
and will support no fusion candidate
for any Office whatsoever be he Pop
ulist, Republican or Democrat. mo
man can serve two masters, no honest
man will undertake to. We will sup
port no man for the General Assembly
Senate or House, who, in addition to
standing squarely upon the Omaha
platform, does not pledge himself to
vote first, last and all the time for the
Peoples party nominees for both U. S.
Senators.
3 That the delegates this day elected
by this convention to attend the State,
Congressional, Judicial and Senatorial
Conventions be, and they are hereby,
instructed to keep in the middle of the
road" and support no man for any
Office who has not shown his faith by
his works"-an open, energetic, active,
Jealous Populist standing gquarely
upon the Omaha platform.
3. That a convention of the Peoples
party of Person county is hereby called
to meet in the court house in Roxboro
on Monday, September 81, 1894, to
nominate candidates for the House of
Representatives and for the various
county Offices. That the township rep
resentation in said convention shall be
by delegates elected as follows: Hol-
loway 6, Woodsdale 8, Cunningham's
5, Allensville 4, Roxboro 5, Olive Hill
4, Bushy Fork 4, Flat River 6, MI. Tir-
zah 8. That each township shall hold
it's convention on Saturday, the 1st
day of September, 1894, for the pur-
pose of electipg said delegates The
chairman of the executive committee
of the county is hereby directed to
publish the call from now till the day
of the county convention.
1t is ordered that a copy of these pro
ceedings and resolutions be sent to the
Person County Courier, Caucasian,
THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER and Grum
UIIe County Reformer with the request
that they publish the same.
VIM MERRITT, Chairman.
1 1 B 3 SCOT }GGE Secretaries.