The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-01-08
THE COUNTY GOVERNMENT
PROBLEM.
"Harry Hinton" Likes Our Ideas About
a Non-Partisan Judiciary.

q NOn-F6rC1San judiciary.
Correspondence of the Progressive Farmer.
rise to second the motion to your
county govern ment plan. have said
it before, and will say it again, that
the Farmers Alliance is the political
salt wherewith the country will be
saved Cif saved at alp from all that.
plutocracy and mammon implies. The
non partisan idea is the sword which
will cut the gordian knot which binds
the people in slavery. All the execu-
tive and judicial officers are from the
functions of their Offices and the trend
of their duties, non partisan, or should
be. What is legitimate party fort
To propagate certain principles and
policies to be enacted into law. Whose
business is this7 The business of the
people. What is the legislators duty9
To crystalize said principles into law.
l have said il before, and say it again,
that our governmental system is sub
verted and turned topsy turvy from all
the true intents of it's. founders The
people no longer rule. Their votes is
nullity. A few degenerate party
leaders rule the people, and like galley
slaves they bend their backs to the
LASH
Back to the point: A non-partisan
executive and Judiciary to be chosen
from all three parties This would
represent the whole people They
execute the law, not party, and there
fore should be Ne utral as to party law
and party principles. 1t is none of
their business 1t is the business only
of the people, the source of all law and
power. In accordance with these old
time land marks the magistrates, the
county commissioners and the Judi
ciary should be divided among at least
three parties to make abortive close
compact party power.
The situation makes this advisable
Fortunately, too, it is the evolution Of
one of the grandest principles that has
occurred since the dawn of history.
Washington lamented party evil All
writer's have said party was an evil.
!
Meath party wrangle. 1t is an evil
which no statesman could find means
to onviats. 1t must go on with horde
Of office seekers and base men accelerat-
ing it's motion. The Farmers Alliance
steps upon the political arena and solves
the problem None but the people and
the law, makers have aught to do with
party. 1t remains now to Crystalize
this undisputed principle into law.
It was the duty of the farmers to
have attended to this matter long ago.
They and some political men of other
professions made the Constitution and
the government what it was, al it
was their duty to see that it went not
wrong. They are to blame for deliver.
ing over their creation to schemers and
bad men. None of our rights have
been bequeathed to us by parties. ALI
of our woes are the outgrowth of parties
lead by corrupt and corrupting men.
Have we civil rights and civil liberty
No party gave it as a matter of prin-
ciple honest and true. Have we re-
ligious liberty9 No sect gave it to us
which was in the ascendant. Will we
lose our rights and iberties9 1t will
be by parties and sectarians. Then,
strike blow at party power and you.
sap the foundation stone of the money
power and of sectarianism. Parties are
good for the people, for officers of the
law baneful indeed. Wish we had time
to evolve this non partisan principle
more plainly and to show it's beneficial
workings to it's fullest extent when
properly crystalized into law.
: have heard that FL. g. Ewart is a
candidate for United States Senate.
l. That is well. He is big man and rides
always above the storm. What he
thinks he owes to his State and to HIS
people he will do-he has the courage
of his convictions. / have known him
and watched him for time. 1t makes
man small it matters not however
great his powers may be, to surrender
} his best thought to outside pressure.
Ewart is not small in that way. How
ever, being Populist and a red-eyed
calamity howler, Lshppose it is none.
of my business, but can be allowed to-
express myself by passing tribute Of
respect to the several good and great
men whom I have heard were can
didates on the Republican side, but
whom happen not to know so well.
w. r. LINDSAY.
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