The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-07-14
THE CHICAGO NOMINEES AND
PLATFORM.

man IN the OuQGF 1s SIiGCu Will hhOA
oratorical powers, and he is logical and
| cleo uent at the same time. AS a a
Gus advocate of the r. m~cnetization OF
silver he is known from ocean to ocean.
His admirers are found in all parties.
But if he believes in any of the other
paramount reforms, he has been
strangely silent all the while.
Although a persistent champion OF
free coinage, Mr.. Bryan has not pur-
| sued a course that will insure the sup
port of any real friend to the cause OF
free coinage For the past twelvey years
the Democratic party has been very In
consistent, and while he may be excused
for hoping and waiting for better things
while his party was only partially IN
power, it is strange that he has never
wanted free coinage bad enough to
leave his party when it made the in
ternational" sawdust sWindle at CHI
ago in 1892 and followed it up by de-
monet'z ng silver in 1898, bringing
wreck and ruin in it's wake at the same
time. We have seen Carlisle, Steven
son. and other brilliant free coinage
advocates bend the knee at the dicta-
ton of Wall street, and the price Of
their perfdy was mere Cabinet posi-
tions. What guarantee have we that
Bryan will not be a plant tool IN their
hands9 He didn'G have the courage
and the manhoodto getouttrom among
them before he was dazz(ed with 3
Presidential nomination, he will not IN
the future. No friend of financial re-
form will be justified in voting for w.
J. Bryan. Every man is known by
the company that he is in. We will
suppose that you start on a business
or social career with a dozen apparent
" honorable men. You go with them
for a time and fad that they are high
way robbers or anything except what
you believed they we're. Would an
honest man 20 on with them or leave
them at once9 There can be but one
answer.
The pI5 storm adopted at Chicagocon
tains some good doctrine. 1t is the best
platform the D-mocratic party has
framed in many years. However, very
little of it is original, much of it being
stolen goods. 1t is a matter of history
that the Democratic party has origi
mated but few reforms and has never
carried any into effect. It takes what
lever it fluids that is popular and gets in
if it can, and then goes the other direc
ton as fast as it can, gets badly de
moral z d and pleads for another
chance" 1t adopted the Alliance
platform in this and other States and
then laughed at the people it had duped.
The Democratic party will besmirch
the Holy Scriptures by Incorporating
part of them in it's platform. 1t will
bottle the tears Of widows and orphans
and write aplatform; it will invade the
s~auctity of the home or plumber the
Church of Christ for platform mate
rial; it will call upon Heaven for wit
nesses to testify as to the good inten-
tions Of the party and then give the
country an administration reeking with
the filth and slime of hell. The party
stands before you to day, as it has often
done before, apparently as innocent
and pure as q newborn babe, but, in
fact, ruled and controlled by the same
Wall street gang, the same monopoly
loving politicians, the same ballot-box
mRnipuIRtors, interpreted here and
there with good and pure men, who
still remain without being able to e.
plain why they do not leave the party.
The goldbugs, the members of the many
trusts, the bond, buyers are throwing
up their hats, rejoicing at the success
Of this their latest and largest scheme.
The kicking in certain quarters is only
a part of the farce. Will any large
portion of the great plain people be
caught in this silver plated trap again
We hope not. We trust that they have
been fooled once too often.
If anything we're lacking to con-
vince US that the above is entirely o
rect, the nomination of Goldbug Sew
ell, of Goldbug Maine, for the Vice
Presidency, clinches the nail. Sewell
is a bank president, ship owner and
general capitalist They call him a
8 liver man, but no n will be fooled.
Bryan is to catch Populist suckers, it
he can, and Sewell was put on to catch
the goldbugs in the New England
States. You just want to watch the
American people walk over so called
Populists who are said to be advising