The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-06-30
DANGER AHEAD.

we nave prOnlS0O 10 POAuG OuU Ills
takes and denounce fraud and corrUp,
tion in all political parties, and we are
going to keep that promise to the best
of our ability. If we are wrong at any
time it will be an error of the head and
not of the heart.
At this particular time we believe
the Chairman of the National Peoples
party Executive Committee and some
members of that committee need atten-
ton. A movement il on foot, and if it
is not defeated all hope of reform will
be gone forever. Chairman Taubeneck
has been associating with certain Dem
ocratic rainbow chasers until he seems
to have gotten it into his head that he
can deliver the entire Peoples party
into the lap of Wall Street Democracy
at one time. He andtwenty five other
so called Populists have signed an ad-
dress, sound enough in it's way, for 1t
keeps the real purpose concealed, but
which means Populist support for a
so GALE d silver man who may or may
not be nominated at Chicago. Senator
Teller is said to be a party to this move.
T. NJ. Patterson, of Denver, is another
of this class. Away down East, Whar
ton Barker, of Philadelphia, editor of
the American, who recently left the
Republican party, is launching u little
boomlet of the same kind, except that
he claims that no ore but an Eas-
tern man can be elected, and that
Wharton Barker is that man. Away
with such tOmfoolery
In the absence of proof we will not
charge that Teller will sell himself for
a Presidential nomination, OF that
Taubeneck has been assured that he
can have a cabinet position if lie can
deliver the millions of reform votes to
the fast decaying Democratic machine,
but we want to sound a note of warn
ing. This move cannot be successful,
but it can be carried far enough to do
i~ncalculable damage. Taubeneck was
not selected to carry his party out of
the middle of the road, he has no au-
thority to attempt it, even though his
intentions are good. We defended the
Peoples party Executive Committee in
this State recently because it was true
to its party, and refused to make G2r
honorable and suicidal. SSssde We
conuenln 1aQC"eneck and his kind for
attemptiruE'
F-1g to make one.
The silver question is a vital one, but
it is only one of several important
issues. If the Democratic party were
in earnest, AID we don't believe it Ia, it
would stop when silver is remonet'zed,
and that would be a compromise bill,
something like the Bland or Sherman
law, and then the reform forces would
be disorgan zed and helpless while mo
nopoly would laugh in its sleeves, and
ten chances to n demonetiz9 silver
inside of two years.
Remember the fate Of the Green
back party started twenty years ago.
1t had grown go large that the old mo
nopoly parties were frightened. Both
parties made concessions to get it out
of the way and then flooded the
try with the news that the National
! ticket had been withdrawn, cutting
down the vote greatly. Here we are
now struggling to get the people in
power again, when it might have been
done long ago had the Greenback
party stood to its guns, and we are
glad to say many of them did fight to
the last and gre now in the ranks of
the true reformers.
The Republican party has declared
for gold. 1t is a part o. the pro-
gramme now for the D m.crats to
change their course and disorganize
the Peoples party and buy some of the
leaders with Office or cash, whichever
they choose. Tnen they will have the
masses by the throat again, and it
may be that they can never be rallied.
Reformers to your guns! Victory will
come if you stand firm. In the mean
time you will be no worse eff with
honorable defeat, if defeat it is, than
with dishonorable and illogical victory
even though that is a remote possibility
for no ticket nominated at Chicago
can be successful this year, for there
will be an independent ticket. Let the
reform press speak out in thunder
tones and let every patriot denounce
any effort to sidetrack reform by those
who are negotiating with the secret
agents of the money power to betrAy
us into a fatal step. The only peoples
convention this year will be held at
l ST. Louis ,Inlv 22nd- We reneat re-.