The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-11-17
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Watson, provided Watson got more
votes elsewhere than Sewall got.
When in Kansas, recently, l warned
our people of this snare. l told them
that Sewall would receive all those
votes-else the Democrats would not
have conceded so much to get them.
You have since sent me a letter written
by Chairman Breidenthal, in which the
tacit admission is made that S8well is
to receive all the electoral votes Of
Kansas, if the present deal stands.
Thus the Populists of Kansas and
Colorado have been disfranchised.
Worse than thRt-they have been de-
livered to q fusion where none Of their
votes count for the Popul!st ticket.
They must vote for Sewali and thus
violate their principles.
In North Carolina where fusion has
been arranged with the Republicans on
the State and county tickets, and with
Democrats On the National ticket, Mr..
Sewall gets a majority Of the electors.
North Carolina is supposed to be q
P0pulist State, upon that idea she was
allowed ninety five votes in u Ma
tional Convention. The fact that IN
North Carolina we have now conceded
a majority OF the electors to Mr.. Sew
all, would indicate that cur vote in
North Carolina has undergone a dlsas
trous shrinkage gince our National con.
vention adjourned, or that the Nation.
al ticket has been used for mercantile
purposes.
Senator, a reform party has no right
to exist if it has no valid complaint to
make. Populists cannot denOunce the
Sins OF the Two old parties, and yet go
into political co partnership with them
The moment we make a treaty, the
war must cease.
And when we cease u war upon
the two old parties, we have no longer
any excuse for living. Whenever right
compromises with wrong, it Is the
right which suffers. A reform move
ment is necessarily an assault-an at
tack upon intrenched error. When
ever the attacking force halts, it begins
TO melt away. To rout Republicanism,
we must continually assail it. We can
not be friends to it one day, and enc
mics to it the next. The same truth
applies to the Democratic party.
Whenever we cease our warfare upon
old party errors, and go into partner
ship with them, we lose all moral
force; We lose u own crusading spirit
we show the puolic that we are mere
spoilsmen like the others, and the PEG.
pie lose interest in us when we reduce
the issue to that of merely exchanging
one seat of place hunters for another.
If we represent nothing but a contest
of the "outs" against the ''in," we r
a lot of humbugs, parading as reform
ers, and we deserve the contempt Of all
good people.
To win in this campaign, there should
have been immediate and concentrated
efforts to unite the South and West,
from whence the free silver majoriUies
must come. There should also have
been c~onciIiatory measures adopted to
harmonic Populists and silver Demo
Gratis.
Thus far in the campaign, the South
has been conciliated by sneere, misrep,
reservations and abuse hurled at the
Southern nominee.
The Populists have been Modified by
being told Ito go the negroes where
they belonged"
The American people are highmind-
ed ard fair quick to see injustice,
swift to condemn it.
To all unprejudiced and manly men,
regardless Of party, I submit the state
ment that never before has any party,
so badly needed as ours, been so badly
treated. Iovited to come to the help
of the helpless Democracy, we have re
ceived no generous recognition from
those who appealed to US. ard whose
appeal we heard. We did not go to
them for aid-they came to US. And
yet they refuse to recognize u right
to either place on the ticket which
they admit our votes must elect. They
want Il help-but we must come as
servants earning a wage, not as friends
sharing a duty, and an honor.
They are the prodjgals, not we, yet
they signa1iz9 their return to the prin-
ciples they abandoned, by persistent
Efforts to degrade and disrupt the party
which has 0een true to silver during
the years in which they were false.