The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-04-21
MEETING OF EXECUTIVE COM
MITTEE.

at 4 D.. m Thursday afternoon. 4
large number of representative mem
bers of the party were present by invi-
tation. They were invited to meet
with the committee and express
themselves freely as to the best
course TO pursue IN the State this
year. THE they did, and several
members OF the commiEteedid likewise.
Many favored cooperation with the
| Republicans If it could be secured on
honorable terms and without the sacri-
fee Of principle. 4 few favored co
operation on any sort of terms, bat, Of
course, man of that kind cuts a small
figure IL q Peoples party meeting.
Thursday night the Executive Commit
tee went into executive session and
prepared a proposition, which was sub
mit.ed to the conference committee
from the Republican party by q like
| committee from the Peoples party Fri
day morning after reading the cffar
made by the Republican Conference
| Committee. The Republican com
! r1is-ee refused to consider the PROPOSE
| ton, but responded With another, both
| OF which are given III fun under the
head Of An Address" elsewhere il this
paper. s., as neither side could &C
cept propositions, cooperation is at an
end III this State unless something new
! develops later on, which Is not at all
! likely. o. course the action Of the
| executive and conference committees
| will be submitted to the State Convan
ton for ratification or rejection, but it
| is hardly probable that tie convention
will be composed Of delegates who will
differ materially with the twenty five
members Of hec2mmittee and the able
and representative citizens present,
IN whose political sag city, integrity
and sound Judgment we all have great
faith. The reform press was pretty
we'll represented, and it was noticed
that q majority of the editors are mid
die Of the road fighters and they would
never have entered a political fight so
thoroughly antagonistic to Alliance
and Peoples party principles, which
would be ~propagating goldbUggery in
stead OF destroying it. Had our Re
publican friends shown a disposi5jo to
CO operate with US in electing men to
Office who are for good government,
for financial reform, as they did il "a
20 secure an honest election law and
some other needed State reforms, it
would have been a pleasure tc act with
them, we would have been justified in
doing 80. But no matter how the rank
and fite Of thai party as constituted at
present il this State may feel about she
matter, it was plain 10 oil that q ma
i)Tity Of the leaders are spOilsmen and
are willing to swallow Mckinley or
Reed, or any other goldoug that Roths
childs and Wall street may toist upon
tie country as s tyraniCal Gcspot Of
the Cleveland stripe to further destroy
business and e~nslaye US and cur de-
cendants and forever place US at the
mercy of q heartloss p~iuEocracy. No
true PJpulist WI 90 further in that
direction. We prefer death 20 dishonor
and slavery, and to go with, assist or
! CO. operate with either q The old parties
this year means 9 long stride towards
slavery. If we vii. but think q moment
We can see that we voters in the PEG
pies party are in exactly tie 5 me- p0-
sition we we're in 1892. Then we lett
the Democratic party mainly on &C
count OF tie nomination of Cleveland,
who we regarded as q gold3ug and no
nOpO!isC Of the worst type, and we are
now more than certain that we acted
wisely. After we did pull out Of the
party oUrformer Democratic associates
said to Us: well, you can vote our
State and county ticket anyway, for
we have put up silver men, and have
adopted the Alliance platform as cur
State PLATFORM" Bat we positively
refused because every State and county
nominee Of the Democratic party YVES
LgOing to vote for Cleveland ard for
goldbug Congressman. This year,
with Populist Republican cooperation,
and the candidates equally divided, it
would have been one vote for a silver
man and one vote for @ gOId6ug r pub
lican, unless they had put up silver
men, and this they declined to do.
Tnere is no sense IL it. A few Popu-
lists would have been absolutely Ger
tain OF some cfice pie, but where is the
good government the rank and file Of
us have been striving for against fear
full odds for years? Instead Of ad.
vancing, " would have taken a step