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

shouting to try to drown them all out
and get them to stop. During a slight
cessation Of the noise a young lawyer
by the name of Justice, whose hair was
as badly tangled as if he had just es
capped from the track of a cyclone,
mounted the stage and began to speak
He said: Il want to say a word, gen
tiemen of the jury Oaughter) I know
that l am in the minority Then it
dawned upon the crowd that he, was
going to make a goldbug speech, and
he was greeted with groans, Kisses and
catcalls for fully five minutes, mingled
with cries of sit down." get cut. "
Col. Paul B Means then arose and got
the attention of the crowd. He shamed
them fer refusing to grant the right of
freedom of speech, and plead with
them to give the young tory a hearing.
Then there were cries of go on"
Justice only wanted to yell in his
cracked voice that Il am a Democrat"
even If the convention does declare for
silver" and, Of course, that made mat
ters all right, and he became a bushy-
headed hero from Heroville, at once
After an hour or two Of diegraceful
rowdy ism the platform was brought
in and read.
THE PLATFORM.
WHEREAS, The Democratic party
had It's birth in Mr.. Jefferson's great
contest against the - ntraliz alton of the
powers Of the Federal government, and
IN behalf of the strict construction of
the Federal Constitution embodied in
the tenth amendment thereto, in which
all powers not delegated to it were ex-
pressly reserved to the States, respect
lively, or to the people; and whereas,
the Republican party has ever been the
party of centrallza alton, resolved
/. That we appeal to the people to
observe this fundamental difference be-
tween the Democratic party and it's
traditional enemy in respect to the
powers Of the central government.
3. That the Constitution of the
United States recognizes both gold and
eilvea as the primary or redemption
money of these States, and that, in the
words of the National Democratic
platform of 1884, 1--WE believe in honest
money, the gold and silver coinage of
the Constitution, and a circulating
medium convertible into such money
without loss"
3, We favor, Independently of other
nations, the free and unlimited coinage
OF silver and gold, without discrimina-
ton against either, at the present legal
ratio of Is to 1, and we condemn the
system which in a time of peace, with
millions of silver bullion lying idle in
the Treasury, has forced the govern
ment within the short period of two
years, to issue 1862, 900, 900 of bonds,
entailing this enormous debt upon the
people, in order to maintain its credit
upon a single standard and a gold
basis.
4. We condemn the action of the
Secretary Of the Treasury in following
the Republican precedent of paying
the obligations Of the government in
gold which were specifically made pay
able in coin.
5. We hereby instruct our delegates
to the National convention, both as to
platform and candidates. to advocate
and as a unit, unfnchingIy end
at all hazards, for the restoration Of
silver, and otherwise in obedience to
the letter and spirit of the principles
herein enunciRted.
We further instruct our delegates,
State and district, to use all their efforts
to abrogate the ~two-thirds rule, if nee
essary to secure the nomination Of a
candidate in complete, in hearty, and
in known accord with the principles
herein enunciated by US,
6. We warn the people against the
threatened combined evils Of the gold
standard and the Mckinley Tariff
These twin minister's go hand in hand
in their mission of destruction, draw
ing the very s~ustenance from the body
of the people, and concentrating all
wealth and power in the hands of a
few.
Z. We denounce the Mckinley Tariff
and all other forms of protective tariff
legislation, and favor the constitutional
tariff for revenue only.
s. We favo the repeal of the uncon-
stitution tax of ten per cent. on State
banks Of issue.
9 We declare ourselves in favor of
a graduated income tax in order that
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