The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-09-01
BRABsTER VESTS LETTER.

WASHINGTON, D. G, August 81.
The national committee of the Peo-
ple's party has at length located in
Washington, and has declared that
upon no consideration, will the
name of Mr.. Watson be withdrawn
from the ticket. For that I waited.
I hoped that it would not, and l am
glad that the Peoples party will not
permit itself to be submerged into
Bourbon Democracy. Had the Dem
ocratic party placed upon its ticket
with Mr.. Bryan a running mate equal
to himself or Tom Watson, I would
have said support the ticket, no mat
ter, whether the nominees be labeled
Democratic, Peoples party, or by any
other name" But the Democratic con
vention saw fit to place upon the ticket
with Mr.. Bryan a man who Is a ma
tional banker, railroad magnate, and
q millionaire. In himself and in his
career as a citizen Mr.. S9wall is beyond
r~eproach, but this year, when we, the
plain common people Of the United
States, propose to reassume control OF
the government, it is not fit that a
man, however pure his private life,
however honest his dealings with his
fellow men, should be u candidate
so long as he is tainted with the national
banking system, which, we contend, is
the most damnable system ever
dreamed of by Satan and foisted upon
the people Of the United States by mis-
cradle hirelings such as John Sherman.
The question to day is not between
Bryan and Mckinley, but between
Watson and SeWell. Bryan will be
elected. Every Democrat, who is a
Democrat, every POpulist, every 81
verite, every honest Republican will
vote for Bryan and shall it be required
of US, the Peoples party, that we COM
NIT hari kari, that we commit self i'm
notation on the shrine Of Arthur Sew
all7 No! If the Democratic party be
destroyed, obliterated and wiped out,
the Peoples party will yet remain to
save this nation from the usurers and
monopolsts who threaten it, but let the
Peoples party be destroyed and the
Democratic party will fall back into its
old rut and this nation will march on
to a Rothschild, Hanna, Mckinley era
of slavery and subserviency. The
members Of the People party must de
mand that in each State they have a
share of the electoral vote, or else put
up separate electoral tickets. TIE rea-
son for the preceding remarks is that
the campaign Of the Democratic party,
instead of being conducted by Mr..
Bryan and the men who are in sym
pathy with the new reform movement, |
has fallen into the hands of a lot Of old
Bourbon Democrats who don't know
the difference between a silver dollar
and a gold dollar unless they pass it
over the bar. They have tried to get
Senator Hill, German and Brice to
fall into line in this campaign, when
your readers know that we despise
those people and do not wish them in
any movement tot the people. That
will show your readers what kind Of a
campaign the Democrats are running.
Senator Jones has gona to Chicago, |
leaving broken pledges behind him.
Let him go. The Peoples party can do
without him and the rest of the Bour
bon Democrats.
Much comment was aroused by
Thurston's attack upon Bryan. Thurs
ton charged Bryan with receiving
money from the silver mine owners for
making speeches in the past few years.
Senator Stewart gave Thurston the lie.
ThuIston took it like the dog that he
is, and now that Bryan has come out
and specifically denied receiving any
money from mine owners, Thurston
acknoW Wedges the corn.
A sample of the tactics of the gold
bugs occurred this week in Washing
ton. A man named Capt. Stephen
Nicoletti, the author of a book entitled
GA Gold Conspiracy" WIGS selling his
book upon the streets of this city. a
national banker CHANGED to pass by,
glanced at the book and forthwith had
Nicoletti arrested by an ignorant pc,
liceman who had been in this country
but two years. The author and ven
der of the book was locked up in a cell
for twenty minutes before l heard of
it, and I had him out 80 quick that
it made the heads of the goldbugs
swim. The best lawyers of Washing
ton, including Hon. A. A. Lipecomb,
who defeOded CoYev ubaub he uos ,-o.