The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-02-18
A VOICE FROM VANCE COUNTY.
Mr.. Rowland Tells How He Thinks It
Ought to be D~one--Thinks Senator
Butler is Barking up the Wrong Tree.
HENDERSON, n. @.

correspondence VA IL L NA
HENDERSON, N. @.
At the risk of coming under the
ban of Senator Buffers editorial de-
Tense of the con mjttee's action Cor to
speak more properly, the action of a
very small part of the cOmm.ttee) in
which he says the address makes no
demands, writes this. He says: 1T con
tains no commands, but it is the con
census Of the opinions of representa-
tive men all over the State and that it
contains nothing of the 'autocrat or
dictator, but is the plea of a patriot
ami IS not the manifesto of a Boss but
that the enc mies OF decency aud prln-
ciple will, however, call it an order, a
'ukase,' or any thing hat a mind not
capable of compromising honestly
can invent"
Ipause to ask the question, "Whither
are we tending2' Where are we at9"
and what is meant when he says the
coming campaign will be fought out
on the lines laid down by the silver
wing of the Democratic party in their
convention at Raleigh, Sept. 2O5h?
Does he mean hat we ara to aban-
dol'our principles (the Omaha plot
fo-m) or Is he try ing to capture the
democratic party again; Or is he try
iug to start q new party2 If the latter
where Is the wisdom of starting a new
party or In trying to align our party
with its splendid organization and owe
2 coo, 0G0 Votes with a thing that has
neither name Dr. organization, simply
10 pander to that very element Che
hObos buns and ~disgrun5led Office
seeker,) that have become a stencil III
the nossrils of the decent men in both
the old parties and are trying to bolster
up their blasted p0lILlcal prospects
Oy EhowIing ''Slverl Silver - just as
if our party was not the only silver
party, aud that, too, when all the bla
Uant leaders of the silver party 90
called) have indie ,Ged publicly in Con
gress that they will not abandon their
party organization. believe that this
is a plan conceived in the beginning by
our enemies to dis0rganize the reform
movement.
Senator Butler says the committee
base their action upon the action of
the Silver Convention in r 4leigh.
Some of US were present and this
statement is made upon what was seen
and heard in Raleigh duriI G the silver
convention. VINO composed that con
ventlon9 Only one or two Republi
cans, possibly some twenty Democrats
and some twenty or thirty Populists
outside Of Wake county, and from $50
to 200 Populists from Wake county,
It would be interesting reading
to know how so many from Wake
got there after the committee found
out the Populists of the State were
going to take no part in the Conven
ton. There were a good many Popu
lists in r leigh who we're only there as
observers to see That our party was not
hurt who held a caucus of their own
and they were solidly opposed to the
50 called Silver Convention" manipu
lated by a few lawyers from the three
parties, when it is we'll known that
lawyers ruined the Democratic and
Republican parties, and if we allow it
they will ruin ours, and they also de
cided hat they would go home and
help organize their counties to stand
by the Omaha platform. A prominent
Democratic off ;er who participated in
that convention said that day that the
action Of the convention would break
up cooperation. One of the leading
Pupulists who helped to manipulate
that convention came armed with let
ters In his pocket from his constituents
instructing him to oppose the so called
Silver Convention" And now we
are asked to desert our platform at the
behest Of a convention organized as
this one was. Vance county for one
will not do it. There are certain
things that we want to do in our next
campaign and among them:
1, We want to be at the Democrats
2 We want to turn every D M
cratic officer out-frCm township con
stable to governor. They have de
ceived US.
3. We want to throttle the trusts that
are operating in this State. That i5 a
part of the Omaha platform.
4. We want a constitutional amend
ment, so that our election law, after
being amended this time Gf we find
any defects) shall not be changed with