The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-02-09

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and other substantial means (as the
price of their ~treechery) to enable them
to either capture the Peoples party or
~ganization and force it to approve
their treachery or to split the organi
cation and take their corruptive per
ton into the Republican party. If
either of those insidious and deep laid
schemes should succeed Ii would mean
the disruption If not the death of the
Peoples party. Shall we allow this
hell conceived conspiracy against the
interests and welfare of suffering hu
manity to succeed that a few by
Greachery and corruption may feed
aud fatten upon the misery of mil
lions7
Certain lewd fellows of the baser sort
had bound themselves in an oath that
they would both eat and drink of the
bounty of the despoilers of the land
until they had killed Paul. Shall we
allow this to be done, or shall we draw
the Iine9 We cannot serve both God
and mammon. the fight is on. Under
which king, Bszlnian9
AS the livery of Heaven is stolen to
! serve the Devil in, go every crime
committed against the integrity OF the
Peoples party and its essential prin-
| ciples will be attempted in the name of
co operation with the Republican party
of the South and the Democratic party
| Of the West.
Already the P1pulist supporters Of
Hanna's man begin to call themselves
! co operative Populists, when in truth
they are nothing but Republicans,
while attempting to better serve the
purposes of the Republican party by
incorporating as Populises. By their
fruits ye eh8li know them"
The only way by WI. Gu the Peoples
party can be able K maintain it's exist-
ence, strengthen it's lines, and advance
its principles, upon which good govern
ment must be founded, is by purgjpg
from it's ranks those who have commit.
ted the crime of placing self above the
W0kAhI6 VI Gu0 PoUp40'
Seventeen members of the legislature
of North Carolina calling themselves
Populists, under the tr~aitorous dirac,
ton of Congressman Harry Skinner,
ajdedand abetted by prominent Popu
lists of other States, high in the coun.
ellis of the party, have committed this
crime and have hsen promptly repudi
ated and expelled FROM the organiza
ton, and therefore, branded as traitors
to the basic principles of good govern
ment and enemies to the welfare Of
humanity.
The sedu 3tive, but slimey snake O
fusion has, no doubt, stuck it's poison
GUS fangs to a greater or less depth
into the organization Of the People,
party in many other States. Therefor,
this purging must also be done. l
cannot be begun too soon.
The presence of this disease waspain
fully and dangerously evident at TIT
last National Convention Of the PEG
ple's party.
Four years ago, when the People,
party met in National Convention g.
Omaha, composed of delegates from
every quarter of the Union, men who
in the past, had affiliated with differ
ent political parties-they met on com
mon ground, moved by a unity of pur
pose toward a common end.
In the last National Convention VI
were confronted by the baneful anC
poisonous effects of Republican fusion
in the South, swinging the party to on'
extreme, and Democratic fusion in th'
West, swinging the party to the othe.
extreme, which, not only destroyed tn
harmony and unity of method, blu
also endangered the very existence o
the organiz3 alton.
Thus the heroic and patriotic effort
of the lamented L. L. Polk, in break
ing down the deadly barriers of sec
tional prejudice and uniting tn
patriots of the South, and West AM
their fellow sufferers everywhere unde
a c5mmon banner to fight for the res
toration Of prosperity and the libere
tion of humanity, which was 80 nobl,
achieved, was threatened to be undon
by the separate and joint machinatio
of the two old parties that are &C joint
ly responsible for the evils and miserie
that exist.
The enemy, though temperate
foiled, is still at work. Only last wee.
| here in Raleigh, within a stones throO
of the c~onsecrated grave of L. L. Polk
the combined conspirators from Lom