The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-09-04

principles we SO zealously advocated,
only TO afford financial relief 10 n few
professional place-seekcrs, demagogues'
land political prostitutes by putting them
| I'm ofiicrl This class Of blood suckers
are the same sleek wire puiiers. who get
| into the Farmers Alliance, worked their
way TO the front, some of them going
| so far as To organize Il secret band inside
| the Alliance having for its object the
control of the selection of its officers so
as to confer all the paying offices on
themselves.
And when discovered in this nefarious
scheming, had the cheek and criminal
audacity to appeal to the rank and file
of those whom they had sought to un
dermine. to contribute of her honest
acquired means to save them from pm
ishment. We protest aginst Tie exiS-
tence of the same secret khan which we
have reason to- believe is yet being Sc
cretly worked in the committees Of om
party having the same Snealling objects
in view. Therefore, we call upon all vo-
ters who are in favor of our demands
and are hoping for financial reform to
abandon these professional traitors, and
like true. honest voters return to our
standard. and with us continue the strug
gle until we obtain the victory. There
is no hope for relief through those who
have proven themselves traitors to every
party and social organization to which
they ever belonged They proved trail
tors TO the Democrat party, traitors
to the principles of the Alliance. trail
tors to the Peoples party. and will
prove traitors to the Republican party
as soon ms a chance is. presented. Ours
rs the only party before the people that
stands undivided on the great question
of the unrestricted coinage of silver at
ratio of 1G to /.
Ours is the only parry favoring gov
eminent issue of paper money, known as
greenback, which is the best money in the
world for the people. The Peoples party
is the only party favorlng government
ownership of railways and telegraph
lines. which should be owned by the peo-
pie the same as the postal service and
the navy. The Peoples party, is the
only party opposed to trusts and comb
nations. which destroy competition, and
are plundering, and ensaving our peo-
pie and seeking to control even the
intelligence of the youth or our country
by buying up our great educational in
stitutions The Peoples party is the
only party opposed TO national banks:
they have plundered productive labor of
all its earnings during the last thirty
years, and financially enslaved our pos
terity for years to come Under forms
of law. they have acquired control of
nearly all the money of our republic. de
bauched our government, created panics,
prostituted our Supreme court and
caused more suffering than all wars and
pestilence combined They have de-
stroyed the peoples money, contracted
our currency and forced the nation to
depend upon them for money to con-
duct the business Of the nation. The
Peoples party is the only party opposed
to government by injunction, by which
IL captious bribed Federal judge can or
der the mechanic and laborer confined
in prison dungeons for refusing to serve
the money-power.
The Peoples party is the only party
favoring an income tax, by which those
who have plundered productive labor Of
its earnings, and acquired control of
three-fourths of the wealth of the Uni
ted States should be forced 10 pay some
at least of the taxes necessary to run
the government.
The Peoples party is the only party
favoring the election of United States
Senators by the people by which they
may have a voice in the law making
power of the nation.
Therefore, as Populists, true 10 our
principles, we propose TO stand by and
contend for the reforms embodied III our
platform regardless of the fate of those
wreckers and place hunters who appear
to cherish no higher aims than to spend
their energies in abusing and yllifying
the same party with which they affiliated
until the Peoples party came into exis-
tence.
We further declare ourselves opposed
to fusion on any other issues than those
embodied in our platform, and we ap-
peal to our friends who stood so brave
ly by our principles in 1892 10 abandon
that rotten plan of dcserters and tral-
tors who have brought our party into
disgrace and are seeking to make it a
contempt, for spoils only. And let us
vote for and contend for the reforms
which we first started out to secure.
We believe our demands are just and i'll
enacted into law would place our peo-
pie and country in the highest happiest
and most prosperous condition OF any
nation on earth; therefore
Resolved That primary meetings in
the various townships of the county be
called and held ut their usual meeting
places on Tuesday, September 9th, at
2 o'clock p. m, to elect delegates and
township executive committees, and that
county convention Of such delegates
be held in the city of Raleigh on Thurs
day. September Goth. 1893, to nominate
a straight Populist ticket
BY COMMITTEES:
ID. Z. MEACHAM,
JNO G. FORT,
r. J. BUFFALOE,
r. n. WYNNE.