The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-07-31
THE n PARTIES.

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from two to four per cent. of the
voters support minor parties, with
the avowed object of recording their
convictions rather than electing
candidates. There is no way of esti-
mating the size of this noconform.
ist vote this year, but the number of
parties asking for it is unusually
large, and whatever it's size it will
apparently be broken up into incon-
spicuous factions. We report these
parties here to complete the history
of the time. The Middle-of-the-
Road, or Anti-Fusion Populists, have
nominated Wharton Baker, the Phil
adelphia fnancier and editor, for
President. and Ignatius Done1ly, of
Minnesota, the brilliant though er-
ratio author of "The New Atlantis
and inventor of the Bacan cryptic
gram, for Vice-President. The plat
form demands the public ownership of
all monopolies and direct legislation.
The Prohibitionists this year have
but one ticket in the feld-the free
silver, anti-monopoly faction having
either joined the Bryan forces or re-
returned to their old party-and but
one political principle, the suppress
sion of the liquor traffic and the en-
reimbursement of women, thought
essential thereto. They have nomi-
mated for President John G. Woo1ey,
of Illinois, the temperance orator,
ANDY for Vice-president Henry B.
Metcalfe, of Rhode Island, widely
known as a manufacturer and also as
a philanthropiot. The United Chris
tians, whose platform we have
been unable to secure, have nomi-
mated for President DR.. S. G.. Swal-
low, the leader of the anti-machine
forces in two recent campaigns in
Pennsylvania, and for Vice-Presi-
dent Mr.. Wooley-who probably is
not embarrassed by his constitutional
inability to fill both the Offices for
which he has been nominated. The
Socialists, who at n time prom
ised to fuse, are just at present di-
vided into three factions instead of
two. The largest of these factions,
known as the Social Democratic
party, has nominated for President
Eugene V. Debs, of Indiana, former
head of the American Railway Union,
and for ice-President Job Harri-
man, of California, a man of educa-
ton, who was first a minister and
later a lawyer. Mr.. Hartman is
also a candidate for President, hav-
ing been nominated for that Office
last January by the branch of the
Socialist Labor party opposed to the
domination of Daniel De Leon and
those who support him in his ex-
treme hostility to trades-unions. It
is still possible that fusion will be
effected between this division of the
Socialist Labor party and the Social
Democrats, in which case MI. Harri-
man will be the candidate for Vice
President, and his present associate
on the anti-De Leon ticket, Max
Hayes, of Ohio, will retire. The
De Leon Socialists, whose leader was
formerly a lecturer in Columbia Col
lege, haze nominated for President
and Vice resident two men who are
distinctively workingmen-Joseph
F. Maloney, a machinist, of Lynn,
Mass, and Valentine Remmel, a
glass-worker, of Pittsburg, Pa. The
platforms eff all these parties de-
mand the immediate ownership of
all monopolized industries by the
public, and the direct control of
these industries by adult popular
suffrage. An anti-imperialist conven-
ton is to be held in Indianapolis,
August Is, which will either put a
a new ticket in the field or endorse
Bryan and Stevenson.-New York
Outlook.