THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER: MARCH 29, 1892.
J .
ZEKE BILKINS.
4jf
He Wants to Know How to Get Through
a Political Convention.
"Hello! Mr. Editor."
R Good morning, Mr. Bilkins."
XXSay, I want to know how to
pull through the conventions."
Tf T nan't taII vnii hut will refer
-p. M. VUU V W vwj ' - "
jou to tome experienced politician
joL PAil B. Means, of Uoncord, tor
f All right, hitch me to Col.
hello 1 Col. M. " Who is that? '
44 My name is Bilkins. I live in
Wake county, N. C, U. S. A."
Col. M "Great gewhillikins 1 I
would rather hold an office than talk to
that old blunderbuss "
B. "Say, Colonel, how did you
come out in your chat with President
Butler?"
Col. M. "Oh! th U is all settled. I
went around and had a talk with Mr.
Butler after the speaking was over.
Butler is a nice fellow."
B. 4 'Colonel, I want to know sorter
how the conventions are going to run
this year."
Col. M. "Well, I'll tell you confi.
dentially. The first thing is to get the
people in a good humor. The next is
to scare them with the nigger. That is
very important. Then when we meet
re will nominate eotce prominent Al-
liancem.n for chairman and another
for secretary."
B. "Say, aint that sort of a cute
trick with you sort of fellows?"
Col. M. "No; that is all right. We
all want to see the farmers fairly rep
resented. They should have charge
of the conventions to a large extent."
B. "But after you get in a chair
man an' secretary won't you sorter be
gin to draw the lines?"
Col. M. 4 'Of course not. The farm
ers will have a right to stay in the
meeting and vote for the nominees and
then work for them during the cam
paign, and vote for them next No
vember." B. 4 4 How about the platform?"
Col. M. "We njust agree upon a
platform that will be acceptable to zho
whole people. "
. B. "Goin'to have free silver in it?"
Col. M. "No well ah well I
reckon there will be something said
about that. I see that Congress has
given that a black eye, though. We
will have to wait a whild on that."
B. "Say, Colonel, hain't the Demo
cratic platform had something in it of
that kind for years?"
Col. M. 44 Yes well I believe there
has been something of the sort."
B. " Why did a whole lot of Demo
ratic Congressmen vote against it?"
Xri. M "I don't know. Perhaps
re better prepared to say what
try needs than the people are."
you going to put financial
reform in fva platform by means of
the Sub-Treasurf -lan?"
Col. M. 44 Ah, I dcJ't know, that
measure is most too radial. Some of
our people will oppose that." .
B. " Are you going to put the land
and transportation planks in?"
Col. M. "I reckon not. That land
plank is contrary to the principles of
democracy, and the government can't
afford to own the railroids."
B. "Why can't the government
own the railroads and the telegraph
lines?''
Col. M. "Why, my dear sir, it is
not able to buy them."
B. "Who is the government?"
Col. M. 44 The people, of course."
B. "Then the railroads are bigger
than the government an' the people
an' the whole country includin' the
presidential aspirants."
Col. M." Oh I didn't mean to con
vey that idea."
B. " Well, what is the programme?"
Col. M "Tariff reform.1'
B. "Hello, Colonel, you are ten
years behind. I have done promised
Betsy that tariff reform can't be my
f.o!e object. The tariff is not half that
is needed. Colonel, you are going to
have fun when you try to fool the peo
ple with that again. We want finan
cial reform an' we wont rest until we
get it. Good bye."
t
; We declare our union and indepen
dence. We assert our, purpose to f up
port the political organization? which
represents our principles."
We assert that a political organization, rep
resenting the political principles herein stated,
is necessary to redress the-grievances of which
we complain." A.ddesuf Stjjj uia Industri I
Conference.
The above ndorsed by every
vote in the St-VSouis Conference ex
cept two Livingston and Wilson, of
ueorgia.
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THE VITAL ISSUE.
The people who have been voting for
Democratic nominees now find them
selves distinctly divided into two
classes, viz: Thoso who prefer their
principles to their party, and those
who prefer their party to their prin
ciples ; those who determine their party
by their principles, and those who de
termine tneir principles by their party ;
those who put their horse before their
cart, and those who put their cart be
fore their horse: Most of the politicians
have put their party before their prin
ciples. In fact their main principle is
simply adhering to some organization.
They call it " joining" or " belonging"
to a party. Their faith is what a con
vention tells them to believe, or rather
what they tell a convention to believe.
This they call the 44 policy" of the
party. Before they open their 4 bat
teries" (as they sometimes call their
organs of abuse) they wait for a pro
nunciamento from headquarters. Then
they 44 fire all along the line." They
examine every proposition for relief to
see how it affects the party's chances
for holding or obtaining the spoils of
office. With them every agitation
is dangerous which they cannot see
will add to their chances of election.
Bat the politicians say, "wait with
your reforms. Be quiet till we can slip
m president," and all will be at
tended to. In 1884 we were all howl
in. for Grover Cleveland and for the
repeal of the internal revenue tax.
After the election it appeared our
President- was opposed to its re
peal. That the politicians knew
of this misfit beforehand can hardly
be doubted. But see what the
result was upon this demand for
relief: In 1888, the same man was
again put forward for President and
the internal revenue cut the poorest
figure imaginable in the campaign.
The politicians slipped in their Presi
dent, but the people did not slip in
their relief. The friends of this iniqui
tous species of taxation stole a march
on us and we were so completely dis
comfitted that one hardly even hears
the subject mentioned now. With the
assistance of New York guiding our
tender footed delegates in the national
nominating convention, we elected a
man who made it a Waterloo for us,
on this subject. The satisfaction of
seeing our half starved politicians tak
ing the place of the 44 red-legged grass
hoppers" they had so often denounced
was rather poor compensation for the
eight or ten million dollars which are
annually taxed out of this State by this
method of taxation. The readiness
with which the average politician
changed the livery of a principle he
had so long and so furiously inculcated
shows how lightly the cause sat in his
heart.
Wall street gently led our delegates
into the selection of Mr. Hancock in
1SS0. He was trying to win by keep
ing quiet on the main issue (the tariff)
quite a commendable way of getting
an office among professional spoil
hunters. At last he was forced to take
a stand and he decided with Wall street
that the tariff was "only a local ques
tion " Whistled it down the wind. Yet
public sentiment was worked up to
such a pitch here in favor of tnis con
vention named opponent of Southern
interests that if any one had proposed
not to send delegates to the mob that
betrayed us, he might have been tarred
and feathered !
Thi-i then is a specimen of the work
of politicians who wanted "to win."
This is what was accomplished by the
regulation tactics of convention man
ipulators. The Pharisees used to send delegates
occasionally to Jesus Christ. Probably
one of their purposes was to get him to
join their political party with them
selves a3 the chief recipients of the
spoils of office It appears that they
had been laying heavy burdens on men
(taxes, probably), had separated them
selves from the rank and file of the
people (t. e. were aristocratic) had con
fined all the paying offic-s to a few
select families and had became as un
popular as politicians generally are
who forget the people's interest. They
wanted and needed a winning card,
and they would have been willing to
put up with a good many disagreeable
features if they could have added the
popularity of the reform from Galilee
to their party. Neither one of the
great J udean parties could make any
terms with the Great Reformer, so a-?
is customary in such cases among spoil
hunters they pooled their issues and
"fused their ticket," and went in to
beat him.
The other day when a spoil hunting
adherent of the Democratic party said
to me 'that he would vote the straight
out radical ticket before he would vote
for electors who were not pledged to
the Chicago Convention nominee, I
thought of his ancient pharisaian pro
totype, and of this old fusion of the
self-seekers of all parties against a re
form which struck ab the root of all
selfishness. W. J. Peele.
P. S. It seems strange that the
fossil politicians of the State should be
so much distressed over my proposition
to secede from the Wall street conven
tion They have always assured me
privately, when I protested against the
works of that convention, that it did
not matter so much what those Yankees
did up there, the big thing for us was
10 save our ocace irom negro rule. I
took them at their word and have sug
gested a plan by which we can certain
ly carry the State election, and if they
will co operate with us, the electoral
ticket also. The horrible nightmare of
negro domination, which has disturbed
their sleep for thirty years, is removed
It suddenly now appears that they are
not so frightfully afraid of the negro
after all this sham furor, for they are
willing to j-jopardize the State ticket
by trying to make fealty to the Yankee
mob which meets at Chicago a test of
a man's democracy. If they succeed
in making this the test they will read
out of the party the bone and sinew of
it, and they will be obliged to depend
on the negroes to elect their ticket
These are the men that call themselves
4 ' straight-outs. " A Republican leader
said to me, " there would be a fusion
of the negroes and aristocrats and they
would beat the Third party." When I
told him there was so much talent
among the " aristocrats" that he
wouldn't get any more spoils, he looked
sober and thoughtful. It seems to me
to be passing strange that after having
passed the Alliance demands, through
a score of conventions or tamely sub
mitted to their passage, they now pro-
fose to split or be split if the formu
ators of these demands undertake to
tame the electors who are to look after
their execution. If these men split or
f orce a split among the Democrats of
the State Convention, the people will
believe it is done on account of the
rage of politicians at the prospect of
losing the control of the Federal pat
ronage. Three fourths of the Demo
crats in this State believe in free silver,
low tariff or no tai iff and increased pa
per circulation. The politicians have
already swallowed the Alliance de
mands and many of them have said it
was good. How then can there be a
split on principle? If the split is about
spoils, the people will feel a just con
tempt for those who engage or com
pel it.
The split I have had my eye on and
been longing to see is one between the
f eople and certain classes of politicians,
t has been going on for years, and it
is now about to culminate. Let this
split be wide and deep and lasting.
W. J. P.
TO THE ALLIANCE OF NORTH
CAROLINA
Official.
I desire to have a conference with one
true representative Allianceman or
more from each county in the State.
At your next county meetings elect one
man to be in Raleigh on Tuesday, May
the 17th, to meet in conference with
me. Elect your best and truest mem
ber and empower him to act upon his
best judgment for you in a representa
tive capacity on any matter that may
come up for the good of the organiza
tion and the cause of reform.
Marion Butler,
Prest N. C. F. S. A.
NOTICE.
All communications intended for the
Executive Committee of the State Alli
ance of North Carolina should be ad
dressed to Capt S. B. Alexander, Chair
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Barnes, Secretary Treasurer.
By order of Executive Committee.
W. S. Barnes,
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