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MAY 5, 1905
"GOOD WORK AT THE PRIMARIES BEST AS
SURANCE OF SUCCESS AT BALLOT BOX"
(Continued from page 3.)
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Bcriber sinco the first edition of your paper,
and will do all I can to help the good cause along.
W. T. Bland, Bourbon, Ind. Enclosed you
,wlll find two primary pledges. The plan suits
me. I think that all true democrats can heartily
subscribe to such a plan. I bid you God speed
in your grand undertaking. The sooner we get
thoroughly organized, the better.
Frank S. Culp, Justice of the Peace, Butler,
Ohio. Enclosed find primary pledge with sixty
four signatures. I have not had time to get out
to see very many voters, but could get m'ore sig
natures if I had time.
J. K. McCluny, Jackson, Ohio. Horowith find
the primary pledge, signed. I wish every man
in the United States fully realized the signifi
cance, to him personally, wrapped up in the sim
ple words of that pledge.
H6ward T. Colvin, Secretary Alexandria
Trades Council, Alexandria, Va. Your primary
pledge plan is the best possible means of securing
an honest declaration of the principles of the
party. If all those who are true to the real prin
ciples of the party 'will take hold of this plan;
and push it as it ought to bo pushed, there can"
bo little doubt of its effect upon the next national
convention.
E. S. Seyler, Ford City, Pa. Please find en
closed a pledge. I heartily endorse the move
ment, and would like to see every democrat do
the same.
D. S. MacDonald, Student Washington and
Lee University, Lexington, Va. Enclosed you
will find a primary pledge, which I have signed,
and trust that I may be able to help the demo
cratic cause in my capacity as one of the "first
voters" of 1908.
George W. Savage, Sewickley, Pa. Please
find enclosed pledge, which I most cheerfully
sign.
J. J. O'Toole, Pittsburg, Pa. Enclosed please
find my promise to perform one of my duties as
an adopted citizen of this country.
S. L. Wallingford, Sheridan, Ind. I herewith
enclose primary pledge. I have signed with great
pleasure. "Back to the People" is the right prin
ciple, for from the people all good government
has come and will come.
H. W. Risley, Editor The Herald, Fremont,
Neb. The Commoner's plan of bringing together
the voters of the democratic party in the prima
ries has appealed to me as being the only effective
means yet devised of committing the party defi
nitely to the promulgation of truly democratic
principles. That this plan so appeals to others is
evidenced by the unanimity with which genuine
democrats all over the land are responding to the
call for enrollment on the primary pledge. It has
given mo pleasure to print the pledge in The
Herald, and to give the plan editorial endorse
ment, and the favor with which it meets here
is encouraging.
E. D. Whittington, Clay City, 111. I endorse
your plan of organization. I am exceedingly glad
that it has been commenced in time, and I shall
do what I can for the good of democracy.
. William Geise, Perrysburg, N. Y. I heartily
approve of Mr. Bryan's primary pledge plan.
Every democrat who desires honest government
and equal rights to all must attend the pri
maries. Salem D. Clark, Attorney, Indianapolis. En
closed you will find primary pledges of the demo
crats of the seventh floor of the Law building.
They are all lawyers, and are ready to close the
doors of their offices long enough to help their
party franie a policy to get back closer to the
people.
W. M. Haseltine, Olney,, 111. I enclose this
pledge, and trust to be able to comply with it in
every particular.
Hiram Greene and Son, Mabel, N..C We are
heartily in accord with your .plan of organization,
therefore we give our pledges.
C. C. Miller, Peryear, Tenn. It is with pleas
ure that I sign the primary pledge. It is some
thing I have always done. If we could get more
men to attend the primaries and conventions,
platforms would have principles in them, and
the country would be far better off.
Edwin A Nowman, President Democratic
'Association, Washington, D. C With pleasure I
enclose my primary pledge, and hope that you
Will receive one from every democratic voter in
the United States, and I believe you will if the
matter is properly brought to their attention.
E. B. Sheldon, Maryville, Mo. Enclosed find
primary pledge, with my signature. I want to
see the democrats come to the jtront in 1908.
Edgar Ham Buchanan, Mich. At heart Mich-
The Commoner.
igan democracy is a radical democracy. It waa
through tho lack of organization on the part of
tho rank and file of this state that sho sent a
"conservative," or what would bo better termed
a nondescript, delegation to St. Louis last year.
With such organization as Mr. Bryan proposes,
that fraud could not have been porpotratod. I
heartily approve of and sign tho primary plodgo,
and enclose it herewith.
Mr. C. E.Doty, Alva, Okla. Enclosed find
primary pledge. This is the proper course to
pursue, as it will again put tho party where it
belongs in tho hands of democrats and insuro a
platform which all voters who are working for. a
better government, can approve.
Jesse R. Gulick, attorney, Champaign, 111.
It affordst mo much pleasure to join in tho grand
procession of loyal Jeffersonlan democracy march
ing to victory in 1908. Every democrat ought to
be willing to sign and keop this pledge No good
democrat should remain at homo on primary day
and then find fault with primary results all
fault-finding and protests should bo made at tho
primary.
H. L. Freeman, Newtonla, Mo. I take pleas
ure in signing the pledge. I always attend all
primaries of the democratic party. I and my
three sons will vote the democratic ticket none
of us ever voted any other ticket. Please enroll
our names on .tho list.
John M. O'Brien, Jr., Muscatine, la. No man
exercises his right of suffrage unless he goes to
the primaries.
Howard Knappenberges, Allcntown. Please
find enclosed my primary pledge. I firmly be
lieve that the only way true democracy can bo
duly represented in national conventions is to
attend the local primaries and see that only "dem
ocrats" are elected to the state conventions.
Mr. J. B. Pasley, Princeton, Neb. I am glad
to co-operate with you and all other democrats
to promote true democratic principles. I believe
the primary pledge will save our country, just
as we old soldiers did in the Civil war.
W. H. T. Wakefield, Mound City, Kans. I
most ' heartily commend your primary pledge
movement. The 1200 democratic voters of this
(Linn) county are all in sympathy with it and
will be found on the firing line in the battle for
human rights. I am seventy years of ago, a
Civil war veteran of five years' service, and have
never yet neglected a primary or general elec
tion nor ceased working for just government be
tween campaigns.
Aaron Smith, Weatherford, Texas. I do not
require a pledge to remind mo of my duty as a
citizen to attend tho primaries and conventions
of my party, tor I have always observed that it
is when the people remain at home and leave
the conventions and primaries in tho hands of
professional place-hunters, that tho country suf
fers. But we need to organize as well as pledgo,
and for that reason I sign and return the primary
pledge.
J. H. Moore, M. D., San Antonio, Texas. I
take great pleasure in handing you herewith the
names . of twenty Simon-pure Jefferson-Bryan
democrats. I believe the primary pledge is be
coming very popular throughout the country. Not
one of my friends hesitated to sign the pledgo,
but on the contrary gave the movement their
unqualified endorsement.
E. P. Searle, President Monarch Mfg. Co.,
Council Bluffs, la, Permit mo to say that in my
opinion you have struck the "key note? in adopt
ing the primary pledge plan, for it can not help
but work for good in our party and also for the
best interests of all of the people who believe
in a government of, for and by the people. Cor
porations would not have the power which they
have today if voters had always attended the
primaries as they should have done.
Fred Meyers, Prentice, Wis. Right is bpund
'to win. Here's my primary pledge.
J. P. Coon, attorney, Terrell, Texas. I en
close primary pledge, signed, If the democratic
press and the individual members of the demo
cratic party will take up the work so nobly be
gun by The Commoner, as they have indicated
they will do, nothing can prevent a democratic
landslide in 19D8.
S. M. Shafer, Muncle, Ind. It affords me
great pleasure to sign this pledge. Everybody
that knows me, knows how I stand.
B. M. Olena, Chamberlain, N. Y. While tho
primary pledge plan may not work soweil in
this trust ridden state as in the west and south,
it is bound to be a great help and stimulus to
the rank and file of our party in this state, and
may eventually be the means of restoring the
democracy of New York to the proud position it
once occupied.
J. T. Hayes, St. Louis. I take great pleas
ure in signing and forwarding the primary pledgo
in today's Commoner.
Georgo Burbon, Door Grovo, HI. -I think your
organization plan is a flno one, and-will pledgo
myself to attend tho primaries.
W. T. Wolcott, Monroo, Iowa. Enclosed find
my primary pledgo, raoro than willingly given.
N. Campbell, Crookston, Minn. Enclosed you
will find my signature to. tho party plodgo. By
faithfully and porslstontly pursuing tho course
suggested by this pledgo, tho rank and filo of
tho party can mako Its influenco felt.
Perry G. Alfred, Weston, W. Va. I think
it Is absolutely necessary that ovory good cltlzon
interest himself In the government of his coun
try. Ho should have somo voice in shaping tho
policy of his party, and It Is of vital Importanco
that ho bo heard in choosing men as candidates
who will truly represent his party. In any coun
try the party which is nearest the peoplo is tho
most useful, and will livo tho longest. To keep
tho party near tho peoplo, tho people must In
terest themselves in tho party. Tho democratic
party is, and must bo, tho people's party or it will
bo a failure. It must bo democratic, or forever
perish and be forgotton. To keop it truo to tho
faith of its founders, and truo to tho best inter
ests of all tho people, every democrat must bo
vigilant. I heartily endorse the primary pledgo
plan, and boliovo it will provo a great aid in tho
fight for fcfuo domocracy.
J. H. Callaway, Clinton. Enclosed you will
find tho pledgo outlined by Tho Commoner, and
signed by myself and othors. We aro democrats
of the Bryan stripe and will at all times bo ready
to work for domocracy.
C. W. Ludtko, Dartford, Wis. I enclose a
sheet of paper with tho primary pledgo pasted at
the top, with thirteen names from Dartford and
ono from Berlin below. I only had to oxplain tho
object of tho pledge to secure these names. TJioy
all said with ono accord that "it represents tho
only truo democracy." I know that if tho plan
is persisted in wo shall have better government
soon, so let tho good work take its course.
Horace B. Williams, Dallas, Texas. I tako
pleasure in enclosing the primary plodgo. Good
government depends upon tho alertness of voters,
generally. Tho voters rarely watch carefully tho
record of a public officer, unless he bo elected
upon an issue demanded and understood by them.
The true leader is ho who stimulates Intelligent
inquiry into pending Issues, seeking to lead and
educate instead of misleading and contusing.
Your plan will induce men to think, because tho
average American will not participate blindly in
the primary. Ho may follow his party blindly;
but if ho undertake to assist in tho formation of
tho party platform, ho will bo found to have
sought In his own mind for tho right. The sign
ing of this pledgo adds no strength to my already
existing determination to participate in democratc
primaries. I sign it to express my approval of
your plan.
Georgo Lutkemyer, Beardstown, III. You' will
find enclosed my pledge. I will do all I can ror
tho good old democratic party.
Jesse Lo Gette, Sequin, Texas. Please find
enclosed signed primary pledge. I am pleased to
see tho plan of organization as detailed in Tho
Commoner. By this pledge and its movement,
each democrat will have a voice in tho making
of the Issues of the campaign, and by this method
wo will get-principles that will interest all for
tho good of tho party, and there will not be so
many who will stay at home and take no interest
in tho matter. .
August Schumacher, Rhineland, Texas. En
closed please find two primary pledgo blanks,
filled with signatures.
William Fry, CIsne, 111. Enclosed please find
our pledge. We heartily approve of The Com
moner's course and will do all we can to forward
the good work. B. A.' Cornwell and Wm. Fry.
B. S. Russell, Mt. Gilead, O. Enclosed find
my primary pledge.
James A. Stevens, Burnot, Texas. Enclosed
find my pledge signed. I believe that an organized
(not re-organized), unanimous democracy is tho
only hope of the country, and your plan is a long
step in that direction.
H. E. Petty, Maverick, Texas. I enclose
signed pledge cut from your paper. It is with
great pleasure that I do so, and hope that I may
be of service to the great cause of democracy.
O. P. Poe, Denton, Texas. Your primary
pledgo is a step in the right direction, and I gladly
sign the same.
H. Sycamore, St. Louis, Mo. I have advocated
the attendance at primaries for many years. It
Is there that the candidates and platforms are put
up. The carelessness of tho voters about attend
ing tho primaries has brought on the conditions of
today, and I was very glad when I saw The Com
moner get this thing going, as it is ono of the best
and most essential steps that has been taken for
many years.
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