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The Commoner.
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ventlon. The returns fforri that con
vention hurt ua a great deal worse
than the returns from the last elec
tion, and it is the hopes of my pre
cinct that W. J. Bryan, may yet
triumph in his efforts to relievo tho
common people.
W. G. Greathouse, Wells, Nevada.
I have been a constant reader of Tho
Commoner for several years, and I
heartily endorse your plan of organiza
tion, and I herewith enclose primary
pledge, which I have signed with
pleasure. The primaries are the place
to correct the evil of misrepresenta
tion. The people should secure
men at the primaries who will repre
sent them in conventions.
Wm. M. Mackey, Late of Co.' C.
Fourteenth Illinois Vol. Infty. I am
no politician, but I served my country
faithfully In the late war lost my
good right arm at Vicksburg, Miss., in
1863. I served from early 1861 until
the above date and I am a democrat
of the W. J. Bryan type. I will use
all honorable means in filling up the
democratic ranks. Please find pledge
enclosed from a worker in the good
cause of democracy.
J. M. McNally, Butler, Pa. En
closed please find primary pledge filled
out and signed, and it is with pleasure
I pledge myself for any well doing in
the democratic ranks.
W. S. Gilbert, Decatur, Texas. En
closed please find my primary pledge;
have voted in all elections since I be
came of age.
Sylvester Fox Enclosed please find
primary pledge. It affords me great
pleasure to sign so good a paper. 1
think the victory is ours in the near
future. I think your plan a noble-one.
H. E. Wilson, Hamburg, la. En
closed find the primary pledge, signed.
It has been a quandry to me what we
were going to do in this county (Fre
mont) a county that gave a democratic
majority of"about 800 in 1896 and then
elected every republican on, the ticket
last fall. Of course I am satisfied
there are just as many democrats in
this county as there was in 1896, but
then you can not fool the people with
any old thing for a leader, and the
sooner the party "gets back to the
people," the tetter. I believe this
pledge business is all right.
- M. T. Peebles, Unicoi, Tenn. Please
find enclosed primary pledge with my
hearty approval, and I do not doubt
it tho plan of the pledge will ac-
' complish much in stimulating the rank
and file in ther efforts to recover the
' rights and liberties usurped by two
faced tricksters. But what the Ameri
can people of all parties and political
creeds need most at the present time
is a renaissance of the pure and un
selfish spirit of" patriotism that pre
vailed in the hearts of the founders
of the republic. When Nimrod,
the "mighty hunter," usurped the
sovereignty of the people and organ
ized the first monarchy among men,
he deluded them with the assurance
that he was equal with God and if
they would submit to his authority in
all things he would build a' tower to
protect them from the next flood. The
credulous creatures accepted his crafty
trick without considering that the
"tower" when built, could only shelter
his "majesty and royal family," leav
ing them out in the cold to. paddle
their own canoe. And here was' the
origin of the "divine right of kings"
to rule over their fellow men, but it
passed on down" for four thousand
years until October, 1781, when Corn
wallis and his army surrendejed to the
American army- at Yorktown, Va.
When Washington captured the Brit
ish and took up their arms any pessi
mistic idol could see and understand
that the "divine right" of Geonre III
to rule the American people without;.
uieir coubeut an my in nis parks of
artillery and other instruments of
death. But the -lesson of Yorktown
did not profit all the citizens of Amer
ica and when it was .proposed to or
ganize a common government of fede
rated states for all the thirteen colo
nies, laying its foundation on tho fun
damental principles of constitutional
self government with equal rights to
all, regulating tho liberties of all by
law, men like Alexander Hamilton
and tho reconstructed tories of tho
revolutionary period objected and de
manded a, limited monarchy, and an
elective king. Theso two ideas of
government have como down to our
time in full force and are as active
today as they were in 1787. Hence
the wisdom of Jefferson's admonition,
"Eternal vigilance is tho price of lib
erty," and tho primary pledge wijl bo
a powerful weapon in tho hands of
thoso who love liberty and seek to
preserve and perpetuate it.
John Harrington, Lawyer, Oshkosh,
Wis. Enclosed pledge, although It is
a pledge to do only what I have al
ways done. But we should not only
desire a declaration of tho party's
position on every question upon which
the voters desire to speak; we should
agitate and educate as to tho neces
sary questions; for tho bulk of the
voters have not time nor opportunity
to investigate.
Geo. L. T. Bliss, Dorchester, Mass.
I sign with pleasure tho primary
pledge; have always when possible at
tended the primaries but in the past
we have been able to vote oply for
those whom the machine chose to
put up. I am sorry to say the re
organizers rather have the call with
us. I always have been a democrat
but have taken more interest in de
mocracy since 1896.
A. F. Archer, Sr., Whigville, Ohio.
I heartily endorse your plan as out
lined. It is a step toward preserva
tion of true principles. It is a fort
ress holding at bay the encroachments
of commercialism.
S. A. Black. I believe a man who
will not attend his party's primary has
not a correct idea of his political du
ties. I have not been long a voter,
yet I am so far a Bryan democrat, as
we call them here. I am also a Mis
sourian, even so by birth.
Edwin O. Pierce, Lawyer, Provi
dence, R I. I enclose my primary
pledge. A former republican, I voted
for Mr. Bryan in 1900 and for Judge
Parker in 1904, and now rely upon the
democratic party as the best hope for
the future. It must apply the Jeffer
sonian principles to the conditions of
the Twentieth century. I echo the de
claration of George Fred Williams at
Chicago, on Jefferson day: "Public
ownership and direct legislation are
words enough for the banner which
we shall carry hereafter."
H. J. Pawley, Smlthville, Mo. In
reading the many letters published
in The Commoner, brought out by
your primary pledge plan, I am pro
foundly impressed and more than en
couraged for the success of the demo
cratic party in 1908. Coming from all
parts of the country, as they do,
gives unmistakable evidence that the
whole people in every state of tho
union are thoroughly alive to not only
the Imperative necessity of organizing
the party forces, but are cognizant of
the stern reality that a real and form
idable danger confronts the people in
which Hie very essence of our insti
tution aro involved. The encourag
ing feature brought out by theso let
ters is tho ability and intelligence
evidencing the loftiest patriotism pos-
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sessed by theso thousands of adhe
rents to democratic idealls. In short it
shows tho people in all parts of our
country thoroughly understand tho po
litical situation and that they aro
ready and willing to meet and com
bat the tendency of commercialism to
absorb and control political affairs in
this country, thereby overturning iho
very foundation of Jeffcrsonian and
Jacksonian government, which result
would necessarily put aside tho decla
ration of independence and tho consti
tution. God bo wlthyou in tho noblo
work you aro doing "for tho American
people.
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