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VOLUME 5, NUJIBEn 2j
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THE PRIM ARY PLEDGE
(Continued from Pago 9.)
; State Com. for Michigan; also editor
.of tho Ciaro Courier. Herewith I
hand you primary pledge. The work
you are doing to bring the democratic
party to a full realization of its duties
and responsibilities to the peoplo is
deserving of tho highest commenua
tion. J. V. Pearsoll, Douglass, Ariz. En
closed herewith please find primary
pledge with 20 signatures. As some
of the names, as written, are a ntue
illegible, I list .them below in tho order;
I am always willing to help the cause
of true democracy so enclosed find
nledire. Your plan is a good one and
I think will have the d Jired result.
. -.f.-J -Ml.,. XTrtl-k
jfliiwoou, . J ones, msing wty, xu.
Enclosed herewith find pledge with
names. Please permit me to say that
I like your method an. I hope and
believe much good may come from it.
Henry C. Bell, Potosi, Mo. Be
lieving that an honest straightforward
declaration of the democratic party
can be had by attending the prima
ries, and there lay a firm foundation
tlmt thov are slimed. All of these
gentlemen are resident of Douglas,
, Cochise county, Aria.
James P. Cadman, Late Captain
Eleventh Regiment Michigan Volun
teer Cavalry. Chicago. In subscribing
to the onclosed pledge to attend future
primaries of. the democratic party 1
have ceased to consider myself a sil
ver republican and thereby proclaim
myself: for tho first time In my llfo
a member of the democratic party.
Betwoon the time or the St. Louis
convention and the presidential elec
tion last fall I favored the promotion
' of a third party, and accordingly I
voted for Mr. Watson in order to em
phasize that idea. The overwhelm
ing defeat of Judge Parker, through
his failure to retain the voters who
in the previous campaigns had fol
lowed you, and consequently the as
sured future control of tho democratic
party by those of its members who be
lieve in fundamental policies have in
my judgment rendered unnecessary
the formation of u third party. I
favor tho nationalization of all public
utilities, such as railw. ys, telegraphs,
telephones, etc., and the appropriation
for public use of all site values.
John D. Dillon, Fifth Ward, Sioux
City, Iowa. I am one of the blue-
overalls fellows and I live in the
Fifth ward, tho blue overalls ward of
tho city. I was a democrat a long time
before wo lost Missouri. I believe wo
should not keep the principles of the
declaration of independence from
any man, that the flag and the con
stitution go together and I am opposed
to any course toward any people that
makes the name of George Washing
ton a joke. Notwithstanding Garfield's
report, I favor control of the trusts and
the government ownership of public
utilities And to advance the above
-principles, I enclose my pledge to at
tend every democratic primary until
1908, and so long as Billy Bryan calls
I shall know no such word as retreat
or defeat.
Robert L. Hancock, Cashlon, Okla.
Enclosed please find primary pledge
which I take pleasure in signing. I
think it a good time for the democrats
to begin to get an organization in
shape for the next campaign, as there
are questions of vital interest to the
people to be met and dealt with in tho
. nean future. The democratic party
r should try and be found on the side
u oi the rlglit on all questions when the
ts'wefare of tho great common people
; is In the balance. I will send other
v primary pledges later as this is a
farming community ana people are
, very busy at present. When statehood
comes to tho peoplo of this teritory
'I Oklahoma will be found safely demo
cratic. John W. Leber, Ephrata, Pa. Bu-
closed find list of twenty Jeffersonian
s democrats, men who had been tried
and were not- found wanting. Had I
the spare time, could get you scores
of them, but most all of my time is
devoted to the mercantile business.
George Cummins, Treasurer Dem.
Com. for Summitt Co., Akron, O.
for the party's position on every ques-
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tion to embody within the party's
platform, it is with pleasure that I
sign the primary pledge. It is in the
primaries that the people talk.
N. P. Barclay, Marfa, Tex. I gladly
join the earnest force of democrats
who hail your suggestion to organize
now as a" wise and timely move. I
hope that in addition to attending
primaries they will also instruct as
to main Issues of platform, and where
possible on all questions. Delegates
cannot then trade for personal ad
vantage. I have never voted for a re
publican even from constable to presi
dent, nor scratched but one ticket,
and that was the Parker electors. I
did that as I thought for my party's
and my country's good. The intended
rebuke of the silent man has begun
to bear rich fruit in the present awak
ening. When I believe that such a
platform and candidate as the St.
Louis convention gave is the earnest
wish of the democratic party I will
support it; or quit the party for good.
Judge Parker's recent speech shows
no repentance and is a timely warning
that should decide the question of
signing the pledge for all democrats
just as it did for me. I live in so
sparsely settled a portion of a strong
democratic state that I can have but
little Influence even in state politics.
With the pledge you have toy name
and services tendered for the best I
can do. however.
Frank Manning, Sacred Heart, Okla.
T. Herewith find primary pledge, the
conditions of which I intend to strictly
observe. I further pledge myself in
case congress fails to pass a suitable
law regulating railway traffic before
the next national convention, to favor
a plank in the national platform de
claring for public ownership of all
railroads In connection with which the
laws are being violated. I am from
Nebraska, and used to be opposed to
public ownership of railways and
thought that a great many of the
people there were cranks. But I real
ize since I have been in the Territory
that cranks are necessary to keep the
grindstone revolving. I have been
voting the democratic ticket for about
thirty years and hope to continue for
thirty years more.
S. M. McFarlane, Broadland, S. D.
Enclosed find primary pledge; also
that of my son, C. S. McFarlane. It
is not necessary that I shall sign a
pledge. I am now 68 years old, and
I have always attended the primaries,
and voted the ticket; twice during the
time it was a bitter dose, especially
Horace Greely, but I am a Jefferson
democrat to the backbone,
Daniel Brummett, Hughesville, Mo.
Please find primary pledge signed
by twenty good democrats; all approve
of theplan laid down by The Com
moner. Please send me another blank
and I will try to havo it filled. I
want to try to do my part U the work.
Herbert L. Johnston, Philadelphia,
Pa. Allow me to add my name to
those in favor of your primary pledge,
although I fear it means but .little
here in Pennsylvania, where so-called
democratic leaders are so "safe, sane
and conservative" that they are fear
ful of doing anything that would .af
fect the interests of tho republican ma
chine. The whole political machinery
of the state is controlled, to a great
degree, by the Pennsylvania Railroad
company's distribution of free trans
portation aggregating over one mil
lion dollars annually, which is no pipe
dream. The private opinion of the
late Senator Quay that a republican
form of government is a failure and
that these United States could be best
governed as an empire is well known
among those who were his most inti
mate associates during his life. His
evil influence lives after him, and is
apparent today in Pennsylvania where
a representative government no longer
exists. We are in co. rol of a political
despotism more intolerable than, that
of Russia and our people appear to
be equally as helpless as the peasants
of the czar. Look at our rotten legis
lature, controlled by Penrose, mock
ing the electors who voted them into
power; look at the sublimely ridicu
lous Pennypacker cringing at the feet
of corrupt bosses with the hope of a
supreme judgeship and apologizing in
quaint rhetoric for the crimes of the
most notorious gang of political
scoundrels outside of a penitentiary;
and then look at poor old Philadel
phia lying prostrate, humbled and dis
graced beneath the heel of "Iz" Dur
ham, backed by Thomas Dolan of the
U. G. I., whose councilmen tried to
steal the city gas works in broad day
light, and spat in the faces of re
spectable citizens who dared to re
monstrate against the outrage. But
when election day comes around again
all will be forgotten and the slaves
wrill vote back into power the entire
gang for fear of impairing the "na
tional honor" or disturbing "prosper
ity" by doing otherwise.
S. Gordon, St. Claire, Former Pres.
Jeffersonian Dem. Club, Scottdale, Pa.
Enclosed find signed primary pledge
Our primary elections in the past
have been notoriously corrupt, but I
hardly think it will be again attempt
ed at the primary election" to be held
in June. Corruption has heretofore
been excused on the grounds that the
republican primaries are considerably
more so, as if a thousand wrongs
would take tho place of right. When
a sufficient number of Westmoreland
democrats become interested in their
primaries, corruption and intimidation
will cease, they should be clean, they
are all important. Should the prima
ries name the next standard bearer,
I could readily mention his name. It
would send a thrill of enthusiasm
through every real democrat in the
country. Victory would be emblazoned
on our banner. Reorganization is not
necessary, rouse the one who has be
come pessimistic regarding our fu
ture. We have the candidates. Our
principles are not merely palliatives;
they are genuine curatives. Let us
forget there was a Cleveland, Hill, republican-democratic
candidate by the
name of Parker. We know what we
want and with your help, Mr. Editor,
we will have it. The democracy of
Thomas Jefferson, and of Henry
George, and of W. J. Bryan must
triumph.
Grafton Sharver, Pomery, Wash.
I am amazed at the responses to the
primary pledge proposition, which
come pouring in from all parts of the
country even the enemy's country.
The circulation of The Commoner
must be the caase of iLe New York
World's nightmare, for it is certainly
so mat tiie influence of The Com
moner for the cause whose premises
are "right" and "justice" and "sin-
cerity" is far greater than that of the
World, or that it can ever hope to be.
Judge Parker was a bitter pill for us,
but I voted for him because I merely
considered him the lesser of two evils
but 200 of the 500 Garfield county dem
ocrats remembered the treachery of
189G-1900. Even yet tho judge would
nauseate us with "fads," but his fad
failed to produce the necessary num
ber of votes and vre remember too,
that "he could win." The government
ownership of public utilities agitation
is bearing fruit and as the voters on,
more And more to undersS ?,mo
this agitation is not social stic but fn
do away with the corruption of ni
legislatures and the miscarriage or X?
tice in our courts, they become no
and more pronounced in their S
and more and more set in their dotol
mination to vote for thoso men ml
those measures which mean to mZ
of them, their families and their con,
ing generations. The democratic Z-
ty is primarily the poor man's partv
Is it now? By the eternal and the
help of these pledge signers, the old
wreck will become rehabilitated and
once more it will be our proud boast
that it is an honest man's party wG
dealt fairly with them in '96-1900-
rllGV tc nnf rlonl fni.. ,.,ui. .. .
1904 The traitors will have to hunt
new pastures; the trickster will have
to take a seat in the gallery and look
on. Enclosed is my pledge. It does
our hungry souls good to browse on
the pungent paragraphs contributed by
the hundreds of "associate editors"
from the length and breadth of this
grand old land of ours. We are not
iconoclasts. We are not anarchists.
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where orchardlsts give a lai'ge number of
trees to treat, at a fatr price, we might
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