People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 March 1896 — PLEDGING CANDIDATES. [ARTICLE]

PLEDGING CANDIDATES.

Do the People Hire ORtf-Uls to Rom Them ? How could a national convention pledge a president to any particular course? Where is the man fit to be president, the candidate whom the people respect, who would accept a nomination under such conditions? A pres'ident thus elected would be foresworn to a course which might violate his official oath. Such a president, would be a cipher. There is not now, and never has been, a party in this country foolish enough to adopt such a course, or strong enough to carry an election by such a policy.—Washington Post. So? Thought this was a government of the people. Appears to us that no president has a right to disobey the instructions of the people who have him hired. Not only the president, but every other official elected by the people ought to be bound under penalty of death to carry out to the best of his ability the pledges and Instructions upon which be is elected.

A majority of the people have a right to dictate the policy of government even to the extent of changing all present existing constitutional and statute law. No law of the land should be allowed to stand supreme in the presence of a majority of the people opposed to it. No president or other official has any right to set up his personal opinion against that of the people whom he is sworn to serve. There is one party that believes in instructing and binding its candidates to carry out the instructions of the convention—that is the People’s party. —Arkansaw Kicker. Protection that don’t protect farmers and their wives and children, protects millionaires and corporations that don’t need protection. If the democrats want to see the republicans laid in the shade L *ll they have to do Is to join the popuYiftts, and the job will be neatly done.