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Thomson, Ga., December 11, 1913.
The Direct Presidential Primary:
On What Han ?
'T'IIE direct nomination and election of
President by the people, has always been
a principle of Populism.
You .will find it in our first platform, in the
old days—the good old days—when Populism
was the creed of cranks, incendiaries, sore
heads, hill-billies, red-necks, pee-wees, sand
peeps, &c.
La ! Those were fine old times, to be sure !
Broadminded statesmanship had the world
by the tail. Orthodoxy sat in the Amen-cor
ner, and snoozed comfortably while the
animated machine in the pulpit ground out
another one. Everything was safe and sane.
Every monarch of High Finance knew how
to steal railroads, buy broadminded states
men, own judges and editors, subscribe to
Farmer’s papers at $3,000 a year per, and
purchase the editorial space of our “religious
press.”
O, what good old times!
Those were the days when statesmen sent
their families through the mails without even
having to lick stamps.
Those were the days when Congress came
down upon the poor Express Companies, and
compelled them to fasten on the tax-stamps
which the rest of us paid for.
