The names of the delegates to
national convention and the elec
tors at large are given in another
column. The ticket as a whole is
an admirable one and will be strong
ly supported.
The platform covers nearly enough
ground, but is not specific enough.
Every party should be honest enough
to be for a principle or against it,
and to say so in unmistakable terms.
But platforms are worth nothing
unless we have men to stand on
them who are as large as the plat
form. We would prefer to have
good men with p( sitive convictions
tor candidates without any platform,
than to have the best platform with
uncertain men on it. In fact the
convictions of the nominees is al
ways the real platform. Therefore,
the nomination of Mr. Elias Carr
interprets and enlarges the platform.
If Gov. Holt had been renominated
it would have given the same plat
form a different interpretation. The
nomination of Mr. Doughton for
Lieut. Governor aeo enlarges and
interprets the platform in the inter
est of the people. While nothing is
said in the platform about the rail
road commission yet the nomina
tion of Mr. Doughton adds all this,
and more. The committee he ap
pointed on railroad commission in
the last Legislature were for the bill
as it passed. The Alliance delegates
were about equally divided between
Col. Skinner and Mr. Doughton, and
after the withdrawal ot Col S. they
were practically unanimous for hi-n,
and so on we might go through the
whole ticket and we would find that
a majority of it strengthens and en
larges the platform.
AN -OPEN LETTER TO CONGRESS
MAN GRADY.
