The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-11-25
The END NOT IN SIGHT.

NORTH CAROLINA has one rea-
IN Independent daily paper. II is
the Durham Globe. In the issue Of the
18th we find the folio wing:
The Globe had hoped that after the
November elections politics would be
allowed a rest for at least a year. We
saw in this a hope to get the boys to
booming the State; we thought there
would be more of good cheer, more
of concert Of action, and we earnestly
wanted to see politics decently let
alone for a season.
But now comes a wild scream from
the Vance organs; they have added
new war PANT to their October cam
paign, and W tn lusty and demoniacal
yells insist that Mr.. Vance shall be re
turned to the United States Senate.
And SO this fight is on-on for days
and weeks and months. Colonel Folks
paper, The PROGRESSIVE FARMER, slyly
intlmates that it is camped on the
trail Of Mr.. Vance with a desire for
blood and a banker for gore; and it
gives all to understand that the Farm
ers' Alliance has still a finger in the
pie, and that collectively it would like
TO tangle its hand in his hair,
Jeanette.
Many of the State papers, those who
wheedled the Alliance oy making that
body believe thai the Democratic
leaders were sincere, are no busily
engaged in writing Colonel Polk down
an ass, and they also swear by all the
tabled gods OF war that he, in the
depths of his egotism, wants to in
herit the brogans If the venerable
Zeb.
Vance has evaded the Sub Treasury
bill by declaring that it is unconstitu
tional. This is always a happy way
over a political ques Jon. 1t was a
distinguished feature of Buchanan's
~disgraceful admins ration to howl
about the Constitution, aud since that
time the Constitution has been used
by all il sincere politicians to dodge a
question. Everp one knows thai
Vance wants to go back, and unless
something unheard of in politics tran
spires, he Will 60 back, and he will do
as be las always do e, vote on meas
ures to suit himself. Mr.. Vance never
did bend the knee to self imagined
leaders, and the Globe has a theory of
it's own that at this late day be will
not commence anything OF that sort
But the lesson of this last general
election should not be misunderstood,
The Democratic party has been success
Jul because Of the Farmers Alliance.
This all men must almlt Not in this
State, perhaps, but in States which
have always been Republican, the
Farmers Alliance this year turned
the tide.
And so, if Mr.. Vance is returned,
his successor will have a hard time,
and Mr.. Ransom will go down as sure
as fate.
Neither Democrats nor Republicans
are going to give the Farmers Ali,
arcs the laws it wants, because the
leaders and professional politicians of
.hese two great parties are not in the
for their health.
A new party, purged of all the
bIotches of corruption, is forming
and the Farmers Al lance is the
product of n stage of its evolution.
The slow going caterpillar which
creeps along at a snail's jog is finally
a gaudy butterfly, and if the stars are
not out of place, it is clearly evident
that this Farmers Alliance will
eventually develop into something.
Andif Mr.. Vance does not see and
read and heed the hand. writing on
the wall, he will always regret that
he didn't. Colonel Polk may be a
politician, but the army of mel at his
back is composed of stu dy sons of
toll, and it is not for the partisan press
to say that they are satisfied.