The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-09-08
EDITORIAL NOTES.

* Bro. Marion Butler, our new
State President, spent Saturday in
town. If he don't make a good Presi
dent we will be badly deceived.
Our State Secretary requests us
to state that the new State Constitu.
tions are now ready and the proceed
ings of the last meeting will soon be
off the press for distribution.
X A number Of smart papers in this
State and elsewhere have severely
criticized the Alliance and have never
even published the demands, and some
Of them have never read them.
* We are pleased to learn that Bro
H. @. Deming, a prominent Alliance
man from Pennsylvania, who was hurt
in the wreck at Statesville, is improv,
ing. His wife is now with him.
* Just watch the antics of the herd
wko have been displaced in North
Carolina, 1t is mighty hard for them
to realize that honest men have taken
the reins and are doing some good
driving.
~ We see the agricultural Bee
again for the first time inseveraI weeks.
1t is published at Goldsboro by Bro, A
L. SwinsOn. It is filled with good re
form reading matter and deserves q
large patronage.
If there is a better or more read
able paper in North Carolina than the
Tarboro Farmers Adr0cate, we have
failed to see it. 1t stands by the Ali
ance ably and fearlessly. 1t is well
edited and newsy.
Mr.. D. G. Crandon, of the staff
of the Boston Dolly Advertiser, was in
the city first of last week. He called in
to see THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER. He
expressed himself as being much
pleased with what he has seen in North
Carolina.
X The burning question IS: Low
much do the boodlers pay for the
space occupied in certain papers to
advertise the Alliance? Anything is
bound to succeed that gets as much
advertising as the Alliance does, and
it is all paid for by outsiders.
It is now pretty certain that
many of the farmers who oppose the
Alliance r. not at all acquainted with
its dOings or objects. They accept the
biased statements of partisan papers
without making any investigations or
without studying the matter. This is
very unfair.
\ Nj. Curtis Durham, Of the New
York Advertiser, made this office a
visit last Monday. He is making a
tour of the South gathering all the in
formation he can relative to the ALI
ance. Mr.. Durham was connected
with the New York World at one time
and is a trained journalist.
1t is needless to notice most Of
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Alliance and it's officers. Most of them
are old stories that have been proven
false years ago, while the others are
too absurd to notice. Hence we just
dispose of the whole matter by brand
ing the scOundrels as they deserve.
* The Lenoir Topic says: The
bowling swell at Blowing Rock this
season, the man with the finest equip
ages, the most popular leader Of the
german and the man on whom the
women smiled, was a ~hayseeder, a
raiser of wheat, corn and tobacco.
This is further proof that the hay
seeders" are slowly but surely getting
there"
~ We do not know who the guilty
are, but we are of the opinion
tuat the most contemplate methods
are being resorted to by someone TO
bulldoze Polk, and, without any regar"
to the case in question, our sympathle'
are with him in this hour of persecu
ton. We like fair play, and tLl7'
very far from it, says the Charleston
World.