The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-10-06
suggest that Col. Polk has his eyeupon
the Presidency itself.

suggest that Col. Polk has his eyeupon
the Presidency itself.
While all this has been going on, TO
the disgust of all fair minded and de
cent men, Col. Polk has been gong
right ahead, like the patriotic and IN
selfish citizen that he IS, exposing the
enormous wickedness of our financial
system, and of our protective IeglSla--
tion, without stopping in his blessed
work. fOESO much as one moment, TO
scold and scare the hOwlers away. And
as he goes on with his work, he gets
nearer and nearer to the Vice PresI-
dency. nearer and nearer to the PreSl-
dency, nearer and nearer to any posi-
ton that he himself may want, or that
his friends may want for him.
Let us grant for the moment that
Col Polk wants to go to the Senate
that he wants to be Vice President
that he wants to be President. Are
not these generous and noble ambl-
tiOns2 Is it q crime to aspire to the
hOnOrs of ones country? Is it wrong
to cOvet positions of trust and useful
ness in the administration of public
affairs? If these things, these ambi-
tiOns, are sinful, then some of the
popular idols in North Carolina have
committed sin enough to sink SOdom.
For some Of them got into public office
before the oil with which they smOOthed
their hair to make their last school
boys speech was dry; and in public
office they have stayed until this very
day. But we uttern word IN criticism
of these public servants. They had,
and they have now, large and gener-
Gus ambitions, and they have rendered
their country and their State and their
generations services of incalculable
value; and we join with their country
men in hOnOring them. All we claim
is, that if it should be found that Col
Polk has all the ambitions that have
been attributed to him and more be-
sides, nothing blamewOrthy would at
tach to him on that account. He has
held public place, and he has won
many distinctions, in spite of the hate
of his detractOrs. But he has never
misUsed a public trust, and he has
never yet stopped to conquer.
If the campaign of vituperatiOn is to
continue. let in continue. But we give
the small fellows who poke out their
sensual lips at him, and all the world
besides, to understand that we intend
to stand by him in this conflict until
his success shall drive all these garbage
venders into their filthy dens, even as
the daylight drives the ve1min-covered
bats into their holes L. L. Polk is
equal in ability, in integrity, in the
strength of his moral manhood in his
devotion to the people to any place he
may aspire to; and we mean to see to
it that his influence is not destroyed
by those who hate and hound him. If
any man that has ever been born is
entitled to the love of the great masses
of the people, on account of the enc
mics he has made, that man is L. L.
Polk.
1t is due to Col. Polk to say that he
knows no more about the writing of
this article-nO more about our inten-
tion or purpose to write it-than the
infant that is unborn knows. And he
never made a complaint, or a sugges-
ton that induced us to write it. The
editor of this paper wrote it, without
suggestion or consultation with any
man, or woman or child, or thing alive
or dead and he alone is responsible
for it.-ReU. B. Code, er-EditOr.