The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1891-08-06
SUPPOSE WE DO SUPPORT
CLEVELAND.

lana as the nominee Vi lile DeiIl'
ocratic party for the Presidency
of the United States in 1892
Nor is it alone in entertaining
such a preference-there are thou
sands of able, honest and earn
est men who have expressed
themselves as being equally in
favor of his nomination and re-
election. The facts are that the
Democrats of this country favor
Mr.. Cleveland.
Mr.. Caldwell, of the States
vile Landmark, declares that a
majority of the Democratic edA-
ors who attended the convention
of the National Press AsSOcia-
ton, held recently at st. Paul,
were Cleveland men and SO ex-
pressed themselves; in fact there
is no doubt but what the masses
are even more strongly attached
to him than the journalists. And
yet because the DAILY SENTINEL
is outspoken in its preference for
this great apostle of tariff reform
this honest, patriotic citizen in
whom u SOutherner has more to
hope for than any other man,
the miserable excuse for an edit
or, this man thing that mana
ges the columns of the Progress
sive Farmer in the absence of his
master dips his finger in the bis
tering bile of vanity and cOnceit
and writes down the Shiny cpl
tibet that drips from a tongue of
intolerance.
Talk of "Freaks of Nature"
and we would ask what is more
a freak than this miserable ahor-
ton termed the Progressive Far
mer-Ostensably the friend of the
laboring man and tiller of the
soil, really the organ of a polite
al aspirant who is trying to ram
down the throats of an innocent
an unsuspecting people theories
so wild and ridiculous that they
have been pronounced freaks of
insanity, preposteruus and out
rageous, simply with the hope
that he might hurt the Demo-
cratic party, or help himself.
The Progressive Farmer saw
the insatiate greed of the mo-
nopolists as they wrung from
the toiling millions an onerous
and oppressive tax; it saw them
growing restless under this bur-
densome system and heard their
murmur of discomfort and it
came not to offer relief by adj
vOcating such measures as it
was in the power of the peo-
pie to adopt, not by reducing the
tariff and the adoption of other
Democratic measures practical
ly subservient to the relief of
the oppressed, but it picks up a
wild Understanding from
which it had no hope of relief
for them, but something that it
to use as an entering
wedge with which to split asun-
der the Democratic party.
This great Panacea for the far
mer and this fortunate hobby of
the Progressive Farmer, the Sub |
scheme, was warrant
ID to heal every ill that the agri-
cultural classes were afflicted |
with and do for them what moth
ing else would or could do. But |
40 one knows better than Col. |
Polk does that the Sub-Treasury
scheme is a miserable delusion-
I farce and a fraud. The pol
shed and affable Colonel went iii
the garden of positive remedies
ne sneeringly passed by the ln-
;cious fruit of tariff reform-he
lid not even notice the tree that
was hanging with possible pen
sion reduction and an honest adj
of national affairs.
These fruits did not concern him,
put he went where the weeds
grew rank and hunted and found
The miserable Sub-Treasury cac-
us and offered that to the far
ner as the great National Pana-
ga, the cure of all ills. Col.
Polk knew that the people could
lot handle it, but it answered
lis purpose for an argument, and
is long as the remedy remained
lntried he could preach Of its