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The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1892-11-11

Cleveland's plurality was I49, every
precinct going Democratic. The vote is
larger than in 1888, and the majority Is
larger by 50. But few votes were not
polled and most of those were owing
tosickness. One prominent resident in
the fourth lost his vote by failure to
pay tax in two years. Another in the
second lost his by showing his ballot
contrary to law
Democratic headquarters were es.
tablished at the Opera House, and
the Republicans spent a quiet evening
at the old Presbyterian Church. All
the news from the start favored the
Democrats, and there was cheering
and bornblowing until after two o'clock
when the band came out and the boys
paraded. AtII5 the lights were put
out at Republican headquarters, and
they silently and sadly sought their
couches. 1t was all one way and
there was no consolation in the re
ports for them. Large sums of money
changed hands on the result.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1892-11-11

Aaron Smith of Hemlock township,
brought to this office last Saturday a
Turnip that weighed 81 pounds 1t
measured 90 inches around one way
and "a inches the other. He says it
is Bdwell turnip. 1t seems that it
is to rapid a for prohibitionlst.
However, if any of our Cleveland
farmers can surpass it, let them bring
around their product.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1892-11-11

The annual Harvest Home Ser
vices will be held il the Lutheran
church Sunday morning, The church
will be trimmed in the product ofnat-
ure's fruits and flowers, and the
exercises will Ill be by the children.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1892-11-11

Not a single state in the Union
gave Harrison as large a vote as he
received in 1888. Even his own
State Of Indiana voted against him,
and his own County gave an lnc'eas
ed Democratic majority. Montana he
home of the Chairman of the Re
publican national Committee voted
for Cleveland.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1892-11-11

The weather was lovely on Tuesday,
and some said it was good republican
weather, and would bring out big
vote for them Now, suppose 1t had
raineG, which they say is good demo
cratic weather, But why suppose
anything about it Haven't we got
the earth, as it is ?
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1892-11-11
For WEAVER.

LosT.-On Tuesday afternoon,
three ten dollar bills were lost on
Main, or Market streets. The finder
will be suitably rewarded by returning
same to this office.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1892-11-11

An elegant Thanksgiving dinner
will be served in the old Presbyterian
church by the ladies' of the Lutheran
church.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1892-11-11

1t was a campaign Of education, and
the people seem to have learned thelI
lessons right well.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1892-11-11

Capt, \. B, Jemson came up from
Washington to cast his ballot IN
Tuesday.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1892-11-11

The pupils in Miss Breece's school
room held a mock election on Tues
day.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1892-11-11
THE ELECTORAL VOTE.
NO. 46

The result of Tuesdays voting was
the victorious election of Cleveland
and Stevenson. The electoral votes
will stand as follows:
For CLEVELAND.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1892-11-11
THANKSGIVING DAY.

PRESIDENT HARRISON ISSUES PRO-
CLANiATIoN.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-06-14

Measures, not men, have always been my
mark. .'-OIjrsT Goldsmith.
This stamp is the cant" Not men, but meas
ures. ."-EdJCd d Burke.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-06-14
SHERIFF HUGHES AS A THIRD
PARTYITE.

UNIVERSITY STATION, Orange Co., N. @,
Mr.. EDITOR:-I give below state
ment clipped from the Daily Chronicle
of May 10th which reads as follows:
Hillsboro Observer; Sheriff Hughes,
who presided at Orange Democratic
Convention, in his speech, said he was
a member of the Alliance, but had no
sympathy for the Third party. He
said that much complaint was being
made that money was not as plentiful
now as it was before the war. He ad-,
mitted this, but claimed that this state
of affairs was brought about by the
people themselves. He thought if all
would live economically now as they
did before the war, there would be no
cause for this complaint
Now, Mr. Editor, [ will say that
Sheriff Hughes is a member of the ALI
ance, but how he can consistently say
that he has no sympathy for the Third
party, [ fail to see, since he has prac-
ticed more Third partyism in this
county than all the Third party men
combined, so far as this county goes
He has been elected to office on a
Third party or independent ticket Of
his own for the last twelve years, aHfI
both the old parties have tried-to beat
him, and both the old parties have
offered him the. nomination of sheriff.
but he refused. And now, at the very
time he is most needed by the hard
working producing classes of his
county, he crawls up in a Demo
cratic convention and accepts the
Craftsmanship offered him without
being questioned as to his 10y
atty: to the Den<ocratic party.
This same convention discarded from
it's body two as good Alliancemen
as the county affords, because they de-
clared themselves in favor of the ST.
Louis platform. These same Alliance
men, during the Sheriff's Third party
ism, have been loyal Democrats.
Sheriff Hughes also said the people
were responsible for the money being
so scarce. I suppose that we are to
infer from this that the people are to
blame for their cotton, tobacco and
other products of their labor selling be-
low the cost of production. He says
for the people to live more economically
and there will be no cause for this COM
plaint,
Does this not mean that if you have
been so extravagant as to want to buy
your wives and daughters cook stoves,
and sewing machines, and buggies, and
such like, that this would be extrava-
gance, and that you should dispense
with these things and return to the use
of skillets, spinning wheels, looms and
walk to church as you did before the
war, and work harder, live harder and
pay more taxes than y you ever did, and
let Sheriff Hughes salary remain the
same, that he may buy three times as
much of the products of your labor
now as he could fifteen years ago.
Now, Mr.. Editor, am in favor of
the next legislature reducing the salary
of every officer in the State, from Gov
ernor down, 10 per cent. and applying
the same to the public schools and to
the working of the public roads.
Very respectfully,
r. M. SHIELDS.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-06-14
RAMBLING THOUGHTS.
BY JAMES MURDOCH.

If there is any Lincoln Republican
ism or JeffersOnian Democracy left in
the two parties they will recognize our
demands on finance. We stand where
Lincoln and Jefferson stood. The
financial question is the one overshad
owing issue, and the party that op-
poses financial reform will have us to
fight in the coming campaign. The time
is passed for parties of eXpediency to
ask our support. We demand a party
with principle and a fixed policy in
the interest of the people. The Re
publican and Democratic parties have
been running after false gods for 10
these many years. Wall and Lombard
street furnishes the platform, and it
would seem that little Ben and Grover,
the demagOgUes chosen to carry the
banners. Lombard street furnishes
the wand which consists of two golden
yard sticks that will measure two
yards of American produce for English
subjects holding debts against this
country. They are engaged in measur
ing off fourteen cent cotton for Europe
at six cents a pound to pay interest on
English debts. 1t is the mission of the
Alliance to educate the people to get a
hold on these golden yard sticks and
shorten them one-half so )rn, cotton
and wheat will measure more debts,
taxes and fat salaries.
When the Mccullough contraction
bill came up in 1866, 55 Republicans
voted for it and So Republicans against
it, and 80 Democrats voted for it and
one against it. Had all the Democrats
voted against this infamous measure it
would have been defeated by 81 major
ity and one billion and three hundred
millions of dollars retained in circula-
tiOn. The effect of this bill was to pre-
cipitate the famine of 1873 and shrink
values One-half 1t robbed the cotton
planter of some cents on every pound
this year or two hundred anu eighty
million of dollars and it robbed the
farmers on wheat three hundred mil
lion dollars. It got us in debt ten thou
sand million dollars and cost us one
thousand million dollars annually and
has robbed us ever since it was passed
of one thusand million dollars each
year in shrinkage of values. Before
this infamous measure in point of
downright robbery all the other fail.
In spite of this fact Democratic papers
have the audacity to claim they are
not responsible for any of the financial
was Mr.. Cleveland who loaned the
bankers large sum of money without
interest to be reloaned to the people at
six to ten per cent. This was not wild
vagary, but to loan the people their
own money is the corruption of a crazy
lunatic. 1t is Mr.. Cleveland who Op-
poses free coinage and is in favor of
the golden yard stick two yards long
and favors every measure asked for
by Lombard street, England, and op-
poses every measure asked by the ALI
ance and financial refOrmers.
1t is believed by the politicians that
people can be wheedled or driven into
the support of Wall street candidates
and their measures. 1t is evident they
fear the money power more than the
people. If the people fail now they are
lost If the farmers will not stand by
each other and their interests they need
not expect those outside of their or
ganization to stand by them.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-06-14
ANOTHER PLAN FOR RELIEF.

Mr.. EDITOR We have been reading
and discussing Bro. Kennedy's letter
for the relief Of the unfortunate mem
bers of our order, and have decided
upon the following plan, which is fair
for every one of the Order: Have each
Sub Secretary to send to the County
Secretary fifty cents for each delegate
to the county meeting and he send the
same to the State Secretary Treasurer
to be deposited for the various calls,
but in no case shall there be paid more
than two thirds of the actual loss and
never make any donation to one per-
son over $500 at a single time and not
more than once in two months. Our
State organ to publish every Alliance
in the State, it's membership, its dele
gates, it's constitution, ETC.. F.; every I'M
fortunate, his loss and what he re
ceives. Of course we cannot tell any.
thing of the amounts that may be called
for. but it has been managed in very
unsatisfactory way. By this method
it would give to those only who had
been returned by the County Secre.
tary. Would be glad for the brother
hood at large to take the matter in
hand. Yours truly,
A. J. CAMPBELL.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-06-14
No. 18

Resolved, That the proceeds of the
public lands ought to be sacredly ap-
piled to the national objects specified
in the Constitution, and that we are
opposed to the laws lately adopted,
and to any law for the distribution of
such proceeds among the States as alike
ineXpedient in policy and repugnant to
the Constitution.
II, That we are decidedly opposed to
taking from the President the qualified
veto power by which he is enabled,
under restrictions and responsibilities
amply sufficient to guard the public
interest, to suspend the passage of a
bill, whose merits cannot secure the
approval Of two thirds of the Senate
and House of Representatives, until
the Judgment of the people can be OBJ
tanned thereon, and which has thrice
saved the American people from the
corrupt and tyrannical domination of
the bank of the United States.
TO BE CONTINUED.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-06-14
BARBECUE IN GREENE co.

Snow HILL, N. @.
Mr.. EDITOR :-Hurrah! for the Ali
ance in Greene county. There are two
things that this county is especially
famous for-barbecue and Alliance
men. They take "whole hog " in both,
l attended the county meeting at
Ormondsville, and around this little
town are some of the best farmers in the
State. They seem to be awake to the
progressive spirit of the age. They
are not going to plant as much cotton
as they did last year, They seem to
realize the fact that the only way the
farmer of the South can live is to raise
his own supplies.
Bro. Burns and myself spoke to a
large and appreciative audience.
They believe in buying reform books
and taking reform papers, and want
to thank the people of Greene county
for their appreciation of the work l
am engaged in-selling Alliance litera-
ture. I have never met with better
treatment from any people, [ began
to believe that Alliance people are
about the best in the world. They are
all fighting for a great cause, and like
Macedonian Phoenix, shield touching
shield, heart with heart, and their long
spears of financial reform, they are ad-
vancing towards the great victory over
capital. Long live the Alliance, the
refuge of the farmer and poor man.
Long live the interests of our grand
organization.
Yours Truly,
CHAs. L. ABERNETHY.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-06-14
LETTER FROM cABARRUs.

Measures, not men, have always been my
mark. -OIjrsT Goldsmith.
This stamp is the cant" Not men, but meas
ures. ."-EdlCa Burke.
FEW THOUGHTS HURRIEDLY PENNED.
CONCORD, N. c., May "a, 1892.
Mr. EDITOR:-I hail from the cotton
and wheat kissed hills and corn-decked
wales of old Cabarrus. come from
people whose faith is firmly fixed on
the brightest star of the ages-the star
of Alliance doctrines, whose principles
are Just, whose watch-wOrd Is victory.
Only five years have been numbered
on times eternal scroll since the Ali
ance-the child of Justice and right
was born on North Carolina's soil. Only
a few years, yet as we look back at
what mighty deeds have been done,
what mighty foes have been overcome,
what grand achievements have been
wrought by this child Of anew thought,
we wonder!
In 1857 the Farmers Alliance was in
its infancy. Then the farmer looked
for success to the political boomers.
They pleaded and preached and
promised great things for farm inter
ests, but still those interests were not
benefited. Time rolled on-One by one
a link of demagogism was severed one
by one a silkeu thread was stolen from
the warp Of mugwump politics until
to-day that warp is only frail relic of
by gone greatness, and the reigns of
power are in the master hands of the
people, as they should be always.
Away with any system of political
ethics that does not let the people make
their own laws for their own aggrand-
izement. During these five years it
has been God send to the educational
interests of the State; it has developed
a better State, mentally, morally,
socially and financially" and yet its
principles are not in full operation.
There is a grand story yet to tell of
what it will do. Nothing but the JUS
tice of its demands could in so short a
time control the political machinery of
the State, as was done in the late State
Convention. Where in history can
you show me a people who, in five
short years can rise up and be masters
in the body polite as we have done9
There must be a great, grand principle
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-06-14
RALEIGH, N. c., JUNE IA, 1892.
and we are safe. Nothing else under
the sun is worth an iota.
: Only this and nothing more"

- I make no war against success in any
calling. 1t is not crime to succeed,
but duty. I have nothing to say
against capital, for this is the goal of
all our toll; but I do fight against a
government which legislates in the in
terest of one class, to the detriment of
of another. I do say that aid to one in
dustry at the expense of another is not
right. And when capital winks at
makers and labor suffers and capital
smiles, we certainly need a dose of
" equal justice to all, special privileges
to none" Not special favors to labor
nor to capital, but justice to both. So
mote it be. G. ED. KESTLER.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-06-14
IAT1ONAL FARMERS ALI
d. ANcR AND INDUSTRIAL
UNION.

,.o ,ident-L. L. Polk, North Caro-
Address, Atlantic Building, +
nav n W W Washington, D. @.
81 1;co S, President-H. l.. Loucks, huron,
5Qqtn QgqIal.atary- Gstrr treasurer. II. Turner,
aio oeCl S'' Address, 299 North Capitol
= 5eoI W. Washington, D. {.
~ ,1o,i.,,rpr-J. ~. II. Willetts, Kansas.
EXECUTIVE BOARD.
u Nacune, Washington, D. Q.
,Iongo Wardal, Huron, South Da-
s"i F. giIlman, Palmetto, Tennessee.
JUDICIARY.
4 Cole, Michigan,
2 W. Beck, Alabama.
v D. Davie, Kentucky.
s.rTONAL. LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE.
IT, Polk, Hartman.
: = " Macune, Washington, D. @.
Mann Page, Brandon, Va.
: P. Faatherstone, Forest City, Ar
A"757 W F. Gwinn, White, Tennessee.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-06-14
North Carolina Reform Press Association.

Ugicsls-t$. L. Ramsey, President !;
NaTi0n Butler, Vice-PreSideTt; W. 5.
Barnes, Secretary,
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-06-14

.,p-r CAROLINA FARMERS STATE ALL
ANCE.
Decentralization Butler, Clinton,
v: :TTic:e-President-T, i: B. Long, Ashe-
SEE. Secretary ret II -Treasurer-w. s. Barnes,
"i-el3 "Tec3furer-J. s. Bell, Brasstown, NC.
5teward-C. @. Wright, Glass, n. Z.
ChapIain-Rev. E, Pope, Chalk
. iD}oor-Keeper-W. }G1 H. Tomlinson,
Eavetteville, n. @.
Assistant DOOr-Keeper-H. h. KING,
Serge 8ergesant-at-Arms-J. s. Holt, Chalk
State Business Agent-W. H. Worth,
8aleigh, n. @.
Trustee Business Agency Fund-W.
\. Graham, Machpelah, n. &.
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE NORTH
CAROLINA FARMERS STATE ALLIANCE.
5. B. Alexander, Charlotte, n. c.,
chairman; J. Nj. MewbOrne, kmston,
NJ C.;J. S. Johnston, Ruftin, n. Z.
TATE ALLIANCE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE.
Elias Carr, A. Leazer, N. NJ. Cul-
Oreth, NJ. G. Gregory, VIM. G. Conneu.
gTATE ALLIANCELEGIsL COMMITTEE.
j. Powell, Raleigh, N. G.; n. @.
English, Trinity College: J. }. Young,
Polenta; II. A. FOrney, Newton, n. Z.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-06-14
wHIG, BALTIMORE, MAY 1sT.

Resolved, That these principles may
be summed up as comprising well
regulated national currency, tariff
revenue to carry the necessary ex-
penses of the government, and dis
eliminating with special reference to
the protection of the domestic labor of
the Countrywide distribution of the
proceeds from the sales of public lands;
a single term for the presidency; re,
form of executive usurpations- and
generally such an administration of
the affairs of the country, as shall i'm
part to every branch of the public ser
Vice the greatest practical efficiency,
controlled by wellregulated and wise
economy.
DEMOCRATIC, BALTIMORE, MAY 27TH.
Resolutions 1, 3, 8, 4, 5, 6, z, 8, and
q Of the platform of 1910, were re-
affirmed, to which were added the
following:
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-06-14

Wide awake. What? Why, THE
PROGRESSIVE FARMER. Send 40 cents
and get it through the campaign.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-06-14

The Progressive Farmer
from now until Nov. 18th
for 40 cents. Make M your oluos.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-06-14

Each Of the 0bOUe-n0nled I0dPeTS ore
requested to keep the list standing on
The first page and odd others, proUide?d
they are duly elected. Amy paper td!E-
ing to odUOcGte the OcGLG platform lUtU
be dropped from the list promptly. orr
people CON nO1U see 1ChGt papers are
published In their interest.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1892-04-23
transferred to washington.

Mr.. Robert E. Kerkam, who has so
long furnished official forecasts of the
weather from San Francisco with which
readers of THE CHRONICLE are familiar,
has been relieved from duty at that
point, and returns to Washington city
to resume his more important duties at
headquarters. Referring to his forecasts
the Oregonian says: "They have been
most excellent, and have done much to
cause the public to regain confidence in
that branch of the work of the weather
bureau, which is one as most important
to the general community. Weather
forecasting on the Pacific slope is the
most difficult of any in the country, due
to the proximity of the ocean, the widely
separated and sometimes inaccessible
telegraph stations, and to the peculiar
topography of the country, for there are
several places in Oregon and Washing
ton where, when rain falls heavily, it is
cloudless and fine not sixty miles away.
The weather bureau was never in a
more popular, wellknown and beneficial
condition on the entire Pacific coast,
than it is today, and it's present high
grade of efficiency is due to the men who
have SO conscientiously labored for its
benefit, and also to the new life and
blood infused into it by reason of its
transfer to the agricultural department
on July 1st, last. Mr.. Kerkam has been
succeeded by his predecessor, John P.
Finley, well known on account of his
tornado and cyclone reports.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1892-04-23

Miss Jennie Steel of Five Mile is in
the city visiting friends.
Scarcely enough salfSbn are being
caught at The Dalles to supply the home
demand.
The household goods of Mrs. ]. E.
Atwater were sold today at public auc-
ton by J. B. Crossen. Mrs. Atwater
will make her future home in Portland.
Wild geese were in this neighborhood
last night in large numbers. They flew
so low on the river that they nearly
struck the mast of the skiff s'Typo," a
boat belonging to the compositors of the
CHRONICLE office.
The Hood River Glacier says: ga
Dalles fishing party visited Hood River
and made the following catch last Thurs
day: j. E. Hardy, POS; Thomas Denton,
1876; F. Lemke, 1855; Ben Wilson "a 5;
total 643.''
A meeting of the Bluff fire department
is called for next Monday evening at 7
p. M, in the new engine house on Ninth
strees. The meeting is for the perma-
nent organization of the department and
all who desire to join are requested to
attend.
Snow fell last night on the high hills
back of this city and a heavy frost is re-
ported as having occurred on Fifteen
Mile creek. There was ice quarter of
an inch thick at H. Simon's place on
Eight Mile. Up till last night fruit was
generally considered safe but its condi-
tion now will not be known for a few
days.
The Condor Globe probably meant no
harm to Judge Bradshaw when it said,
that during last court term there, "no
less than fifty people were heard to re-
mark that he was an excellent likeness of
Grover Cleyeland." It is questionable
if the judge has any remedy at law for
this charge, and custom shuts the
mouths of candidates against retaliation
anyhow.
Last evening was spent pleasantly in
a game of drive whist at the residence of
Mr.. and Mrs. John Filloon. Those
present were, MIR. and Mrs. Chas.
Stephens, Mr.. and Mrs. Sidney Young,
Mr.. Dell Cheeseman, Mr.. and Mrs.
Lochhead, Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. Blakely,
DIR. and Mrs. Rinehart, Mr.. and Mrs.
Filloon, Mrs. Jas. Wilson and Miss Bes-
sic Miller. Mrs. Stephens was the win
ner of the first prize which was a
beautiful, hand-painted glass plaque,
and Mr.. Stephens was the happy winner
of the BOBBY which was most forlorn
looking little gray mule.