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IT is more than likely that General
Sickles will cut off a number of Democratic
votes, especially among the veteran soldiers.
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challenging Governor Mckinley toa joint
debate.
THE conservatively Republican Phila-
delphia Public Ledger, in discussing the situ-
alton in New York, says: "Both Senator
Hills entrance upon the campaign and the
manner of it imply that tho numerically
strong and the tactically powerful faction
of which he is the head, and which centers
in and about Tammany Hall. means to give
the Democratic national ticket united.
earnest support at the polls. In view of the
scarcely questioned probability that the So
electoral votes of New York will decide the
choice of the Presidential candidate, the pro-
claimed purpose of the Hill faction to unite
with the friends of MI. Cleveland in deter
mined efforts to secure the triumph of the
Democratic ticket is political incident the
gravity of which cannot be ignored 1t
gives an entirely new character to the CAM
paign, and should be no less impressive as a
warning to the Republicans to put forth all
their strength in the Empire State than
were the results of the Vermont and Maine
elections. New York can scarcely be re-
garded as Republican State; it should
rather be considered Democratic State
which is sometimes carried by the Republi-
cans Last year, under conditions most ia
vorable TO the latter and not so favorable to
the former, 1t was carried by the Democra ts
on the Gubernatorial ticket by nearly As. 900
plurality. That fact does not furnish conciu-
slve evidence that the Democrats will carry
New York this year By similar or by any
plurality. But it does suggest that the SO
electoral votes of the Empire State will not
fall like ripe fruit into tine lap of the Re-
publican party, and that their possession
will have to be contended for" There is
every Indication that the Republican leaders
are contendiiig with might and main, and
are not missing many points.
IT is more than likely that General
Sickles will cut off number of Democratic
votes, especially among the veteran soldiers.
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didn't you?'' asked one bunko steerer of another.
'sYes. He stole SO from me.n
''Who was he1''
''He's Chicago Worlds Fair promoter"
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-01-05
WHAT WILL THEY Do7

The Nation, a pronounced anti-free
silver journal, says:
"The lesson taught by the autumn
elections is that the Democrats cannot
carry a single Northern State east of
the Rocky Mountains by adopting a
free coinage platform, or by passing a
free coinage bill in the House."
So, according to this paper if Con
gress shall conform to the demands of
the people, and especially of the South,
the Northwest and the West, by giving
the country free coinage, it will GER
tainly defeat the Democratic party in
every Northern State east of the Rocky
Mountains in 1892. Well, whatever
Congress may or may not do on this
question, the people will certainly give
all candidates and all parties in 1892 a
first class opprtunity to show their
hands. Is it not almost equally GER
tain that the party that goes against
free coinage, will not be able to carry
the Southern, Western and North
western States9 This question will be
a terrible boomerang to some people
from present indications The Alliance
has no doubt as to where it stands and
will stand on this matter, and it is
certain that no man or party al get
it's support, if opposed to the free and
unlimited coinage of silver.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-01-05
THE SECRET BALLOT.

The rapidity with which the great
ballot reform has been adopted in the
American States, is not only gratifying
as creating an American system of
voting, which promises to do away
largely. with corruptionists and bull
dozers at the polls, but it is encourag
ing to those who advocate other great
reforms in which the great masses of
the people are directly concerned. 1t
shows that when a great righteous
measure of reform is presented to the
people that it al and will be adopted.
The Australian ballot system was
first adopted by the State of New York
in 1888, and since that time by thirty
two other States, but by all of them in
modified form to a greater or less de-
gree. The secret ballot system now
exists in the following States: Arkan-
sas, California, Colorado, Connecticut,
Delware, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky,
Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts,,
Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Mis-
souri,, Montana, Nebraska, New
Hampshire, New Jersey, New York,
North Dakota, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsyl-
vania, Rhode Island, South Dakota,
Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Washing.
ton, West Virginia, Wisconsin and
Wyoming. For the first time in our
political history the fate of presidential
candidates will be virtually decided in
1892 by the secret ballot. This method
will checkmate, to a large extent, the
corrupt practices Of ticket peddlers,
political bulldozers and thugs, and will
give to the country a free expression Of
the will of the people. Men can no
longer be marched up to the polls like
sheep to the shambles and made to
vote under intimidation and dictation
from employers or political bosses.
THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER is anxious to
see the time when in every State
where, under the laws, a man is en-
titled to vote, he shall do so without
mOlestatiOn or interference in any
way, and to that end it would heartily
welcome the secret ballot system to our
own and all the other States where it
does not exist. We hope to see the
next General Assembly of North Caro-
lima adopt it.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-01-05
TWO ARTICLES.

Among the many good things to be
found in this issue, we wish to call
special attention to two articles. One,
Cardinal Truths of Democracy" by
the welI-known and exceedingly popu-
lar writer, James Murdock," is one
of the best things ever put in print.
1t will pay anyone to read it and study
well what it contains.
On the first page is an article on
"co operation" written by Mr. P. b.
Jacobs, of Hammonton, N. J. Mr..
Jacobs is not a stranger in these col
umns, he having written articles be-
fore. In this he makes the plans of
cooperation and the advantages very
plain. No better explanation could be
given. Read it with care, and perhaps
there may be a general move for CO.
operation among the people on this
line. His plan excludes no one. Farm
ers, mechanics, merchants, profess
sional people, all, may unite and do a
safe business, according to his plans,
wherever they want to.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-01-05

Watson did not go into the caucus and
did not vote for Mr. Crisp, and this il
the cause of the racket in Georgia
Whatever else may be said about t.
one thing seems clear-that the peonlo
of Mr.. Watson's district will stand nv
him. By the way, did not a Democrat
from New England vote every time
for one from Massachusetts, because
as he said, he had pledged himself to
his people to vote for no man who was
not opposed to free coinage of silver
Has the Constitution and other would
be bosses called on this fellow to re-
sign9 Has one word of censure against
him been uttered? No. The difference
is that he was standing by the money
power and Tom Watson was standing
by the Alliance and the people. On
with the fight!
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-01-05
THE COUNTY

Before another issue of The PROGRESS
sIvE FARMER appears, the county meet
ings will be held. The winter meet
ings r never SO largely attended as
those in the summer. But we hope
there will be a good turnout at all these
January county meetings. There is
much work that ought to be done.
Among other things each Congressional
District will appoint a delegate to the
Industrial Conference to be held at ST.
Louis in February. This Industrial
Conference is likely to be the most i'm
portant meeting ever held in this
country.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-01-05
LET THEM DO 1T.

In an elaborate editorial on the po-
litical situation the Atlanta Journal, of
a recent date, says:
Democratic principles and the
record of the Democratic party must
be freely and frequently discussed as
the surest means of defeating the in
sidious assaults of those of it's enemies
who, until recently, have pretended to
be its friends"
Democratic principles and a discus
sion of them is all right. There can be
no objection to this. But what the
people want is a carrying out of these
principles. Discussion does good,
sometimes, but now the cry is "give
us relief"
A prominent Congressman from this
State told the writer a few days ago
that he could see no hope of reform In
the present Congress. Some of them
are ready to follow Cleveland and his
monopolistic silver views and the
general tenor seems to be that neither
party will risk any reform measures.
If bills are introduced by honest repre-
sentatives they will be defeated.
A carrying out of promises Will dq
more good than a discussion or pE1n
ciples" just now.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-01-05

lands for twenty-five years-whose
honest, earnest blows, contributed their
| full share to this enormously increased
wealth of the country" and hear
their pitiful story of poverty and
threatened ruin and suffering With
thousands on thousands of such farm.
ers to day it is the all absorbing ques-
ton: "How and where shallI provide
bread and meat for my family9" True,
Mr.. Harrison, your boast that the
wealth Of the country has been greatly
increased by the products of the farms,
but it has been done at the expense of
farmer. Why did not the President,
like an honest man, with candOr and
manliness becoming the chief magis-
trate of this great country, tell the
country in his message that this unjust
distribution of the products of labor
was pauperizing the great laboring
classes, and that their earnings we're
being swallowed. up and appropriated
by the few, and that they were enabled
to do this through the wicked policy of
robbery, established by himself and
men like him, who have betrayed the
people and sold them out to money
power9 Yes, Mr.. Harrison, your boast
ing will be deliberately weighed by
the people, and they are going to see
why a policy should obtain in this free
country by which a fewcan absolutely
control and steal the earnings of the
many. They intend to put men in
power who will be honest enough and
patriotic enough to secure "equal
rights to all and special favor to none"
They intend that when the wealth of
the country is enhanced in one year
from their earnings $500, OOO, 900 that
they will enjoy at least a small portion
of that increase. They are right and
they would be the basest towards that
ever cursed their kind if they do not
rise up in their might and assert their
rights and their manhood. They will
go to the ballot box in 1892 and make
it hot for the trimmers and schemers.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-01-05
GIVE NO PLEDGES.

1t is not too early to warn the people
against certain political pledging that
will be sought in the next few months.
STRIKERS" will be at work for Con
gressmen or aspirants soon. Also for
State and county officials. Don't give
your promise. Withhold it as you
would refrain from an unworthy action.
Reverse the order of things. Let those
now in office prove themselves entirely
worthy of your support. Let those
who are aspirants pledge themselves to
yoW and your interests, instead of
pledging your support in advance.
This is the only way to secure good
public servants, and we raise this voice
of warning for no reason except for the
good of the whole people.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-01-05
BosH.

President Harrison, in his message
to Congress, says that the farm pro-
ducts for 1891 exceeded those of 1890
by 500, 600, 900, and have made ga
wonderful addition to the country's
wealth." We suppose that he intended
by thus officially parading this wild
guess work of the Secretary of Agri-
culture, before the farmers of the
country to silence the cry of hard times
among them and at the same time to
furnish the stump orators of the cam
paign of 1892, with an official state
ment to be used by them as an argu-
ment against the demands for relief.
We will grant for the sake of argument
that the figures of Secretary Rusk, as
quoted by the President, are correct.
We will grant for the sake of argument
that even his conclusion, that the
enormous crops of this year "have
added wonderfully to the wealth of
the country" He puts it most adroit-
ly, when to use his W ambiguous
phrase. The labor of the farmers, has
added wonderfully to the wealth Of
the country" But he fails to tell US
how that "wealth" has been dis.
tributed and appropriated. He fails to
tell us who is enjoying this immensely
increased wealth-the product of the
labor of the farmers. He fails to tell
us that Notwithstanding his tremendous
increase of wealth growing out of the
toll and sweat of the farmers, that
they are today poorer-in worse
financial condition than they were in
1891. He fails to tell us why it is that
Notwithstanding the ~stupendous earn
ings of the farmers, that thousands
and thousands of them all over the
country are growing poorer every day
and every year that they live. He
should visit North Carolina and other
States, and see honest, industrious,
frugal farmers who have worked good
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-01-05
WHY OPPOSE H E

Recently the Wilmington Star had
the following in an editorial:
1.-THE producer of the raw material
simply gets paid for the cost and labor
of production, and not always that.
Thousands of millions of dollars have
been made out of the cotton grown in
the South, but not by the men who
grew it. OF the SIS, ZOO, 900, 900 which it
is estimated the cotton crops of the
South have sold for since the war, but
very little has remained in the hands
of the planters who raised them. If
all the money that has been made out
of Southern cotton had been made by
the South, she would be to day the
richest country on the face of the
earth"
This looks as if the Stdr breaches
one thing and practices another" 1t
has a very clear idea of what the
farmers have suffered for the past
twenty years and also sees no prospect
of any Improvement. But still it op-
poses the measures and means sug-
gested by the farmers themselves. The
Star is not alone in this box. Hundreds
of others are with it in sentiment and
practice. The S~ub-Treasury will make
1.-The South the richest country on the
face of the earth" if anything will, but
the Star holds to old fogy ideas and
opposes the very thing it ought to ad,
vOcato
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-01-05
INCREASE OF PENSIONERS.

The increase in the number of pen
sioners upon the rolls during the year
1891 was 1873, 126, though 1929 have
died
This is a bad state of affairs. It is
now nearly 81 years since the war
ended, and yet the number of pension,
ers increase over a hundred thousand
in one year! According to thisin fifty
years after the war ended there will
be nine-tenths of our population on the
pension rolls. There must be reform
in this country. The sooner it begins
the better.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-01-05
TO THE SUBSCRIBERS OF THE
RURAL HOME.

Having sold my entire interest IN
the Rural Home to THE PROGRESSIVE
FARMER you will be furnished with
that paper for the remainder of the
time you have subscribed to the RUT0L
Home. I hope this arrangement will
be entirely satisfactory to each n OF
you, as you will thereby get a paper
containing much more matter and
without increase of cost to you.
For the past three months the duties
of my office as Secretary-Treasurer of
the State Alliance have prevented my
attending to the Rural Home satisfac-
tory to myself. By this arrangement.
l am relieved OF all the responsibility
and labor of getting out the paper,
though I am under obligations to write
for The PROGRESSIVE FARMER, when
ever it does not conflict with my duties
as Secretary Treasurer of the State
Alliance. In the columns of the FAR
MER, l hope you will occasionally recog-
nize the "hand writing" of the ex-
editor of the Rural Home. It was no
pleasant duty to drop the pilotage of
the Rural Home, but we have done so,
believing it to be to the interest of u
Order. All that is in my power to do
for the advancement of our OrganiZa-
ton and THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER
shall be done, and instead of reaching
a thousand or two readers weekly as
heretofore, what l have to say will
reach the thousands of subscribers of
THE FARMER also; and it is to be hoped
that the circulation of our Organ can
be extended in 1892, till it will gladden.
the homes of every true Allianceman
and reformer in North Carolina.
Brethren, as your State Secretary, I
urge each one of you to do all in his
| power to extend the circulation of The
PROGRESSIVE FARMER, 1t is necessary;
it is your duty. Upon the work of
this year depends whether your liber
ties are ~vouchsafed unto you or not.
Let there be no chickering's or strife
among you. UNITY must be watch
word. Upon our demands let every
one stand unmoved-upholding them
without compromise g the principles
they contain. Co1Uards cote for party,
but it takes men Of moral courage to
cote for principles, independent Of
party. Stand together on your de-
mands, s one man, and we will win a
victory greater by far than we did in
1890. The. enemy will leave no stone
unturned to divide the organization in
order that the feast may go on over
our degradation, complete ensIaVe-
ment. Be patient but firm, and let us
meet our enemies, the enemies of good
government, with such a determine
ton that the obstacles to victory will
be as nothing.
In turning over my subscription list,
it is a pleasure to say it is paid in full
and it is so credited on my books. l
thank you, my friends, for your pat
ronage. Many of you have been with
the Rural Home from the beginning,
and have cheered us, as ouencouraged
us to proceed. Wishing each one ofyeu
and every reader of The PRoGREssIvE
FARMER all the blessings that are
needed, I remain as ever,
Your friend and brother,
w. 8. BARNES.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-01-05
TOM WATSON AND THE BOSSES
w. S. BARNES

Politics are getting red hot down in
Georgia. The Constitution and other
papers and politicians became furious
because Congressman Watson refused
to vote for Crisp for Speaker, and de-
manded that he should resign his seat.
Whereupon Mr.. Watson's constituents
rose up and notified these self-consti-
tuted bosses that they proposed to have
something to say in the matter. Meet
ings have been held in each of the
counties of Mr.. Watson's district and
in all of them his course was unani-
mously and warmly endorsed and in
some Of the counties they even went
so far as to declare in favor of the
Peoples party. And the end is not
yet.
The moral of this is: That the day
for whip swapping and bull DOING has
passed.
Mr.. wATsON's oFFENsE.
Mr.. Watson was nominated on ALI
ance principles. A straightout Demo
SLdb was JuI1ICO OuU d11O VA FH"OOOA
was put in because the people wanted
a nan who would stand on and by the
demands laid down at Ocala, He re-
fused to go into the Democ5 attic caucus
because he might thereby be forced to
vote for a man who was opposed to
these demands and to the Alliance.
Mr.. Crisp was nominated by the caucus
and was elected. During the campaign
last summer Mr.. Crisp opposed the
| Ocala demands and was the first
Georgia Congressman who wrote a
letter against the Sub Treasury plan.
1t is charged by the Georgia reform
papers, and it has not been denied,
that Mr.. Crisp said it was necessary
for the Republicans and Democrats of
Kansas to fuse together in order to de
feat the Alliance. 1t was a matter of
public notoriety in Washington during
the campaign for the s~peakership, that
he was being advocated by the railroad
! power, and Tammany Hall. Mr..