The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-05-03
SOME SECRETS EXPOSED.

a partisan paper, mutually falls behind
in getting political news. But this
week we expose some gigantic tricks
that r being worked throughout the
State. The Alliancemen and farmers
generally are determined to capture
the Democratic machine" They ask
everybody to help them capture the
critter and ride with them.
We are aware that this does not ex
actly meet the approval of some of our
have been afiliating with the Demo
cratic party think other arrangements
might have been made. To be plain,
they think nothing but a new party
will fill the bill. Thousands of Repub-
cans in and out of the Alliance, having
lost hope in their party, and having no
faith in the Democratic party, they
naturally want to vote with a new
party. To be plain again, we think all
Of them are right. While we. are will
ling for our demands to go before the
national conventions of both the old
parties, we have no spark of hOpefrom
the monopoly controlled Republican
party nor from the New England-con-
troIled Democratic party. We repeat
that we have absolutely no hope and
cannot advise our friends to depend on
them. However, it is different in
North Carolina. While our State Gov
eminent, under twenty years of Demo
cratic rule, has not been all it might
have been, has not been perfect, and
we need never expect perfection in
politics; yet the contrast has been so
great between Republican rule from
1866 to 1870, and Democratic rule since,
that people are 10th to let loose and
risk worse things. Many people will
vote the ticket on account of the name,
so we want to give them a chance.
Another thing: Our complaints are
mostly national, hence we can afford
to divorce State and National politics.
Now we want to reason a little more
with Republican and Democratic
Alliancemen who may not fully agree
with this plan. Had any other policy
been pursued, it is almost certain that
a "straightout" Republican ticket
would have been elected in this State,
including members of the legislature,
and in many cases county officers.
Anybody with half sense knows that
this would not better things, and pos
sibly would make them vastly worse.
No true Allianceman, be he Republi
can r Democrat, wants to see things
any worse. On the other hand a
3 straightout" Democratic State ticket
might have been elected. This would
have been no Improvement. Really it
would have been making things worse.
But if the people will turn out to the
primaries and send honest, brave men
all through to the State Convention,
the State will be saved from both mis-
fortunes and we will get as much re-
form as through a new party, and not
run the risk of losing all chances.
When it comes to selecting Congress
men and Senators and National officers,
~ u OC OA44C4C1AUs ~ OADSCU IL Will
be absolutely necessary to elect them
On a new party platform. At present
we see no other chance. But until this
State matter is disposed of weask every
man favoring reform tokeep his mouth
closed, be he Republican or Democrat.
Let's do m thing at a time and pro-
coed cautiously.
Some will say to former Democrats,
who are % favoring the new party,
that The PROGRESSIVE FARMER is trying
to pull them back into the Democratic
party, and to Republicans they will
say that it is trying to rope in Republi-
cans and induce them to vote the
Democratic ticket. Don't be inlu-
enced by them. All who have read
this paper know that we have no more
confidence in the National Democratic
Party than we havein the Republican.
We would vote for Harrison or Blaine
as quick as we would for Cleveland or
Hill. We have no more confidence in
many of the Democratic leaders in
North Carolina than we have in the
Republican leaders in Maine. But it
is a condition and not mere sentiment
that confronts us here in North Caro-
lima. We cannot afford to risk negro
supremacy here. We must do the best
we can-choose the lesser of two evils
as it We're. If our people will rally to
the primaries we will get all we want.
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said about your favoring the Ocala or
st. Louis platforms. The politicians
are sick of that. Go and insist on