The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-07-12

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fast. had then cooked and eat every
scrap himself. That is n of the Cap
tain's fish stories. The polls are now
closed for this season.
~ A few of the old party bosses pro
| ceeded to hold a mass meeting, but
could muster only ten men, all told,
which was composed of lawyers, mer
chants and doctors, and represents
Cleveland's strength in this county,
says the Lebanon, Mo-, Sentinel.
~ The New York Herald correspon
dent ~telegraphed that paper that the
applause lasted 80 minutes by his watch
when the reading of the platform was
finished at Omaha. Did you ever
hear of such enthusiastic Don't it
look like there was harmony?
~ There will be a meeting of promi-
nent horse-breeders in Raleigh on the
18th and 18th of August. There will
be three trotting races eaGhday by two
and three-year old thoroughbreds.
Purse, 800 each. National Associa-
ton rules will govern. Low rates will
be given on railroads.
~ The Democrats are already
claiming that the Carnegie Steel
Works tragedy is the result of Repub-
lican legislation. Gentlemen, name a
single bill that has been passed without
the votes of Democratic Congressman
or n that has been defeated without
votes from the same source.
-. The Charlotte Observer won
ders" if Jerry Simpson won't claim
the big wheat crop there as one of the
results of his congressional Iabors. We
don't know that he will, but when the
farmers go to market it and don't get
what it cost, they will wish there was
three hundred more Jerry Simpsons in
Congress.
~ In every case where there is a
fusion between the Peoples party and
either of the old parties, it is to be
hoped that all men of and good
intentions will see to it that the fusion
ticket is sat down upon with sufficient
vim to bust it wide fat. If a man don't
know where to go, he should remain at
home and stuff sausage meat into him
self.
- The banks in North Carolina are
declaring 4 and 5 per cent. semi-annual
dividends. In other words they are
making s and 10 per cent. above all ex-
penses-and those things are not al,
ways given in full-while the farmers
are declaring 10 and 90 per cent. loss.
The Peoples party is the remedy. Will
you show your ems by voting that
way?
~ Frank McGrath, who was Presi
dent of the Kansas State Alliance for a
year, has withdrawn from the Alliance
because the Peoples party nominated
an exc Confederate soldier for Congress
in his district. That is a pretty excuse
indeed! Such a man must have a soul
like unto a mustard seed. But there
are over a hundred thousand there who
didn't withdraw.
~ A committee, selected for the pur-
pose, willformally notify Grover Cleve-
land of his nomination on the goth of
this month. The Chicago Convention
nominated Grover on the 23d of June,
and he hasn't found it out yet. 1t will
take him two years to find out that
Col. Weaver is running the Washing
ton ranch, if he is so slow to find out
that he is nominated,
~ A well-known Democrat, who
has been resisting the facinations of
the Peoples party all the time, says
he is now a member, since he heard
that after all the free coinage talk and
the Democratic House saying it was
no use to pass the bill for the Senate
would defeat it, and at last the Repub
lican Senate passed the bill. He says
mo more old parties" for him.
i The Wilmington Star thinks the
proper thing to do during the cam
paign, instead Of paying speakers and
brass bands, is to raise a fund to send
hundreds of copies of country news
papers into the homes of people who
don't read much That is a good idea.
We would be glad to know that every
family in America could have a news
paper for a while. But education is
the tap-root. Educate the children
and they will make readers.
~ And they say Weaver has been
an office seeker. Perhaps he has. But
as nine tenths of humanity are afflicted
with that disease it can hardly be
called a crime. However Weaver ho.