The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-11-01

parts of the country. The Democratic
p~lutocrat in Georgia is no meaner than
the Republican p%lutOcrat In Kansas.
They are inspired by the same motives
and deserve the same treatment.
-. Mark Twain once said he was
such a strong total abstainer that he
abstained from total ~aostenance itself.
That was the way with the 148 Demo
cratic majority in Congress, They
wanted free silver so bad that they
actually voted against it.
~ Three Republican candidates for
Congress have been withdrawn in the
State. Pool in the First District, San
ders in the Fourth and Jockey in the
Sixth. This leaves the Democratic and
Peoples party in the race, with large
odds in favor of the reform candidates,
~ We have been shown a private
letter from Mr.. Taubeneck, Chairman
of the Peoples party Executive Com
mittee. He says that Weaver is Likely
to carry all the States west of the Mis-
sissippi river, and that if the South
does her duty Weaver will be Presi-
dent. Hump yourselves.
~ We suggest that the friends of
reform have a competent man at each
voting place in the State who will take
the name of every man voting the re-
form ticket. If there is any fraud or
miscounting it can be detected in that
way. If Chairman Simm MS is wise
he will see hat no fraud is attempted.
~ Just now the mOnecrats are
sending out horrible stories of rae
riots murders lynchings in Georgia,
Florida and Alabama. This is done
for campaign effect. Anything to keep
the North and South apart is their
motto. The honest people of both
sections will pursue the ever tenor of
their way however.
~ Bro. J. w. Stokes, who has had
editorial charge of the Cotton Plant,
State organ of the Alliance in South
| Carolina, has resigned on account of
other business requiring his attention.
Bro. Stokes has gotten up a good pa
per for more than two yers. Bro. j.
w. Bowden will have charge of the
Cotton Plant, and we predict continued
success for the paper.
A correspondent informs us that
Mr.. Marion Butler had a big ovation
the day that he spoke at Clinton, his
home. He was met at the depot by a
large crowd of mounted men, a band
and carriage. This was the largest
! crowd that ever met a citizen Of Samp-
son county on any occasion, and shows
how Bro. Butler stands at home. We
learn that he had a large audience in
Pitt county also.
-. An editorial in the London Econ
Omist in 1888 said: England being
the chief creator nation of the world,
it is to her interest to keep the UOlWme
of money as small as possible in coun-
tries from which debts are due in order
to get more of their products in pay
ment of interest due to her citizens"
Still u great (O statesmen say we
must ask England how much silver we
shall put in a dollar.
~ Some days ago the State papers
made a great to do about the beating
Of J. L. Lee, a salesman from Wilson,
who went over into Nash county to
collect a bill. The reports said that
Lee was a Democrat and that Peoples
party men beat him nearly to death
on that account. A correspondent in
forms us that politics were not men
toned; that Lee was drunk and got
into a row, was only slightly hurt.
Our correspondent says he afterwards
apologized and offered % pay all costs
in court.
~ Sir Rob't N. Fowler, a banker,
ex- Mayor of London and a member of
the English Parliament, said in 1886,
at a meeting of the British and Col
onial Chambers Commerce, held in
London: 1.-The effect of the deprecia-
ton of silver must finally be the ruin
of the wheat and cotton industries of
America, AMI be the development of
India as the chief wheat and cotton ex-
porter of the world" Is not this com
ing true as inspired prophecy9 Still
we allow England to dictate our fnan-
cial policy. Shame upon usl
The Carthage Blade says: "Nine
and a half years after the war old Jim
Weaver denounced the people of the
South as "rebels" and traitors
Well, the Democratic press of North