The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-05-31
THEY KNOW WHAT THE FIGHT
is ABOUT.

THEY KNOW WHAT THE FIGHT
is ABOUT.
The suffering and oppressed masses
are struggling for relief. They know
that they are growing poorer through
the operations of a wicked and corrupt
financial system that is manipulated
in the interest of monopoly and Wall
street They have rebelled against it,
They know that the real fight is not
between the Democratic and Republi-
can parties, but. that it is a battle be-
tween plutocracy and the people.
They see and realize that there is no
hope if the agricultural States are to be
longer deceived and duped and feeced
by the money power. They know that
they must forever cut loose from Wall
street. They will go no further IN that
direction. The South knows that in
this mighty conflict her truest friends
and strongest allies are in the great
agricultural States of the West and
Northwest, and she is going to them
and with them. If the Democratic
leaders OF the South have no more re-
gard for our down trodden and suffer
ing people and no more ~self-respect
than to still lick the foot of gold bug
power, why let them go. AS for the
farmers and honest, patriotic, self
respecting tax payers of the South,
they are going to free themselves of
the expressions that have wellnigh
crushed their energies and stripped
them of their dearest rights. Cling to
| Wall street old party leaders if you
will, but the people r going to walk
Off and leave you.
STILL sLANDERTNG THE PEOPLE
His defeat is purely an outgrowth
of the very peculiar condition of the
public mind-a time of unrest, unwis-
dom, of f~anaticism, of demagogy, of
crude thinking, of unfaithfulness to
bedrock principles, Of intolerance, of
ignorance as TO political matters. .
Wilmington Messenger.
The above is assigned as the cause of
the defeat of Gov. Holt, by the Viii
mingt IN Messenger, as we find it quoted
in the State Chronicles editorial col
Umns. It is extraordinary language,
even when we consider the source from
whence it comes. Is it true that the
men who did not vote for Gov. Holt in
that convention are unwise; are fanat-
les; are demagogues; are crude think
ers; are unfaithful to principle; are
intolerant, and ignorant of political
matters2 Are these the kind of men
who voted for Mr.. Sanderlin, Mr.. J. S.
| Carr, Mr.. Elias Carr and ex Gov. Jarvis?
Is MI. Elias Carr the exponent and
representative of this kind of people?
The Messenger says so; then how can
that paper and those who favored Gov.
Holt, vote for Mr.. Carr for Governor?
Is this ebulition of spiteful feeling in
tended as a "notice" that the MesSen-
ger and Gov. Hollis friends will bolt
the ticket? If this is the way they feel
about it, how can they support the
ticket or the platform upon which it
was nominated?
For two years the Messenger and
papers of that ilk have been teaching
the Democracy that certain measures
embraced in that platform were dan
gerous and anarchistic. Now that
they have endorsed them, we want to
know where they stand9 The people
are not going to be deceived. They
notice the silence of the Democratic
papers on the platform, 1t is to them
very significant. Speak out, gentlemen
of the Democratic press, and let us all
know where and how you stand in re-
gard to your platform If you favor
it, if you have been really converted to
it and have repented of your sins, 20
to work and bring back to the fold
those whom you have misled by YOUR
teachings for the past twoyears. They
need the light that converted YOU.
They will not listen to reformers; thew
want and must have an honest and
earnest defence of the platform from
the Democratic press and speakers.
Does the Messenger endorse that p7ot-
form? BSO, sag so and defend 1T.
The Progressive Farmer