The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-10-11
PRO BONO PUBL1co AMUSED.

mh. EDIIOh:-1 8Iu QulG0 auuS6O
with your brother editor, Mr.. Josephus
Daniels. The first two issues of the
CGrOLl1oiGn has been put in my hands
and the language of Bro. Joe, as he is
called, is what l call fast and loose
Some time ago when he was editor of
the Chronicle, had some conversation
with him on the Alliance demands anO
the right of the majority to rule He
admit ed the Alllancemen in the Dem
OcratIc party were in the majority but
that the party would fight them to the
last dltch, and if the Alliance came
out on top in the convention, then the
party would submit and would do all
the! could to help the majority to at
tam or obtain its wishes. Now, what
is the fact9 The ChrO11 Gle, under Joe,
was as loud in trying to besmirch the
leaders as any of the party press 1t
told all the lies the Associated Press
transmitted, when he knew they were
lies, his excuse being that he was pub
fishing the news Of the day. Now, |
MAINTAIN the person who repeats lie
when he knows 1t to be lie, Is as bad
as the one who first told it. And now
when he wishes to get the CGrOLi1ltG11
into circulation he Is posing as simon
pure, when he says 1--WE viii thank any
reader TO call our attention to any mis-
take which he thinks he sees IN any
statement in the North CGrOLi11lG1G.
We are going to conduct a campaign
of truthful and accurate education,
not for the success of any man or any
party. Would we be guilty of any
Misrepresentation There may be need
Tor other parties to use glass to give
their cause a good appearance. DemOc-
racy needs no veneerlng. 1t is the COS
pei of equality for all the people and in
dreachlng 1T. One need nothing except
an appeal to it's record and a statement
OF It's prlnciples.)
Now let us see if Joe is right. Of
course Joe Is a Democrat and one of
the party and is editor of the party
paper, consequently the party is re
spOnsIble for what their organ says,
and Utce UeTSG.
First we will appeal to the record of
Joe, then OF the party. AS l stated
above, the conversation with him on
the Alliance and it's demands after AL
the lies told In the Chronicle and else
where, cid the Alliance come out on
Top? Who are the nominees of the
Democratic convention, state and
county, The CGTOLinGa1t says: Carr,
Coke, Scarborough, Page, LOugee,
Clark, Merritt, ETC., are good Alliance
men. What are the facts of the case7
/ have heard m, 81 Of tn sc Inen say
they were AlIancemen but l very
much question ii they are are. How
can they De when, after endorsing the
Ocala and st. Louis demands, they go
and advocate the doctrine of the party
VINO, by their actions and words, plain
ly say, the people be d-m, Is the
Caro-. 1TliG1 carrying out It's promise to
support the demands of the majority
by advocating It's demands? Read the
State platform III the CGrOLinGu1I and
read also the party platform in the
same issue, then read what Joe say 8
are the four issues of the campaign. Is
there nyJhing clear that wayfaring
man, though a fool, can understand
No, the State demands are All a1Ce de-
mands; the others are as different as
black is from white. There Is not one
word in the State platform about tariff
reform or freedom of elections. Why
introduce something into the issues of
the campaign that the platform of the
State does not mentiOn9 Why, simply
to try to befOg and befOOl the common
people, but Joe must remember thai
Ill0 DSOplO nave OCOh SOlllS w SCllOOl
the past four or five years and the les
sons taught by the pedagogues have
not been tissue of lies Qike the dema
5Ogues and the partisan press have
been trying to fOist on the people, but
the truth, the whole truth, and nothing
but the truth. and the people see it
and know it to be the truth. Here the
wayfaring man, though he be fool,
need not err. And still, notwithstand
ing the profession to the contrary, Joe
continues to publish damaging state
ments like the following: "Some of
the Peoples party still claims the
Democratic party is for and with the
people Yes, 'tis true they are, but it
is some Of the people; it may be the
greatest unmbtr. Let us see if the
great party of and by the people and
for the peOple-the Demorepu olican
party-comes up to the standard by
which not only paroles but men also,
like Joe and others. By their fruits
shall ye know them"
What kind of fruit does this great
party bear9 It went before the people
in 1890 posing as the simon pure re
formers IN opposition to the extraVa.
CANT billion dollar Congress, and the
people, though befooled before, be-
iieved the c1aptrap which they told
them and sent the small number of 143
mai ority to put a stop to this outgo.
What is the re sultg Try to explain 1t
away as you like, it is fact and the
fact will remain when all the explana-
ton il exhausted, that they have spent
or appropriated millions of dollars
more than the billion dollar Congress
did. They say figures don't lie; if so
then here are the figures given by one
of the great if not the greatest Demo
cratic paper in the country: Fifty
first or billion dollar Congress appro
priations, 1853 398, $40 79; Fifty -second
or claptrap Congress appropriations,
$500. I'll 13l Ga. So YOU see, brother