The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-01-26

YOU mast do this; we QcnGQnU CnlS OIL
YOU. The parties seem to be hesitating.
The leaders are estimating on the effect
of the compliance, many of them speak
as though they had decided to ignore
the peoples demands. They evidently
do this anticipating the power of the
party lash. Again we wish to admOn-
ish these bosses that the people will
never again be driven. They car be
tolled by throwing to them the bait of
their choosing, which is principles.
Political parties are a matter of
growth, and new parties are the result
of dissatisfaction existing among the
members of old parties. Never, per-
haps in the history of the country was
there as much evident dissatisfaction
as at the present time; the people are
in advance of the so-called leaders, and
the party bosses seem to have no dis
position to learn. Can it be that his
tory is to repeat itself3 The fight
which put the Republican party l n
power began in 1860 in a way similar
to the present condition. The people
were determined; the bosses also chose
the same "rule or ruin" policy that is
being pursued to day, and after every
thing had been done to disrupt the
dominant party it went into convention
and the bosses who were unable to con
troll bolted, but the split really occur
red on the election OF the speaker the
fall before. No sooner had the Demo
cratic party split than the Wing party,
which had only been held together by
it's opposition to Democracy, the same
as the Republican party is now held to-
gether, it, too, went to pieces and the
third or minority party came into
power. The So-called Democratic press
of the South to-day is doing more to
insure the division of and the sUbse
quent defeat of the party than all other
forces combined, and that, too, when a
third party of no mean proportions
threatens to become an active factor In
the next campaign. People learnmuch
more rapidly to-day than they did
thirty years ago, and radical political
changes have occurred in the parties
Of this country every thirty years.
The Federal party passed away to give
place to the Wing; the Wing party
passed away to give place to the Re
publican party; the old Republican
party passed away to give place to the
present Democratic party. Party
names have changed, but there las
never been but two dominant principles
represented; one was the old Hamilton
ian idea, That the rich and the well
born should control the destiny of the
country" and the other idea was that
one advanced by Jefferson, THAT this
should be a government Of the people
and by the people" In other words.
it was the a~riatOcracy against the PEG
pie, and whenever the Democratic
party becomes impregnated with aris-
tocratic bosses, as it is at present, it
must reform itself or submit to defeat.
It was the boast of Tom Benton that
there was not Don in the Democratic
party for an aristOcrat. This was prob
able true at that time, but since the
Wing party went to pieces, and q large
element of it went TO the Democratic
party, we find that its bosses are almost
exclusively ar~i5tOCrats; hence we find
that Bayard, the old aristOnratic Wing
of Delaware, was Secretary of
State in the late Democratic admins
tration, while it's distinguished EIecu-
tive was a descendant of the Old Troy
element and probably never knew any |
thing about Demo- ratio principle or
the tariff until he met Carlisle. The
present course OF the Democratic press
is not calculated to build or strengt then
the party, but is almost sure to add
strength to h Incorporation Fad Speaker
Crisp been anything but q Democrat,
nothing Wor5 could have been said of
him. and the papers which are nov
c0ndemning Hill, Of New York, cannO5
support him Cshould he be the nominee
OF the party without eating more crow
than IS good for them The TOiIer.