The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-10-25


candidate for Congress in the Ninth
Alabama District, denies the report
that he had declined to run He is in
the race for all time to come.
Take at least one witness, go and
see your township registrar, ask him
to put your full name On the book
also age, place of birth and former resi-
dence. Then you have got him. Do
this at once.
-. Mrs. Lease denies the report that
she is for Harrison; says she regards
the election of "either Cleveland or
Harrison a public calamity" and pro-
nounces the rumors that she had de
serted Weaver a fake.
y Brick Pomeroy says an exchange
'is authority for the statement that
female suffrage has not been fairly
tried in this country yet" Brick
thinks " male suffrage has been nearly
a failure, and wonders if female suf-
frage wouldn't be better"
The novelist who edits the Char
lotte Ne1os published few days ago
that Marshall Motez, colored, of that
city, had organized a negro Democratic
Club with 80 members. Marshall pub
fishes a card declaring it is untrue, tha5
he had nothing to do with any club,
=. Beginning with the crop of 1873
and ending with the bropOf 1891, the
total value of all the cotton raised in
the South is put down at S., 545, 4O8, 648,
or not enough in the whole nineteen
years to ru1 a Republican billion dol
lar Congress for more than five terms.
"Tarif for revenue only" is a
delusion and absurdity while Congress
appropriates billions of dollars. While
the revenue is confined to the expenses
of the government, there can be no re-
lief. Cut down the expenses, cut off
unworthy pensioners and appropria-
tions. "Jeffersonian simplicity is
what the country needs.
The Governor of Colorado made
a good hit not long ago. 1t applies to
farmers as well as mechanics. The
Knights of Labor in Denver passed
resolutions vigorously condemning
Pinkertonism, and sent them to Gov.
Routt. He looked over them and said:
"That is all very well, but why don't
you fellows vote instead of r~esoluting
so much9"
money is that which passes
freely from hand to hand in the dis
charge of debts and full payment for
commodities. Money is always a me
dunn, an intermediate thing; a means,
not an end. Men take it, not for it's
own sake, but for what it will bring
them; they hold it not to enjoy it, but
to be ready for the moment when they
shall part with it to obtain that which
they will ~enjoy."-President r. A.
Walker.
An influential colored lawyer in
Tennessee has come out in support of
the Democratic ticket as noted else
where. This is another blow for the
Republican party, says the Winston
Sentinel. A blow at the Republican
party, did !! on say9 Well, what about
negro supremacy9 So many negroes
are going I'VE to the Democrats as to
cause many to be alarmed. "Down
with negro supremacy the Demo
cratic party!
~ The Columbia, S. c., Cotton
Plant asks this pertinent question:
lean these ultra Democratic papers
and politicians that are now demand
ing unquestioning adhesion to every
sentence, word and letter of the Ma
tional Democratic platform, and ser
vile submission to the Democratic Con
gressional caucus, asthe test of Democ-
racy, be the same papers and politician
that lately denounced as the sum of all
and evil what they were pleased
to call the Alliance yard-stick9'"
~ The cotton crop of 1873 sold in
at s.S6 pence per pound.
The crop of 1891 sold In the same mar
ket, paid for with the same kind of
money, at Alb pence per pound, just
exactly half. This is what those peo-
pie knew when they sent MI. Ernest
owe with a bag of gold to hyp-
the Congress of the great
American nation into the passage of
the demonetization act of 1873. Friend,
are you, by your vote, going TO ratify
this damnable treachery thieVery and
worse than robbery7 For one / am
not.
The cotton crop of 1873 was
4,17O, 3ss bales, averaging 444 pounds
to the bale, and sold in New York at