The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-08-02

vertised. 1t begins to look like Col.
Joe Caldwell's suggestion, ''to canvass
from house to house" will have to be
adopted.
We are in receipt of the hand
some catalogue of Littleton High
School and Business Institute. A sue
cessful year has just closed with this
school, and the prospect for next term
are very bright.
~ And they tell us we won't carry
Georgia. Well, we carried one county
the other day by POI majority. The
election was to fill the Office of probate
judge which was vacant by the death
of that officer, says an exchange.
~ From present indications a ire
mendous majority of the rural voters
of North Carolina are determined to
support the Peoples party from the
basement up. So it is everywhere.
The great Northwest is solidly with us.
~ The tenement house owners of
the leading Massachusetts, cities have
formed a Landlords league" and
blacklist every Tenant who, for any
cause, fails to pay his rent. The plutes
r getting the business down pretty
fine.
~ There has been a considerable in
crease in the membership of the Farm
ers' Alliance of this county, judging
from the reports of the Sub-Alliances
to the county meeting held recently at
Nahunta, says the Goldsboro Head
light.
~ I'VE are completely whipped as
the matter now stands. All depends
now upon our success in whipping the
voters in before the election" This is
what a prominent Democratic leader
in Raleigh said to a gentleman last
week.
~. If the Raleigh & CASTOR Railroad
charge a certain sum for carrying a
dressed hog from Hamlet to Raleigh,
why should it charge three times as
much to carry a dressed man, who
may also be a hog? Will somebody
answer2
- From every county comes the
most cheering news. The cause of re-
form is in the hearts of the people, and
the people are aroused aud determined
as never before to vote for their prin-
ciples, regardless of past personal
friendships.
~ Some of the political papers say
they are going to demolish every plank
in the Omaha platform. Go ahead.
The Omaha platform is made of "good
heart lumber" but if you destroy it
Weaver and Field will get the boys
together and saw some more.
~ The old party "cow boys" are
making big preparations for the regu-
lar quadrenial and biennial penning
and voting and counting of their cattle.
The expenses will be heavy, but Wall
street is abundantly able and willing
to foot the bills. Watch, boys. BE
not like dumb, driven cattle"
The National Waterman is
authority for the statement that after
the vote on the silver bill had been
announced, Congressman McKeighan
said: "Mr. Chairman, if Wall street
has no further business for this Con
gross, I move we adjourn" There
was far more truth than irony in that
motion.
Mr.. w. w. Cheade, of South
Bend, Washington, has subscribed for
THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER. He says
the people there are solid for reform,
but there is no Alliance organized. He
wants an organizer to come there and
put them through. Our northwestern
brethren are requested to look after
that section.
~ Bro. J. Fl. Perry, of Rolesville
Alliance, No. SO, Wake county, lost
his horse by accident recently, also a
good COW. The brethren throughout
the State are asked to aid him, as far
as they can, to procure another. Send
all contributions to @. r. Debnam,
Secretary, R~olesville, N. @. Rolesville
Alliance has always contributed liber-
to other Alliances in such cases.
~ Tt is said that Jordan is a hard
road to travel. Some of our friends
complain because we are friendly to
the Peoples party. Last week a cor
respondent complained because we
said The PROGRESSIVE FARMER said
" it wanted to stay in a position to
knock the spots out of the Peoples