The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-11-14

are wrung, that your backs are Dehg
barred until you have risen up and IN
tend to help us grow some skin our
selves in order that you may save your
own. [Great applause.
What are you going o do about 1t?
"Wher5 are we at9" Iasked you a mo
ment ago if we could trust you; and
some of you said yes" Iowa is not
represented here; Minnesota is not rep
resented here; neither Of the Dakotas
is represented here.
Governor Lewelling: Iowa vas rep,
resented here by General Weaver.
Governor TIllman: Yes, and he said
he was ready to meet US half way and
al That sort Of thing, and then he
Spoed Where did we look for as
Sststance and help? We found it in the
staunch Democracy of New York, New
Jersey, Connecticut and Indiana We
could not come here because Ephraim
was welded to his idols and we had TO
let you alone. If you T ready TO
leave those idols and set up a new god
a god of our whole country-a god
whom we a all appreciate as free
Ameri:ans-wea are ready to Join hands
with you. APPLAUSE Bat we can
not, we dare not, spurn the bridge
which has carried us safely over until
we knowupon what we may depend.
To day, gentlemen, some OF your
Representatives in Congress who are
making this gallant fight in behalf Of
silver and for the emancipation Of the
people from this financial thraid0m are
as bitter in their feelings to the South
as they have aver been. This is g com
pIex condition for US. II we would
keep from being ground to powder we
will join forces with you as soon as we
have@guarantees that can be trusted
implicitly. Applause The Damoc
racy Of thu East appear to have de
serted tho Democratic standard, are Ig-
n0ring our platform or are constituting
it TO suit themselves, aud are IN open
alliance with the Republicans in their
financial policy. AS they have left US
Of the South on the silver question, can
we trust You Of the West on the negro
question?
TIE gentleman from Kansas tells me
We uie right Aiy friend over there say s
Chey viii turn their Senators out if they
Try That. and all that sort of thing. Per
maps 20. | tell youi it is the Gods truth
th.J as much as we realize and under
stand the evils that confront IL IN the
single gold standard, and the losses
that 1t will entail upon the people, the
grinding, perpetual poverty that con
fronts US if the gold standard is adopted
IN this country, it does not begin to
compare with negro domination in the
South, and before We permit it we will
die!
Understand me, we are ready to give
the negro all his rights under the law.
We do not propose to Cypress or injure
him in any way, While l do not pre-
tend that there was not fraud and bull
doing, both in 1876 and 1878 in South
Carolina, there has been none Of either
since 1882; and if we are left to solve
the negro problem in our own way, the
better it will be for linn and all con.
cerned. Unless the white men Of the
and West can remove this stumb-
ling block which now separates them,
the next decade will see more white
slaves in the United States than there
were ever cOlOred ones. The enamel
Of the Anglo-Saxon and the pres
ervati0n of Z government-the pre-
.vention Of a ]plutocracy more grinding
than that of Rome, merits cur atten
ton.
I ain nearly through. | think we
understand each ather fully, but in
order to turn this into a practical shape
let us start out right. AS 1 told you, 1
not a politician, unless you consider
plain common sense politics. Let us
come right down to practical business.
The States south of the Potomac and
Ohio rivers and West of the Mississippi
will send to the electoral college 224
votes-two more than enough to elect
President. They have fifty four Sen
ators-majority Of twenty. They have !
10 Repr, s~eDtatives in the House, nine
less than a majority. Let us cross the
and see what our prospects are
over there. We see plainly enough
hat we can hold the Senate; we can
capture it and we ear hold it, and we
;an capture the Presidency. ZAP
There are Illinois, Indiana,
Michigan and Wisconsin, won't go
20 Ohio because l believe they are so
vedded-or rather they have developed
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