The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-07-11
eMARcAINe THROUGH eEoReIA.,

It is not General Sherman that is
marching through Georgia just now,
but his goldbug ideas are being scat
tered around quite freely and some of
the Democrats are tired of Wall street
Democracy.
One night last week Congressman
W. j. Bryan, Of Nebraska, made a
speech in Atlanta to a crowded house.
His subject was: Democracy, in it's
application to present conditions" He
warmly advocated free coinage of sill
yer and tariff reform. His speech was
loudly applauded. After his speech,
the young Mems Democratic League"
gave a banquet at the Kimball. Then
the fun commenced right, and several
things transpired that were not on the
programme We copy extracts from
the report published in the Atlanta
Journal:
"The banquet to Mr.. Bryan was
served in the Kimball banqueting hall.
The guests, about fifty in number, were
seated at tables arranged on three
S1AES vi q HOlION GAOOsAOs
Austin. of the League, filed the toast
masters chair gracefully, Congress
man Bryan occupying the seat of
honor at his right and Congressman
Livingston being at his left.
Midnight had arrived before the
guests had finished the discussion of
the supper and were ready to discuss
the toasts. Then the speaking-and
the fun-began.
1t hadn't gone on long before the
fact made itself felt that the line of de
narration between those who had
originally opposed and those who had
originally favored the nomination of
Grover Cleveland was as clearly drawn
as it had ever been.
sPALDING's SENSATIONAL SPEECH.
Mr.. Jack J.. S~palding, who responded
to the toast, 81 am q Democrat" threw
the firebrand.
He jumped nJthe administration
with both feet, and his words were
freely appladded.
Mr.. -Spalding said five minutes was
too~Iittle time in which to tell the rea-
SONS why he was a Democrat. But he
feared that if things went on as they
were going on now, the time would
come when it would be hard to get a
man to say that he was a Democrat In
this country. He referred to certain
dark proceedings said to be taking
place in Washington-somethingab about
a ''bi chloride of patronage" cure,
which was being applied to members
of Congress, and concerning which it
was that. after a Congressman had
been injected with it if you showed
him a silver dollar he would fall down
in a faint.
Mr.. Spalding told a story about a
distinguished Wing of olden days who
was approached by a Democratic
friend who sought to entrap him into
biting at a catch" he had on his Bible.
The Democrat asked his Wing friend
if he knew that ''the Saviour was a
Democrat"
No, answered the willy Wing, ''but
Peter was a Democrat"
How is that?' asked the Democrat,
biting at his own bait. Because he
told a lie and swore to it." was the re
ply. Mr.. Spalding used this to illus
trate the point that If those high in
authority who were D6mocrats-or, at
least, had been elected as Democrats
did not carry out the Chicago platform,
as he construed it, they would beliable
to the charge Of having told a lie and
sworn TO IL.
Mr.. Spalding's remarks concerning
the future of the party were decidedly
pessimistic. He seemed to be impressed
with the idea that it was going to the
dominion bow1wows."
LIKE A COLD BATH.
Mr.. Spalding's anti Cleveland speech,
which was SO enthusiastically received,
acted like a wet blanket on Judge Wal
ter T. Turnbull, of Rome, one of the
former presidents of the league, who
was called on to answer to the toast,
cleveland and Stevenson"
judge Turnbull said that he had
come there loaded to the brim with
Grover Cleveland, but that he had felt
his enthusiasm gradually oozing outof
him. He said he felt like the darkey
in a negro gambling den in Rome,
when it was raided by the police. The
officers announced that they would
give the gang five minutes In which to
break up, when one Of the number as
he disappeared under a table. ex
claimed, BOSS, we don't need it,"
Judging from the above, there are
Democrats in Georgia, as well as in
North Carolina, who don't take to the
Wall street idea of politics. Mr. Spauld-
ing doubtless is right in thinking that
the nee great party is going to the
8 demnition bow-wows."
CASTRATING ANIMALS