The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-07-04
AN OPEN LETTER.
Some Stray Hints of Value to the Gear
of America.

DEAR SIB:-As we advised in all
things with your predecessor, notable
for being the grandson of former
president, who died with the collie one
month after his Inauguration; so we
beg to say word with you. We deem
it necessary to state had our former
president taken the advice Of Harry
Hinton, he would still be smelling the
roses and orange blossoms in the con
servatOry of the White House By
this he fell and you rose upon his ruins
still more resplendant. You are called
to your attention that many persons,
being very disorderly, are teaching the
people that your doctrine is wrong and
all you teach has selfish bias towards
your own promotion or some one else's,
and is not worthy of acceptance on this
account. This hurts Harry Hinton's
feelings, for he has ever been true
blue Democrat, and on that tangs all
his hopes for Office.
They say you have only one plank in
your platform, and that is the anti
Federal election law. That the tariff
is hundred years old, got the dry rot,
broke in two last summer. Then your
platform not being wide enough to ostand
on, you borrowed antitrust from the
Republicans besides your silver plank,
your Nicarauga plank and the whole
thing, and then borrowed Gresham to
stand on them. ALI this disorderly
crowd down in these diggings are of
one mind and say contemptuously that
if you we're not Democrat you would
certainly be Republican. But what
difference does that make to a man of
your kidney and backbone9 None.
To cap the climax of all suspicious
villainy, they say you and the Repub-
licans were partners in the one issue,
the force bill. Tt was agreed among
you to make that an issue as the one
most calculated te make hot fight
This leaves you standing on one end
of single plank and your friends, the
enemy, on the other. What will you
do to educate the fellows aright9 Soft
soap 'em. Give one or two of their
best men an Office This will tend to
disrupt their clans.
We say the old standby, the tariff
plank, crushed in last summer. You
can't stand on that. It's rotten, broke
Some of these traitors to your party
got TO peering at this tariff and swore.
that the Democrats had fotch out the
same old nigger that the Republicans
had only dressed up differently to fool
somebody. This they swore, and will
stand to it in open court. That the
rad nigger tariff is a three hundred
million tariff niger, the Democratic
nigger the same, and these same ras-
Gals say it is whitley cut which
nigger is the best dressed. This is the
way they set aside all of your high
lology about the tariff. Honest men,
patriotic men," say they, ''are all we
need on that question" This leaves
you only the force bill plank on which
to ride seesaw on one end and Gresham
on the other. All the other planks are
claimed by the RAIDS.
This turbulent crowd say that you
and John Sherman and Gresham and
all your cabinet are agreed on the
MOI ey question-that you promote no
man to important Office unless he takes
John Sherman as his political model.
They forget that this Sherman has a
fame at home and abroad equalled by
none. For no other man has been
honored by the Bank of England with
a $50, 900 painting and have added mil
lions of taxta lie property to his State
by serving his country. Such unheard
of success is assuredly worthy of Demo
cratic imitation.
They say you are England's Presi-
dent of the United States. This Harry
Hinton fatty denies. You are the
gold bugs president and because Eng
land is goldbuggy is no sign that you
are her president and that you wish to
snatch the laurels from John Sherman's
brow. You wish to protect the creditor
class of this nation who have debts
owing to them about thirty billions,
annual interest two and one-half bill
lions, foreign debt six to ten billions,
annual interest three hundred millions.
You wish to protect these creditors
and save them millions and billions of
dollars by doubling the purchasing
power of the dollar. What are you
President for if you are not going to
protect somebody's You have sworn
in your wrath that you are not going