The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-05-09
LETTER FROM RURAL HALL.
Members Still Standing Firm--The Pro-
eressive Farmer as an Educator
Political Matters in General.
RURAL HALL, n. @.

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tie space in your most excellent pa
ner, for a very inexperienced writer, l
will give YOU a few dots from this part
of the moral heritage. Rural Hall Al
lance. No. 1892, is still breathing and
p~ulsating A few Of US lived through
the storm that swept over us last fall,
and are still standing firmly at our
posts battling for the glorious princi-
pies of the Order with a prospect Of
some new applications to join us, and
also a rel statement of others who
have not been attending the meetings
since the election. Most of them
stopped taking The PROGRESSIVE
FARMER and other reform papers and
were led away by partisan politicians
who only wanted their votes Just this
time and we will give the relief you ask
for" We ought to have so copies Of
The PROGRESSIVE FARMER ut this office,
yes 100 would not be too many, and
everybody ought to read it. I'll see
what can be done for a club. The pa
per is better now than it has ever been
since T have been reading it. It's edi
toriaIs are good and its contributions
are good, and as an educator just now
it is second to none.
Now, Mr.. Editor, the long to be re
membered campaign of 90 is passed
by, the election is over, the legislature
of North Carolina assembled, served
out its time, got their pay and ad-
joUrned, and Is numbered with things
that were and are not; what it did for
the people as q whole will soon sink
into oblivion's gulf to stay there, and
the whole thing with some Of its mem,
ber5 will be o blank in future history.
The legislature was Democratic by a
large majority and it claims to be an
honest party! Well, we'uns up here
along the borders Of Stokes and Surry
counties want to know what party
honesty is, whether it's like any other
honesty, for instance, the contested
election case between Messr8. Newsome
and Stack VINO were candidates for the
Senate from Stokes and Surry counties.
Newsome claimed q majority of 60
votes over Stack, Stacks ground
were that these votes and others cast
for Newsome were Illegal Y registered
because the whole name of the voter
was not put On the register, and yet all
must have known that three fourthg or
mOr Of the votes cast for Stack in the
two counties were registered in the
same way and Stack and the Demo
Gratis knew it and yet they seated
Stack. Gentlemen, we don't want to
accuse anybody of acting dishonesty
in the premises, but you did just what
Iwould if I was going to do a dishonest
thing. It's as bad as the Hayes fraud
of 1871
I am not related to either Of the
above named candidates, either by
affinity or consanguinity, should not
have voted for either had I been a
voter in either county, but I do, and a
host Of others believe with me, that
Mr.. Newsome was fairly and honestly
elected and should have been seated.
Why was he not seated? That is work
ing for modern democracy partisan
ship but it is not the will of the peo-
pie. This will meet you Democrats
two years hence. l have known Mr..
NeWsome all my life and believe him
to be too honest to contend for any
thing more than that to which he is
justly entitled.
Mr.. Ransom said in a speech at Rural
Hall before the election that the reason
the Democrats have done nothing was
that ''they did not have the power"
Well, they have got it now and they
are doing Of it just the same as hereto
fore-nothing.
Now, my Democratic friends of the
legislature, there are many thing that
will come up against you and your
party in the next campaign. By good
speeches and fair promises the democ-
racy of this nation gained an over
Whelming victory overa all other parties.
The people seemed to have all conf
dence once more in the fair promises
made before election, but I fear if we
judge what will be done in the future
by our national legislature, by that
which has been done by many of the
State legislatures, that the overwhelm- {
ing rascality already perpetrated will
make your reign of short duration and {
another will take your place. You i
murdered all the parties and now you !
have committed partial suicide. An l
other dose will complete the job. We
have now tried both the old parties in '
Carolina. They have been
Melghn6 in tho hnlnnnn nnd fonnnA !.