The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-05-22
CAPT. v. \. NTGHIN
SAYS THAT THE DEMOCRATIC
PARTY IS A SUCCESS WHEN
OUT OF POWER ONLY.

nance =%@E4S 4O4441SS0 IA 4OS$ To
Leave the Party if it Did Not Garry
Out Its Promises.
editor GoIdsboro CaucasianJ
The Democratic party is a wonderful
organization in some respects. There
is nothing original about it. Tt lacks
the courage of it's convictions. It's in
tentions and good purposes are always
right. Its declarations are always
sound and patriotic. As a minority
party, it has accomplished great things
and achieved wonderful success, 1t
has been as a balance wheel to the gov
eminent for more than twenty-five
years. But for this organization and
It's resistance to the aggressive in
Engagements of the organic law of the
land by the Republican organization
for the last twenty five years, the.
power of the government would have
long since been changed. 1t has stood
like a rock wall between the oppressor
and the oppressed. 1t has made more
promises and pledges to the people and
stood by THEM more faithfully than
any other political organization 10 the
country for the last twenty five years,
and made them in good faith and con
WINGED the American people that, if in
trusted with the government and its
administration all promises and pledges
would be as earnestly and as faithfully
kept as made. AS a minority party it
was a grand and towering success. 1t
educated the people. 1t taught them
their constitutional and legal right, as
! we'll as the natural, i~nalienable and in
defeasable rights. 1t advocated indi-
vidual liberty and individual citizen
| ship, and educated the citizens up to
| the full measurement of his citizenship.
1t opened the eyes of the great warriors
| of The people to the wrongs and out
RACES committed by the Republican
party against their inherent and ma,
tional rights. 1t has educated the peO-
pie up to a knowledge of their consti-
tutional rights. 1t has exposed and
made manifest to the most unlettered
the injustice, the iniquity and Unequal
ity of the protective tariff system. This
once great party has thoroughly in.
stilled in the minds of the American
people thai both gold and silver are
money metals and that both were used
by u ancestors as money, and that
the trainers OF the constitution and the
builders of this government so recog-
nized these two metals and made them
money metals in the organic law of
the land and declared that the States
should make no other money but gold
and silver a legal tender in the pay
ment of debts. Yes, this party has
been the great educator, the great in
%strUctOr and defender of the natural
and constitutional rights of the people
from the found ltiOD of this govern
ment until the year of our Lord 1894
From that time until this hour the
Democratic party has been departing
gradually from the faith Of the fathers.
As a minority party it did more to
maintain the rights of the people and
to preserve their liberties than the ma
jOrity party. In fact it stood like q
rock we'll against the encroachments
and usurpati0ns Of the Republican
party, and bu5 for it's powerful and
patriotic resistance to the usurpatiOns
of that party it really seemed that life
would not be worth living in the South
The truth Is the American people began
to believe In and trust the Democratic
party to such a degree that in 1884 they
~repudiated the Republican party and
drove it from power and installed tie
Democratic p rty IN power in the ex-
ecutive branch Of the government and
in n branch Of the Legislative depart
ment. The people trusted the party to
that extent. At the expiration Of four
years they wer sadly disappointed and
terribly disgruntled at the experiment
They learned to their sorrow that thew
had selected q leader whose opinion of
his " greatness made him not a ser
want bu5 a master. He became at once
wiser and greater than the party, and
dominated and dictated it's policy. His
four years administration was used for
all 1t vas worth to defeat the will of
those who made him President. He
used the Pc wers of the government and
all it's patronage to disOrganize and
break down the two great political a
ties and to build upon their ruins q
personal party. He was by nature end
surroundings an enemy to the laboring
millions and a friend to the monied
power of the country. The mlnied
kings and lords Of both parties stood
by him, it Is true, under cover.
The people measured the man, they
understood him, but be was in the
hands Of the Northern monied kings
and so was the leaders of the Demo
cratic party, and they forced his
nomination on the party the second
time. But the people in their
righteous Indignation rebuked the in
suit and retired him to the shades Of
private life, and re installed the ReDub
llcan party IN power, At the expira
ton Of four years the people were again
disguised with the nal administra ION
of the Republican party aud determined
to make a change. For the third time
Cleveland was forced upon the party.
by the Eastern and Northern Demo.
cratic mnniCd kings, with his record
on silver, the nati0na! banks. and civil
service t~0mfoolery as we'll known as
now, and the dit eating Democrats
from the South, accepted him witho ut
a protest, They had not recovered
| from their scare sinca 1881 II This