The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-05-15

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tanned by a two and one-halt hours
speech by DR.. Cyrus Thompson, the
| State Lecturer, who reviewed the his.
tory of both the old parties. The Re
publican party for the last 80 years,
starting out with a good and holy OBJ
iect and after accomplishing the de-
s~truction of chattel slavery they turned
their attention to a system still more
heinous, the ruin of the masses, both
white and black, by adopting and
efrecting a system of laws for our gov
eminent that is go unjust and oppres
sive that the masses to day are In but
little better condition than absolute
slavery. It's record is familiar to all
and deserves universal condemnation,
The Democratic party. the party of
promises, reminds us of @ crazy man
wandering around loosely and nowhere
to rest his weary heart. 1t also re-
minds us of a mariner at sea without a
rudder or compass Or a wanderer In
the desert who wants to find shade and
slake his thirst, but these poor fellows
will soon find solace and comfort In
the Populist ranks when they can en-
ioy their old-time Democratic tenden-
cies with home like comfort. The
doctor thinks that the Republican prin-
ciples are still odious to them even if
perpetuated by their own party. The
parties of to-day, or at least Mr.. Cleve-
land, insists upon building big ships
and extending the army, as the old
countries have done, while we Of the
Alliance want better educational ad-
vantages, more Bibles and better facili-
ties for worshipping God. Mr.. C's
idea is to contract the money Of the
country and thereby reduce values and
by this ear make people more sub
missive. We of the Alliance demand
an increase of money issuance through
q channel that knows no partiality or
individuality, and by this means en-
able us to comfort our families and
serve God on full stomachs. In fact
Mr.. @. is not in harmony with Demo
cratic principles and the dominant part
of his party is with him and is what
we call this day and time a mugwump
and this brings us to q new variety OF
the same kind In the history of our
STATE. North Carolina has never be-
fore been able to boast of this novel
innovation. This mugwump, though
high in position, his former popularity
nn1 nnno&ioro mill MT ao-n him RrAno nv
avenging constituency. There are but
few to sing his praises, thank God, in
our State, this new issue of mugwump
sim. A man of foreign ideas to our
people of North Carolina has forfeited
the love and esteem of an outraged
people. Let is replace him, when our,
legislature meets, with a more consis
tent man.
Mr.. C.is system of contraction, and
the national banking system, which is
his pet hobby of concentrating the
money, which he gems determined to
perpetuate by his obstinate and per
sissent effort to have Congress issue
BODIES no good to our immediate section
of country, the present promises but
little in the way of prosperity and en-
terprise, and God only knows what the
future has in store for us. Now in
lieu of all this dark and gloomy future
the Farmers Alliance proposes, by the
adoption of it's demands, to disipate
all these unholy surroundings by Civ
ing US a legislative and executive power
based upon the primitive plan of the
Democratic party Of Jefferson and
Jackson-legislation for the masses
and not for the classes, or the medium
Populistic idea of equal rights to all
and special privileges to none. Now I
ask, why any good citizen, and espe-
cially a Democrat, can't stand on this
one piank3 ooh, you will say, ''this
ia Jul idea and theory of popular gov
eminent, but remember you must
judge a party by the fruit it bears; or
in otherwords, not by it's promises, but
by it's works" This is pure and simple,
and to use a Bible phrase-though a
fool-we should condemn when con-
domination is deserved, and give lies
when due.
DR.. Thompson says all parties will
grow corrupt. Were the Populist
party, which in it's infancy has made
a noble stand for the rights of the peo-
pie, and has fought side by side with
the pure element of the Democratic
party upon all vital questions for the
good of the people; even this, he says,
will eventually grow corrupt, and