The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-10-30
OLITICAL SITUATION in
NORTH CAROLINA.
Some Suggestions Respecting the Issues
and Some of the Candidates in
North Carolina


Correspondence of the Progressive Farmer.
L have often announced my plat
form: o. Free silver at ratio of 16
to 1. o. More money. g. A gradu
at9d income tax. a } Low tariff or no
tariff. (5) Smaller federal salaries.
(6) Smaller and fewer pensions. 0)
strlcter control of railroad and other
corporations by the States and the
United States in the respective spheres
OF government. - Honest elections
and such amendatory legislation as
will make it easy for an ignorant man
to know and exercise his rights of free
ballot. 90 Non partisan Judiciary and
non partisan ministerial officers in gen.
eral. q would also greatly prefer a
non partisan legislature, but this 1 will
never see in this world, especially if
our last one is sampled QO) Voting
for men and measures, not for tickets
Or for parties. AS a voter, l regard
myself as sworn to vote for the best
men on the best platform, not fer the
best ticket, or the best party. Like a
juror, l am under oath to try the issue
of traverse joined between the two can
didates for any given Office. And upon
this issue 1 will put their platforms,
their speeches, their public acts, and
their characters all in evidence. Q1)
Of giving to the Alliance the liberal
charter privileges that the railroads
and other corporations have in North
Carolina. The legislation enacted and
proposed in 1893 in reference to the
Alliance was partisan, unjust and un-
precedented in this State. Probably
not a man who took part in it will
honestly come back to the General As
sembly this year if he is opposed by a
man of character, intelligence and
ability.
am glad to be able to state that the
present Judge Allen not only opposed
the amendments to the charter passed,
but gave material assistance to prevent
its repeal
The most important officer this year
is the Congressman. He may have to
vote for the uext President of the
United States. The great West has
found out how it may easily throw the
election in the House of representa-
tives. Then the States elect. Each
State has one vote. (Wall street had
three Congressman from North Caro-
lima in the last Congress (Ransom, Set
tie and Bunn.) Five representatives
being majority, will cast the vote Of
North Carolina. Wall street voted
two Of our Representatives and one of
our Senators in our last Congress (Set,
tie and Bum and Ransom) on the
money question-and cotton has gone
down to five cents in spite Of the tariff
reduction. This shows US that the
tariff is not the only evil nor the worst
evil that af1icts us. Your Representa-
tive in the Lower House Of Congress
is the most important officer you vote
for at this election. If North Caro-
lima candidate for Congress is going
into a caucus with Wall streets so
called Dem cratic representatives. from
New England and New York, ETC.,
vote against him-he will caucus away
your rights. D. B. Hill and other Soma
tors and Representatives refused to go
into the caucuses of their party or abide
by their party's majority opinion on
the income tax. All that l ask of you
is to require of your Congressman to
be as faithful to North Carolina and
her interests as David B. Hill, Grover
Cleveland & Co. have been to Wall
street and its interests D. B. Hill
posed as friend of the poor man until
the income tax question tore off the
sleeps clothing and laid bare the wolf.
The silver question showed what
power Ransom, Bum and Settle repre-
sented in Congress. Ransom and Bum
construed the State Democratic plat
form as Robbins read it-as huge
ioke-and this has had tendency to
make the people regard much later
platform as a joke, and the Ransom
men on it as huge jokes.
The best man the Democrats have
put forward for Congress this year in
the State is G. M. Cook, of Louisburg.
He is a better and broader man than
their miserable little platform, which
even obsequiantly refused to condemn
Mr.. Cleveland for his saddling this
country, in these piping times of peace,
with a new interest bearing debt OF
fifty y-five million dollars, payable in
gold; and what is worse, did it without
the sanction of his Congress, which it
ia admitted he could not obtain; and