The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-11-20
-,ep OF THE GNAT AND THE
- the Progressive Farmer.

dance of the Progressive Farmer.
CO mSore is some poor wretch In the
h continues to spit his SLAM
ianU' vonom at Hon. Marion Butler
GIO,ob the columns of the Raleigh
LI.,.a and Observer. That journal, or
N least its owners. ought to have
arood bv this time that the people of
18th Carolina are not all fools; that
|SiIa a few may laud and applaud the
course of that paper, in it's efforts to
Toan,irk and SANDER the good names
~ ito political opponents, yet, the re-
..,It at the ballot box in Wake county
~ the sixth day of November, proves
Tovond a doubt that, such a course
hos not met the approval of the masses
# our people. The line upon which it
forpbt was not approved by the peo-
nile, The paper that sticks to the truth
will be sought and supported by a
GREAT, truth loving, honest people.
IIMarv An! Mary AM" Has been the
baad lines of many articles, in that as
veil as the Charlotte Observer, the
Wilmington Star and Messenger, for
months. The result on November 9Th
. in North Carolina ought teach these
pspers a lesson.
The Democratic party in North
Carolina with it's boasted intelligence,
profound learning, legal talent, it's
money to back it, its hundreds of
orators, on every rostrum, IN every
stump and empty goods box, backed
bv Wall streets money bags, backed
bv q Democratic administration with
unlimited campaignresourses with all
the election machinery in it's own
hands, with power to kill and to make
alive, entrenched behind the most
obnoxious election law that ever dis
graced,, the statute books of the good
old North State, all this and more too,
with Mat Ransom, and Tom Jarvis,
trained gladiators in politics COM
handing the mighty hosts of so-called
Democracy in North Carolina, have
been met in open field by the hated
slQndered, abused. mGIigned, Mary An,
who ten years ago, was an obscure boy
in Sampson county, of good parentage,
struggling for an education, without
resources, without fame, but endowed
with noble patriotic impulses, yes,
Mary An with a "Guiteau face" as the
hired Chatham Record has been
pleased to refer to him often, has &C
complished what no ordinary man
could do. He has met the ~unterrified
cohorts Of the enemy, in open field,
and hurled them down from place and
power and restored the ballot box in
North Carolina back to the people.
This mighty host, with all the pol
itical resources, of the world in their
own hands, has been met in open field
by Mary An" the honest once obsure
country school teacher of Sampson
county and been beaten, defeated,
routed and crushed! The waterloo of
North. Carolina has been fought.
Mary An and the causes which he de-
Tended have triumphed!
Thank God, truth and justice have
won the battle.
Ransom of sugar trust fame, and
Jarvis of Railroad monopoly fame,
the farmer proclaiming from every
stump in the State, "Wanamaker" the
place for cheap blankets the latter
That Mary An would not be in the
fight"
But the people of North Carolina
have spoken" in no uncertain terms,
and these two political gladiators have
heard something fall. "HoW art thou
fallen oh Luciferp' With the hated
Mary An" in the front center, Skinner
on the right, Guthrie on the left lead
ing the charge. Ransom, Jarvis, Pou,
Simmons, Coke, Glenn, Osborn, Burk-
head and Scarborough have been
driven from the field in shameful de-
feat! Long live Mary An, Skinner,
Guthrie, Kitchen, Dockery and Mott,
D. P. MEACHAM