The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-10-02
DEMOCRATIC HYPOCRISY
The SHOWN UP.


.Lo Confessional Record of June
1eo4 is to be found a speech which
@'SSt n have been delivered by Jos.
c%.aoIor a so-called Democrat, who
",.tonds to represent the Eighth Ala
TO district. The said speech, by the
o;-Iape granted by the House, was
;.+od in the Record without being
P.Iirared at all. In this undelivered
saocb he undertakes to review the
p"ord of our Populist Congressman in
~ most partial and partisan manner.
naIaft nothing undone to ridicule every
~ and wilfully distort every fact con-
'..tpd with the Populist's record. He
D.tbsrs together bills introduced by
S%,nnIists in the Fifty-second and Fifty
mid Congresses, regardless of whether
%ov were by request or not, and after
rThlly or ~ignorantly perverting the
bots figures that these bills, when all
,5dAd together, would call for appro-
,,iating $55, 900, coo, 900, which he
tT.;n,s would have to be taxed from the
nsonIe. If Mr.. Wheeler had been capa-
NJ and had taken the pains to inform
himself he would have found that these
hills introduced by Populists did not
all for a single dollar of taxation, but,
m the other hand, proposed a plan for
,gieving the people of the burdens of
azstion that have been heaped upon
them bv Democrats and Republicans
FIR the last thirty years. The Populist
natform demands that our circulating
medium shall be increased to $50 per
CAPITA. The bills introduced by Popu
lists we're intended to accomplish this
object by the free coinage of silver and
gd at the ratio of 16 to 1, and the issue
illegal tender greenbacks. The passage
done or two of these bills would have
accomplished this, and at once done
away with the necessity for the passage
Of the other bills. Mr.. Wheeler we'll
knows, if he knows anything, that the
POpulist party has never advocated or
demanded that currency should be
increased to more than $50 per capita.
The Secretary of the Treasury claims
that we now have about $25 per capita
in circulation. The Populists demand
that this amount shall be increased to
$50 per capita about the amount we
had in circulation in 1861 which
would require that silver be coined and
legal tender greenbacks be issued to
the amount of 81, $50, 900, 900. The bills
introduced by the Populist Congress-
men, referred to by Mr.. Wheeler, only
contemplated the issue of the above
amount instead of the $35, 900, 900, 900
Is conceived only by the shriveled
brain Of Mr.. Wheeler. These old moss
back politicians realize the fact that
they are totally unable to depend on
heir own treacherous r. cords, and
meet the Populists in the discussion of
@eIVlng issues of the day, hence, they
ne circulating this imaginary and fool
ID tWaddle, called a speech by Joseph
Wheeler, Of Alabama.
L'tely quite a number of people have
sttten US, asking us to send them the
Oils introduced by our Populist Con-
gessmen. Endeavoring to comply
In this request, we applied to the
aefk OF the House document room at
le Capitol, and he informed us that
We nles had been exhausted. They
ave been taken out by the Democratic
@o Republican Congressman to use on
Is stump IN ridiculing and slandering
vi Party IN their usual way. Failing
1lna any Populist bills on file, 1 con-
~, saaed to investigate the files of the
US introduced by the two old parties,
WI behold l found something rich.
Is F55, 600, 900, 900 which Mr.. Wheeler
-'-ns Tor the PopuIist bills is not in it
Ta' II Is not a drop in the bucket
,psa compared with the amount pro
@5o to be appropriated by the thou
~1aS OF bills introduced by Democrats
I'd Republicans.
o1flng the Fifty second and Fifty
SSa Congresses the Democrats and
Puolicans introduced something over
~" oils. The record shows shat
W than half of these bills called for
rr5Oprlations. Without knowing what
~YunE any particular bill called for,
'Sected the numbers of eight bills
Cn the calender, and then procured
~ oils from the document rooms of
house and Senate. This was i'm
.a'ly done to ascertain the average
's,oprlation called for by the 10, 900
S5 lure " bills introduced by Democrats
h.. republicans, calling for appropria-
4@ The following ig1res show the