The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-01-22
ELECTION

Correspondence of the Progressive Farmer.
The North Cdrolinian, in a late issue,
has amused its readers with an account
of a skating match on the Senatorial
ice pond" With the wicked, Wizard
Of Wayne as the central figure, but to
complete the picture, he should have
shown on the bank the figures of Ran
son, Jarvis, Ashe and Avery and read
from their faces the woe and anguish
pictured thereon, as they reflected on
what might have been if Ransom had
r~epudiated Cleveland as Senator Vance
did and stood boldly forth as the cham
pion of the people in defence of the
metallic currency of the country. We
were told before the election why the
so called fusion would not fuse, and
that it was only a question Of major
tiles in counties dependent on the
amount of work they put in. But to
cap the climax we are now told that
zone thing is forever settled" and this
is made the subject of an article that
says as there were no frauds in this
election that fact shows there were
none in 1892; end never had been any,
and that great injustice had been done
the Democratic party by this change.
This, no doubt, is intended as a hoax,
but for fear the writer may be misled
it makes me feel like the writer should
have n good draught of the waters
of truth.
Would it SAVIOR of fraud if I were to
tell him that a Senatorial candidate
! had taken in several precincts the aft
I davis If four times as many electors
90 votoa for h;n, as were counted for
himG That at one precinct upS 0ena-
torial votes were found in the wrong
box, put there by one of the judges OF
election, and this very party moved to
throw them out, and it was so ordered.
How about a registrar, that with the
name BERTHE county, Mitchell township,
at the top of the page should insert
dates in the lines below, and refuse to
write the names in full, and when the
book was close, boast that he should
refuse to allow sixty electors to- vote,
for this omission did actually chaI
lenge the number of forty eight and
prevented their voting. How about
drunken men at the polls, crazed with
liquor, and creating terror and con
fusion, until just at night the Populists
were advised by a very kind Demo
cratic friend that blood would be
spilled before the votes were counted,
and they are advised to go to their
homes, and a little later when the
judges are at their supper a man is
seen to enter, and with a screw-driver
open the boxes, and after a time close
them again, and this proven by the
affdavits of half a dozen witnesses
who were on the watch.
need not go further, but there is a
ludicrous side to the picture. 1t is
agreed that John Doe is to make a
coffin, and as 0 as the returns are
received Richard Roe is to be formally
buried at his home along with his
party. And 80 they waited, being
altogether uncertain whether to look
upon themselves as man building a
monument or burying the dead. Now
Richard Roe had spoken boldly de-
claring that the decentralization of sill
yer was the greatest crime Of this OF
any other age; that there was no inten-
ton even to pay the interest bearing
bonds that we're being fastened on the
backs of the backs of the people to
carry for all time; that with $289, 600, 900
of silver in the treasury five years ago
and with more than 1903, OOO, 900 in
gold, including bullion which they
had failed to coin; that this of itself
showed they meant to foster the hated
English bank system upon us for all
time.
That the adjournment Of Congress
without a repeal Of the old obsolete
law leaving the President and his sec
rotary to COON issuing bonds committed
the Democratic party to this system
of gold bearing bonds.
He told them, in the very language
of Turgot, that as silver and gold be
came universal money by the nature
and force of things, Independently of
all convention and law, from which
the deduction has been drawn, that to
prescribe silver by law is a violation of
the nature of things, and much more
of the same kind of talk.
Suffice it to say, that by reason of
the Landslide" no coffin was made,