The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-04-09

1 have for many years been your
friend. IEave been an ardent Rdmirer
of your genius. I have believed in
your patriotism.
When, in the last campaign, you
thrilled your friends by your splendid
and impassioned declaration, that
"a good name is rather to be chosen than
| great riches, and loving favors rather than sill
yer and gOld,"
I thought it came from your heart.
I was warned by many good people
against putting faith in your promises.
1 repudiated their suggestions. real
ize that up to the recent past I have
only known DIR. Jekyll; I am now &C
quainted with Mr.. Hyde.
According to the spirit of Jefferson
ian Democracy, Office ought to be given
to those who merit it by work for the
party.
Under our Institutions the Federal
patronage due a State goes to the dom,
inant party to help perpetuate it in
power.
To the extent that it is controlled by
any one man for his own purposes to
that extent it is a gross injustice to
party workers and a blow at the life
Of the party itself.
The Chairman of the Democratic
State Executive Committee of North
Carolina in a public address declared
nearly two years ago that I was lone
OF three men Che named) in North
Carolina, who ought to be appointed
before all others. by this administra-
ton"
Ihave not asked or expected Office at
your hands as a personal favor.
asked for a place because the Dem
ocratic party said 1 deserved it, ex,
pected me to receive it. and since you
have controlled the patronage expected
it to come through you.
Your disregard of the wishes of my
endorsers and of the sentiment of the
Democratic party of North Carolina
in my behalf is one of the best evil
dences that you have long possessed
power dangerous to a free people. You
have made their most powerful letters
as blank paper; you-have laughed at
the appeals of committees; you have
paid little or no attention to the words
of the press. Your will has been the
law.
You have been allowed by Mr.. Cleve-
land to control the patronage of North
Carolina because you have been faith
full to his plans and policy. You have
distributed that patronage, in many
instances, with too much regard to the
retention ofyour seat in the Senate and
too little for party workers merit, and
the wishes of your constituents.
Because a revolution in this State,
in part owing to the disgust of the peo-
pie at your methods and their deter
mination to put an end to your omnip-
otence, commonly called "Bossism. ="
you lost your seat in the Senate, and
now the President sends you abroad as
a substantial reward for your fidelity
to him; for being, says the Washing
ton Post, of the 10Th, in a laudatory
notice,
GA steadfast friend of the. President
in the Senate, even going to the ex
tent of voting for the repeal of the
Sherman Silver Purchasing Law,
against the sentiment Of has CyOWr)
State
The President has crowned you with
the mission to the Court of the Monte
zumas, but you will go there without
the endorsement of ree-fourths the
population of your State.
It was peculiarly meet and proper
and entirely to be expected that your
confirmation as Minister should be
moved in the Senate by John Sherman,
the arch enemy of silver, your State
and the South. They are homely say
ings, but true, ''Straws show which
way the wind blows" and Birds of a
feather flock together"
Having denounced Grover Cleveland
at Chicago, you were dubious about
approaching him in the early part of
the administration; how comes it that
he allows you to control the patronage
of this State and then gives you one
Of the greatest Offices in the Govern
ment, while the patriotic Vance, whose
virtues you could %eloquently eulogize,
but which you have not quite often
enough initiated, was in i'll favor and
without influence at the White House?
Thinking that some personal or po-
litical enemy might have libeled me
to the State Department or the Presi-