The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-07-09

and was as square a man as ever
boarded a railway train and stood in
with the conductor. Oh! I'll get along
with the goldbugs all right, once 1 learn
their lingo. But, you see, I've been a
silver Democrat ever since the pilgrim
age I made IS a boy to the tomb of An
drew Jackson on the battlefield of New
Orleans"
st,Jackson's tomb is in Tennessee"
was suggested, cautiously.
"Not when I met it," replied Col.
Hill. lit was in louisiana then, and
I've been a silver Democrat ever since
I-bowed my boyish head and wept over
the ashes of that great hero. It was
then and there I dedicated myself to
the Licking county Democracy, and
I've kept my faith. When I addressed
the committee in executive session I
said"
WHO will be the next candidate for
Governor on the Democratic ticket in
Ohio?"
"Ex Governor Campbell" replied
Col. Hill. "Jim Campbell will be named
next August at Springfield, on the first
ballot. You hear me twitter."
Twill he 1e elected?"
''Thet is a hard question" answered
Col. Hill. Hes the most popular man
we've got as long as we're going to deal
a gold game. Then the Republicans
with Foraker, Mckinley and John
Sherman, all tied in a hard knot, are
in a bad shape. Campbell may go
through like a 'possum through a hen
coop and just clean the perches. You
can't tell"
WHO will be the Democratic selec-
ton for the Senate9"
"Brice," replied Col. Hill. Calvin
s. Brice will be the Democratic name
for the Senate, to succeed himself.
"And he'll win, too. We may easily
lose the Governorehip in Ohio and still
hold the legislature. Campbell might
get downed for Governor by 25. 600 ma
jority, and Brice go through the legisla-
ture for the Senate like a CREASED pig
through a county fair.
You see," went on Col. Hill, his
voice sinking to a whisper, deep and
mysterious, there are legislative dis
tricts in Ohio that are very close, and
enough of 'em to carry the legislature,
too, if we win 'em." Here Col. Hill
hesitated.
The Post reporter urged him to pro-
coed.
WELL" rek umed Col. Hill, tout at
Columbus you see it was this way
There was a goldbug got up; a sort OF
preacher fellow, and he took a kind of
text. He said:
the bigger the coon, the nor fur
and where the hen S ;ratche5 there the
worm is found also.'
The goldbug then branched out
from that and insisted that the man to
run for Senator was Calvin S. Brice.
Then l made a speech AS l started
in two or three men came around and
said:
CHOW, Ike, don't make a monkey
of us right mere
81 winked my eye at en- and sluDg
them a little metaphor
Don't be alarmed, gentlemen
said. L have hunted wild turkeys
through the hills of old Licking and
iuggled for catfish in the wandering
Sciota as a boy too often to make an
error now. l know under which
thimbie the gladstone pea is secluded.
l don't have to be caught in a landslide
before 1 tumble, and, gentlemen, talk
ing about making monkeys of people,
let me tell you right now, first card to
fall from the box; I'm for gold I'm q
goldbug from fOrelock to fetlock, and
you can't shift fast enough to lose me.
l don't travel by the path, but by the
smoke; and me and my Democracy
will get left out over night.
"'Yes, gentlemen I continued,
striding down the floor like Patrick
Henry did in the Virginia House OF
B~urgesses; yes, gentlemen, my Do
mocracy is founded not on sand, but
rocks. I will neither bite at the Re.
publican worm nor rise to the R9publi
can fly. I was a Democrat in Old Lick.
ing when they hunted them with dogs.
Instead of hunting coors s and turkey
and, other animals of chase the Repub
lici MS hunaed Democrats. I was a fol.
lower of J~4fferson in a day when the
issue upon which the candidates f0r
sheriff of Licking county always ran
was
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