The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-09-24
The Silver Conventional Few Goldbugs
Observation-Disclosures Will Get to Con-
9ress on a"Tecknikality."

The Silver Conventional Few Goldbugs
Observation-Disclosures Will Get to Con-
gress on a "Tecknikality."
B.-"Hellol Mr.. Editor"
R.-"Hellol Major. What can lido
for you to-day 20
B.-"Ohl I jist want ter talk a little
an ak a few questions ter keep the
phone in workin' order. What erbout
the silver conventionT"
RI guess it will be pulled eff
Everybody are invited, regardless of
race, sect or previous condition of serv
idude. Even the goldbugs can take
part in it if they wish, but they will
hardly have nerve enough to face the
music. The actual number of goldbugs
in North Carolina isn't large enough,
If all of them should come, to pull a
setting hen IF her nest. But there are
quite a number of free born white ma
tive citizens who are too contrary to
admit that they have been deceived
and too stubborn to grasp the life line
of good politics when it is thrown to
them
B.-"You are mistaken erbout the
number ov EN-. l know enUf ov EN-
myself to pull a settin' hen off the
nest"
R.-"Wnl you please name themG"
B.-"Well, there's two in Raleigh, l
forgit the name of one ov 'em. Mr..
Hubert jackson il the other one. Then
there's Mr.. Joseph P. Caldwell, John
B. Sheriff., J. G. Buxton, Matt W.
Ransom, John 3. Williamson, f. r
Williams, R A. Clark an myself. l
hear there is, or was a couple in Ram
katt, but I doubt it. Then / know ov
several preachers in the State that have
banker church members that are gold
bugs. I'll BET awl ov us, if we could
~ S6gs5TI; nd not oG95' pull a SIT
tin hen off her nest, but we could
break a Shetland pony ter barnes"
R.-"You had to go out of the State
to find one man. Matt Ransom is in
Tb, y, and you surprised me by ad
Knitting that } on are a goldbug your
self. 1 thought you were playing the
silver role nowadays"
B.-"That wuz sorter ov a slip ov
the tongue. amt exactly a goldbug
I believe in bymettalism, providin' it
kin be secured through the Dymakrat
lex party with the consent ov England
an the Sandwich Islands, But I'd
rather the country would bust awl ter
smash than see the Populists git In at
Washington. The Dymakrat party
hes bin struglin'awl the time fer twenty
years ter git free coinage in shape
again an it would look like Robin the
dead ter let anew party in an git the
credit for it. I'll never submit. I'll
go through four more years of war be
fore I'll surrender to 'em,"
R.-"Your party had an excellent
chance to get silver reinstated two
two years ago. You had the President
six majority in the Senate and "a ma
jorito in the House. Instead of rein
stating silver and putting the country
in good shape you wiped out the slen
der silver law in existence ind put i
on a back seat effectually."
Dwell, their feet slipped tina
time. Elect us ergin an put me IL
Kongress an I'll show you a thing o
two"
R.-"Which side are you going tt
run on2"
B--"Iu be a goldbug at heart an
a silver man on the stump. I can't tel
you jist what I believe in till I see tn
platform"
rand do you expect to get elect
ed by the three OF four goldbugs in th,
4th district, part of whom you name
aboveQ"
B.-'No, I'm goin' ter run fer Kon
gress for the State at large-club aw
the votes tog@her. Henry Londol
will vote fer me In Chatham, an 10
Caldwell will carry Mecklenburg fe
me. The goldbugs will count me il
on a teCknikality, l believe that /
what they call 'em-the way we US
ter elect 'em anyway. You may locl
fer me at the silver CONVEX shun GUIDE
bye"
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