The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-05-21
CHANCES THROWN AWAY.
Cleveland, Sherman & Co. Wiped up the
Democratic Party.

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Democratic Party.
correspondence of the Progressive Farmer.
Experience alone can demonstrate
and convince what small things in the
life of an individual, State or nation
can change the course of that life, and
mark out for it a new destiny. If
Napoleon Bonaparte had never been
born, the battle of Waterloo, that
changed the political history of the
world, had never been fought, and the
historian and poet had never recorded
and sung the praises of Wellington.
If Yancy, looms, Slidell & Co., had
not seceeded from the Union, the
negroes of to day would be slaves and
the names Of Sherman, Sheridan and
Grant would never have been recor-
ded in the Temple of France. If Grover
Cleveland had never been discovered,
the real of q third class beer saloon
in Buffalo, the Democratic party would
have had control of this government
for the last ten years, and if Conkllng
had died ten years earlier, cleveland
never would have been President OF
the United States.
The inveterate hatred between Jim
Blaine and Roscoe Conkllng made
Cleveland Governor of New York and
President of the United States. Thetur-
KEY gobbler strut and the peacock
spread of the Plumed Knight lost New
Yorktot the Republican nominee for gov
ernor in 1883, and TO the Republican
nominee for President in 1884, and this
was the greatestdisaste and misfortune
that has befallen the Democratic party
since it's organization. The Democratic
party survived the thunder and earth
quake shocks of the most terrific and
bloody civil war recorded in modern
times. and emerged from its devastat-
ing blight and ruin without one blot or
blemish upon its armor or e~scutcheon.
1t the hatred between Blaine and Conk-
linz was disastrous and unfortunate to
she party, because, in the train of evils
brought upon the country, in the course
of events, Grover Cleveland was
brought into prominence and made
Governor of New York, which led up
as a stepping stone to, and made him
the Democratic nominee and presi-
dent in 1884. At this time the party
was stronger and more united than at
any time since the war. But from
this period on until its final defeat and
overthrow, the 9th day Of November,
it waxed weaker and weaker.
And this cyclone, Waterloo, came
as natural as and as much in accord
ance with the laws of nature as water
-gushes from the mountain side, or
seeks q level. If a law of nature is
violated, nature itsslf rebels. Sin is
as sure to overtake its perpetrator as
day is to follow night. The cyclone
that struck the Democratic ship vas
so general and wide spread that it
proves conclusively that the cause was
as general and universal.
Politicians are now ascribing the
general wreck to q thousand and one
causes, and as SOON as the defeated
candidates recover from the shock
and ~paralization, each one will find
some specific reason for his defeat.
ALI honest Democrats know there was
q deep seated desire abroad in the land
to rebuke the party for its shortcom-
ings, its treachery and treason to its
principles, platforms, promises, and
time honored traditions. There was a
universal desire to punish the admin
istration and all those who stood by it,
or in any way endorsed it. Every
State North, or it's Candidates that en-
dorsed Cleveland, Voorhees,, German,
Hill, Mcpherson and Smith, and their
treachery and treason were buried
beneath the tidal wave In fact the
whole North is literally streWed with
wounded and dying traitors, and the
speople were so eager to punish the
tools and henchmen of Cleveland that
they did not hesitate to punish and
destroy all who associated with these
lewd fellows, however innocent. If
there had been no negro in the South,
there would not have been left a track,
trace, or sign of the so-called Demo
cratic party. The whole tribe would
have been driven into outer darkness
or mopped out from the face, of the
earth. Democrats have recognized
and obeyed, but one god since 1884,
and that god was Grover Cleveland.
He has dominated and controlled the
party, both North and South, and die
tated its policy until he attempted to