The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-06-16
SENATOR MawB0oRNR AGAIN.

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SENATOR MEWBOORNE AGAIN.
DEAR BRO SWINsON:-Like Bancho's
ghost, fusion will not down. When I
wrote my last, l then thought that
would be all, but coming across a paper
which expressed my views so squarely
and honestly, and thinking possibly
you might have been one OF 5ne editors,
as it was edited by the Peoples party
Executive Coromitte8 Of Wayne coun-
ty, 1894, and probably the very writer
of the following article, which I offer
by way of reply and ''to stir up your
pure mind by way Of remembrance" I
don't say you wrote it, its style is some
what yours, but the subject matter is so
different from your last and soin accord
with my views that n would think
you didn't but I did. I declare I didn't,
for l never was a member of the Wayne
county Peoples party Executive Com
mittee. but l endorse it just as heartily
as if I did. 1t was good reading then
and good now. The name of the paper
was
THE SPECULUM
Listen: ''The Democrats would have
you believe that it you should unite
with the Republicans in a campaign
for the purpose of securing cering re-
forms which each party are equally de,
serious of securing that you abandon
your principles and endorse those of
the Republicans. Now this is all clap
trop." Qtalics mine, but your pet
words) Did the r publicans become
Democrats and vice versa when they
united to defeat prohibition a few years
back?
Two parties may fuse in a State cam
paign for the purpose Of s curing Ger,
tain measures and neither surrender
their principles. For instance, the Re.
publicans favor a high protective tariff
while the Populists favor the lowest
tariff possible that will meet the needs
of the government, run by honest men
upon honest principles. They each
want an honest election, and to get il
it becomes necessary to get a majority
of the legislature or to use a common
expression, to down the Democrats,
the dominant party in North Carolina,
aud they get together for that purpose
Now does that make the Populists favor
a protective tariff, or the Republicans
favor a low tariff or no tariff. But the
Democrats will say: How about the
election of U. S. S3natore7 Well, will
just say we guess there will be some
fusing done (hushO when the Iegisla
ture comes to electing them, and SO fal
as to the results should there be fusion
between the Populists and Republican
members Of that body, we cannot be
woreted. (Do hushD We would gel
one Populist and endeavor to get the
Republicans to give US an honest Re
publican, and then we would have two
honest men in the Senate, and that
would be quite an Improvement. (Oa.
do keep in the middle of the road or
principl0. And or the tariff question.
should it come up before that body
again, we could pair, if nothing better,
and unless the Democrats can off6r more
reform they they have already done IL
the tariff line, we would not be hurt
much if both Senators were Republi
cans, provided they were honest"
Thus ends the first chapter in The
Speculum, the organ Of the Peoples
party $500 of Wayne county, edited
and conducted by its Executive Com
mittee, and if not written by you, you
at that time endorsed it.
Again, in your friendly talk to the
colored man, you said: The colored
men by education and by a sense Of
gratitude are Republicans (notwitetand.
ing the it repeated Democratic slogan
that the Democrats are the best friends
of the negro and will show the negro
some facts along this line through the
columns of The Speculum during the
campaign and the Republican party
in North Carolina have grievance to
redress; to accomplish this they must
get the legislature in the hands (hush ,
of those who are at heart in favor OF
redressing these grievances. They