The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-04-14

Re Didn't Offer Any inducements,
However--The "Kurnelr' Expecting to
Miss Some Good Dinners.
B.-"HeIIo! Mr.. Editor"
R-"Hollol Major. l guess you feel
better now since you gave up your
party as a lost sinner and retired 10
private life
B.-"Me give up my party ! hajn'v
done it. I'd give up my life, my farm
or my wife, but my party neyerl l am
the same ole dymrkrat l always VIZ
I'll never give up my party till our
money il made g8de in Yurripa an fifty
cent dollars are awl done away with
I'm a patriot, I am"
R-"Why only last week you told
me that you didn't care a snap il the
party managers did make Chairman
Butler or Chairman Holton receiver
for the party, that you were tired foo
ing with a machine that is always
broken, etc. I have an idea that Col.
johnson has been out to take dinner
with you again"
B.-"Yes, he spent the day here
Thursday, but he didn't say anything
about SEEM what I said in THE Pro.
GREssIvE FARMER. He jist cum out,
he said, ter spend a pleasant day IN
the country an git e guide dinner"
R.-"Yes, l see. and he told you thet
tie Democrats in this district had de
cided to run you for Congress-"
B-"No, he didn't talk politicks a
bit. He il too much Of a gentleman
fer that"
R.-"Didn't Col. johnson say that
he would like to see you in Congress
or made governor, or something OF that
kind?'
Bile did not. I tole you be did
Mt say a word eTbout politicks. While
we were eatin' dinner the Kurnell sad
he would miss many guide dinner when
me an Mrs. BiIkins Q TO Washing
ton, fer it will be too fur ter run 10 8u'
spend a day like he does now. Betsy
wanted ter know whut he meant. He
sorter LATED an lowed jist wait till the
next roll il called in Kongress. Betsy
said, well Kurrell if you mean that
Kongress, elected on q golGbug ticket,
I will say rite now that you needn't be
e fer II he should be elected Iii
not let him go ter WashintOn. The
Kurnell he didn't say anything more
then. After dinner we walked up the
road a bit, an the Kurnell lowed:
'Zeke you've got q nifty nice wife, an
I can't see why in The world she amt
willin' fer Us ter run you fer K2ngress,
She will give in when the time comes.
But that didn't change my mind any"
Rid you know that Col. John
son is a national bank stockholder?"
B.-"No. I thought he was only q
lawyer"
R-"Well, he isa bank stakeholder,
and he and his kind are engaged in
promising every Cfice, from township
constable up to Governor to just such
men as you, hoping to hold the old
parties. together long enough to get n
or the other in again, and then they
will forever fasten the chains Of plu
tocracy on the people, and nothing
short of a long and bloody revolution
will induce them to unfasten the shack
les. Human greed, when unchecked,
will stop at nothing to satisfy its crav
ings. Such men as Col. Johnson
will promise anything, will do any
thing, to hoodwink the public. Moth
ing but physical cowardice keeps them
from committing crimes too numerous
mention. They wear the church cloak
and pirate about charity and morality,
when the real truth is that they are
making beggars by the million. In
New York and other great cities their
hellish work is more conspicuous than
elsewhere. There they rob the masses
and then once or twice a year furnish
them with free soup" They want to
get the entire country in that condi
ton, and then a new era Of slavery
will begin, an era more revolving and
with greater injury than black slav
cry"
WAKE COUNTY MEETING.