The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-07-14
RRABsTER VESTS LETTER.
Grover Quiet--Eiu Regretful-'Car
and Eckles' Idea of the Farmers Intel
lect,

and CkIeS !oe@ Oh LUG ESAAASA
Iect.
Correspondence of the Progressive Farmer.
Grover Cleveland has gone to BUz-
Yards Bay; Whitney has gone to Chi
cago; Dan Lamont is in the throes of
despair. The latter, who was nothing
before he became a cog in the Roths-
child Cleveland machine, is really dis
consulate. Poor fellow, who can blame
him! He became rich by sticking to
Grover, and now he has been foolish
enough to sink his earnings from the
gold conspiracy in the Cleveland Whit
ney street railway pool, and he feels
bad. Grover is at Buzzard's Bay, a
good place for such a buzzard as he is,
but the men who sacrificed themselves
upon his altar are in a deuce Of a fix.
Rumor says that Grover has SO fixed
things that he will be reimbursed for
any loss which he personally may su5-
tain from the failure of the street rail
way scheme, but Carlisle, Smith, La
mont, and Campbell are to be ''souped."
Whitney has gone to Chicago, and
David Bennett Hull went with him
Poor Hill! If he had stuck by his Ell
mira speech, he would have been the
logical candidate of the free silver
forces to-day. He is at heart a silver
man, but he thinks of D. D. Hill first,
and misjudging the political outlook
he thought Wall street could control
the country, and so he espoused the
cause of the usurers. 1t is a pity ! No
one knows that better than Hill. How
ever, he is dead, politically in the re-
form ranks he is a rotten egg
Before this letter reaches the ma
jority of my readers, the Chicago Con
vention will be over; therefore it is best
for me to leave politics alone in this
letter. I may say, however, that so
far as Populists in Washington are con-
cerned, the Peoples party will indorse
no man who is not acceptable to them.
1t is hard for a Washington correspond
ent to please all people. I judge that
the great producing people want the
truth. This is the truth: If the silver
Democrats nominate a man such as
Teller or Sibley, he can get the support
of the Populiets and silver Republicans.
II not, then not.
That is the consensus of opinion
among the Populists and silverites in
Washington. They say: The Demo
cratic party is dead if it tries to carry
the country upon the free silver cry.
The Democratic party must give some
proof of its honesty. 1t nominate d
Grover Cleveland three times. a party
which will choose as its standard bearer
for twelve years such a scoundrel as
Grover Gle v9land must be viewed with
suspicion"
If the silver D ,mocrats are really
patriots if they rise above party and
nominate a man acceptable to the Pop
Ulists and silver Republicans, he will
be elected if not, then the true reform
ers should antagonize their tickets and
make such a fight for liberty that a
Democrat may be as extinct a bird four
years from nov as a dodo.
That those who read my letters may
know how the producers of the coun-
try are regarded by their servants, l
will reproduce a conversation which I
hea d last Sunday evening in Chamber
lain's, The two who talked are mem-
bers of the administration. I will style
them @. and E O: course this does
not mean Carlisle and Eckles. If 1 said
so it would be Ii lei. This is how they
talked:
Mr.. G I'D you think, z, that you
can switch enough delegates at Chi
cago9'
Mr.. E Haven't I been controlling
for years? I'll switch them they don't
know anything about the financial
question, anyway"
Mr.. c.: You're mistaken. The
voters in Kentucky are just loaded to
the muzz Q with arguments in favor Of
the remonetIzation of silver, and they
even qlote that old speech of mine
Mr.. E 'Psaaw, that's nothing!
Well confuse them on the bond CUES
ton. They can't understand figures.
One,Of my clerks whom 1 sent to Mis-
souri, to c~ouateracT the work of Tau
beneck, told me that he heard one
farmer trying to explain to another
what the different bond denominations
meant. The explaining farmer said
5 COS, Z 40's, and 10 sos meant that the
working man had to go to work at 5 80
q. m. and work until z 80 p NJ in or