The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-05-26
VEST IS GOING TO QUIT.

"When I throw a rock in the dark
and a dog bowls, I know my shot has
taken effect, is an old saying that all
of us may resort to upon proper coca
sions.
Vest, dear Vest, he of Missouri, lei
his mouth Cf,last Thursday in the Sen
ate, and he made a wall that means q
great deal, we trow. Said Vest:
II am a delegate to the Chicago Con
vention against my will, sent there by
my people in the discharge OF my duty
and as a public function, because | be-
lieve it to be a duty, and not because I
desire to go. I have stated, under
much criticism in Missouri, that I was
a Democrat under all conditions; that
I intended to abide By the action OF
my party; that I was too old to hunt
for a new political home; that I should
die as I have lived in the party of JEFF
terson, devoted to his teachings and
principles But serve notice now that
If this convention at Chicago is to be
made up Of Federal Office holders,
brought there to overawe and over
ride the wisdom of the honest majority
Of the Democratic party throughout
the United States, it is no Democratic
convention with me. I shall abide the
will of the maj )rity Of my party hon
estIy assembled and honestly expressed.
l make No threat, but l want no mis-
understanding. TIE Democratic party
it a party of honest expression and not
of Federal patronage"
Which We understand to e that
Vest sees the National Democratic
Convention is going &C adopt a s.und
money platform and nominate a sound
money candidate, and that Vest is,
therefore, going to bolt aud go over to
Til man, Aitgeld, and the other ana
chists.
Very we'll, go be it, and joy go with
Vest and ali like him. We have once
before said that the Democratic party
is now like a herd of cattle, some of
which have tuberculosis. Thty will
communicate il to all unless the infec-
ted are picked out and 81 ughtered.
The Democratic party must do as wise
men do with their infected herds. They
slaughter the last one Of the infected
animals. and the Democratic par y
must eff r the free-silver contingent
the option of m9nding their ways "
being given up. We cannot afford to
have them poisoning the rank and flo
any longer. Defeat is better, far bet
ter, than victory on their principle.
They IL ire the country to the extent
that they are thought to have any IN
fIence in governing it.
- Vest had some newspaper extracts
read in the course Of his TRADE, in
which the President was charged with
having used all the il fIeEca of the
administration to control the MichiRan
Convention in favor Of s5und money,
and then lie said:
"IcaUs6 that newspaper extract to be
read because these private letters are
here to substautiate the statements
which have been made, and l say this
regretfuIIy-I sly it IS q Democratic
Senator with reluctance. It has been
forced upon Us, The issue has come
in spite Of all that could be done to
prevent it."
IT the extract that we have already
quoted did not prove that Vest was
preparing to bolt and join TiI;man and
AItge!d, this paragraph would seem to
put the matter beyond doubt. Vest is
going to quit. The place that knew
dim will know him no more. Vest il
going to be an obstacle. Well, we can
stand it if Vest can, and, in bidding
him goodbye, we will softly whisper
him that we would cheerfully part
with a dozen much better men than he
for an assurance that the Democratic
party intends to plant itself upon a
sound money platform and nominate
a sound-money man. Richmond
Times.
I'VE wonder how many real Demo
Gratis, now living, eve expected to see
the day that leading Democratic organs
(so, CALICO would call such men as
Vance end Vest anarchiste EDITOR
And the Democrats, the silver ele