The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-03-10
THE POLITICAL SITUATION.
Correspondence of the Progressive Farmer.

| federate veteran who voted the Demo
cratic ticket straight for Twenty-Five
years, or until q Democratic Huuse
with 147 m ority failed to pass a free
bill, alter ABUSING the Republicans for
twenty years for damOnetlzing silver.
We consider the free coinage Of silver
as paramount to every other issue and
the starting point for a revival of pros
perity in this country.
We favor the cooperation Of all the
| patriotic elements of all parties and
factions. While standing on princi
Piles alone, let every faction have what
offices that their number and Influence
demand. We can eff I'd to give the
| free silver Democrats AID Republicans
the Cover or and United States S9na
| tor. The distribution of Offices will
| dictate the best policy toward the fac
tions in the interest Of free silver
| Judge Walter Clark, Judge David
| Slhenck, ex Governor Jarvis or any
other honest free silver Democrat will
suit us for either Governor or United
| States Senator. When brothers fall
out they make the most bitter enemies,
We Populists can afford to forgive all
that free silver Democrats have said
about us il they will now co operate
with US, or give US a chance to CO Oper
ate with them. This time it Eust be
a clean sweep from constable to PCesl
! dent for free Silver. IF q co operation
Of all the free silver men Of all parties
can be had, they can beat the com
bined element Of the ~go!dbugs 100, OUO.
| President Cleveland has placed his
administration on the Republican gold
| standard policy. Il now remains t. be
seen it he can deliver all the goods Of
mis- party over to the Republican camp,
The gulf between US and the g~Oldbugs
is impossible. We can lever have
anything to do with them unlePs they
repent and bring forth fruit, meet for
repentance. The old Democratic ma
chine will be run this year (n this
State) on two Issues: The gold stand
ard will head the national ticket,
while Fred. Douglas is to be made the
State issue. British Toryism and a
dead ''uigger" are the last cards they
have to play. Rats! Rats! II does
seem like sensible men would hle
from a sinking ship, especially after
she had been ecutsled by Grover & Go.
The Demo Gratis are not in 1t this year.
| Grover has stirred them into the Re
publican goldbug camp. What we
now want is a new combine to bca the
gOldbug Republicans. The American
Silver party would suit us as
we'll as n name. But suppose the
| so called free silver Democrats will
not fuse" with u99 Then we must
fight them all alike to the last ditch
where ever we find them.
Under the gold STANDARD farmers ore
advised to plantonIy half crops # they
expect reasonable prices. When they
nuke god crops they are told over
| production is the Cause OF low prices. |
When they make snort crops and
| prices are better they are toiG; There
nov! If you had something to sell
money would be as plentiful as ever"
Cotton is the principal crop commented
on here, but everything not under a
trust" is about as cheap as cotton. !
Wool is lower; horses as low; land IS
lower. What has caused tie over
| production of lan3? The world seems !
to have been made under a double
money standard, but is now one half
too big under the gold standard. There
is u production Of rallroads-that is,
long to be operated pr, fisabjy u~der |
the single standard. If the railroads
from here to New York were only half !
go long, they could then be operated as
probably as raising q half crop of cot
ton on half the land. The railroads |
are an example OF those VINO have
something to sell 8t all seasons, and
they are II debt "a fail as often as
farmers who have SO little to sell.
With half Of the money cut off de-
mands half crops, half food, halt cloth
ing and half living.
We were crossing e bankrupt rail
road the other day ard saw the section
boss overseeing two negro a~ocUion
hands. We asked him if that was the
way hI9 company done business under
the gold standard. H answered that
it was. We told him il reminded US
Of Zab Vance's song:
I
Away down on the Roanoke river,
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