The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-10-20

in a political greve-Oleak, blasted and
unmonumented? How is it that he
furnishes after his treason to the sill
| yer cause (tor he was elected by Pop
ulist votee) when hey-RAnsom and
Bunn-could lot get the nomination
for constable in their respective town
ships7
Cleveland rewarded Ransom and I
| have heard he gave Bum q postcff 3e,
but the people are asked 20 re ward Set
| tie! Now If Kitchen is 8 little bigger
| than his party. or il like Mr.. Bryan,
ne regards every man as a member Of
; his party who votes for him, no matter
by what party name he is known, and
entitled to equal h0nors and emOiu-
! ments, be ought to beat Settle. OF
course if he ia running merely as q
! partisan Democrat, devoted first to
his party and then, secondly, to the
principles he is advocating in common
| with the Populists, he will poll only
! the strength Of his party. B3wer3 Of
the man who is seeking partisan ad-
| vantage in this fight when he knows
that neither faction OF the silver party
can win by itself
If Mr.. Kitchen is q true silver man,
Mr.. Daily is making a serious blunder
to take any votes from him. Dalby
has been OutrageousIy abused in past
years by some Democratic snobs
around Oxford and this abuse may
warp bic Judgment, but 1t ought not
to warp the Judgment Of other men dc
termined to defeat g goldbug. | hear
| ne will not get Over $50 votes, but these
may be enough to elect Settle who is
now in a close and desperate fight
| with a foeman we'll worthy Ct his
steel. To be elected Settle must poll
at least two thousand protested free
silver votes. The House of Represen-
tatives in Congress will be close. The
indications o are that four goldbug
Congressman and n goldbug Senator
will be elected from North Carolina
one Of the strongest silver States in
the South. IL Mark Hanna can do as
we'll as that in this State, what is to
hinder him in other Southern States.
Are they any more virtuous than we
area IL he can get five goldbug Con-
gressmen out Of North Carolina, why
can't he tie Bryan's hands by control
ing the House of representatives at
least. You all understand that I am
not blaming either n of the silver
parties more than the other. I am
simply calling the attention of our peo-
pie to a serious condition Of affairs by
which Mr.. Bryan's coming victory will
do us little political good. The word
has gone out privately and ia we'll IN
derstood by the initiated that the
House of Representatives is to be
SGUed to Wall Street. II you miss this
opportunity to defeat a goldbug Con
gresham now while all the conditions
are favorable you may never have
and fatal complications and new issues
may Rrise. Mr.. Cleveland, with the
consent Of the European powers is
now med!ing with the Turkish qu9s-
ton. Many difficulties may be inven-
ted to obscure and keep back the silver
| question. Money may be used in I'M
limited quantities, because, two years
from now there will be nc Presidential
| ticket in the field and all the money
can be poured into the doubtful dis
tricts. Now is the time to act. Pou
ought to Withdraw in favor Of Stroud
in this district. Kitchen would there
/ by gain Populisg votes in his district
and would. probably, be elected. Pou
cannot be elected as matters now stand
and by Withdrawing in favor of Stroud
he would prove what many PoOuliets
now doubt that he is really a good silver
man. ---
2 S.-If the negroes vote solid for
McK:nly or practically solid they raise
the color line of which they aad their
friends have so much complained.
they will SOW the seeds OF the re 1nsol
idaUion of the white vote On a perma-
nent basis and they will furnish the
self convicting evidence that their vote
can be manipulated by a few in the in.
terest Of foreigners and they will drive
off those white men who have been dis
posed to see if they were fit for anv of
the duties of self government.
W, J. P.
P. 8. 2-I see Archbishop Ireland
of the Roman Catholic Church has
written a long letter for Mckinley, by