The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-02-18
both old parties into the seclusion of
the cloak rooms.

He TALKS OF THE
not to Senators. Packed galleries heard
his unanswerable speech against bond
issues, against any further increase Of
the public debt-without at the same
| time providing the people with the
means to pay it. There were not many
! Senators in the Chamber, but they
were near by and many of them heard
the speech who we're not in evidence.
Nobody who heard his bold and vigor
| GUS arraignment of the recreant lead
ers of both the old parties who have
deceived and betrayed the people until
their liberty is almost lost, cannot
blame them for hiding in the adjacent
cloak rooms and reveling in the wine
| room of the Senate restaurant. The
thronged gallaries sat uumoved from
the beginning to the ending. A Demo
| crat who has faithfully served Ransom
for twenty years heard it all. Speak
| ing of it, he said, ut amazed me. I
felt as one feels at the theatre in wit
Messing an intensely dramatic play. l
could scarcely wait for the next act.
| wanted to hear the climax. It was a
great speech. l do no not agree with
Senator Butler politically, but my
pride as q North Carolinian c0mpels
me to recognize the fact that he has
made a speech that will give him
national fame" Another Democrat,
and he is a member of Congress, said:
1T is unanswerabl9." Another evi
dence of its strength and appositness
is an unprecedented order for n
hundred thousand copies of til speech
for campaign circulation, From every
Southern and Western State and from
some of the New England States comes
the demand, through hundreds of let
ters daily, for copies of the speech.
NOT L LIARS
All the newspaper writer's, however,
are not liars. The Item, the most ex
tensively circulated paper in Philadel-
phia, is an exception. The Item says,
editorially:
Last monday Senator Hill, after the
manner of some goldite papers, in his
argument with Senator Butler, devoted
much Of his time to striving to say
something funny, " but which, in point
of fact, was decidedly silly and wholly
out of place, considering the gravity of
Senator Buffers remarks.
Senator Butler gave a short, pithy
/ okotoroOn+ Nf "IOf Tho ~o0~J0 ~ Tho
country want in the shape of business
prosperity, Disgusting it as the de-
mands of his State alone; w~hereupon
Senator Hill, instead of recognizing the
| Justice and truth of the statement,
made many hippant remarks to show
that North Carolina is not going to
get what she wants, either from the
present Congress or any other Con
gress. Neither the Democrats nor Re
publican party will surrender any such
demands \ = + Therefore, North
Carolina will have to wall because she
cannot be comtorted.'
"In reading the proceedings in Con
gress printed in the Congressional Re
cord, it is as clear as day to anyone
seeking information, that the oddities
are there organized to downtread the
people; they attempt to say funny
things in insulting ways, which, in
point of fact, are CHASTITY in their sig
nIficance, in order to browbeat the
argum 3nts Of honest members; their
plan seems to be to leave the Congress
sional chamber, and in all ways cast
ridicule, CT what they seem to think is
such, upon any and everything that
savOrs Of honest fiAance; their attitude
in this respect is the same as that of
the mobiles advising the king before the
French Revolution, and the lesson
there taught is we'll applicable to the
pre- ent situation"
Evidently the Wilmington Massen-
ger was imposd upon by the lying
press reports S nt out from Washington.
The Messenger after reading the Con
gresslonal Record, says, e~ditorially:
The Geographic abstract Of the run.
ming debate between Hill and Butler
did not do rs ice to the latter. We
have taken time to read the full report
OF the Congressional r cord Of the 18Th,
and the New Yorker did not make
much out of the Populist Senator.
Butler sustained his SHE with ability
and made some strong and we'll sus-
tanned points. He uttered no little
truth, and while he absurdly mtsrepre-
scented the facts as to North Carolina