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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-06-09

Secretary Morton has just returned
from a five weeks tour of the West.
He says he was interviewed by San
Francisco reporters and after his views
were published he received anonymous
letters telling him he must shut up"
his goldbug talk or leave the country.
We object to anonymous letters on all
occasions, but if a committee of citizens
had waited on him and given him two
hours to get out of the city, it would
have been entirely right and proper.
suspicious" characters ought not to
be allowed to roam at will.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-06-09
AT ALLIANCE HEADQUARTERS

The tannery is being constructed as
rapidly as possible, and will soon be
ready. Shoe machinery has been pur,
chased and will be in operation by the
time the State Alliance meets in Au.
gust. Experienced men will be in
charge of both the tannery and the
shoe factory. We trust that the breth
rem will give the enterprise their pat
ronage and encouragement necessary
to make it a complete success, 1t can
be done if we will all throw our patron.
age in that direction, and doubtless
this will be as it should.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-06-09

Vice President Stevenson, the Illinois
coal mine owner and the man who
plays second baseman on the national
goldbug team at Washington, and who
is said to have developed into a full
grown silver candidate for the Presi-
dency after being a goldbug for four
years, spent a few hours at the Var
borough House in R Raleigh last Friday,
took a drink or two at the Capitol Club
rooms, held a reception ard shook
hands with a few people. The Vice
President of the United States ought to
see how little people think of his crowd
when he can't attract as much atten,
ton as an organ grinder and a monkey.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-06-09

his view of the question is the very
quinteseence of the greatest of all po
litical problems.
But what a spectacle we have Silver
Democrats voting for gold Democrats
and gold Democrats voting for silver
D. mocrats. The Chairman Of the
Democratic Executive Committee of
this State admits that he hes been
writing to gold Democrats, advising or
requesting them not to make any fight,
but to let the silver element carry the
conventions as they please. A few
days ago at a Democratic primary it
was found that no silver Democrats
we're present (honest silver men there,
too honest to associate with gold men }
What was done? Instead of selecting
delegates from their own number these
virtuoueO gold Democrats appointed
absent silver Democrats to represent
that precinct. Now you see how incon-
sistent Democrats are. There is no more
consistency in gold and silver Demo
Gratis acting together and voting for
each other than there is in a minister
of the gospel preaching on Sunday and
running gambling dens and bro5hels
every other day in the week.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-06-09

A movement has started and the
first meeting vas held at Detroit last
week, with a view to putting the tariff
into the hands of a tar IF commission
which will make suggestions to Con
gress. The idea is to get the tariff out
of politics. The best way to get the
tariff out of politics is to take the old
scallawags out of politics who have
kept the people fooled and divided over
imaginary issues all these years.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-06-09
n. r. 2. A.
EDITORIAL NOTES.

The overshadowing issue is financial
reform and good times VS.. gold and con
tinual panic.
The weather has been fine for grow
ing crops. Even the Democratic party
is in a promising condition.
McKinIeyism is just as good as Tell
erism if it has to come through the
quagmire Of Wall Street Democracy.
The State Of Georgia has just placed
upon the market $242,O 900 new 4 per
cent. bonds, which were taken by a
syndicate in a lump, st 1C6.
The Democratic party would cut a
ridiculous figure with a POpulist at the
head of its ticket for President. And
it would be a neat sawdust game to get
the people to vote for such a circus.
That old, threadbare, careworn lie
about "Populists returning to the
Democratic party has started on its
rounds again. They can't name any
of them. aud, Furthermore, no decent
Populist is going back to such a party.
Grover, the duck hunter, vetoed the
River and Harbor bill the other day
and the Senate promptly vetoed him
by passing it again by a vote of Sc to 5,
fifteen votes more than the required
two-thirds. Locks like the Senate has
blood in it's eye for Grover.
Since 1893 the Standard Oil Trust
certificates have paid regular dividends
of IL per cent. and extra dividends of
81 per cent. in addition. This year 6
per cent. regular and II per cent. extra
have already been paid. There are
$35, 600, 900 Of these certificates out
standing.
State Auditor Mile, of Arkansas. has
just discovered that there were 1888,
900 of Arkansas State bonds issued
illegally in 1869, the coupons from
which have been regularly presented
and paid, up to date. These bonds are
held by New York, London and Am
sterdam capitalists.
From the mount of counting the
OCh4OO Il NOAH6 We presume O10
Mr.. Democrat wants to marry Miss
Populist and celebrate their silver wed
ding some time in the future. How
ever, Miss Populist seems to be in no
hurry to make a selection from her
great number of admirers.
Some say the financial reform people
can't win this year unless the Chicago
convention puts up a man that the ST.
Louis convention can endorse. God
forbid such a victory. We have had
four years of what would follow such
a victory. Better suffer defeat a dozen
times than win such a victory. Away
with such coWardly talk!
The Charlotte Observer is weeping
tears az large as walnuts because only
five Democratic Senators stood by
Grover when the vote was taken on
Buffers bond investigation bill. In
writing a head for the dispatch it said
only five Democratice Senators with
the nerve to stand by the only Demo
cratic President the country has had
IN about four decades" Probably it II
because the Democratic President ISM
r a Democrat.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-06-09

Dunn's Review reports failures for
three weeks of May sho wing liabilities of
SO SOB 463, against 81 455 pa last year,
aud 7,782 633 in 1894 Manufacturing
we're 50, 1888, $50. against 50, 642 900 last
year, and s. $50, 812 in 1894; trading
were S. O19. 925, against 81 go. 635 last
year and So. 275, 1875 in 1894 Failure S
for the week have been 239 in the
United States, against 215 last year.
Whar il dem guide times, Mr.. Goldbug9
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-06-09
CHAIRMAN POU A RANKN SILL
YER MAN.

The Raleigh correspondent of the
Charlotte Observer, says:
~ our correspondent considered this
an idle question, but to-day met Mr..
POu and fatty asked: is it true YOU
will take no part in the canvass this
year if free silver wine?' He replied :
1t is not true. I propose to do my part
for the Democratic party in any went.
Probably I will not do so much can
wasting this year, but this is because of
private business, which will keep me
at home, but l will not do less n way
and another this year than I have done
for the past IL years. Mr.. Pou was
then asked If he had used any expires
sion which might have given rise to
this enquiry. He replied: Nothing
save a remark I may have made a few
days ago that if l were to canvass in
the present state of affairs l would
make the fight On the supreme neces-
sity of defeating Russell rather than
discuss any scneme of finance. Russell
is the issue ali good people are inter
ested in. He must be defeated to saw
the State. So far from fighting silver
a large part of my correspondence
these days is letters written to sound
money men in different parts of the
State, urging them to make no fight
against silver, but to let our convention
June 26 unanimously instruct for it,"
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-06-09
POLITICAL NEWS.

The Oregon State election resulted
in quite q victory for the PopuIIsS'
they electing both members OF Con'
gress and nearly half the Legislature
The fight was a straight one, three tlcA.
cts being in the field.
The Maine State Popullst convention
was in session at Auburn last Thurs
day. The delegation was AS strong,
which is nearly as large as the enIn'
vote was in that State in 1892. IDo
Omaha platform, 16 to 1, and 10 mOLo
bonds was the unanimous verdict wv
contrast this convention with 'N'
Democratic and Republican goLoous
conventions that have been held III Wv
New England States. There u no D'4
ture in the Peoples party. The plo'
forms are the same in Maine or A"'''
chusetts as in Texas or Colorado.
The interest bearing debt Of The
United States March 1st, 1898 WIZ
President Cleveland was usherea -"
his present administration, was Fy ,bt
GA, 200. On June 1st, 1896, the va 10
was $845, 488, $50, showing an lnclo% "a
of $3.50, 454, $50, which is s. Is per cap, Oh
or, in round numbers, $2I for 9a 4Ss
voter. This increase has been ~ Cs1
rate of 1928, 468 per day, or So DIV
per month, and it is still CROWNS
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-06-09

The Dallas, Texas, Daily News, Dem,
comedies Texas to the Pvpulists this
fall by $4,000 ma ority. The San An
Uonia Express, Rsp thinks it not at
all unlikely that the majority may
reach 100, 600, Judging from the temper
of the people now. Ali this goes to
confirm the belief that Grover is a
blooming success as a Populist vote
maker.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-06-09
THESE ARB OUR VIEWS.

SG. LOUIS Is JIG pLdC0 "uO1O GAO S0A
didate will be nominated who will have
the confidence of the mass of the PEG
pie, and July 221d is the date. 1t Is
absurd for the Democrats to think they
can fool the people again by nominal,
ing Teller, Sibley, Boise, Bryan or any
body else at Chicago. If the Demo
cratic party is so low that it has to
nominate a Populist for it's Presidential
candidate, lt is Tina for it to go out of
business. Nine, tenths of the news
| papers ard voters of the Democratic
party-North, South, East and West
stood by President Cleveland in his out
outrageous administration until they
saw that the party vas ruined and they
| began to abuse him-that is, some of
| them did. Most Of them are still with
| him, and are no better than he is. Now
they are trying to devise a scheme, a
smart one, too, to make the party a lit
tie more decent by putting a respecta-
BILE head on 1t, and to do nat 1t is nee
essary &c nominate either a silver Re
publican or a POpulist for president.
Such a ticket cannot be made to work
well enough to catch the POpullsts nor
the R9puo lIcan silver vote of the West,
and the Chicago nominee would simply
get the fragments Of the Democratic
vote and the silver forces will be di
vided. Wall Street is planning the
scheme. for it means victory for the
money power.
We are surprised to see the Denver
Daily News and the Richmond Star
lending their il fuence to such a plan.
The Democratic party has walked out
of ITSELF" just as Senator Vance pre-
dicted in 1898, and If anybody believes
that the Populists are fools enough to
lend their aid in putting it on its feet
again, they evidently don't know the
temper Of the people Of this country.
Those of US who went into this reform
fight because we believed it right and
necessary, went into it to succeed or
fail, and we will fight it out on that
line. Those verdant political schemers
who think that the Omaha platform is
too heavy to carry, and that all of it
except the silver plank will be dropped
at st. Louis, should make haste to join
the Republicans or the remainder of
the Democratic party, as they do not
belong among the real reformers of this
country.
We are willing to join hands with
those who favor financial reform, but
they must meet US at St. Louis. We
are willing to call the new party by
any mama you please or let 1T stand os
it is, but no more Democratic and Re
publican treachery for US" Any com
bIn8tion with either OF the old parties
as such means the destruction of the
reform movement, and We will not
lend our aid. Honorable success or de
feat, or nothing. Democratic Conven
tions should shape their course accord
Ingly.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-06-09

The trimmers will either climb up on
the Populist band wagon or get covered
up with dust so as to lose their identi
ty.-Banner of Liberty, Minden, La.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-06-09

u am standing notC Just behind the
curtain, and tn fuu gLO1C Of the coming
sunset. Behind me are the shadows on
he track, before me lies the dark vGLley
md the rtUer. When I ningLe tCtth its
dark IUuters I tCdnt to cast one Linger-
tno look upon q country tUhOse govern
Gsent is Of the people, for the people,
and by the people, "-L. L. Polk, July
eth. 1890.
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-04
FIGHTING SANTA CRUzANS,
Editor Francis Arraigned for
Striking Editor Braun
With a Cane.
The Pnmmeled Man and Friend Tell
the Story of the Attack and
Defense.

SANTA, CRUZ, CAL, Feb. 3.-The pre-
liminary examination of Philip Francis,
editor of the Penny Press, for assault with
a deadly weapon upon Ed Braun of the
Record, was begun this afternoon before
Justice of the Peace Gardner. The evil
dence of the prosecution was adduced,
and the defendants motion for dis
missal denied. The defense will put in its
evidence tomorrow.
The prosecution to-day presented only
four witnesses out. of the twenty-five or
th irty who saw the trouble.
Braun testified that he was talking to
e. w. Warren, and that his back was
turned toward Francis when the latter
passed and then turned and struck him
with his cane. He was Knocked down, he
said, but Immediately got up and
Jumped Francis again. When closely
questioned by District Attorney LINDSAY,
he said he did not mean that be Jumped
Francis again. but that he meant that he
merely Jumped" him.
Warren swore that neither he nor Braun
rushed at Francis before the blow, which
was dealt with the small end of the cane I;
but after Braun had fallen he (Warren)
caught the cane and wrested it from Fran
els, bending it in the struggle. He was
unable TO identify the cane, saying the one
exhibited was not the one used in the
fight. The District Attorney contended
that 1t was the same, and then Warren
admitted it. He said Francis struck him
a couple of times before he got the cane
away from the Penny Press man. He en-
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-04
CHASTITY FIND At FRESNO
Boys Stumble on a Coffin Con.
tanning a Body Stolen by
GhoulS.
Was That of Man Who Had Been
Killed by Southern Pacific
Train.

FRESNO. CAL, Feb. 3.-Boys who were
hunting about two miles south of town
made CHASTITY find in a ravine this after
noon. In crossing slough thick with
weeds they STUN bled on crushed coffin,
containing the body of August Modenbach,
a former butcher of this city.
Modenbach was injured by.a train on the
Southern Pacific road just north of town
last September and soon afterward died.
He was crossing the track with a four
horse team when the wagon was struck.
After Modenbach's S death, physicians who
conducted the autopsy stated that death
had ensued as result of a skull fracture
received in the accident. This the COM
pany physician disputed hotly. A con-
fusion on the skull was sewed up and the
body inferred in the town cemetery.
Soon afterward it was discovered that the
grave had been opened and the body re-
moved. It was not found until to-day
The deceased seemed to have no friends or
relatives who took any interest in the mat
ter so the affair was dropped and no action
was ever instituted against the road on
account OF the mans death.
Coroner Long and others to-day readily
identified the body from the skull incision.
1t was, by order OF the Coroner, returned
to the cemetery. The theory at first adj
vanced, that medical students had taken
the remains up, seems to be now thorough
ly disproved..
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-04
TACoMA,s MYsTERY.

O1tcsats Are Certain That Mrs. Cody of
Chicago Committed Suicide.
TACOMA, WASH, Feb. 3.-The police
have reached the conclusion that Mrs.
A. B. Cody of Chicago, who disappeared
Friday, has committed suicide.
They have searched for her all day in
vaia. To-day her parents discovered note
which she had left. stating that she in
tended to end her life.
The police also learned to-day that she
bought a revolver Friday afternoon and
that she trembled as she paid for the
weapon and asked to have it loaded
1t is feared she went to the woods on
the outskirts of the city and there ended
her life. A conductor of suburban line
says woman answering her description
rode with him Friday and Saturday. a
large number of men spent the day search
ing the woods for her.
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-04
Our Militia Should Be Put on a
Par With That Of Other
Nations.
SENATOR WHITES AID ASKED.
Even Little Canada, Says the Com.
mander, Is Better Equipped Than
This Country.

SACRAMENTO, CAL, Feb. 3.-The fol-
lowing letter has been mailed to Senator
Stephen NJ. White by Adjutant-G General
Barrett in regard to the National Guard of
California:
My Dear Sir: AS the National Guard, in many
instances, throughout the United States are
not equipped and armed as should be done
by. the United States Government, 1 would
earnestly request that you use yonr influence
in getting larger and more appropriate allot-
ments from the Government than has hereto
fore been the custom, as it is absolutely neces-
sary that our guard be placed on a par with
any nation in the world in regard to modern
arms and equipments. Even the little
Dominion OF Canada equips its militia better,
ana has OF a recent date ordered 40, 900 of the
most modern improved rifles to equip its
militia with.
Ihe United States certainly cannot overest-
mate the necessity of at once placing our 49,
600 National Guardsmen in the United States
In as good condition as the regular army.
The National Guard Association of the United
States has committee at Washington, d. c.,
comprising General Albert Ordway and GEN
eral Samuel Dalton, who are working for the
interest of the National Guard throughout the
United States, and 1 hope you Will be able to
assist them in their undertaking. General
Dole, the Assistant Secretary of War, is also
very enthusiastic in these matters.
Trusting that am not encroaching too much
upon your valuable time / am very respect
fully, A. w. BARRETT, Adj djutant-Generai.
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-04
SAN BERNARDINo QUARREL.
Complications Arising From the Horti
cultural Comnttsstors Contest.

Complications arising From the Hortf-
cultural Comnstsston Contest.
SAN BERNARDINO, CAL, Feb. Sit
the Horticultural Commission matters
were mixed before, it is hard to get the
status of affairs now. The question now
agitating the Supervisors is: Where will
it end? This was the day for auditing
bills, and before the Supervisors were the
claims of old and new commissioners and
inspectors. The District Attorney saws
emphatically that he will not approve any
of the bills, SO the Supervisors are in a
quandary as to whether they can legally
issue warrants or not County Auditor
Diss says he will refuse to draw warrants
if issued by the board.
What further troubles the Supervisors is
that the District Attorney told them that
they could be forced to appoint successors
to Messrs. Muscott and Pierson. Matters
are further complicated by the Southern
Pacific agent of Redands coming before
the board and stating that he had sup
ply of trees on hand. One commissioner
ordered him to deliver them, while the
Others told him to destroy them, and be-
hind all are the consignees,. threatening a.
damage suit if some thing is not done at
once. The board does not know how to
act to get out of the muddle.
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-04
CAN SAVE THE ST. PAUL,
Successful Attempts Being Made
to Move the Stranded
Steamer.
After Persistent Efforts the Tugs Are
Making Headway in Hauling
Her Off.

LONG BRANCH. N. J., Feb. 3.-The
big steamer st. Paul was moved about 125
feet to-day, and hopes are high that she
Will float before sunrise. The-wreckers went
to work early this morning. being aided
materially by the high tide and a north
east wind. The tugs began hauling on the
big ship as early as 10 o'clock She rocked
in her cradle in the sand, and this gave
the wreckers an advantage that they had
not yet had in their work.
When all preparations had been made
the tugs out from the stern of the st. Paul
began to haul on the big hawsers, and
soon the vessel was seen TO move. She
moved slowly, but enough to encour age
those at work. The weather conditions
this morning were more favorable for get
ting the st. Paul off than they had been
at any time since the big ship ran aground.
The wind at 10 o'clock blew at the rate OF
about twenty-six miles an hour.
AT noon the wreckers ceased hauling on
the stranded steamer. When work was
stopped they had moved her fully twenty
five feet, anu the officials and wreckers
were jubilant.
No attempt to- work on the steamer ives
made this afternoon because OF the low
tide, but operations were resumed about 10
O'Clock tonight. At midnight the ships
officers reported over the telephone that
the four tugs at work had succeeded in
moving the ship about $50 feet in north
easterly direction.
At 1:30 O'clock this (Tuesday) morning
the tide commenced falling, but work was
not relaxed. The waves beat against the
broad side of the steamer with great force,
but it is not thought that she has sustained
any damage.
Notwithstanding the heavy storm to-
nigh, hundreds of people braved the ele-
ments and stood on Ocean avenue watch
ing the boat move.
AT midnight it was stated that if the
steamer is not foated tonight she will go
out with the next tioodide, which occurs
about noon Tuesday
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-04
GRAND ARMY RATES.
Adrerse Decision to The appeal of the
Great Western Road.

Adrerse Decision to the appeal of the
Great Western Road.
CHICAGO. ILL, Feb. 8. = Chairman
Caldwell notified the Chicago and Great
Western Railway to-day that he had de-
cided adversely to its appeal for relief from
the action of the Western Passenger Asso-
citation relative to the return limit of Grand
Army encampment tickets to ST. Paul
This deci sion was expected by all con-
cerned, and the Great Western officials
will at once give the required ten days
notice to its competitors in the associa-
ton of its intention TO take individual ac-
ton, granting the desired thirty days
limit. Commander-in-Ch Chief Walker has
informed Chairman Caldwell that he is
satisfied with the compromise proposition
from the st. Paul civic committee, but as
yet the other Chicago st. Paul roads have
not asked for meeting TO consider the
proposition.
President Dodds and General Traffic
Manger Babcock of the Rio Grande West
ern Railway, while on their way West to-
day, held an informal conference with Off
cials OF those lines which are connections
of the Western. The matter discussed
was the Utah passenger rate situation and
the desired membership of the Western
Passenger Association. No greement
was reached, but another confer ence will
be held soon.