The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-06-23
BRABsTER VESTS LETTER.
How Congress Adjourned---Reed Deeply
Grieved--Teller or si~bley--Sibley's
CeClaration-A Parvenu's Coat of Arms.


On the evening Of June 11th the PEG
pie must have experienced a feeling of
relief, like a man awakening after be-
ing oppressed by a nightmare, for that
day the Fifty fourth Congress ad
journed. There have been Congresses
which covered themselves with glory.
there nave been others which covered
thems: Ives with odium, but this is the
first which w8s 50 cowardIy and medi
OGRE as TO do nothing at all. True, it
passed q filled cheese bill, but the mem
bers only did it for self protection, for
with but a few exceptions they were g
skinned milk lot OF pseudo statesmen.
The adj ournment sine die Of the
House Of Representatives was fuunier
than any farce ever staged. Many of
the member5 mad already scurried eff
ID st. Louis, there to lend their voices
to the v0ciforou8 demand Of the ma
tional banking and ether unprincjpled
robbers for the nomination OF McKin
ley, "hO dare not tell the truth con
corning his position upon the fnarcial
question If Ell, c5ed President, and con
sfqlenJty does his lying by mis- proxy,
Mark H3uua, the E1gIlsl faced repre-,
sentative Ct the millionaire msnufac-
tU5er8 ana the ally Of R)thschild.
Speaker Reed, who Is SO rOtund that
when he dies MS biography should be
entitled a Tale Of a Tub" was Ill ct
ease, for that morning he mad heard
the dlrefui news that the WeE-uurse Of
lis Presidential boom, J. Il. ID nley,
had placed a Mckinley pillow over the
infants lace and emothered it. His
evaporation was manifest by the IN
! wonted shrillnCss Of MS voice, which
at the best is a cross between q cr02k
and a GqIeak, resembling that Of a boy
in his teens whose voice has cracked.
Congress had agreed to 40 jJurn 1t 4
o'clock, 80 half an hour earlier Bailey,
Of Texas, shock his long hair out Of his
eyes, took up several of the gathers in
his voice, and warm d the Republican
party that their name would be mud"
If they adopted at ST. LOUIS a platform
which straddled upon the money Ques-
ton That made his hearers laugh,
coming from a man who proposes to
nominate an Enthusiastically old Bour
bon D.mocraG such as Bland or Boies
upon q silver platform at Chicago.
However, the Popu!;s.s viii this year
relegate Bailey to his old Job of calling
the cattle home with his M fiji d voice.
Four o'clock came. Reed arose in
pondarous adipoeity and fqIeakingly
thanked the House for the good work
it had done. What he meant no one
knew; even the members grinned IN
comfortably as the people in the gal
Tiers laughed derisively. Then be de
clared the House Gdjourned sine die
and waddled away to catch q train for
| St. Louis, with a look Of malev0lence
10 his piggish eye which BODIED no good
TO his rCcreaut lieutenant. Tee mem
bers faded Away to S.. Luis or their
! homes, after parting smiles, and the
first session Of the Fifty fourth Con
greFs had passed into comic history.
The political situation remains IN
changed. Before this letter appears III
the columns Of THE PROGRESSIVE
FARMER Mckinley will be the candidate
Of R9publicAni5m, usury, protection,
and hUmbug. 1t is currently reported
here that a campaign fund Of $50, OOO,.
900 has been pledged by the London
and New York gold c~oDspirators, the
national bankers and the milliOnail g
manufacturers for his election. Even
the Washington Post, agoldbug paper,
has given credence to this report, and
/ am convinced it is true. The voters
may be sure that for every dollar ex
pended by the unholy combine 800
wilt Later be squeezed out OF them.
The Democratic leaders seem to be
iiove that they can take advantage of
the demand of the South and West for
free silver by adopting such a platform
and nominating a trimmer upon it, II
will not go. If they do the Democratic
party will be third in the race this year.
No man not acceptable to the Populist
and Silver parties will receive their
support. Only two will they consider.
Sibley and Teller. Boies, Of lowe, the
champion topper OF the country, who
ie all things to all men, has written an
open letter demonstrating against the
nomination of any man save an old
Democrat, meaning Boies.
AS a contrast, Sibley has written me,
saying: 80 that harmony may pre-
vail, that the friends of financial re