The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-09-22
ELECTORAL COOPERATION.

Saving It DlSCuSSeo--E noofSemenC Oh
Watson by Democrats in Four or Five
States Makes Sewalrs lection More
Certain--E fleet of Endorsing Watson
in North Carolina.
correspondence of the Progressive Farmer.
The ''sainted" Tllden, a New York
millionaire, once also a candidate for
President by Democratic nomination,
seems to have shared in Wall streets
fear OF the South, judging from the fol
lowing clipping taken from the New
York Evening Post of July 80 h, 1896:
"a still more remarkable warming
was long since uttered by a sagecious
man, Samuel J TIden, to which at
tention was called yesterday by a cor
respondent of the New York Times.
In a conversation, the date Of which is
unfortunately not given, with a gentle
man from one of the seeding States,
the latter remarked that the Demo
cratic party appeared TO be permanent
" disabled. Mr.. Tliden replied:
1T seems to be broken down at pres
sent. and it is broken down; but 1t will
come up again, and will once more gain
control of the government. But this
situation will not be permanent In
order to come into power the DemOc
racy must have the support and assist
ance of the Southern States, and that
support and assistance may very sOoD
prove to be it's ruin. The Southern
States uriU insist upon ruling the De
mOcracy utterly, and. being poor, they
1ciH try to fOist into the DemOcratjcprO
qranlmle ideas and measures contrary
to all Democratic principles. Against
this the whole country will protest
The United States aCiH neUer consent
to be governed by the South or by such
Southern ideas. The Democracy will
be voted down, and then its last situa
ton will be worse than the fist"
re publish this clipping to show the
real character of e man once idolized
as a hero down here-an idolatry due
entirely to the f4Gtering misrepresen
tation of Southern newspapers and
speakers who did not know, ard did
not even care to know with certainty
the man through whom they expected
to win the. spoils of Cfice. Cleveland
is another example,. It is now said and
admitted that except when he vas try
ing to hedge and deceive, during a cam
paign, for the mere purpose of increas
ing his vote among the misinformec,
be was always a oEsistent goldbUg
and c~ontractionist. But in 1888, after
ne ksd started his financial record In
tfhcei no serious mention of his finau
cial policy was ever made in this State {;
and even IN 1892 it was most emphat,
IcalIy denied that he was a gOldbug. In
fact even as late as 1898, in the great
debate in Congress, it was most vehem
emily denied by Southern Democrats
on the floor that Cleveland was a gold
bug; it was urged that the purchasing
clause of the Sherman Act was the
''cowardly make shift" alluded to 10
the Chicago platform, and That it was
necessary to repeal this in order that
the President might have a chance
to do something for silver" 1t is now
pretty generally admitted, even among
machine politicians, that Wall street
has usually dictated the nominations of
both C0nventionsfo for about thirty years,
whenever it has been thought worth
its while, and that Mr.. Bcyan's is a
singular exception. It is noteworthy
also that the people have taken very
little interest, comparatively, in can
wasting the claims OF Vice Presidential
candidates for the nomination, and
hence have been even more easily
gulled than when considering a suit
able candidate for President. The
choice of Wee President has usually
been left to a small coterie of machine
politicians-the agents for Wall street
in their last analysis-and the posses
sion of a barrel is getting to be more
a prerequisite of his nomination. This
barrel usually insures the owners sym
pathy with the class who own barrels
There is a free masonry among the
holders of large wealth. This barrel
owning candidate, TOD, usually made
or keeps his wealth by monopoly or
other knavery. This increases his class
feeling to the fellowship which obtains
among thieves. But these thieves Of
legislated advantage when they become
the candidates of one of the great par
ties are usually beslobbered with as
much fattery as their partisans viii
believe.