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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-08-11
CALL FOR THE STATE CCNVEN.
TON

CT the National Party at Greensboro, n.
{. tuesday August 18TH, 1896.
There wall be mass convention of
electors favoring the principles of the
National party at Greensboro, N. c.,
Angus 25 h. for the purpose of nomi
mating a Bntley Sourhgate electoral
ticket, candidates for State Offices, ap
pointing q State central committee and
aI other work incident to such as
semb}ies.
The Natioral party is designed to be
a conserving force IN politics at this
june u~e. The life Of the Republic is
IL jeopardy and tnis IS the fundament-
al Issue. Government problems can
not safely be solved by a manifesto
ton o. seif7hneEs on the part Of the
classes aga nst the MASSES of the poor
against The rich. Liberty, justice,
equality must be the heritage of all.
All for each and each for all" must
be tee s,nJinent which pervades tie
humanitarian IL his civic life if the
Republic lives. To this end the M
tional party declares:
That the liquor tra fic must De sup
pres ed.
That sex is not a qualification for
cit z nship.
That ell money should be issued by
the General G,vert m9ut only, and to
honestly liquIdace outstanding coin OBJ,
legations, there should be free coinage
OF gold and silver at ratio OF Is TO 1
without consulting any other nation.
That land should be preserved from
monopoly and spectators.
That natural monopolies should be
owned by the government.
That the revenues III the government
should be raised by taxing the incomes
and property OF tie people and import
duties should be levied as a means OF
securing equitable commercial rela
tions with other nations.
That the initiative and referendum
and proportional representation should
be adopted.
II you are substantially agreed with
US in til, 50 principles, ccms to Greens.
boro On the 255h inst. and help place
the party on a working basis in North
Carolina. J. H. SOUTHGATE,
Provisional Chairman.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-08-11
A vICR-PREsIDaNTIAL DREAM

The most interesting feature of Mr..
Watson's paper is the dream which
came to him and which be described
in the most lurid way
In view of Mr.. Wat5on's nomination
this article is Of more than passing in
terest, He says:
II was very tired, for the work I had
been doing was very tires0me, and now
that the room grew warm and the long
task fnished l fell asleep.
mo one in the house had been ava! g
but me, while 1 had for many hours
gone over the dreary record of the
patient poor, the suffering poor, Gods
unprovided poor. The hours had stolen
by like slippered monks, and now it
was far into the night when heaviness
fell upon my eyes and I was asleep.
MANY a whirling fiction passed
through my heated head before there
was order in my dream, but after a
while all was ciear-crueliy, shocking
~ clear.
Il dreampt that the world lay before
MI like a map and that 1 could see il
all at once, like a map; that every
grade and class and condition of hu
man life was before me at once, with
no mist before my eyes and no distance
to distort the outline.
what l saw was this: A magni6
cent world of land and sea, of river
and lake and forest and fertile field,
mountains scanned with mineral, val
legs rich with grain.
This world was called by it's Maker
a home for the human family
This human family has grown large.
It's foot prints were thick upon every
stretch of land, and the vessels they
had built darkened the waters of al
the seas,
But the earth was no longer a home
and men were no longer brothers
They hated each other. They all wor
shipped God, but none of them re
garded His law.
Churches f}urished-so did igno
rance. Charities fourished-and pau
pers died in the reefs. I wondered
what it all meant. There was LAM
enough for all. They said God mad,
it for all. But a few had taken posses
sion of it and the many had no homes
There was food enough for all, bu
q few strong men seized it all, and one
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-08-11
THE SITUATION IN CATAWBA
COUNTY.

Correspondence OF the Progressive Farmer.
NEWTON, n. G.
l would like to write you something
on the condition Of politics in Catawba
county. This is court week here and
| never have seen 80 many men that do
not know where they are at. Our PEG
pie are willing to vote for Bryan and
Watson, but say they Will not vote for
Bryan and Sewall. They are not viii
ling to fuse with the Democrats in the
State, unless they can get more hight
On the thing than they have now, and
that is not probable. We are not 60
ing to fall in and help up the same old
gang that we had TO leave for their in
fidelity, intolerance and virtually
forced US to leave the Democratic
! party. Mr.. Butler nor no other man
or men can deliver the Peoples party
over to the Democrats. This is the
peoples movement, and they are going
20 have their say or do, and our lead
ers had better understand fully, what
they are doing before acting. We
have not determined upon any plan of
action. There is a strong feeling among
cur people to do as we done two years
ago, regardless Of the issue in the two
parties, silver and gold. Oar people
read with much interest your article
on Senator Buffers course in captur,
ing the Democratic party. Now, the
main question is, what shall we do for
the best thing for u party, and the
man that can lead us through and out
of this difficult middle. Will the Moses
of the occasion appear2I am at a loss
what to do, or what can be done fol
our advantage. We are waiting to see
what we viii see, and then lay oul
plans for future action.
Fraternally,
III. A. FORNEY.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-08-11
THAT ST. LOUIS CONVENTION

The old party press has lied on the
Populists until the papers have gotten
to the point where they can't tel a
straight story. The writer was in the
minority wing of the convention, and
will not commend some of the work
done, but will be fair enough TO state
that we hardly think a finer BODY of
men ever met in convention It was
an intensely earnest convention. 50
much so, that several fights occurred
among the delegates. But all the lack
of harmony IA brought about by the
imbecility or corruption of the National
Committee. Had the convention been
held at the proper time there woul
have been but little friction.
The delegates were not all we'll
dressed, that is not in the heigth of
fashion, for there were many farm rs
and mechanics there, and poor editors
and lawyers. But altogether, it was q
good looking body of men, sober men.
sensible men, many being we'll dressed,
But feeling was wrought up to a high
pitch and the delegates were easiiv
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-08-11

The Major Waiting for the New Party
He thinks he has Been Buncoed--Ike
Major is a Flexible Democrat.
B. Hello! Mr.. Eiitor."
R.-"HelIo! Major. 1 suppose you
are getting ready to move TO Wash
ington7"
B-"No, not yit. I'm waitin' ter see
how the drap IL goin' ter fall. I've
list herd that they are erbOut ter form
a new Democratic party which Is
strickIy fer gold. Iii wait an see whut
that ermounts ter, fer I amt much
pleezed with that mite Waterman JOB
whut Mr.. Bryan WIZ goin' ter give ne
sinse I've found out that they wuz try
in ter bunco me. I'll wait an maybe
they'll run me fer Congress IN this dee
strik."
R.-"You will not get a jtb in that
for MI. G. B Afford has a lead pipe
cinch on that. He is going to run for
Congress on the gold platform whether
there is any party or not"
B.-"Well, if he runs on the geld
plank I'll cum u az a silver man an
beat him by two thousand majority
R.-"Mr. Ed. Pou viii block the way
in that direction. He has turned out
his whiskers and is going to be a howl
ing silverite until the campaign is over,
at least. Besides. 1 don't see how you
can face about and be a gold man one
day and a silver man the next, and
still retain the confidence of your con
stituents."
Bob! shucks, that IL easy enuf
The people want to be h~umbugged.
Col. Johson put me onto that racket
an I find it works like a charm. VT
dymakrats can be anything We please
three hundred and sixty five days in
the year"
RI have heard it said that Demo
Gratis are like a crawfish, that they can
go forward or backward just as they
please, and when you see Z you are
never certain whether you overlook
him going or met him coming back
Your statement confirms this story"
B-"You are right. We office
seekin' dymakrats are cOntortionlst
an iugglers from wayback. What we
can't do can't be done. GIdebye."
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-08-11
POLITICAL NEWS.

Two Democratic State Conventions
have been held in Maine this year. The
first one declared for gold. The second,
held last Thursday, endorsed the
Chicago platform, but a portion of the
delegates bolted. M. D. Frank was
nominated for Governor, the first
nominee having declined to run.
The straight Populists won in the
Seventh Mississippi Congressional Con,
vention and put Up a candidate for
Congress.
The State Executive Committee of
the Populist parry in California issued
an address last week endorsing Bryan
and repudiating Sewall.
In Kansas the Democrats endorsed
the State ticket put up by the Populiets.
There will be fusion on the electoral
ticket and or Congressional end Iegis
lative tickets.
The Georgia P0pulists were in State
Convention Thursday and Friday.
Hon. Seaborn Wright, OF Rome, an
Ell, quent orator, and a young men Of
mears, was nominated for Governor.
A full Bryan ard Watson electoral
ticket was named ard will stand unless
the Democrats take down SewaiI.
The Texas Popuiist Convention nom
mated a straight ticket Friday and dc
clared for Bryan and Watson. They
will not take any Sewall III theirs.
Michigan Republicans nominated
Mayor Pingree, If Detroit, for Cover
nor Thursday.
E ections were held in Alabama end
Tennessee last week. TIE Democrats
claim a small majority in each State.
The Pennsylvania Populis5 State
Convention declared Bryan and Wat
son their presidential nominees at the
State Convention lest week.
Democratic ard Poruiist fusion has
been If 9cted in Oklahoma.
West Virginia Populists are for
Bryan and Watson.
Missouri Populists and Democrats
have fused on National and State
tickets and will vote for Bryan and
S8walI.
Populiats and Democrats in Ne
braska, Colorado, the two Dakotas,
are so mixed up that they will never
find out which they are. D.sgraceful
trading has evidently been going on
The State Of Washington seems to be
about solid for Bryan and Watson,
Arkansas puts out a full set Of Bryan
and Watson electors. Sewall "ain't
ID it"
Indiana hes declared for Bryan and
Watson in State Convention.
Florida Is for Bryan and Watson.
Texas says: No Watson. no Bryan
for Us" in Populist S ate Convention
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-08-11
SILVER SPECIAL.

The Soaboard Air Line will run a sill
yer special from Atlanta to New York
for the ceremonies attending the mott
fication Of Mr., Bryan at New York on
the 12,h. The rate will be one cent Der
mile travelled. Fare from Atlanta for
the round trip $40; from Raleigh $15 SIS.
Rates from intermediate stations in
proportion. Tickets on sale in North
Carolina 10Th and 11th.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-08-11

aroused to anger or quickly put IN a
good humor by a funny speech or in
cident. Many of the honest delegates
believed that some of the ~tusionists
had made trades of the you tickle me
and I'll tickle you" kind and that
naturally madeEhem suspicious of the
we'll known politicians. The speeches
were generally fine, and orators were
plentiful. or course there were some
crapks. They appear in all conven-
tions, and a little excitement odds to
their crankiness.
But the old party press did not give
us truthful reports. Many things were
greatly magnifed, and many other
things happened at all. Reckless
and prejudiced reporters will paint
false pictures. The following gotten
off by the Chicago Record as a humor-
Gus production, is a pretty fair sample
of the reckless disregard for truthful
ness displayed by ~plutocratic papers.
The Record pretended that these bull
letins were genuine telegrams from the
convention:
"2:17-Dclegate, France, OF New
Mexico, is coming to the platform,
2:l7b-Delegate France is hit with a
brick. Great confusion.
Il 8-The Chairman of the sub Com
miUtee On Platform has just throttled a
Sergeant at Arms. Loud cheering.
2:l9-Tho Hol. Clay W~intergreen,
OF Tennessee, addresses the Chair.
Shouts of Lynch him Lynch him!7
20-The Hon. Clay Wintergreen
has just been butted in the stomach BY
the lion. Fred Gladnese, of Illinois.
Tremendous chez ring by the supporters
of the reform clause.
2.22-The Chairman has just ordered
the police to open fire on the galleries.
2 23-Gen. SpieImore suggests that
while the police are killing eff the peo-
pie in the gallery he be allowed to
make g speech.
2.23l There are now 4O8 delegates
demanding the right to make speeches.
2;24-Gen. Spielmore has just lodged
a chair.
2.25 -Anson Greenlief, of PennsyI,
vania, reaches the platform.
2:26 When Greenleat, of Pennsyl.
vania, was thrown from the platform
he landed on top of Smiley Hop
kins, of Kentucky. Hopkins is now
making a.speecn.
2:27-Hopkins is sitting on top of
another delegate in the middle aisle
Great enthusiasm. Imposs, bic to get
naCne of delegate underneath Hopkins.
2.28 Continued disorder. Band is
playing Comrades"
29-Map 1nps from gallery and
alights on top Of Alternate Weed, of
Wyoming.
2 3O-Delegate WIIdman, OF Missouri,
has just set fire to the convention hall
He is now making a speech.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-08-11
INSTITUTES.

The Commissioner of Agriculture
and one or more of the officers of the
a. & NJ. College and Experiment Sta
tion will conduct institutes st the fol
lowing times and places:
Boone, Watauga County
Saturday, August 8Jh.
Jefferson, Ashe County
Tuesday, August 18th.
Sparta, Allegheny County
Thursday, August 18Th
Mt. Airy, Surry County
Saturday, August Is h
Dalton, Stokes County
Tuesday, August 1871.
Boonville, Yadkln County
Thursday, August 205h
Walnut Cove, Stokes County
Saturday, August 22Ld
Madison, R )Ckingham County
Tuesday, August 25th.
Augusta, Davie County
Thursday, August 9Th.
The business of these instii ute5 per-
tains wholly to agricultural interests.
They are free from politics.
The farmers living convenient to
each appointment are earnestly invited
and r. ques.ed to attend.
There will be a second day g session
of the institute at any of the above
places, if desired, when the next place
of appointment can be reached in time.
Yours very truly,
S. L. PATTERSON,
Commissioners
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-08-11
The Best


contain a high percentage
of Potash.
All about Potash-t the results or..
by actual experiment on the best -.-- .
the United States-i5 told in a IitrE. -.
which we publish and will gladly m.. '
to any farmer in America who w.. u..-
for it.
GERMAN KALI WORKS
% Nassau St, New
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-08-11

third of the people had not enough to
eat.
81 tried to see what kept the human
family alive. 1 found it was labor.
There were many kinds of labor. Some
labored to produce food for the world.
Some labored to produce clothing.
Some labored to make houses be
cause caves and hollow trees had be-
come unsatisfactory.
Some labored to teach the people
the law of God.
"Oshers still labored (or pretended
to labor to make just laws, by which
Gods will should be done in the affairs
Of men.
In my dream I saw clearly a most
singular thing-thJse whose work was
most important to the world were paid
less for their labor than any body else.
Those who merely amused the world
got higher wages than those who fed
and clothed it. Those who played and
danced got higher pay than the man
who built the house they played and
danced in.
The laborers who produced the food
and the clothing were 80 bAdly paid
that although they fed and clothed
their masters they CHE Iaborers) had
not enough to eat Of to wear"
After gtz.ng upon the scene of to day
in this way, MIR. Watson in his dream
changes his vision and sees to day il
this way:
But the troubled nightmare passed,
and l fell into the dream of to morrow
a gorgeous dream-a spirit lifting
dream.
Il seemed to be locking upon the
same world, but it was bathed in light
and filled with harmony.
The great rush and hurry had passed
away. The fever and the pain was
gone. It's vas5 machinery moved like
the stars, never hasting, but never
resting There was room for all and
food for all. The earth was dedicated
anew as a home t Gods children its
products their food. Religion burst
out from the cold churches and abode
in the lives Of men-that high religion
which loves mercy, does good and seeks
the right.
Law was no longer frittered away
by WrangIing advocates and stupid
judges. Shs took her broad principles
into the walks of life and did justice
between man and man.
The rulers Of the people no longer
scorned men, nor defrauded them with
cunning laws and sharp practices. The
people themselves now ruled, and the
laborer was no longer a sert.
There was no outcasts, for they all
had homes. There were no beggars,
for there was work for all and fair
wages for all.
There was little crime, for it's cause
had been removed.
"Fhere was brotherhood among men,
fer the source Of the rivalry and hatred
had been taken away.
WARS had ceased. The killing Of
men had become horrible, whether
singly or by thousands. the murderer
was detested whether he was named
GuiUeeu or Napoleon,
The hum of peaceful industry was
IN the air. The music of youthful
laughter was in the streets. The song
of the contented reaper was in every
ID"
In this way Mr.. Watson continues
He concludes by stating that the dream
Of to day is sure, and that to morrow
| might rever come.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-08-11
BRABSTER x EST

Friends if you expect us to keep up
this fight in your interest you must
keep your subscriptions paid up. We
have no mIilionerIe5 20 draw on like
some other papers.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-08-11

Thomas B Reed was re nominated
for Congress by the Republicans in the
First Maine district Thursday.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-08-11
Potash

is a necessary and important
ingredient Of complete fer
tlLlzers. Crops Of all kinds
require a properly balanced.
manure.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-08-27
hr. Jones ENDjains,

Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: in your issue dated Friday, Aug
p, 1896, was an article written 10y Il CORE
Spondcnt from this place to the Carbon
dale Herald, which, If true. brands me
as unworthy TO he an officer in this boz
Ough or. for that matter, in any other
borough or city in the state or county;
If not true. IL stamps the writer as a
calumniator and coward. who ought
never to be allowed space IN any Journal
to vent his spleen and venom against law
and order. Now, as to the facts:
ON Aus; 49, the day Of the Lithuanian
wedding in question, the groom. probably
recognizing that some of the guests were
wont to he dangerous, requested that an
officer should he present to preserve or
der | went. All went well until Anthony
GalaNitZ came in. He started to raise a
disturbance, and being the only Officer
present among IA large crowd, | tried "a
quiet him rather than to aGgravate him,
and finally induced the man to sit down
beside me. While | was watching a quar-
rel in another part of the room. which
feared might develop into a fight, GalaVit2
tried to slip my handouts and revolver
from my pocket. | felt the movement
and turned around just in time to see tho
man withdraw my property | asked him
to return it in an entirely proper manner
and he refused Realizing mat it would
neither be good judgment on my part or in
keeping with common sense to resort 10
physical force where there were present
one hundred on one side 70 one on the
other | appeared before u. Il. Braman
esq, and sworc ont warrant for the ar
rest of GalavitZ. | was no more intONi-
Gated then than | am when | write this
article, and when the case comes TO tria
at Montrose. / can prove that the facts
which | state here are substantially cor
rect.
As to the anonymous and irresponsible
correspondents reference TO the escape ol
a prisoner from me in Scranton about q
year ago. | will only deign to say that II
was one of those unfortunate circum-
stances which will happen 10 any officer
who handles any considerable number OF
prisoners in the discharge of his duty
| will further say that when the prisoner
escaped in Scranton | was with an officer
above reproach, who can testify, If ncces-
sary, that no ordinary watchfuiness could
have guarded against the occurrence.
| do not wish to resort to abuse of the
writer of the article copied by you from
the Carhonda,c Herald, because it would
be only throwing mud against a man who
Is 50 basmoarel with mire now that the
effect would be invisible. Suffice it 10 81 :
| that he has been repudiated twice at the
! polls by the best element of the citizen.
| i'm Forest CITY. which may account for his
sympathy with disorder and his frequent
| attacks. through the press, upon th'
regularly constituted officers of the law
John ". Jones.
! Fores. city. Aug. 2j 1896
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-08-27
DUNMORE YOUTH
COMMITS SUICIDE
Carlton Letchw0rth Hangs Himself in
His Fathers Barn.
PARENT MADE THE DISCOVERY
Went 10 Find Out the Cause of His
Sons Proiracted Absence and
Comes Upon His Body Swinging
from Il Eeam--lcit No Word Behind
to Explain His Aciion--Aiivc when
Found but Died Later.

Carlton Letchworth, the twenty-five j.
year-old son of Undertaken T. u.
Letchworth. of Dunmora. hanged him
self yesterday afternoon in his father
barn on Chestnut street. He was dis
covered by his father and cut down
soon after he committed the rash deed
but after lingering until 10 o'clock he
died without recovering consciousness.
About 3 o'clock his father sent him
to the barn to clean out a couple of
stalls and harness a pair of horses.
Three-quarters of an hour later, his
father becoming uneasy at his long
absence, went 10 the barn and was
horrificd to GiscuVcr his son hanging
from rafter. lie cut him down and
as he was still warm, hastily sum
monpd the Durmore physicians.
Doctors Hopkins, Garvey, Murphy
and Winters worked with him until
after o'clock when they gave him
up. He died an hour later.
The suicide evidently committed the
rash deed on a sudden impulse He
cleaned out the stalls as directed by his
father. swept out the barn and when
he went up to the carriage room to
hitch up tn" team he then determined,
it is supposed, upon taxing his life.
He stood on n wagon. attached a ROPE
to one of the beams overhead. tied the
other end around his neck in a moose
ana then jumped off the box of the
wagon.
He stood six feet three inches in his
stocking feet and was built in proror-
ton, For the last five years he was n
member Of the Thirteenth regiment
and is well known in this city.
What prompted him TO do away with
himself is not clearly known, but it Is
said to he despondenCy, due to petty
troubles. He left no word of eNplana-
ton behind. He was a rather lively
fellow and got into various scrapes,
some Of which caused no little scandal.
About a year ago he. together with
two other boys, ran away from home
and ever since their wild lark he has
been more ur less romorseful and de
sponGent.
Coroner Longstreet was notified and
will hold an inquest this morning at
10 o'clock.