The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-01-21
OPEN LETTER TO tx CONGRESS.
MAN GRADY.
Hon. w. H. Kitchen Gives Him Some
thing to Think About.

Dear Mr.. Grady,
SIR:-I have just read your able de,
Tense of the Republican administration
at Washington, or more correctly
speaking, the reasonable administra
ton of Grover Cleveland.
must confess that your defense has
taken me by surprise and almost par
alyzed energies and human nature. l
did think that if the people had a friend
or friends that you were that friend,
or among their friends. Aud I still
trust you have been deceived and be
guiIed by some wolf in sleeps cloth
ing, or some High Priest with his mas
tsrs filthy lucre in his pocket, in going
on record as an advocate of the single
gold standard, and as an apologist for
the hypocrits, plunderers and traitors
nov controlling the administration. 1t
cannot be that you have abandoned
the principles of the time honored De-
mocracy, forgotten its gloriesH and ira
ditions, and joined the Wall and Lom-
bard streets p%lunderers and tyrants4
My faith in your honesty, integrity
and patriotism is the cause of my
amazement at your article in the Demo
Graf. The defense of Cleveland would
have been natural from the brain or
pen of Joe Calwell, Paul Means, Matt
Ransom, or any other goldbug by ne
ture, education, training and tradi
ton; but from you it sounds and seems
as unnatural as the waters of the Miss
issippi would seem to ma flowing up
stream back into the mountain gorges
and rocks from whence they issued.
You name and specify a great many
outrageous wrongs and Infamous mis-
doings of the previous republican ad
ministrations.
agree with you, with all my heart,
in all the charges against that party.
You did not make them half strong
enough, nor specify one hundredth
part of them. They are mountain
high and earth wide. They reflected
the spirit of the devil on earth, with
all his crimes and w~ickedness, which
appeals to the American people (such
as you) and to the courts of heaven for
redress.
Now, my dear friend, did it never
occur to you, TO redress these griev.
ances, these wrongs, these plumbers,
these mistakes, these misdoings of the
Republican party, were the very OBJ
jects and purposes the people had in
view in defeating the Republican party
and in electing Cleveland and the
Democratic party to powers If they
were satisfied with these wrongs,
crimes and misdeeds Of the Republi
can party, why did they drive that
party out of power and restore the
Democratic party to powers Why did
they not let well enough aloneR Would
it not have been better to have allowed
the Republican party to have admins
tered their damnable and Infamous
loans go denounced by the D9momo
cratic party for a period of more than
twenty than to have put the Demo
cratic power to administer the laws
they had denounced as oppressive,
grievously burdensome and detractive
of the great and best rights of the citi-
zensF
What possible motive could the
American people have had in Danish
ing the Republicans and calling the
Democrats to control the nation if it
was not for the express purpose of re-
versing the engine-the policy of the
Republicans-and adopting the de-
clared policy of the DemocratsG
If Mr.. Cleveland and a Democratic
Congress were not elected to repeal
the bad laws put on the statutes and
to reform the finances of the country,
the tariff taxation, curtail expenses,
and administer justice, for what were
they elected2
Why did they promise to do these
things, if elected, if they did not in
tend to keep their promises3 Did they
not know as well when they made the
promises as they do now that the Re
publicans had dug the pit to which you
referi
The Democrats promised to fill up
this pit, or bridge it over, or go around
it. Have they kept their promisesl
They marched straight into the pit
and continued to march in a circle
around said pit, doing exactly what
the Republicans had been doing for
twenty years; and for fear they would
by mistake blunder out of said pit, and