The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-01-12
THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER ON
THE SITUATION.

enough votes in the sLeglSlature 10 ueleI-
mine whether the Senator should be
silver advocate or a disciple of Sherman,
enough Populists would be boiling "their
own party caucus in order to ELECT the
rold man. what would we not have heard
from Col. Harry Skinner, Walter r. Hen
nv. G. Ed. Kestler, and other silver tom
pned silver advocates? And yet that
is the situation that is presented IN North
Carolina to-day.
There il no wonder that the Progress
sive Farmer writes holly against those
ponulists who are so anxious to elect
a gold Senator that they bolt their own
party. The life of the Populist party
is at stake. In all the history of the state
no newspaper has denounced =traltors
in its PARTY as severely as Editor Ram
sey denounces those Populists who intend
to vote for Pritchard. The Farmer COM
pares them to Benedict Arnold, says that
Pritchard can be elected in no other way
than by buying votes, and that If enough
Populists sell out to elect Pritchard, the
Populist party will become a stencil Ill
the nostrils of honest people Could
denunciation be more severe? While
pointing out the evidences of Doodle, the
Democratic papers have been mild in
their language compared with the ex-
pressions, in strong and trenchant Ian
guage, that the Progressive Farmer uses.
Below we give extracts from its editorial
utterances:
1T is now rroner to refer to Senator
Pr:tchaIu as .-4-,4.s.,rs financial piano.
rama.
Write TO your members Of the Legis-
lature and urge them to repudiate gold
bugs for Senator.
...OId Nick and Mark Hanna must
have had a hearty laugh when they read
Col. Pritchard's latest string of promises,
"Col. Bryan Tyson is in favor of run
ming the per capita circulation up to $50.
Between Tyson and Pritchard give us
Tyson.
when Col. pritchard comes forward
with his next batch of promises he Will
probably agree to vote for bill to make
old shoes legal tender, provided Eng
land and Mark Hanna don't object and
by independent action if they do make
a kick.
within the past two weeks twenty
eight banks, some of them very large
ones. have closed their doors. Total LA
biIities S21, SOD, 779. This it is that the
| Mckinley wave Of prosperity sweeps
over the country and confidence is res
tored." Yet some North Carolina legis-
lators are trying to re-elect Senator
Pritchard, who is likely to help continue
/ this disastrous state Of affairs.
tit appears that there is q fight be-
tween Senator Butler and Congressman
| Skinner for leadership. Everybody rec
ognizes the ability of the two men, but
/ we don't want any leaders. There has
/ been too much leadership already. The
! people want workers, not bosses, advisors,
I not drivers Leaders are responsible for
/ present complications. Just because a
| man occupies responsible position he
| should not attempt to rule the roost.
| "Pritchard's letter to Col. Skinner is a
! considerable come down from the high
! horse Mr.. Pritchard erode during the
! latter part Of the lase campaign, while
/ he was footing the Mckinley gold bug
! horn. But what does it amount to? Can't
| he change again ON short notice? He
| started out ia 1896 as a free coinage
/ man, IS to l. Before fall he was fully
converted to the gold standard theory.
| BY the 10th of December he was writ
ing to Col Harry skinner that he was
a free coinage man by international a.
greement, which is as remote as the sue
cess OF the flying machine, which shows
that he was as weak as branch water
but before he could write a half dozen
words he was full fledged silver man o.
gain, by Independents action Then, in
less than a minute, if he was writing
RAPIDLY, he even adopted Col Harry
SINNERS Sub-Treasury idea, to amend
the national banking act, so as to perIgt
farmers to borrow money upon land 9nd
farmers to borrow money upon land and
staple crops We presume that this
touched tender spot in Col. SINNERS
corporsity and fattered him 50 that he
has come to Raleigh and is using all lis
lung power in behalf of Mr. Pritchard
twenty hours day.
''The people Of North Carolina are tired
Of treachery and fo0lishness. They have
been trying to abate the evils, and do not
propose 10 take any DdCk Nsdlu oCtpS. ouSe
more we serve notice that this paper will
expose Senator Pritchard, his methods,
and those who are working to
re-elect him under the plea that
they have made some sort of
pledges. All pledges became void
when Senator Pritchard began to craw-
fish from the position he took in the fl
nancial question two years ago, when
he was first elected. PRITCHARD
MAY GET A FEW BOLTERS, BUT
THE P0PULIST PARTY CAN'T BE
DELIVERED, neither can the influential
leaders.
"Most Of the nineteen mention as
boilers are Pritchard sympathizers
SOME OF THEM CORRUPTLY, and
others honestly, believing they are under
obligations to keep pledges, which, how
ever, are now void. AS soon as we can
find out the Pritchard sympathizers for
pie only, we will publish a black list Of
the names and keep them before the pe0-