The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-11-30

The Major Had To Come Home And
Save he State--A New Paper Is Fry
ing 20 axe Affairs Out OF His lands
--Some all Weather Stories By Hay.
wood And Odds.
B-"Hellal Mr.. Editor.
Ri .iol M4j0r. It seems that
you are a5 home now, ''doing business
at the old stand," so to speak"
B-"Yes, tina is kerreck. You gee
I had ter cum home. Sinse I went er
way they are erbout ter ruin the
dymakrat party, an I had ter cum
home ergln an sorter fix up things
Blamed If our party can't do more fool
things in a day than / kin remedy in q
month I've bin tryin' ter git u dvma
KRAFT organs an politishuns ter make
the hte on Twin issues an things like
that, but while l wUz erway they got
up that ole carkuss called the niger
racket. They ortar know that SIGH
things always kick back the wrong
way. Then they got ter abusin' the
folks whuJ are runnin' the present SSate
admins rasnun an teilin' swl sorts ov
things on them, IN most 1851 maxim
mountains out ov molebills. Sum ov
them whuG hev bin talkin' CRATE things
erbout Niger dOminashun hez at got
q nauseratin' dose in the statement
that a guide many procurement dyma
krats hev bin sigDIn' a petishun fer the
appintmeDt ov q nigger postmaster al
Kinston. Now it IL golu' ter be purity
hard wurk ter cOnvinse the honest
folks In the State that we are very Sill
sere when we DO SIGH triczs az that fer
perlitical purposes-tryin' ter put in
niggers ter hurt the other side. That
il sorGer like q preacher aGvIsin' folks
ter be so they Gina ~preacherl
kin hev plenty ov wurk ter DO. Ter
cap The climax, while I wuz erWay
they ressurec5ed an ole gray headed
yarn on Marion Butler erbou some
thin they say he sed in a speech at
Rocky Mount not long ergo. Our
organs hev lied 80 much er6ou5 Butler
In the past tha5 we can't giG ernuf
ahdaviIs an Things ter do any gude
I don't know whut Butler sed an nc
body else knows He miye hev sed awl
he wuz accused ov sayln' an more, TOO,
but unless we kin git sun outsiders ter
swear that he sed &c we can'Emake any
perlItlcal capital out Ov It. 81 we are
In the same ole sink hole an not a rope
in site. [ expect sun Ov our organs
will De publIrnm' thai Governor Rus
sell kicked a hole In Gne bottom Ov the
Ark an drowned Moan an hIZ family
an most OV the animals. II they do
the r puolIkIns an Popullsts wall
prove by the Bible thai IL IL another
campaign lie. Pm goln' ter hev a
meeJin' ov the dymakrak State ExeCu-
tive committee In few days an see II
we CAM git down ter business. My
own private opinion IL ThaE we hea
better not promise anything but that
we will try ter fill every Cfis IN the
State If we kin git elected an that we
are after the ofises an nothln' else
Maybe we will be D~eleevedIf we will do
that. I motifs That SUM Ov our people
hev got tired lookIn' at Kurnell
Josepbus Daniels savin' the State an
they are goIn' Ter start a new dyma
KRAFT paper IN Raleigh called the Post.
That seems-Jer be a sort ov q reflect
shun On the original State saver, but /
recon che SAFE kin stand a little more
savin'. Il Wuz in town the other day
an tried ter draw ou5 my perliJIcal
f~rienos, bus they awI seemed ter
WaDEer Az erbout the weather an
sich Things I met Kurnell OIds an
asked nm Whut the chances are fer
dymakrat victory next year. He SEQ
he wuz 100 cold ter talk, politlcks. |
remarked that this weather lacked a
GUIDE deal ov OeIn' cold enuf ter freeze
q mans opinion. He sed he reckoneo
that wuE true, Ou he hadn't recovered
yit from the weather we had in the
winter of 1856; that it wuz so cold then
tha he couldn't write any thing but colo
facts fer two weeks. Kurnell Graham
Haywood WIZ ttandin' purity close Ter
us an ne seq ne remembered that cold
spell dissIuCGly. He sed he tried fer
git warm IN the store an couldn'5 an
went ouG an 1000 In the sunshine fer
about ten minutes. When ne went
back, INTO tie store he left hIz shadder
frozen On the sidewalk an IL STAYED
there fer a week Or more before It
thawed l soon left them fellers an
went home more disheartened than
ever erOOug my party | believe iG IL
on its last legs Gudebye."
Browns BRONCHIAL TRoCHHs" are
e tslmDIs and convenient remedy for