The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1898-06-21

party, until after their recent State
Convention, the last glimmering ray
OF hope would then have passed away
and / should have gotten myself TO-
gether and walked out of that party,
leaving the. ''smell of birthstone, Wall
street" and the Southern Railroad be-
hind me, and joined the Peoples party,
the only one of, by and for the people.
II there vas sufficient cause Cand.
there Was) for the organization Of the
Peoples party in 1892, there ia greater
cause for the continuation Of the same
today.
Yet, after insulting every Populist
in North Carolina by their Kisses,
groans and pretended nausea at the
thought of US. this Democrats have the
cheek to ask US to surrender our party
organization and do the voting and let
them hold the Offices. This ia ell that
the ''bosses" promise us. Since they
have no argument with which to come
before the people, they have drawn
the color line and are appealing to the
pre- JUDGES of the people by following
''negroI negrol"
Yes,~the Democrats will throw the
gro" at us during the next campaign,
but let us stand firm. TIC viii not
hurt us.
Mr.. W. 3. (Buck) Kitchin Topped
Ud~alighted back into the Democratic
camp, and asked as to flop, too, but
we didn't "hop." His son, W. W.,
was elected to Congress by reason of
the Populist support, two years ago.
Yet he let the opportunity OF his life
pass, while at the Democratic State
Convention at Raleigh, May goth, 1898,
TO show Misrepresentation Of our support.
It he is ashamed to confess US before
the Southern Railroad attorneys, we
(the Populists) viii also be ashamed to
confess" him before the people. We
have tried all kinds land there are
about (, 1000 kinds) Of Democrats, and
with afeW exceptions they have proven
themselves the enemies Of the people.
We thought that we were making
wonderful progress towards reform
when we gotto electing Alliance Demo-
Gratis to offices, but In many instances
they, too, become the willing tools Of
trusts, railroads and the devil. Think
Of ex Governor Carr and the 80 year
railroad lease.
In my opinion Governor Russell lie
the only Governor, in the true sense Of
the word, that North Carolina has had
since Vance vacated the Governors
chair. Yet we received q tremendous
rasping for commencing him in trying
TO give the people Of North Carolina O
clean administration.
North Carolina has produced but
few Zsb. Vances, yet when he-made
that memorable speech on the floor of
the U. s. Senate, the GROWING effort
Of his life, in defense Of the peoples
rights, the Democratic press said that
Z9b. was in his "dotage." The Demo
Gratis said ON every stump from the
mountain tops to the sea shore that
the laws Of North Carolina were good
enough; that they did not favor a
single change.
Now, should the Democrats get pos
session Of the next legislature Of North
Carolina what would they dot God
only knows, but / might mention q
few things that they would do. They
would repeal the county government
system, the 6 per cent. law, and last,
but not least, they would repeal the
present election law and enact q new
one, disfranchising thousands of yot.
ers. Thus empowered they would re-
tain control Of the State for years, and
q Populist would fare just as we'll at
their hands as the negro. / do not
know what the policy Of the Peoples
party will be, but whatever it may be,
let us control the next legislature,
though we lose everything else. To do
this we must have help. The Demo
czats say that they will not help us, SO
it remains to be seen whether or not
the Republican will help us.
Will the railroads control the Re
publican ~convention9 We will see.
Now, / am charitable enough to be.
lieve that there are good patriots in all
parties, but those honest Democrats
who would stand for the people, with
q few exceptions, never have the op.
portunity, for it is just re- hard for q
poor man to get an Office in the Demo.
cratic party, as it liz for a rich man to
enter into the kingdom of heaven.
The Peoples party platform is broad
enough, strong enough and good enough
for every liberty. loving patriot ia
stand upon, and all such we cordially