The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1898-05-03
WITH WHOM SHALL WE FUsEi

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they belong.
WITH WHOM SHALL WE FUSE1
FusionI FusionI is the cry of the
hungry crowd who want the pie. You
hear it from the the throats of those
who have written and cursed, vilified
and r~otten-egged the Pops. out of re
s~pectsbility, as they thought. You
hear of it from the threats of those
who were particeps criminus in the
robberYNof the State of the revenues
that should have come from the State
Department into the Treasury Depart.
ment. Robbery at the rate of Sc 600
per month, $72. 900 per year, $144. 600
per campaign. Robbery to the enOr
nous amount Of about two million
dollars in the last twenty years they
held the Office. lis from the threats
of those who knew of this and parti,
cipated in the pie purchased with it;
the fine brandies bought with it; the
debauchery Of legislation done by it,
and were evidently beknownst to it all
the time. Nothing this crowd could
do was too low for them TO stoop to do
to destroy any nan inside or outside
their party who had q principle and
enough backbone to assert his indie
pendence Of the machine, until they
lost their pie. At last they have be
come go hungry that the gripping, yearn-
ing for pie, Of which they so long have
been deprived, has about driven them
to desperation, and now they would
even dare to fuse with the Pops, pro.
vided the Pops. will agree to fight in
line with them under command of
leaders of their selection. Not a paper
OF theirs, nor q prominent leading
member Of their gang has been heard
to condemn the above referred TO
frauds. Nor the notorious oyster
claims; nor the effort to destroy the
Alliance. Rotten-egging, villitying
and Acknowledgements Of these are con
demned by them. They cannot look
you in the eye and talk about it.
They thought that was all right"
Get thar, Eli! Get thar" yes Get
there! Get there !" Anything is fair
in war;" Politics is war;" "War is
h-ll." 1.-THE decalogue and golden
rule have no place in politics" These
are principles that have prevailed,
with the machine. The same crowd of
leaders entertain the same principles.
Anything for pie; must have it or die.
It is not the rank and file of the PEG
pie who r clamoring for fusion. They
are with us; but it ia those who have
had pie OF want pie-the old
ring, machine politician who know
the people are not in sympathy with
them and know that they stand
no chance for pie unless they can con
fuse the people on the question of fusion
negro or something. 1t is a selfish
move of party bosses. The people will
do WELT to note thisl
Not n word that we have said
above is intended for the rank and file
of the people who do the voting. 1t is
intended only to apply to the wicked,
corrupt men who have by chicanery,
trickery, bribery, robbery, lying and
corruption, succeeded in getting COD
troll Of the party machinery, and while
they have kept the people blinded, and
in dense ignorance Of what was actu
ally going Oh, have corrupted the bal
lot, debauched legislatures, robbed the
people of liberty, and disgraced the
State. Party-lineG Let the people get
together; that is the thing to do. Party
lines are nothing when your liberty of
thought, word and life are at stake.
We do not desire to be partizan, but
when all these crimes are committed
against US, u country, the Order of
which we are 1.-THE organ" and COM
mitted too by and in the name of a po
litical party, it would be worse than
cowardly in US not to fight it. . It
would be treason. When the party
stops the fight we will, and not until
then. The party began it. Let the
party stop it, and atone for it's sins, if
it wishes US to cease firing.
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We have endeavored to give our
readers q plain hint as to the schemes