The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1898-11-29


such anoEherI SINNERS ak thousand
msiorfty in the First Congressional
district had completely daSsd him.
What political forethoughth he had ever
possessed borsook him and he W~asseized
with q Wanting ambition 60 be United.
States Senator himsslf.a Well, youaaI
know therest. J. $50
The wilmington trouble never could
have assumed such-gigantic proper
tons had those untoftunate Legislators
abided, the action OF the regular Pepus
list caucus. NeWbern would not have
bcut such figure In the campaign "a it
did, and Greenyille would not have
had one tenth the ~notoriety Of which il
has since been the victim.-The negro
scare crow could not have reached
such magnificent proportions; John r:
Smith would not have BeenR8 house,
hold word, and Hancock might never
have been President Of the North Car.
olina Railroad Company.
circumstances over. which we had
little control brought us TO where we
are EtRnd it could not have been pre-
vented unless there had been more
wisdom and less office seeking upon
heJpart of the leaders Of the Republi.
can party and the anti Butler PopulistS
could have had7discernment enough TO
have realized that as soon as the Pop
ulist party became an adjunct to the
Goldbng Republican machine in North
Carolina we we're doomed to ignomin-
ious defeat by the wholesale desertion
Of the rank and file Of the Independent
or floating vote.
Governor Russell's attitude towards
the Southern Railroad reacted against
US because he failed to succeed. In that
matter ] believe he was theoretically
right, and 60 supported him. But his
party did not have the wisdom to see
that as a party measure that il he was
not successful that it would be doubly
injurious in that the private stockhold-
ers would be against us and whole
Southern System itself, and not hav
ing succeeded a great many people
would believe he was in the wrong,
and therefore blamed the whole of the
fusion forces for yer attempting to
upset the lease.
Besides our mistake, the whole com.
bined sympathies Of the
MONEY AND MONOPOLY POWERS IN THE
NATION WERE AGAINST Us
n khSa kSn1n TNA~ Tho ~~SGo A4@HSnA
pride, tits true, Of the solid South
urged many to very rash speeches,
and these speeches aroused the slum,
bering race prejudice into white heat
which we Of the east were not able to
withstand and the white western Pop
ulists and Republicans failed to act t6e
part of wise men and Christians, ald
by their votes sanctioned and encour
eyed the
AWFUL BULDOLING THAT CARRIED
most OF b eastern counties.
That uufortune decision Of the su-
preme Court in the Wilmington case
also caused the. w~epterners to desert us
tor the Democrats promised to super.
wise Halifax and E1gecombe counties,
but to let Buncombe and the other
western counties alone, forgetting that
in these counties they will for at least
a decade to come count suh ,ient ma
jorities to Cfset any votes they may be
disposed to cast against them.
Some attribute all our woes to our
fusing with the Democrats nationally.
They say that we should have run a
straight ticket, and that we would
then have been in q condition to make
q successful fight in 1900. / think cir.
cumstances control men as we'll as
men control circumstances.
BRYAN MORE NEARLY REPRESENTED Us
than he did the Bourbon D mocrats.
He said if the Democrats nominated
any man Of the Cleveland stripe that
he would not remain in the party. He
had voted against Cleveland and in
favor of Weaver. He had at another
time bolted his party nominee who
was a goldbug and voted for q Populist.
Besides, in order to elect a man to our
liking we must needs have q majority
if not all OF the Southern States. Now,
note this is the most important reason
for endorsing Bryan. These States
could not support any one unless he
was labelled Democrat, and they would
have voted for anyone who was so la
belled. ,s
DID we want a..President who repre-
sented the ideas that Bryan stood for
1t so, the only chance to get him was
to take Bryan. Besides, u people