The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1898-03-22

Is Going To Capture The Democratic
Party Again And Use It As Pleases--
He Reminds The Major Of Daniel Of
Old.
B.-"Hellol Mr.. Editor"
R.-"Hello! Maior. I earnestly hope
that you have fully recovered from
you recent mental troubles"
BIN glad ter say that I've aorter
gotten over sum ov my troubles, but
they cum a pilin' on me frum another
source now. / see in tie papers that
Chirman Butler, who liz aWlsoa United
States Senator, il a settin' ov hiz traps
ter catch the dymakrat party ergin.
I'm purity nigh heart broken. Kurnell
Johnsin wuz out here a few days ergo
an lowed that / needn't ter be losln'
sleep over that, but I can't help it.
This thing liz wurse nor fer the Spanish
ter invade this fair land ov ours. Just
think ov il! The grand old party that
Tom Jefferson set up every mite a burn
in midnite oil year after year a study
in an tryin' hiz level best ter invent or
discover before he did it, il erbout ter
be scooped in at one sweep by a blamed
Populist POLITICIAN Tt liz ennuf ter
make the statute ov liberty shed big
scaldin' tears ov remorse. Tt makes
my patrotick blood bile over with in
d~ignashun. This amt the furst time
Chairman Butler h6z gone an done
this either. That liz whut makes me SO
mad. In 1892 he sot hiz trap an stood
back waitin' fer us ter Cross our hands
an walk rite in. Again in 1896 Char
man Butler sot hiz trap an he an sum
other fellers who like that sort ov sport
tole the other pops ter jist wait a few
weeks an see them dymakrat green
horns walk rite in an git captured, an
blamed if we didn't do it. The pops
they got captured too. They were
stickin' Ground over the country jist
like flies on fly paper. 1t Wuz a big
thing fer the goldbugs They got the
dymakrat party and the pops ter iCin'
ermong ourselves an jjst hitched us
out in the woods while they went ahead
an elected a P~reserdent an a Congress
that suits them exactly. I've bin tole
on the sly that the whole thing Wuz
fixed up ter demoreljze the pops an
blamed If it didn't. That liz the only
consolashun I kin git out ov the whole
buziness. Kurnell Johnson says the
dymakrRt party kin beat the ole boy
himself a side trackin' other parties,
an I reckon it liz erbout so. Tt ker
humixed the greenback party erbout
thirty years ergo. But this new game
ter capture my grand ole party hurts
my feelins. 1t may be a guide thing
fer the dymakrat party, but I can't git
use ter it. Whut hurts my Feline
more liz that Chairman Jones, ov our
party, IL helpin' Butler bait the trap
Then there il another feller named
Town or Sity, or sumpthin' ov that
kind, a helpin'. On! | tell you it il
h~eartrendin'. 1t hurts my pride ter
see Chairman Butler goin' out alone
an singlehanded an capturin' the
grand ole dymakrat party with nearly
six million voters the third time. /
can't understand Whut they are sendin'
Chairman Jones along with Butler fer
unless it il ter keep Butler trum hurt
in the dymakrat party when he cap
lures it. I reckon they are afraid But.
Ter may handle the party sorter rough
like bein' az how it use ter handle him
the same way. Butler sorter reminds
me ov that good ole man Daniel whu,
you read erbout in the Bible. He don't
mind goin' down rite inter the dyma
KRAFT lions den an goin' ter sleep. He
did that in 1896 an when he woke UP
the dymakrat party WIZ at Chicago
holdin' a nashional convention an they
had the whole pop party barbecuod an
were feRstin' on il an maxim merry
Butler sed ter the dymakrats, me an
my crowd are goin' ter take a nap
You fellers go ahead an hold your
convention an nominate a goldbug
Then we pops will wake up an hole
u convention an nominate a silver
man an beat the socks off you. The
joke wuz 30 good that we dymakrat
couldn't aft I'd to not help carry it out
&c we went ter Chicago an nominateG
the most laxative silver man we coulC
find an made a platform that lookeC
exactly like a Populist platform It
distance ov forty miles, an behold
when the pops got their nap u the,