The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1898-04-26
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stroy the Alliance, its work and the
political good that has grown out OF
the Alliance, without calling names,
regrets that The PROGRESSIVE FARMER
hasn't got such an editor as the late
Col. Polk, now.
So do we. It is also q matter OF re-
greet that the Times Mercury has not
got a great, wise and good editor like
Col. Polk. If it had, two of the lead
ing editorial paragraphs in the last
issue Of that paper would not have
been eulogies of the News and Observer
and the Charlotte News, both papers
being enemies of the Alliance.
If Col. Polk had been editor Of the
Mercury, one of the editorials advo-
eating an alliance" with the Demo
cratic party to carry out Alliance
principles" would not have appeared
in that paper last week. Col. Polk
would have remembered that the last
Democratic legislature which con-
vened in this State repealed the char
ter of the State Alliance, and only
partially remedied the matter on sec
ond sober thought. Shades Of the
prophetsl Talk about those people
carrying out Alliance principlesl They
would carry them out dead, If at all.
If Col. Polk were editing the Mer-
curry he would not be advocating a
devilish, contemplate underhand
scheme to fool the members Of the
Peoples party into a trap and bind
them hand and foot until more snares
could be laid, and the only fair and
honest election law this State has had
since the war destroyed, and the
right to cast the ballot of a freeman &C
cording to the dictates of his own con-
science is likely to be hereafter denied.
If Col. Polk were editor of the Mer-
curry, that paper would not be Rdvo-
eating fusion with q party that only
pretends to favor in a positive way
one Of the essential Alliance demands
of the free and unlimited coin.
age Of silver-and which has q record
of helping to kill every silver bill that
has been introduced in the past thirty
years, and which, when in full power,
during Oleveland's last administration,
with a majority in the Senate and
House both, really fastened the gold
standard upon US, for it is a matter of
fact that We never had the full force
of the gold standard until the Demo
Gratis repealed the purchasing clause
Of the Sherman law in 1898. True, the
Republican administration is now
carrying out what Cleveland and his
crowd inaugurated, but the ridiculous
partof it appears when anybody jumps
up and wants to fuse" with the very
folks who fastened the gold standard
on the country and started the great
panic of 1993-94 95-96-97 and 80 to
get silver admitted to coinage again.
II Col. Polk we're editing the Mer-
curry, he would not be raising cane
about monopolies, Sc, and wanting to
fuse with the Democrats to break them
up, when he would remember that the
Democrats in the last legislature
p~rofeasedly free silver aud anti-monor-
oily men, too-stood almost solidly
with Col. Andrew against interior
ring with the midnight lease of the
North Carolina railroad. The next
thing you know the Mercury will be
telling US that Rothschilds is opposed
to usury, and that Pierpont Morgan
wants railroad rates reduced one half.
IT Col. Polk editor of the Mer-
curry or Caucasian, either, those papers
would not be helping to carry out a
policy, started in 1895, to utterly rout
and destroy the Peoples party, the
only party that really favors the free
coinage of silver and other reforms 80
dear to the hearts Of the people. The
destruction Of the Peoples party is in.
evitable unless the members thereof
rise in their might and unhorse a few
politicians who are trying to ride it to
death, for what purpose they only
know, we do not.
In the matter of adherence to and
guarding Alliance principles. this paper
is ready to compare rec 0rds with the
Mercury or anybody else in the State,
and we feel sure that the result of the
comparison would be-entirely ~satisfac.
tory to ourselves.
If the Democratic party is the place
to go to get free coinage of silver and
other great reforms, then Spain is the
place to go for good government,
mercy and peace. Their records are
similar.
ENORMOUS FRAUDS.
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