The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1898-03-15

the millionRires-the classes in deed
and truth-in short the twin sister Of
the Republican in iniquity. I say
Chairman" Butler has no more right
to deliver as by a fusion deal to this
conglomeration of hypocracy than
Benedict Arnold had to deliver his
army by sale to the English. Yet.
Mr.. Wilcox seems to think that
Chairman" Butler has ~unquestion-
able authority, and a moral right any
time he so desires, to feed US to this
Democratic whale; and Mr.. Wilcox
knows this whale is not the hinging
up sort, like the one that swallowed
JONAH.
Mr.. Wilcox states that he thinks the
ST. Louis Populist Convention made O
serious mistake in not endorsing and
swallowing the Chicago conglomera-
tion-Bryan, SewRll and the platform,
hair, hide and all. Knowing these to
be Mr.. Willcox's views, she natural
ness and good taste, of his defense Of
Chairman" Butler is very apparent.
It is next in order for Jeems Bond
Bill Jones, Democrat, to rise and defend
Chairman" Buffers cause. Does Mr..
Wilcox know that when he ceased TO
advocate the advocate the POpulist
platform and its nominees, and advo-
Gated the Chicago platform, Bryan and
SeWall, that he ceased to be a Popu-
list and became q Democrat Does
Mr.. Wilcox believe free silver is the
panacea for all the industrial illsl
Does Mr.. Wilcox believe that the
Democrats, after having bought the
POpulist party with free silver, and
crushed the life out of it, will not cast
it aside and return to Wall Street via
Tammany, and to their wallow in the
mireG If so, or If not, he is barking
up the wrong tree; he has followed
the back track and is barking UP the
old doty Democratic tree that the Pop.
ulist crawled down and left six years
ago.
I for one do not believe the Demo
cratic machine is sincere, evenoRs far
as it goes. Bryan may be sincere
and honest and a Populist as far as he
goes, but he is in the hands of the
machine, and the machine is out for
the Offices and it is using Bryan as a
bait to tempt the voters, and especially
the Populists, to give them the offices.
Bryan is, perhaps uuconsciously, their
limberjack-monkey, and they are let
ting him dance and talk to please the
people. Now I am going to quote au.
thority that Mr.. Wilcox will not ques-
ton, to prove what I have just said
about the Democratic machine, and I
hope Mr. Wilcox will grasp a chair, or
something for support while he reads
it. 1t is from Chairman" Buffers
paper, the Caucasian, Of February
18th, and is as follows:
IF there is anything in evidence,
the goldbug machine is still boasing
the Democratic party. In the cam
paign of 1897, where they were held,
the record was something like this:
sin Massachusetts, for free silver.
SIN New York for nothing; but the
nominee was q goldbug.
I'm the city campaign of greater New
York the Chicago platform was abso
lutely ignored and abandoned, but so,
called free silver machine Democrats
helped Tammany Hall to win.
I'm Maryland for gold.
I'm Pennsylvania, for free silver,
though goldbugs were nominated
everywhere.
"And so it will be this year.
"And in 1900 the goldbug machine
will have full control of the Demo
crat party. Watch the prediction"
Yet this is the same "go.to.the-
negroes-where-you- belong" Bond
Bill Jones, "if.you-don't nominate.
SeWall don't~nominate-me" redemp
ton money Bryan Democratic party.
that Chairman" Butler has made a
fusion deal with, and calls on US in his
address 90 support it. This is the same
party Chairman" Butler called ON us
to unite permanently with on the sim
gle issue of silver. What join a party
that has been, is now, and will be in
1900, controlled by the goldbug ma
chinel NeverI It ia asking too much.
It is the straw that breaks the camel's
back. Consistency. thou art a jewel, ="
absent in the crowns Of some men.