The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1898-04-26


Picture Which Will Attract Attention
POpulists Not Patriotic
B-"HelloI Mr.. Editor"
R-"HelloI Major. I suppose you
are nov in line for promotion. Soon
you will have a military title that will
lay Major in the shade"
B-"Maybe / will an maybe I
won't. I'm jist az likely ter heva berth
i'm an insane asylum if Betsy keeps
naggin' at me. She iz the cofoundest
Wranglin' woman I ever saw. When
I wanted ter start ter the war sum
four weeks ergo, she wou'dn't give me
any encouragement, but jist simply
made fun ov me an I got so Disguised
laid my military fxins erway ter
rust. Now she wants me ter go an
calls me q coward bekase I don't start
rite erway. She says lots ov folks
we're volunteerin' an oferin' their ser
vices sum weeks ergo, but now that
hostilities are b~eginnin' in earnest they
find that they are not sz mad al they
thought they WERE. It looks ter me
like the Spanish will hev ter do a guide
deal more than they hev done yit ter
git me an DIR. Kingsbury mad enuh ter
quit preaching an farmin' an other
peaceful avercashuns an go ter hte
Spain, miskeeters an yallar fever.
Mid aWl this war racket I'm not fer
gittin' that this il campRne year. 1
wanter run for somethin' an I don't
care much iist so it il on the Dyma-
KRAFT ticket. We are goin' ter give the
enemy a teriffck struggle this year an
don't you fergit it. After sum little.
time you may see q beautiful perlitical
picter hangin' on the wall. Chairman
Butler will be the center piece an he
Will be surrounded by Bryan, Cleve
land, Carlisle, German, Josephus Dan
iele. Colonel A. B. Andrews an sWl ov
the great free silver advocates. Col.
Joe Caldwell will be in the group, too,
but he will be sittin' on q rock out ter
one side frownin' at the ~perseedins.
understand that nearly all the Pop
ulists are opposed ter fusin' with us
Dymakrats fer the purpose of gittin'
free coinage ov silver. This opposition
shows that they are not paterotick
They don't want free coinage az bad ez
they pretend ter. Sum ov EN- say that
we dymakrats in Congress hev killed
erbout fifty one silver bills in the past
thirty years an they are not vii
lin ter trust US now. They awlso
throw it up ter US that we fastened
the gold standard on the country four
years ago when we had the President
an clear majority in both Houses
ov Kongress. They say they deserve
ter be buncoed il they fuse with us nov
ter git free coinage after the bad rec,
ord we have made. o. our that il
Rwl Populist nonsense. Blamed if they
amt the craziesE folks I ever saw.
When a man says the Dymakrat
party won't carry out its promises
you may put him down az a crank or
q rascal. Ever since Tom Jefferson
discovered the party before breakfast
one mornin' the grand ole party hez
bin carryin' out great an noble prom
ises. In erbout one hundred years it
hez carried out SO 987 promises"
R-."You mean that it has carried
that number of promises out ov va
Eious convention halls an left them in
the trail Of the numerous campaigns to
perish"
B.-"I mean exactly what I say. If
you wanter put q mean construckshun
on it, awl rite. l reckon you are one
ov them fellers who don't wanter git
bounced any more. Y, u Populists are
too blamed skeptical. You wouldn't
believe Annanias an Saphira if they
we're livin' in this country to day.
Gudebye."