The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-11-20


this year. They were counting it a
short crop, not much better than
last year, but it is turning out splen-
didly, and some farmers say they
have as good potatoes as they ever
raised. The warm weather the last
month is what brought out the sweet
potatoes. They have grown more
during that time, some say, than
they grew during the whole sum-
mer.
Raleigh Post: There was no mid
die of the road ticket in this part of
the State, though it is said such a
ticket was distributed in a few coun-
ties. Populists were not bothering
themselves looking for the middle
road ticket or the Bryan ticket for
that matter. They voted the Nc
Kinley ticket straight in very nearly
every part of the State. DIR. Cyrus
Thompson, the late Populist nominee
for governor, said yesterday that the
returns indicated that the Populist
vote in the State was cast for Nc
Kinley.
The following remarkable story
comes from the Atlanta Journal. We
give it for what it may be worth !:
Deputy Marshal E. N. Elliott ar
rested Thomas Bracket, a noted
Western North Carolina Moonshiner
and desperate, in Cleveland county
a few days ago in rather a novel
manner. Elliott had been advised
by the mountaineers who knew
Bracket not to attempt to arrest
him alone, but he employed a little
shrewdness and came out all right.
Going to the vicinity of the moon
sinners house, he watched him re-
tire, and after he had gone to sleep
the deputy crawled in the window
and got in the same bed with Brack-
EFT, and later, when the latter awoke,
arrested him, much to the despera-
dos surprise and disgust.
The banner Simmons county of
the State is Robson, which gives
him 2,063 majority, OF GO mOr than
the majority given him by Wayne.
The largest majority received in the
primary, however, is the 2,341 given
to General Carr by Durham. The
largest vote given for General Carr
in the east comes from Halifax,
1850; Wilson gave him LAO, though
both counties were carried by Mr..
Simmons. The counties carried by
Carr were eleven in number, with
three doubtful. The eleven known
to have given him a majority T
Alamance, Arson, Ashe, Cabarrus,
Durham, Granville, Guilford, Neck
lenburg, Orange, Rowan and Union.
The three doubtful ones yet to hear
from I Mitchell, Swain and Yam
cey.-News and Observer.
Elsewhere we have quoted the
Biblical Recorders remarks as to
Mr.. Simmons. But the Carr editors
are not tumbling over one another
in Mr.. Simmons praise. The Nor
canton Herald, edited by Col. w. S.
Pearson, Democratic electOr, says
Mr.. Simmons with all his shrewd-
ness is not a typical North CAROLYN
ian, he does not respond to the gen
eral voice of the State seeking to
make itself heard abroad he is a
special pleader not a tribune, and
nothing but disappointment is in
store for his friends, who marked
out for him a great e He is a
finished man, not a growing one ; the
best of him is behind. We certainly
bear him no personal ill-wi1 but
would be false to ourselves did we
offer the State congratulations IN his
election, which we do not feel and
which the facts in the case do not
warrant.
Some of the white Republicans are
giving out the news that there are
to be no more appointments of negro
Federal ofice-holders in this State,
or for that matter anywhere in the
South.-Many of the newspapers
are now making editorial references
to Judge PurnelIs opinion that "a
woman is sometimes the head of the
family and as such can take the
homestead exemption. It is a simple
matter. The homestead is for the
family, and when the woman is the
head of it in a business way she has
all the right to represent the family.