The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-09-11

ment manifested in the committee
In favor of giving the business men
of the State who are in sympathy
with the policies of the Mckinley
administration the right of way in
several Congressional districts.-Ex.
superintendent-elect of Public In
s%truction Toon writes the Green's
boro Telegram as follows: We are
bound by every sentiment and prin-
ciple influencing memorable people
to provide means and opportunities
for every boy and girl in the State
to learn to read and write-and the
time is limited. After the State has
performed it's part, then I think it
would be time enough to enforce by
mild compulsory law, in which at
tendance is decided by the township,
school committee or county board of
education.
Col. Odds correspondence: One
Raleigh man has been killed in action
in China. His name was Wyatt
Hicks and he was in the Fourteenth
United States Infantry.-A rail
road agent here says that since June
1 he has sold $50 tickets to negroes
going North to live, the great ma
jority going to Massachusetts. He
says that during the months of
March, April and May he sold as
many more. He does not include in
this list negroes who went North to
work temporarily. 1t is after all
quite a little exodus.
Raleigh Cor. Charlotte Observer:
There Continues to be talk about the
scarcity of farm labor. Much is
needed for picking the cotton. which
is opening with unprecedented rap
idity. 1t is said that in the south
ern part of this county and in Har-
nett half the cotton is already open.
Judge Simonton orders the
Blackwell Durham Tobacco Company
to be sold November 5, as a whole,
by Receiver Percival Hill, of the
American Tobacco Company, at a
price not less than 81, 0 900, this
including the property, real and
personal, good will and trademark.
The American Tobacco Company
will, of course, be the purchaser.
News and Observer, Sth Aspecial
received last nightfrom Lenoir gives
some further details of the proceed
ings of the Eight District Conven-
ton there on Thursday night. 1t is
! as follows ION the 49th ballot j.
Cameron Buxton was nOminased for
Congress. The names of Graves,
Todd and Lowell We're withdrawn
about the 25th ballot. On the 4Oth
ballot Hon. James L. Webb, of Shelby,
was placed in nomination and re-
ceived the solid vote of Cleveland
and CASTOR and scattering votes from
the other counties. His name was
withdrawn on the 47th ballot. The
contest then was between Newland,
Hackett and Buxton, with the above
result. William S. Pearson, of Nor
canton, was nominated for elector
on the first ballot"
AS to the National campaign, DIR.
Cyrus Thompson is quoted as saying
II do not propose to make any
speeches in the Presidential cam
paign, nor to take any active part
in it one way or another. 1 should
have voted for Bryan and Towne,
but I will not vote for Bryan and
Stevenson. If I vote at all, l shall
vote the mid-road Populist ticket"
Senator Butler, in the Caucasian,
deplores the nomination of Steven
son but says that 1.-THE rank and file
of the Populists, wherever self-re-
spect will permit them to do so, will
condone this great crime against the
organization for the time being, and
will hold their nose and swallow
Stevenson" AS to North Carolina,
he says many Populists will stay at
; home on election day because they
will not vote for the Bryan and
Stevenson electors. He adds that
hereafter the Populists will run "a
straight ticket for President and
Vice-President.
There are very few persons who dc
| not feel a peculiar pleasure in saying
81 told O So" And it is to crafty
this trait of human nature that the
) following paragraph from The Pro
) gressive Farmer of April II, 1900
nonrlu five months ago. its every