The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1904-08-30
Political News.

| side is making large. well-developed claims. "The
Dimmycrats," as Mr.. Dooley says, shave great
| confidence, tn Republicans ARE sure, tn Poppy
lists are hopeful, tn Prohybitionists look FIR a
landslide or a food or WHATEVER you may call a
PROHIBITION victhry, an tn Socylists think this
may be their year"
The Populists, of course, will not cut much fig
ure in this election, but their leader, Thomas Wat
son, made the most brilliant speech of acceptance
that has been made by any Presidential candidate
this year, and all the leading papers of the coun-
try have found it necessary to notice it. Wat
son is undoubtedly the ablest man in his party. AS
yet there has been no move toward naming a
Populist electoral ticket in North Carolina.
In The Progressive Farmer two weeks ago we
gave the main points contained in Judge Parkers
speech of acceptance. Perhaps the most accurate
criticism of the Judges utterance is found in the
following paragraph: Judge Parker in this ad-
dress spoke as a lawyer; dispassionate, disinter-
ested, almost without partisanship; but there was
not a flash of inspiration or a note of leadership
in the address throughout. Those who attempt
to find either must read them into this orderly,
characteristic utterance of a straightforward
methodical, and eminently trustworthy man whose
mind is legal rather than forensic, and who speaks
as a Judge rather than as a statesman" The most
Disappointing 1CdGuIO VI uNSC AdAhOA . oSSOPV
ance was his assertion that we need only to stir
our officers to more vigorous enforcement of exist
ing antitrust laws, and that further anti-mo-
nopoly legislation appears unnecessary.
Out in Nebraska a combination between Demo-
Gratis and Populists has been affected which may
result in sending Mr.. Bryan to the United States
Senate. The State will go for Roosevelt, but To-
cal issues, it is thought, will probably result in the
cant11re of tho TeoiSIstrro nv tho RrvaDiteS Tn
the Senate as the recognized leader of the radical
Democracy, Mr.. Bryan would be at his best, and
the progress of the Nebraska campaign will be
watched with interest by people in all parts of
the country.
The statesboro Lynching.
The whole South must suffer in the esteem of
the outside world for the exhibition of fendish-
ness and barbarism at Statesboro, Ca, a few days
ago, when two negroes were taken from the jail
where they were awaiting sentence of death for
murder, and burned at the stake. This 1ynching
was utterly inexcusable. To begin with, the crime
was not that most horrible one which oftenest
provokes an outburst of mob law. And there was
not the slightest reason to believe that the crimi-
mails would escape the just sentence pronounced
by the court, and which was to have followed with
unusual speed. This Statesboro lynching, if pres
ent reports are correct, was only the outcropping
of the basest and most terrible passion of the
human heart-a savage and fendish love of tor
ture. 1t is well that the Governor of Georgia has
arranged for a rigid investigation of the affair.
with orders to let no guilty man escape; it is
well that the whole South has expressed it's con-
demnation of the deed which has so Inundated
our section.
1 This problem of the mob is one of the gravest