The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1908-06-25

DistFics-BiIi Moody Sheds Tear
Bryan still in the Pighf-The sex
Farmer Organization and What II
May Have to Contend with-Hox
to Live Without Getting Into Pol
itics.


to Live Without Getting Into Pol
itics.
BllkinsviIle. ~. c.. June III
wuz readin' the other day erbout the
convention that they had bin hoIdIn'
In the 9Th judicial districk. Hit must
hev bin a fierce one, az hit wuz in
seshun exackiy thirty-four hours,
five minits and twelve seckonds by
the watch. That beats anything that
! hev hearn oy. The delegates ter
that convention must hev bin Popu-
lists, or else they wuz descendants ov
Rip Van Wrinkle. an got In a long
time a-sieepin.' you can't make me
believe that they wuz loyal an true
dymakrate with true and tried
hearts a-beatin' seyenty-four times a
mint with patriotism an awl them
other fixments that the delegates ov
our CRATE an true party liz supposed
ter be made up ov. Sumpthin'
wrong sumwhar. | can't believe hit.
An still the news cum out in our
own crate an reliable newspaper.
AS soon az read hit sed ter Bill
Moody: "A sad day hez cum. The
dymarkrat party hez gone Populist
or Republican or crazy. fer they liz
sumpthin' wrong with Hannah! The
party that Tom Jefferson diskivered
or invented hez gone wrong or I am
out ov my head. | could hardly keep
frum cryin'. | believe Bill did cry a
few tears. Sez ter Bill: I'VE hev
crossed the Rubycon at last Our
grand old party heZ at last got per-
luted with pollytishuns. Hit went on
fer years doin' Sunday-school work
an other paterotick an religious
stunts for the benefit ov mankind,
includin, women an children. Hit
wuz so patriotick that hit would not
eleckt Preserdent fer fear hit
wouldn't give a guide administration
an they could not blame hit on the
other feller. At last they hev got
ten hungry an thiryt fer perlitical
gore, an | don't see no end ter the
trouble we air goin' ter her. lex
peck ter live ter see the day when
hit will take a month ter hold a dis
trickt or county convention. They
IL sum bad sleddin' ahead ov us, or
my name IL not Zeke Bilkins.'
Bill sat still an quiet fer a long
time an then he screwed hiz Jaws
up tite an began ter mastycate hiz
terbacker very fast IcOuld see that
he wuz badly agitated an hiz heart
Ii N
SeZ /. -.
THE Populists an Republicans air
ter blame,' sez Bill "Once our
CRATE party WuZ az innercent az a
newborn babe. But hit got into bad
company an | don't know whut will
becum Ov hit before the end ov time.
Erway back in the eighties hit went
Republican, an afterwards eleckted
Cleveland. Later on hit went Popul-
| ist an didn't eleckt anybody. Now
| hit hez gone PrOhibishun an IL run
min at the rate ov 60 miles an hour
on that platform. The main trou-
BILE with the Dymakrat party liz that
hti liz always runnin' on the platform
Ov sum other party or sumpthin else
besides hits own. Hit purity nigh
breaks my heart. But what kin ]
| do? | am only one man, an nothin'
kin say or do will stop hit frum
hits mad course. Hit IL goin' at sich
a headlong speed that I am erfraid
hit will break every bone in hits
body before hit liz ten years older.
Then what will becum ov the coun-
try?"
1 see hit stated that the prohi-
bishun law IL unconstertushional
OWN ter the fact that the act calm
the election wuz passed during the
special session of the Legislature
which wuz called ter pass railroad
legislation only, nothin' else bein
specified in the call. Ov course q
little thing like that don't count il
North Carolina. We air runnin' pol
lyticks an the constitution iz simply
ter point the finger ov pride at. AZ
long as we kin pile up majorities
we air solid fer most any issue thai
kin be invented. Success liz what we
air drivin' at. We air not even par
tickular whether we git the votes OF
not-we know how ter manage tina
end ov the program-hev had lons
experience.
I haint hearin' much frum Bill!
Bryan fer a day or two. I guess h'
liz still carryin' the delegations frun
= each State. He iz crate on carryin
the conventions by storm. The onl.
thing Billy lacks ter be an aw
: Ground pllytician liz the ability te
carry votes. He always gifts tired OF
the last end ov the race an can
carry votes, which air right import
: ant when a man liz runnin' fer bi
offs. But I look fer crate thing
: frum Billy in the future. If he get
the nemernashun a few more time
he may yet win the viktory. The
we will see sum fun-Or sum trOu
BILE.
Sum ov the people I meet up wit
hev bin askin' me erbout the neN
farmers organization that IL makiI
big headway awl over the South
e They awl seem ter be takin' a gud
: deal ov interest in hit, but, at tn
e same time, air a little suspicion.
They air afraid hit will git into po
: lyticks. Thepollytishuns air afrai
l ov the same CRATE disaster, Onles
> they kin control hit. If they XII
|. control hit, then hit wont be in po
L lyticks Hit liz an established facf