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- n v THE PROGRBSSIVS:FARMBR: MAY 3, 1802. f. THE PBOGBESSIVE FAMEB. L. L. POLK, Editor and Proprietor. j l. RAMSEY, - Associate Editor, j W. DENMARK, - Business Manager. Raleigh, N. C. SUBSCRIPTION QTihor.Hber. One Year f 1.25 six Months Sir Montna five Subscribers, One Year. ...s ... uu One copy one year free, to the one sending Club if Ten. pajwy in -Idtxince. Money at our risk. If sent by registered letter or monJy order. Fleae dont send rnm. Advertising Rates quoted on application. To Correspondents: Write all communications, designed for pub lication, on one side of the paper only. We want Intelligent correspondents in every county in the State. We want facta of value, results accomplished of value, experiences of vldue, plainly and briefly told. One solid, demonstrated fact, is worth a thousand theories. All checks, drafts or money orders intended for thiir paper should be made payable to The Proobessitb Farmer. Address all correspondence intended for this Sapor to Thb Progressive Farmer, Raleigh, 1 , c. It I fTlH 1 RAX .. RALEIGH, N. C, MAY 3, 1892. This paper entered at teeond-class matter at the r.wt OfflM in Raleigh, N. C. The P.-crcssive Farmer is the Official Qrptu of the N. C. Farmers' State Alliance Do you want your paper changed to another office t State the one at which you have been getting it. - Do you want your communication published! If so, give us your real name and your postoffice In writing to anybody, always be sure to give the name of your postoffice, and sign your own name plainly. Our friends in writing to any of jur advertisers will favor us by men tioning the fact that they saw the advertisement in The Progressive Farmer The date on your label tells you 7hen your time is out. N. R. P. A. EDITORIAL NOTES The Kinston Free Press didn't week. ask us a 6 ingle question last What is the matter? This don't often happen. State Lecturer Bell will speak at Pineville on May 5th ; at Huntersville on the 6th, both in Mecklenburg county. We learn incidentally, but we think from a goodsource, that there is an overproduction of liars in this country. No Speculating in futures. Wait until you see the platform and the can- didatcs before you swear that you will support them. The candidate who expects to op pose the Ocala or St. Louis platforms this year had better hire a substitute to go to the front. We return thanks for an invita tion to the annual commencement of Fairview Institute and Commercial College on the 22-25 of May. The papers continue to abuse Bro. Butler, but few, if any, attempt to an swer his arguments. That is a mighty sorry way for smart people to do. j( The politicians have substituted the notice, "keep off politics," for 4 keep off the grass." But youcan'fcJT get iarmers to listen to sucn stun. Mr. Peele is discussing "Ques m a 1 J A 1 ff m tion of Honor " in this issue. He will have more along this line later on. Watch out for it. Read the articles. An article in "Public Voice" column in the issue for April 19 th was sigaed " E. P. Washfield. " It should have been " E. F. Wakefield," Lenoir, N.C. If the farmers succeed in captur ing the machine there will be some howling. If anybody begins to howl we are-going to yell nigger! nigger! just as loud as we can. Make every candidate stand upX tmu ay wiiiuu eiue ne is on. nominate no man who is only half and half. He will turn out to be only one half and that on the wrong side. X We learn that in some of the primaries already held Alliancemen have been kept out. Please send us affidavit to this effect from every pre cinct where this has been done. V Must we have some honest hay seed for Governor of North Carolina? It looks that way: Of course a mer chant, manufacturer or professional man will do all right if they are right. Jfc JThose fellows who declare that they will bolt the convention if reform measures are put in the platform ought to be intimidated by chairman Smith. It is a poor rule that don't work both ways. Remember that we have a hun dred times more grievances than had our ancestors when they declared their independence. Go to the primaries and don't let any township chairman scare you, either. ' Congressmen and Senators say that their salaries are not half enough to enable them to "live in fashionable society in Washington." That doesn't matter, we didn't elect them and don't pay them to play the dude in Wash ington. It is funnv to see how a little, ob Bcure Allianceman can oecome a nero by simply kicking against the platform of the Order. But funnier still is his early death after the political papers laud him to the skies. No man who i3 a member of a plaid trust or who has anything to do with the American Tobacco Company, . i or any other trust, for that matter, should ever be allowed to hold another office in North Carolina. In whose interest was the con vention of the Fifth congressional dis trict called? Is it possible for all in terests to be as fully represented as if it had not been called the day before the State convention meets? As all the State offices seem to be going begging for the want of aspir ants, the writer hereby announces that he will be a candidate for all of them. We will see that every one of them are swept out just as they now are. Bro. J. R. Miller, editor of The Living Issue, organ of the Prohibi tionists, published at High Point, gave us a pleasant call last week. Bro. Mil ler is a zealous worker, and is getting out a strong paper for the cause. A Missouri exchange says: "We don't want any broken-down politician to go to Congress from this district." That will apply in North Carolina. We don't want any such cattle to go from any of the nine districts. Send men. And they do say that it is wrong for the farmers to want their measures for relief put in the platform. Why, of course it is. But ain't it just as wrong for the politicians to want to force their peculiar views on the people? Xi Let the straightouts bolt if they want to. None of the honest, sensible straightouts are going to bolt if a reasonable platform is made. If the fools and rascals want to bolt let them go. No party can succeed if they control it. When a politician asks you if you will s:ick by the result of this or that convention, tell him that the Alliance has declared against speculat ing in futures ; that j ou will tell him whether or not you will stick when you see the platform. We are glad to learn that the good people of Edgecombe are all right. The ran tings of the Solomon who edit the Tarboro Southerner cannot inter fere with them in the discharge of their, duty as citizens. They will be on hand when the roll is called. Again we ask our friends to write as briefly as they can. Correspondents from all over this and other States want a hearing in our columns. We want them to have it, but when so many write long winded articles, even if good ones it is impossible to publish them all. Why hold the convention for the Fifth Congressional district just on the eve of the State Convention? Is it possible that some trick is on tap? Hadn't it better be postponed so all in terests can be represented properly? There is no occasion for such an early convention. How about Governor Holt's " de mocracy?" Three years ago as Presi dent of the Senate he cast the tie vote of that body against a railroad commis sion. Is he a true Democrat? Chair man Smith ought to keep him out, for he is opposed to one of the planks in the platform. The Wadesboro Messenger and other papers are stating that Dr. N. M. Culbreth, Lecturer for the 6 th district, is opposed t5 the St. Louis platform and says so in his speeches. Bro. Cul breth writes us that this is totally un true. He endorses it and advocates it in his speeches. Andrew Carnegie, the great iron king of Pennsylvania, who is worth many millions, says he wants to spend all his wealth before he dies. That may be true, but he reduced the wages of his employees 10 per cent, recently. That don't look like he is ready to spend much yet. Don't be uneasy about the straightouts. They will swallow every bit of the Ocala and St. Louis platforms and beg for more. Their bluff game is getting weak. But there must be enough to hold them down. Go to the primaries. Take your knitting along and spend the day. The feature of the approaching commencement of Oak Ridge Institute will be a reunion of the old students on May 31st. Speeches will be delivered by various old students, and a good time' generally is expected. Bishop Edward Rond thaler will deliver a dedicatory address. Many Sub Alliances have sent in resolutions since the St. Louis meeting. All of them are of the same import, t. 6., they endorse the action of the meeting. Owing to the number, we have been unable to publish them in full, but have published the names and thus nut them on record. Thia -roill - I plain our reasons for not publishing them in full. Tom Watson writes home that they needn't expect him to make speeches until Congress adjourns in the summer. What a contrast between Watson and Livingston and Moses? the two latter being now in Georgia trying to fool the people, while Watson is trying to do something in Congress. The Alliance has declared against "dealing in futures" time and again. Yet the politicians want us to swear that we will support any and all plat forms they make and any and all can didates they put out. Gentlemen, let us see your candidates and your plat forms. Then, if they are all right, you may swear us. IX The Wilmington Star is crazy on the tariff question. It wants to see it reduced to 41 per cent. So faras we are concerned, we don't respect the man who robs us of 41 dollars any more than we do the one who robs us of 47 dollars. Away with such a meas ure. If the tariff is a robbery, crush it out altogether. About this time some ex-members of the legislature and others, are going into the letter writing business. Some of the members of the last legis lature didn't make a very favorable impression on the public. So members of the legislature had better let the country run itself unless they are sure that they stand well. A gentleman at Vesta, Minne sota, writes that he received a sample copy of The Progressive Farmer re cently and was so much pleased with its bright, spicy artices that he en closed the money for the paper during the campaign, and also for a copy of "Bond-holders and Bread-winners," and Peffer's "Farmers' Side." Let every reform paper, every reform speaker, every private in re form ranks throw aside personal and party preference and go in for solid reform and honest government in North Carolina this year. Begin in the primaries and keep on till you get to the State Convention. Then call a halt and see what has been done. The Statesville Landmark is sur prised to know that any great number of Iredell people would endorse the St. Louis platform. The Landmark is just three years behind the procession. Three years ago the people of Iredell endorsed the St. Louis platform, at least all Alliancemen did. Why in the world should they dodge now? We are indebted to the publishers, Messrs. Brant & Fuller, of Madison, Wisconsin, for Vols, land 2 of Cyclo pedia of Eminent and Representative Men of the Corolinas." The portraits and sketches are excellent. These books are elegantly bound in real morroco, and will be a valuable ad dition to any Library. The price of the two volumes is $25, The papers are still telling that the pension plank is in the St. Louis platform; "that northwestern papers are publishing it;" " that the Secretary of the meeting, who is editor of a paper is publishing it in his paper. This is all a lie. A good many were taken in by the Associated Press report and published it a time or two, but it is out of all papers that are friendly to the cause now. Your Uncle Zeke Bilkins says he is ready to bolt any convention that has met, may meet, or that is likely to meet. But adds that he is going to see what the convention does before he bolts. He says further that when the dinner bell rings he don't know whether he is going to get a square meal or not. But after an hour's hard work at the table he can make a pretty correct estimate. nrhft WilminofYvn iQnr-r antra 44rFh truest and most thoughtful men in the Alliance to day, those who wish to see it perpetuated, are trying to keep it out of politics." Yes, they are true. Those who are untrue are the ones who are trying to make it the Democratic, Third or Republican party. "But they can't make." The Star would like to see the Alliance bossed by the Demo cratic party. But the reverse may be true. Artrl nnxxr f.Vioir oar tkft Alliance is split up and going to pieces on ac count of politics. The paid-up mem bership of Alexander county, is double, for the April report, what it was in January. Every county gives an in crease in new members and a number show increase in paidup members. The books of the State Business Agent show over $100,000 worth of business for the past 30 days. Bring on some more liars. U Some of the political papers now accuse the Alliancemen of saying chat "whatever the majority are for is mocracy." Great gewhilikensl gen tlemen ; that has been the Democratic song for years and years. " Don't De mocracy mean "the will of the ma jority," according to the -common in terpretation? Anyway, the St. Louis piatrorm is good enougn Democracy for us. On to the fray, boys ! letfs put it in somebody's platform. Xa Look out. friends 1 By keeping Alliancemen out of the primaries, and by other tricks, a strong effort is being made to nominate a man for Governor of North Carolina, who has never done anything for the farmers and has done much against them. If these tricks are successful, The Progressive Farmer will fight that man to the last. His name is T. M. Holt. If he is nominated an independent will be the result and he will be beaten. Remember that. K Is there a farmer in North Caro lina, no matter whether he raise s cot ton or not, who will support for Gov ernor a man who belongs to a plaid trust, the object of which is to keep up the price of cotton goods and keep doum the price of cotton. There is a candidate in the field of this kind. He has done as much as any one man to make you get 5 and 6 cents for your cotton this year. If you don't raise cotton you are hurt by his crowd every time you buy a yard 6t cotton goods. The election in Louisiana two weeks ago was a victory for the Alli ance by about 30,000 majority on the vote for Governor. Foster was bit terly opposed by the "straight-out," so-called Democrats. Four candidates were run against him, but he beat them all "clear out o' sight." We have been waiting for the political newspapers to blow about it, but they don't blow. So it becomes our duty to tell the people that the Alliance won the victory and rascality is again be low par. X It costs from $600 to $700 to send a car load of strawberries from Florida to New York, A freight car costs about $800. When we consider that the road is only out of the use of the car about five days and gets nearly first cost for one load of freight, it looks like an argu ment in favor of government ownership. But never mind about that. The fool who raises strawberries, corn, wheat, oats, cotton and such things ought to be fined for it, am how. We expect it will become a penitentiary offense after awhile. ALL WOULD BE LOST. Some time ago The Progressive Farmer gave otice that no man with Governor Holt's record would be ac ceptable to most of our people for any office. By insulting the people and keeping them away from the primaries, as many have done in the counties that have already held primai ies, Governor Holt has mustered some strength. Again we repeat the warning. No ticket with his name on it can win If rhe farmers will go to the primaries yet to be held, there is some chance. to avert the disaster. It would be su preme folly for people who know re form is needed to vote for a man solid ly against it. The Progressive Farmer will be ready to quit business, will feel that all our work has been in vain if such a man could be elected. Go to your conventions. TForAr, EXPLANATORY. We are sorry to learn that the Alli ancemen of Guilford and Forsyth were disappointed on last Friday and Satur day. President Butler has out a list of appointments nearly all the time, but never knowing when the interests of the Order will call him to a different section of the State, he has always taken the precaution to arrange to fill his place in case he can't attend. On last Monday he saw that it was neces sary to leave his appointments and go to a different part of the State He called upon Mr. N. B Broughton to fill his appointments at Smithneld on Tuesday and at Pitts boro on Thursday. Bro. Butler called on two other gentlemen to fill his ap pointments at Greensboro and Win ston. Why these speakers failed to reach there we have not learned. Had President Butler known that they could not be there he would nave at tended himself or got some other speak ers. He always tries to fill all appoint ments, and no one regrets it more than he does himself. WATCH FOR LIARS It is a good time to look out for politi cal liars. Some of them stay in news paper offices and manufacture tele grams and communications. Others send them to papers. Watch out for them. Last Friday the News and Observer and Chronicle contained the following special: REPUDIATES THE ST. LOUIS PLATFORM. (Special to the News and Observer.) Williamston, April 28.A11 honor to the Martin Alliance. The Martin County Alliance have repudiated the St. Louis platform and have instructed the delegates to the Butler conference against the Third party. L: On Tuesday last we received the fol lowing from the Secretary of Martin County Alliance : Darden's, N. C, April 25, 1892. Editor The Progressive Farmer, Ral eigh, N. C. : Dear Sir: The Martin County Farm ers' Alliance endorsed the St. Louis, Ocala and Indianapolis platforms at its meeting on the 14th of April without dissent, and Bro. T. E. McCaskey was elected delegate to Raleigh to meet President Butler on the 17th of May. Yours fraternally T. E. McCaskey, Sec'y Martin County Alliance. Now it is plain that' a liar is abroad in the land. Who is it? SOME SECRETS EXPOSED. The Progressive Farmer, not being a partisan paper, natually falls behind in getting political news. But this week we expose some gigantic tricks that are being worked throughout the State. The Alliancemen and farmers generally are determined to capture the ' Democratic machine. " They ask everybody to help them capture the critter and ride with them. We are aware that this does not ex actly meet the approval of some of our people. Thousands of farmers who hive been affiliating with the Demo cratic party think other arrangements might have been made. To be plain, they think nothing but a new party will fill th3 bill. Thousands of Repub cans in and out of the Alliance, having lost hope in their party, and having no faith in the Democratic party, they naturally want to vote with a new party. To be plain again, we think all of them are right. While we are wil ling for our demands to go before the national conventions of both the old parties, we have no spark of hope from the monopoly -controlled Republican party nor from the New Eagland-con-trolled Democratic party. We repeat that we have absolutely no hope and cannot advise our friends to depend on them. However, it is different in North Carolina. While our State Gov ernment, under twenty years of Demo cratic rule, has not been all it jnight have been, has not been perfect, and we need never expect perfection in politics ; yet the contrast has been so great between Republican rule from 1866 to 1870, and Democratic rule since, that our people are loth to let loose and risk worse things. Many people will vote the ticket on account of the name, so we want to give them a chance. Another thing: Our complaint are mostly national, hence we can afford to divorce State and National politics. Now we want to reason a little more with our Republican and Democratic Alliancemen who may not fully agree with this plan. Had any other policy been pursued, it is almost certain that a " straightout " Republican ticket would have been elected in this State, including members of the legislature, and in many cases county officers. Anybody with half sense knows that this would not better things, and pos sibly would make them vastly worse. No true Allianceman, be he Republi can or Democrat, wants to see things any worse. On the other hand a "straightout" Democratic State ticket might have been elected. This would have been no improvement. Really it would have been making things worse. But if the people will turn out to the primaries and send honest, brave men all through to the State Convention the State will be saved from both mis fortunes and we will get as much re form as through a new party, and not run the risk of losing all chances. When it comes to selecting Congress men and Senators and National officers it will be different. We expect it wil be absolutely necessary to elect them on a new party platform. At present we see no other chance. But until this State matter is disposed of we ask every man favoring reform to keep his mouth closed, be he Republican or Democrat, Let's do one thing at a time and pro ceed cautiously. Some will say to former Democrats, who are now favoring the new party, that The Progressive Farmer is trying to pull them back into the Democratic party, and to Republicans they will say that it is trying to rope in Republi cans and mduce them to vote the Democratic ticket. Don't be influ enced by them. All who have read this paper know that we have no more confidence in the National Democratic Party than we have in the Republican. We would vote for Harrison or Blaine as quick as we would for Cleveland or Hill.. We have no more confidence in many of the Democratic leaders in Nortn Carolina than we have in the Republican leaders in Maine. Bat it is a condition and not mere sentiment that confronts us here in North Caro lina. We cannot afford to risk negro supremacy here. We must do the best we can choose the lesser of two evils as it were. If our people will rally to the primaries we will get all we want Remember that nothing more will be said about your favoring the Ocala or St. Louis platforms. The politicians are sick of that. Go and insist on getting what you want. It is your patriotic duty. You owe it to your country and your family. GO INTO THE PRIMARIES. Go into your primaries Go by all means, xace yourseu and all your m m . neighbors. Make it a point to see all your neighbors between now and Sat urday and urge them to go. This was the substance of our advice last week. We purposely delayed all this until a late hour so the politicians could have plenty of rope enough to hang themselves. They have had it and have hung themselves. But now is the time to act. Let every man who desires reform, whether he is a w oi we finance or not, act Jt ana davn'u quickly. Let four or five work be done thia week a work be done thia week and viS Will TATVVl CVn mm Konnn. r will perch on our banner. paper carefully. Read the linen S between the lines, read everythb t The State Executive Committed i several township and county exeo5 committees have tried to intinJ the people by telling them that if believed in the Ocala or St. jj platforms, they had no right $ Democratic primary or any convewji This is absolutely false. Theycajj more interfere with your rights as) American citizen than they can you out because you are a Baptist J believe in immersion or if you Methodist and believe in falling U grace. You may believe in the OoalaJ St. Louis platforms; you may sympathy with the Third or Pe0p3 party platform ; you may be a Catht1 or Presbyterian ; you may be a or Odd Fellow; you may believe ti the earth is round or as flat asap cake; you may be a life long Repu can or Prohibitionist. But if you to go into the primaries that meetnr Saturday, if you believe that a majors of the reformers of the State wiflj there with you, if you believe that ttf is the surest policy to win, then) man can interfere with you andy can take part in those primaries air subsequent conventions. Nomanli a right to question your motives. man has a right to object to your taka part on account of what your belief or on account of your past politic? affiliations. Mark that. LET'S CATCH THE PIG. The would-be leaders in North flj v lina say the farmers are going totr to capture the Democratic conveiitij and convert it into a "people's party j by putting in the Ocala and St Loir platforms or, as much of them as the desire. ' j We have an idea that the Democrat! party in North Carolina belongs to thj farmers, for they are the bulk of t2 voters in it. Why object to peo? capturing their own property? Ham they said all along that it "is the pe:: pie's party?" I The trouble is that democracy h gotten away from those who haij been pretending to hold it. Chairma: Smith let loose to spit on his hani some time ago and he can't catch it Democracy is llike a greased pig at I fair. Capt. Ashe has caught it by tl tail a time or two, but he can't hold ft, he being a delicate man. Col. King bury, LL D., declares that he ain't p ing to dirty his hands with the nasr thmg. Governer Holt is too busy trj ing to keep down the price of cottos and keep up the price of cotton goodi! via the Cone Plaid Trust, so he cant catch it. If he should he would k clare that it is somebody else's pig, fcr it didn't bear "his mark." Maj. Ec bins, of Statesville, has gotten too f: and short winded to run much. Ca Paul B. Means, of Concord, has to $ tend to his railroad business. Col. J: Caldwell don't like to run and he t: been calling on Vance, Ransom asi the other leaders in Washington t come and catch the "cussed thing. But Vance has to tell jokes at the cap ! tol "restaurant" for the fellows wit white aprons on, to mix witb.t drinks. Ransom is hard at work trj; ing to get an appropriation to fill Mosquito Lake, in the eastern part the State. He declares that t "wouldn't know what to do with it he could catch it." Hon. John 3. He, derson can't catch it, for he has bee, putting in the last six weeks of k eight years in Congress trying to ic, rove the postal, system of the Unite tates, and he is "out of breath." Fur man, of Asheville, declares that has had a "rabbit hollow" settotrs; the blasted thing for years, butt can't catch it. Mai. Finger has hear-, the pig squeal twice in the last fc: years, but he couldn't locate it. E thinks it is hid somewhere in Catawfc county. Several "leading" and "proE inent" Alliancemfin havft headed f , off a time or two within the past to. V years, but they tried to catch it in tL Is old way by putting soap ca their ' hands and chalk on their feet. The result is that the pig slipped out of their hands and their feet slipped out from under them, leaving them com- pletely demoralized. Quite recentlv ; somebody reported that the pig w seen down in Georgia. A reward w offered for its capture. Col. IivingsL left his crop badly "in the grass " -Washington and has been runnin with tears in his eyes, ever since, he wouldn't know it from any otfu. "pine rooter" down there, for h hasn't seen it. onlv in his dreams, fo years. - . The only chance we see for Nort Carolina is for the farmers to capture the pig. Thev know more about than politicians, anvhow. W waerer a watermelon that thev c plenty of sand on their hands anj ture it before the 18th of May they will hold it. too Whet ( catch it thev mav call it "I5 racy." "Dennis." "Justice." i i i pie's hog," or what thev please. : genuine democracy is rood enoka ' Boys, now is the time. Pute' of sand on your hands and fiVr i Sockets. Let's capture the p ave-a big barbecue on ths ? May. .Watch out for it at tl manes, watch f or it at the couil s ventions. Be sure to brine- i 1 State Convention. Only thf ry to catch it wilt be alloi the barbecue, i Si O
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