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THE -PROGRESSIVE FARMER SEPTEMBER 6 1392 LETTER FROM GEORGIA. A Georgia' Brother Expresses His Sur prise at the Action of Some of Our Brethren. Bayboro, Ga. Me. Editor: I am surprised to learn that some of the prominent Alliance jhen in your State are going back on themselves in repudiating their own handiwork. They have been promi nent in formulating and demanding certain things as Alliancemen, pledg ing themselves to vote for no man, support no political party that did not favor those demands. Now when the test comes to try men's souls they raise their hands m holy horror and advise their brethren to "stay in the G. O. P. that has done eo much for us," know ing at the same time that both old par ties have denounced and pointed the finger of scorn at every important de mand made by the Alliance. Those same men have been warning the peo ple against the party lash and now they are the first to be whippedV or bought in. In my judgment there are but few who will follow them. The time has come when no man or set of men can do the thinking and acting for the people. They are determined to go back .as near as possible to the old landmark of our fathers, from which the so called Democracy of our day has drifted so far. I for one would much prefer remaining in the Democratic party if there was any hopes of relief from that source, but I see none what ever; it has been more clearly demon strated in the last Congress than ever before. And furthermore, if either of the two old parties were to incorporate in their platform every Alliance de mand we could never reacn tnem wnue the prejudice exists between those par ties that does at this time. I have ever been taught as a Democrat to put no trust in any promise a Republican should make and I am frank now to admit that I could not trust them. And the very same feeling exists with my Northern and Western brethren in re gard to the Democrats. Now for re form in our government; they must have mutual ground upon which to meet. Just so long as we give heed to the clamor for a solid South against a solid North we will be ruled and op pressed by the money corporations of Old England and New England com bined. We don't need a solid South, TTorth, East or West, but we need a eolid uiion against all outside en mies and against all inside wrongs as it was in the days of our ancestors. Further, it is written that a nation divided against itself must come to desolation. I am glad to see the tendency in the people to turn their eyes to measures and not to men and party. The people are getting far in advance of the poli ticians and party press. While the 3)emocratii press i3 eulogizing and praising Cleveland and abusing weaver and Harr ison, and the Repub lican p ipers praise their Harrison and abuse Weaver and Cleveland, etc., the people are looking directly at the dif ferent platforms and the great is3ues of the day. General Weaver is setting to be a very bad man since Col. Polk's -death. But if Weaver is guilty of nothing worse than to pay soldiers for their service in good money, he must be an exception of a man. Since I have seen that bill of Weaver's it is not so bad as represented by the party press. For instead of taxing the people to pay the difference in the money in which they were paid and gold, it provides that the government issue legal tender notes to tnat amount and pay to the Union soldiers. That woulo, of course, increase the circulating medium and -would to some extent benefit the -whole people. We see from the action of the Peo pie's party convention of Kansas who nominated an ex Confederate soldier for Governor of that State, and from the action of the People's party con vention at Omaha, who gave a South ern man the second place on that ticket, that as far as this great reform movement is concerned thev are wil ling to give the South a fair showing -with all other sections. What party has dared do this before? We are verv --certain that liad our lamented Polk lived the South would have had a nominee for President for these United States, a thing that has not happened in my remembrance. I think the peo ple has been used as tools by designing -men long enougn. uo your own think ing. S ;udy the political history of the nation and prepare yourselves to cast an intelligent vote. A i. ulive. DEMO PLUTOCRAT ARGUMENT. "Mr. Editor: The Weekly Advocate. Democratic, get off the following: '! I have an old broken and worn silver spoon, but with 66 cents worth of silver in it, that I can pay you the Kioiiar l owe you with that spoon, be cause if you decline to take the spoon I would, under free coinage, make the J government coin it and stamp it a dol ar and make it a legal tender." How -'does that idea please Democrats? I present you a piece of paper the same fineness of a national bank note and you refuse to take it pronouncing it worth less. Uncle Sam puts his stamp of one dollar on it and you take it ; not only do you take it but you and your party are the champions of this kind of znonsy. Sixty cents of silver coined into a dollar don't suit Democrats, but a piece of paper worth less than one tenth of one per cent, coined into a jnational bank note suit you to a dot. The silver dollar is a legal tender for private debts and a national bank note is a debt-contracting dollar and not a legal tender for private debts. That 66 -cents spoon has increased in value ince 1873. In 1873, before silver was demonetized, the bullion in a dollar would buy less than six pounds of cot ton ; now this old silver spoon will buy .eleven pounds of cotton. The gold iollar in 1873 would buy less than six pound3 of cotton, and -to-day it will buy sixteen pounds of cottcn. The sil ver spoon will measure nearly one hundred pfj cent, more cotton and the gold dollar will measure 166 per cent, more. That old spoon has increased in Jits measuring" power 5 per cent, since 1873 and the gold dollar has increased 6G per cent. The monopoly that hurts is the power the money devil has in controling the volume of money. They have succeeded, by that control, in squeezing one hundred per cent. more of the farmers' produce into their dol lars. The gold, silver, national and U. S. notes are dishonest money because they will measure twice the products of labor they would in 1865 and com pels the. people to give twice the amount of labor to pay debts and taxes. We would inform this editor that thnsA nhamnioniner the free coinaare of silver are skilled in political economy if not in finance. The men skilled in finance, as a rule, are ignorant of po litical economy. JAMES A1URD0CK. HENDERSON COUNTY ALLIANCE. Hendersonville, N. C. At the quarterly meeting of Hender son County Alliance, a recess of 20 minutes wat taken from regular busi ness to give expressions to words of kind remembrance of our late friend and leader, Col. L. L Polk, and a com mittee composed of W. C. Connell, J. B. Iseman and W. D. Miller, was ap pointed to draft resolutions expressive of our deep and heartfelt sorrow at his loss. Whereas, God in His mysterious providence hasiemoved from uar the great leader and champion of a cause to which the best energies of an active and earnest life were being given. Resolved, That while we will not . j i i i ii i again meet inai warm, uromeny erraso of the hand so familiar to many of us, will not again listen to that voice of fearless eloquence that condemned in ringing words of scorn the corrup tion in high places, and the conse quences resultant to the large masses of his laboring, struggling fellow men, yet he accomplished more in a few short years than often falls to the lot of public men tnrougn a long ana acuve life. 2. That whilst we mourn his loss to a cause in whi ih his most earnest sy mpa thies were enlisted, we have an un wavering faith in the final triumph of the great principles of honesty, truth and justice for which he so earnestly and fearlessly contended tnat navmg fought the good fight in all of his rela tions in life, he has entered into that rest that no conflicting interest can as sail or d rsturb. 3. That a copy of these resolutions be sent to The Progressive Farmer for publication. VVM. U. UONNELL, J. B ISEMAN, W. D. Miller, CHOWAN COUNTY MEETING. . Edenton, N. C. Editor Carolina Dispatch: The Chowan County Farmer' Alliance convened with the White House Alli ance on July 11th, President Felton presiding. Jno. A. By rum was ap pointed door keeper pro tern. W. T. Forehand, W. A. Winslow and W. H. Byrum committee on credent als. Re port of Executive Committee received. Report of conference held in Raleigh, May 17th last entertained the body highly. The following are the officers elected for the ensuing year: President W. B. Felton, Rocky Hock. Vice President L. M. Barnes, Sun set. Secretary H. C. Privott, Edenton. Treasurer J. M. Forehand, Amboy. Lecturer W. H. Leary, Ciscx Assistant Lecturer Richard Elliott, Amboy. Business Agent T. D. Byrum, Eden ton. Chaplain B, L. Evans, Cisco. Door-keeper Josiah flarrell, Rocky Hock. Assistant Door keeper J. S. Good win, Sunset. . Steward Jno. A. Byrum, Rocky Hock. M. H. Hughes, Somerset, was elected delegate to the State Alliance. B. F. Elliott, Edenton, alternate. B. L. Evans, B. F. Elliott and W. A. Winslow were appointed committee on resolutions. They afterwards sub mitted the following, which was unani mously adopted : Whereas, Death has entered our ranks and claimed for its victim our beloved brother, frieni and leader, L. L. Polk, late President of the N. F. A. and I. U. Therefore be it Resolved, by the Chowan County Farmers' Alliance, in meeting as sembled July 14th, 1892, that in the death of Bro. Polk, our Order has lost a wise, efficient and conservative leader, society a true friend and our nation one of it most devoted patriots. greatest reformer of the age and com mend his life to all men for their emu lation. 3. That we neartily endorse the movement to erect a monument to his memory. 4. That we sympathize sincerely with his family in their bereavement m -J - A 1 . A 1 1 m ttuu pruy upon mem me Diessings or Him "who doeth all things well." 5. That a copy of these resolutions be sent to his family, also a copy sent to The Progressive Farmer and Caro lina Dispatch for publication. B. L. Evans, B. F. Elliott, W. O. Winslow, The other business transacted was of a local nature, and would not claim the attention of your readers. Will conclude bv savin or that flnAwtiM Vir -W. B. Felton, B. L. Evans and others, music Dy ine unowan r. A. Band, and last, but not least, the sumptuous re freshments prepared by the kind ladies and friends around White House hap pily entertained the large and appre ciative assembly for the . remainder of the day, as one would judge from the close attention and many expressions of delight by the visitors bestowed. Old Chowan is not often left. Suc cess to the reform spirit of The Pro gressive Farmer. H. C. Privott, Sec'y. PEOPLE'S PARTY PLATFORM. i - - Adopted by the Convention at Omaha, Neb , July 4, 1892. PREAMBLE. Assembled upon the one hundred and and sixteenth anniversary of the Dec laration of Independence, the People's party of America, in their first national convention, invoking upon their actions the blessing of Almighty God, puts forth in the name and 01 behalf of the people of the country the following preamble and declaration of principles : The conditions which surround us best justify our co operation ; we meet in the midst of a nation brought to the verge of moral, political and material ruin. Corruption dominates the ballot box, the legislatures, the Congress, and touches even the ermine on the bench. The people are demoralized ; most of the States have been compelled to isolate the voters at the polling places to pre vent universal intimidation or bribery. The newspapers are largely subsidized or muzzled, public opinion silenced, business prostrated, our homes covered with mortgages, labor impoverished, and the land concentrating in the hands of the capitalists. The urban workmen are denied the right of organization for self protection; imported pauperized labor beats down their wages; a hire ling army, unrecognized by our laws, is established to shoot them down, and they are rapidly degenerating into European conditions. The fruits of the toil of millions are boldly stolen to build up colossal fortunes for a fe-v, unprecedented in the history of marr kind, and the possessors of these in turn despise the Republic and endanger liberty. From the sama prolific womb of governmental injustice we breed the two great classes tramps and mil lionaires. The national power to create money is appropriated to enrich bondholders ; a vast public debs, payable in legal tender currency, has been funded into gold bearing bonds, thereby adding millions to the burdens of the people. Silver, which has been accepted as coin since the dawn of history, has been demonetized to add to the pur chasing power of gold, by decreasing the value of all forms of property as well as human labor, and the supply of currency is purposely abridged to fatten usurers, bankrupt enterprise, and enslave industry. A vast con spiracy against mankind has been or ganized on two continents, and it is rapidly taking possession of the world. If not met and overthrown at once it. forebodes terrible social convulsions, the -destruction of civdization, or the establishment of an absolute despotism. We have witne:sed for more thin a quarter of a century the struggles of the two great political parties for power and plunder, while grievous wrongs have been inflicted upon the suffering people". We charge that the controlling influences dominating both parties have permitted the existing dreadful conditions to develop, without serious effort to prevent or restrain them. Neither do they now promise us any substantial reform. They have agreed together to ignore, in the coming cam paign, every issue but one. They pro pose to drown the outcries of a plun dered people with the uproar of a sham battle over the tariff, so that capitalists, corporations, national banks, rings, trusts, watered stock, the demonetiza tion of silver, and the oppressions of the usurers may all be lost sight of. They propose to sacrifice our homes, lives and children on the altar of mam mon ; to destroy the multitude in order to secure corruption funds from the millionaires. Assembled on the anni versary of the birthday of the nation and filled with the spirit of the grand general chief, who established our in dependence, we seek to restore the gov ernment of the Republic to the hands of 41 the plain people " with whose class it originated. Wo assert our purposes to be identical with the purposes of the National Constitution, to form a more perfect union and establish justice, in sure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the gen eral welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty for ourselves and our pos terity. We declare that this Republic can only endure as a free government while built upon the love of the whole people for each other and for the nation ; that it cannot be pinned together by bay onets ; that the civil war is over and that every passion and resentment which grew out of it must die with it, and that we must be in fact, as we are in name, one united brotherhood of freedom. Our country finds itself confronted by conditions for which there is no precedent in the history of the world. Our an nual agricultural productions amount to billions of dollars in value, which must within a few weeks or months be exchanged for billions of dollars of commodities consumed in their pro duction ; the existing currency supply is wholly inadequate to make this ex change. The results are falling prices, the formation of combines and rings, the impoverishment of the producing class. We pledge ourselves that if given power we will labor to correct these evils by wise and reasonable legislation in accordance with the terms of our platform We believe that the powers of gov ernmentin other woras, of the peo pie should be expanded (as in the case of the postal S3rvice) as rapidly and as far as the good sense of an intelligent people and the teachings of experience shall justify to the end that oppression, injustice and poverty shall eventually cease in the land. While our sympathies as a party of reform are naturally upon the side of every proposition which will tend to make men intelligent "virtuous and temperate, we .-nevertheless regard these questions important as they are as secondary to the great jssues now pressing for solution, and upon whieh not only our individual prosperity, but the very existence of free institutions depend, and we ask all men to first help us to determine whether we are to have a Republic to administer, be fore we differ as to Jthe condition upon which it is to be administered, believ ing that the forces of reform this day organized will never cease to move for ward until every wrong is righted and equal rights and equal privileges estab lished for all the men and women of this country ; we declare, therefore, union of the people. First That the union of the labor forces of the United States, this day consumated, shall be permanent and perpetual. May its spirit enter into all hearts for the salvation of the Re public and ths uplifting of mankind. Second Wealth belongs to him who creates it, and every dollar taken from industry without an equivalent is rob bery. If any will not work, neither shall he eat." The interests of rural and civic labor are the same; their enemies are identical. Third We belive that the time has come when the railroad corporations must either own the people or the peo pie must own the railroads, and should the government enter upon the work of owning and managing all railroads, we should favor an amendment to the Constitution by which all persons en gaged in the government service shall be placed under a civil service regula tion of the mo3t rigid character, so as to prevent the increase of the power of the national administration by the use of such additional government em ployees PLATFORM. We demand a national currency, safe, sound, and flexible, issued by the General Government only, a -full legal tender f or all debts, public and private, and that without the use of banking corporations, a just, equitable and efficient means of distribution direct to the people at a tax not to exceed 2 per cent, per annum, to bo provided as set forth in the Sub Treasury plan of the Farmers' Alliance, or a better system; also by payments in discharge of its obligations for public improvements We demand "free and unlimited coin age of silver and gold at the present legal ratio of 16 to 1. We demand that the amount of the circulating medium be speedily in creased to not less than $50 per capita. We demand a graduated income tax. We believe that the money of the country should be kept as much as possible in the hands of the people, and hence we demand that all state and national revenues shall be limited to the necessary expenses of the gov ernment economically and honestly ad ministered. We- demand that postal savings banks be established by the govern ment for the safe deposit of the earn ings of the people and to facilitate ex change. CONTROL OF TRANSPORTATION. Transportation being a mean3 of ex change and a public necessity, the government should own and operate the railroads in the interest of the people. The telegraph and telephone, like the postoffice system, being a necessity for the transmission of news, should be owned and operated by the government in the interest of the people. RECLAIMING THE LAND. The land, including all the natural resources of wealth, is the heritage of all the people and should not be monopolized for speculative purposes, and alien ownership of land should he prohibited. All land now held by rail roads and other corporations in excess of their actual needs, and all lands now owned by aliens should be reclaimed by the government and held for actual settlers only. RESOLUTIONS. The following resolutions were offered independent of the platform, and were adopted, as expressive of the sentiment of 1 he convention : ' Resolved, That wo demand a free ballot and a fair count in all elections and pledge ourselves to secure it to every legal voter without Federal in tervention through the adoption by the States of the unperverted Australian or secret ballot system. 2. That the revenue derived from a 0TA.H1mt.pd income tax should beaDDlied to the reduction of the burden of taxa-? dustries of this country. 3 That we pledge our support to fair and liberal pensions to ex-Union sol diers and sailors. 4. That we condemn the fallacy of protecting American labor under the present system, which opens our ports to the pauper and criminal classes of the world and crowds out our wage earners; and we denounce the present ineffective laws against contract labor and demand the further restriction of undesirable immigration. 5. That we cordially sympathize with the efforts of organized working men to shorten the hours of labor, and demand a rigid enforcement of the ex isting eight-hour law on government work, and ask that a penalty clause be added to the said law. 6. That we regard the maintenance of a large standing army of mercen aries, known as the Pinkerton system, as a menace to our liberties, . and we demand it3 abolition; and we condemn the recent invasion of the Territory of Wyoming by the hired assassins of plutocracy, assisted by Federal officers. 7. That we commend to the thought ful consideration of the people and the reform press the legislative system known as the initiative and referen dum. 8. That we favor a constitutional provision limiting the office of Presi dent and Vice-President to one term, and providing for the election of Sen ators of the United States by a direct vote of the people. 9. That we oppose any subsidy or national aid to any private corporation for any purpose. 10. The People's party, desiring at the outset to secure permanent control of the party organization to the people unaffected by the interests of those in public service does hereby in national convention assembled on this, the 4th day of July, 1892, hereby establish this ordinance as fundamental law of party organization. No person holding any office or position of profit, trust or emolument under the Federal or any State or municipal government (includ- j mg Senators, Congressmen and mem-' bers of the legislatures, State and Na tional) shall be eligible to sit or vote m any convention of this party, and a copy of this ordinance shall be annexed to every call for any future convention of the party. TYRRELL COUNTY ALLIANCE. Colusibia, N. C. T?esnii-A That we re affirm our de votion to the principles of our Order. 2. That we, the Farmers' Alliance of Tyrrell county, declare and publish to all men our purpose and intention to fit.nd hv t.h Alliance demands, and that we will neither support nor advo cate any man tor omce wno opposes said demands. 3 That, ota hfiliftvft that our demands cannot be put into practicable opera tion by any better plan cnan set rorin at Ocala, and as reiterated at St. Louis on the 22d day or ireoruary, ioyz. Therefore we pledge ourselves to stand by the St. Louis demands, so far as possible. N. Cole, F. L. Brickhouse, T. L. Jones, Committee. R. E. L. Hoyman, Sec'y. Whereas, It has pleased the Al mighty Father to remove, by death, Hon. L. L. Polk, our much esteemed President of the National Farmers' Al liance and Industrial Union ; and in hi3 death we recognize the loss of one of our truest members and ablest co workers. Therefore we, theFarmers' Alliance of Tyrrell comity in regular session assembled, offer our sincere sympathy to the family of our deceased brother, and that we strive to carry out with renewed energy the work he so ably represented. That a copy of this resolution be sent to The Progressive Farmer and the Farmers' Advocate, of Tarboro. for publication. N. Cole, F. L. Brickhouse, T. L. Jones, Committee. JUDGE BYNUM EXPLAINS. Asheville, N. C, Aug. 25, 1892. Mr. Editor: In your issue of the 2d mst. I find the following publication, to-wit: (Here the resolution of the State Alliance was inserted, but we omit it, as it has been published often.) The first name published as refusing is John G. Bv num. Judge Superior Court. I did, about December 1st, 1891, re ceive from Mr. Barnes a circular letter of which the above is a copy. On December 8 th, 1891, I wrote Mr. Barnes as follows, to-wit: " W. S. Barnes, Secretary, &c: My Dear Sir: The resolution of the Farmers' State Alliance and your cir cular letter in regard to the use of rail road Dasses bv mvself smce mv elec tion as Judge of trie Superior Court of North Carolina is received, and reply ing will say, I know nothing of your Order or Association ; it is secret and I am excluded from its benefits or pnvi leges ; I cannot therefore recognize the right of the Alliance to make the in quiry, any more than I would the right of the State Medical Association, or the Methodist Conference, or the Pres byterian Synod; still I do not desire to be discourteous, or decline to answer the questioa upon that ground, espe cially as I have nothing to conceal ; but before answering, I desire in common fairness to ask you as the Secretary and Treasurer of the N. C. F. S. A. two simple questions which yoif can answer, and which I cannot enter into one of your meetings to find out, which ques tions are as follows : "First. Does the Alliance propose to publish to the world my answer to their inquirv? "Second. If they do not intend to publish to the world what use do they Dronose to make or it? "If your answer to the first question is in the affirmative, I will answer your question with pleasure; if that question is answered in the negative, then my reply will depend upon your answer to the second inquiry. " Enclosed find stamped envelope for reply . Yours truly, Jno. Gray Bynum." On December 14th, 1891, I received from Mr. Barnes a reply ofwlaich the following is a copy: "Judge J. G. Bynum, Morganton, N. C: My Dear Sir: Yours of the 8th to hand, and in answer to your inquiry or inquiries must say tnat ail tnat tne Alliance did in this matter was pub lished in the resolution sent you by me. " The letters will be turned over to the Executive Committee, who will have them laid before the State Alli ance meeting of 1892. Do not think they will be published, though some of them may ; but I cannot say not know ing what action will be taken by that body. I tnin& tne intention ot ine let ter of inauirv was to find out who of the State officials were disregarding the act of the legislature creating the Railroad Commission, a clause in which has reference to free passes. Yours truly, W. S. Barnes." This correspondence explains itself. I have never used a pass over a rail road since the 31st of March, 1891. The Auditor was informed of that fact at that time. Mr. Barnes would have been, had he answered the inquiries jn my lettf r to him so that I could have been informed that a proper use was to be made of my reply. I will be obliged if you will publish chese com munications. I am, Very truly yours, Jno. Gray Bynum. NORTHERN DEMOCRATS SAY THE SOUTH CAN HAVE IT. "Mr Speaker, I was shocked this . " , t i u r t. morning wnen a piujs-eu up iuu ji uuk Ivn Eaale (a Democratic newspaper) marked piece headed 'If wants the force bill the have it." I will not read It ought not to have been and read a the Souih Soutn can the article. written, ana i win let it "rest m peace." Hon. B. H. Bunn, Speech Before the House on the Silver Bill, March 23d, 1892. 4 -W m A A A A A Serious Charge Published in ' Newspaper. 13 He Streator, 111., August 8 -Tn nl to a local paper, Mr. Patrick M m le a well known Irishman McCalI worked for Adlai E. StevensS-l "I panyfrom the time the bon Cc was reached in 1870 until Mr SVek son pulled the union nf " ieven. branch in 1873. root an "I can trulvRavTnoTTn., tyrant, nor a man with 1pC0 wT.P during all my life as a coal mhuSJ 1873 a contract was agree! to , Adlai and the miners. He and one clause provided that ffl h remain in force one year nn' : 0uI4 should be discharged without ae cause. it Not many weeks after the orw. was agreed to one of tne T i E2 brob and lower the men and raise tw15 il 1. VJLIL lino f--. 1 . xi-u luluu nine cut? biia.iL was A 4- 4-Y, 4- : i.1 1 r. aiso n , i very c angerous condition was bulging and breaking and th7f?r t,uK3ub wi c63 was frequently ob "One afternoon the remaining ca ioaaea wun men, stuck in the Tv From 4 o'clock till 10 at night it 5 BupciaUC m tu uiusi perilous positinn Dei ween xop ana Dottom xehn . , , , . "i ' uiic I mpn nplnw havmir nn -V,. - . 'i uuti rr... psmnp rxwimp nlarmod iafetW "There was no escapement shaft no bowels of the earth, 550 feet below uuuiu ue ueuru vne execrations of the xiicia aj-nj. pictuiiig j.ur prompt relief At; nnv mnmpnt, tho nnncuol rr J : . " , ""uouai am on the rope might have precmitatpH , cage of human occupants to the bot tom of the shaft several hundred feet UtJIUW. ' women ana cnuaren cratwi around the top screaming and prayin? for the safety of their husband fathers. Next morning yielding to the prayers oi ineir lamuies, the men w iuseu to wuiis. umu me snait was put in a safe condition. Adlai gave orders to discharge every man who did not reporc ror auty. "Realizing their extreme danger not a man reportea, ana all were discharwd in the face of a contract drawn ud for one year. Aaiai wouia listen to n0 reason, but said ne bad done wi.h the union and would get new men In a short time the company's agent brought in ninety scabs; only one of whom could speak a word of English. "Union miners were defeated in that inhuman lockout in 1873 for simply aemanaing mac cneir lives oe not un necessarily jeopardized. Such is the character of Adlai Stevenson, the scab employer and bo-s political heads man. Mr. McCall is vouched for by many prominent citizens. He is a leading representative of the miners of the State. New York Press. IRISH POTATOES. Our potatoes grown from last all's crop, and planted for comparison alongside of potatoes brought from the North, have been dug. The superior ity of the home grown seed was appar ent in the growth of the plants during the whole spring, and the result in the crop is 6till more striking. The pro portion of unmarketable potatoes in the lot from home grown seed is not near eo large as from the Northern seed. In fact, the fine size of the pota toes from the home grown seed makes the whole crop of the potatoes from Northern seed look like cullirjgs. Whil1' the gross weight of an equal number of hills from the Northern seed was a liitle greater than from the home grown seed, the additional weight was more than made up of culling?, and the marketable crop from the home grown seed was much heavier, and there was not a potato in the whole crop from Northern seed equal in size to the majority of those from the home grown seed. A late crop will be grown from both and the experiment contin ued next year, in comparison witn fresh potatoes of same stock brought South next spring .W. F. Mam Horticxdturist, N. C. Agriculturist U periment Station. CAMDEN COUNTY MEETING. Mr. Editor: Camden County Faro er's Alliance, No. 1,219, met July MM 1892, in regular meeting with Low Star Alliance, and was opened by m President in regular form. The ance then went into the election a officers, with the following result: w. S. Bartlett, President; J. M. Whaler Vice-President; W. R Dozier, &ec tary; H. C. Ferebee, Treasurer; T. J Boushall, Lecturer; W. G. Cox, AssB ant Lecturer; S. W. Williams, W lain; Wm, Evans, Door-keeper; iw Brown, Assistant Door keeper; J. Stevens, Sergeant-at Arms; w. Ferebee, County Business Agent. A recess was then taken for an nou after which the Alliance re-assey and the retiring president installed officers elect in due form. a W. G. Cox was elected delegate T. B. Bousnall . alternate, to the meeting to be held in Greensboro. The regular routine business transacted in the usual manner. T. n niahnii rtnrpr. maae' remarks for the good of the Order. Kja moiion, tnese prot-teue- ordered furnished The P0?.! Farmer and the Carolina VW for publication. f 3 The Alliance adjourned to nf-L. Old Trap Sub Alliance at its next ne lar meeting. W. K. DOZIEK, " "Monev is ftxatlv what mow. promontories on public roads tre r olden times. The barons iovzn$ them, fortified them and then who pass below pay toll. So the iw millionaire can make all K fld low pay toll to his million, ana another tower to his money casbie-ger noor vn.iTjnfa tho road 8ic:ef.n now quite a3 much from the bag Bag and crags have just tne effect on rags." Ruskin.
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