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THE PE0SEE23IE PAEUEE: SEPTEMBER 6. 1898
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Col Johnson Carries Good News To 1 he
Major Flattery And Promise Of Office
In The Future Brought The Major
Back To Democracy And Made Him
Feel Much Better.
B. "Hello! Mr. Editor."
B. Hello I Major. Hope you are well
today."
B. UI never felt better in my life.
Ole Tom Jefferson's blood iz tinglih' in
my veins this mornin'. - Kurnell John
eon wuz out ter see me Wednesday an
spent the day. He tole me things
that made me feel thirty years young
er. He sed that erbout awl the Popu
lists hed cum back ter dymockracy ex
cept a few effis holders an' that they
would be with us before eleckshun day.
I axed the Kurnell how he knowed
that. He sed it wuz in awl the papers
that the Pops are jiat tumblin' over !
eachother an' rushin' ter git inter the
dymakratick fold. I tole him that it
would take a change ov more than
20,000 voters before we could hope ter
carry the State, an' that wuz a big
thing. He eed that wuz easy enough.
I tole him it wuz narrated eround that
a gude many dymakrats are cumin1
over ter the Populists, that I had
heard the names ova gude many rite
here in Wake county. He eed that
wuzent anything. I axed him if , it
wuzent likely that the perlitercal
changes ( :here are awlways sum) would
not erbout balance eachother an' leave
us just where we were before. He sed
that wuz impossible. Then I tole him
that I wuz purty nigh a Populist my
self, an' wuz debatin' how I will vote
this year. He sed : Major you are the
most influential man in this county.
Thousands ov dymakrats are lookin'
ter you ter save the day. They know
that the way you go, so goes the State.
Now are you going to disappoint them!
We are determined to run you for
Kongresa in 1900 an' you must not
leave us at this critical time." I tell
you that made me feel gude. I've bin
wantin' ter kick up my heels an' yell
ever sinse. Kurnell Johnson must be
a majician. He kin make a feller feel
so gude he can't hardly live by sayin'
jiat a few words. I kin now see whut
a horrible thing Populism iz. Awl the
Populists who aint willin' ter vote the
dymakrat ticket orter be run out ov
the State inside ov three days. Gude
bye." NOTICE.
By virtue of power reposed in me, I
hereby call the Populist County Con
vention .of Johnston County to asscm
ble in the court house in Smithfleld,
N. C, September 16, 1898, at 12 m., for
the purpose of nominating county
candidates, members of the next gen
eral assembly, etc., and to transact
other business, which may properly
come before the convention.
D. T. Massey,
Chm'n Johnston Co. P. P. Ex. Comm.
E. T. Wharton, Secretary.
ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS INTWO
PRIZES.
The North Carolina Publishing So
ciety has offered two prizas to the boys
and girls of North Carolina one of
Sixty Dollars to contestants between
the ages of sixteen and twenty in
elusive, and one of Forty Dollars to
contestants between the ages of twelve
and fifteen inclusive, for the best brief
sketch or reproduction of any ox e of
the lives contained in its forthcoming
book, "Lives of Distinguished North
Carolians," to be issued in September of
this year.
All applicants to enter the contest
must be filed with thfl ftvnaHr hftfnrfl
September 10. 1898: and noon anv such
application the rulea under which th8
contests are to, conducted will be for
warded to the applicant.
Each contest will be decided by a
disinterested committee of historians
and educators who will not know the
names of anv contestantx
The committee for the first prizs are'
President E. A. Alderman, Chaa. E.
Taylor and A. Q. Holladay.
'The committee for the second prize,
are Professors H. P. Mosea and Hugh
Morson, and Dr. James Din widdie.
. All communications on this subject
should be addressed to The North Caro
lina Publishing Society, P. O. Bdx 75,
Raleigh, N. O.
WANTS TO SAVE THE COLON.
Hobson Prosecutes The Work After Au
thorities Give It Up.
Santiago, August 31 Lieutenant
Hobson decided today to continue his
efforts to save the Cristobal Colon, de
spite the decision of the Navy Depart
ment to give the job up. He received
news of the departments's decision to
day, started for the -scene of the wreck
and ordered the wrecking tug to con
tinue work, saying he would take the
responsibility for his. action. He sent
urgent dispatches to the Navy Depart
ment, askining leave to continue the
work. He estimates the Colon's worth
at $3,000,000, and thinks it is disgrace
ful to give up the attempt. If the
government refuses to back him he will
appeal for a popular subscription. The
Maria Teresa will soon be iu first class
shape. i
BRYAN MAY RESIGN.
There Is Ko Fighting For His Command
And He la Needed At Home.
Lincoln, Neb., Sept. 1. According
to friends of Colonel W. J. Bran, now
with the Third Nebraska Regiment at
Jacksonville, his resignation may be
expected in the near future. They say
he will have no dangers to face in the
future, as the Third is said to be slated
to go to Cuba with Ftzhugh Lee for
garrison duty. That being the case,
they have been trying to convince him
him that he can now reeign without
any loss of dignity or character; and
as he is wanted here in the campaign
in Nebraska, it is believed he will re
sign. Letters from his regiment show
that nine tenths of the privates want
to be mustered out.
Can North Carolinians afford to con
tinue to remain classified as the most
illiterate people in the United States of
America? We are sorry to have to re
call the fact that at the last election
the school question was voted down in
almost every district in North Caro
Una, and when one takes into con
sideration that the great voting power
in North Carolina is located in the
rural districts, it will be seen that the
farmers themselves are the people who
prevent their children having a favor
able chance to receive an education.
Textile Excelsior.
A GOOD JUDGE.
THE SAFETY OF RAILWAY
TRAVEL.
Last year on American railways one
passenger was killed in accidents out
of every 2,827.474 passengers carried.
That is to eay, that you can take a
train 2,827,474 times before, on the law
of averages, your turn comes to be
killed. You will have to travel 72,
093.963 miles on the cars before that
turn cornea, and 4,541,945 miles before
you are injured. If you travel 20 miles
every day for 300 days in the year,
you can keep on at it for 758 years be
fore you turn cornea to be hurt. If
there had been railways when our
Savior was born and y ou had begun to
travel on the first day of the year A
D. 1, and had traveled 100 miles in
every day of every month of every
year since then, you would still have
(in this year 1898) nearly three million
miles yet to travel before your turn
came to be killed.
Nov subscribers under our 20 cent
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We think that Judge Timberlake ha?
made as good a record as any Superior
Court Judge has ever made in the State
He is a thorough and conscisntioup
Populist, and believes in applying
Populist principles in the dispatch of
court business, wasting as little turn
as possible, and thereby saving eacl.
county where be holds court as much
expense as possible. In fact the entire
judiciary of the State was never better
than it is at present. :.. i :
The Greensboro Daily Record, Deru ,
recently had this to eay of Judge, Tim
berlake and his manner of running
court: '
Judge Timberlake acts as if he woulc.
stand no foolishness. He gave order
yesterday to the sheriff to make every
body take a seat, but stated that the:
could stand ut at the rate of a dollat
an hour, if they preferred, instructing
the sheriff to collect that amount o
make them sit down. '
Judge Timberlake made a record
yesterday of which he should be prout
and which should be followed here
after, though there is iminent dange?
if it is kept up, of killing a few lawyers
Some people will say, however, tha
this would not hurt much. Commenc
ing yesterday morning he finished u
the 'Louis Smith case, sending him ti
the pen for ten years; got a jury foi
that murder case by 12:10, examinee
nearly all of the witnesses before noon
a j aurnment ; went to work at 2 :30i
finished up the evidence, the attorney
spoke, the Judge charged the jury and
thoy returned with a verdict of guilty
sometime after six o'clock; five other
cases were then disposed of before ad
journment, one of the defendants be
ing sent up for three years, another
for one and so on.
The above gentleman knows what he
is about. He may be one of the "new
issue," but he is up to a thing or two.
He knows an old offender and he putt
him where he will do the least harm
after he is convicted. He has demon
strated this bo far in his judgments at
this term of court, yet he is not severe
by any means. He merely meets out
"punishment to fit the crime." For in
stance, late yesterday afternoon Dili
Bas3, who has served several terms or
the road and is known as an incor
rigible thief, was arraigned for trial
There were perhaps eight cases againsi
him, in all of which he plead guilty.
His Honor asked about his previous
record, then "bunched" bis cases in tc
two groupes and gave Bill twenty
years in all, ten in each group. Bill
thought he was to be sent to the county
roads and smiled, but the Judge re
marked "let the prisoner be sent to
the penitentiary." Bill's face changed
at once, and with a grunt he sat down.
Then Sam Mock was given five years
in the pen, while a number of old
offenders got a dose of the same medi
cine. This is just. Those follows have
become a terror to the community and
it is high time they were finally dis
posed of. A light sentence brings them
back at the next term of court every
time. " . 1 . .
YOUR ATTENTION, PLBASS.
We wish to thank those of our sub
scribers who so warmly praise the re
cent; issues of The Progressive Far
meb. We are here to give the people
the truth, and we have administered
some large doses of late. . That's what
we intend to continue doing.
But the truth must be put into the
hands of the people. We want every
subscriber to get us a club of campaign
subscribers. TJie paper will he sent
from nowt till the election for only 20
cents. Surely every subscriber can
send a club of five. Let us have them.
We thank those who have already sent
clubs, and trust that others will keep the
ball rolling. Hand this paper to your
neighbors and send in a club. The
time is short, and what is done must
be done quickly.
MORE FUSION "INCOMPETENCY."
The Agricultural Department slid
out from under the old administration
June 14th, 1897. The new administra
tion has completed its first year. Now
comparisons, sometimes pronounced
"odious," but in this case, perhaps,
"odorous" may be in order
For the last year of the old adminis
tration from June 14 sh, 1896, to June
14th. 1897, receipts were $52 60 93
Disbursements were 67 470 79
Disbursements exceeded re
ceipts $14.863 06
For the first 111 months of
the present management
from June 14, '97, to June
1, '98, receipts were $57,973.72
Disbursements were 37,345 23
Receipts exceeded disburse
ments, $20,628 49
This shows, from the records, that
the present administration has re
ceived $5 370.99 more, and spent $30,
125 46 less than the old Democratic ad
ministration. Now let the negro lam
'ty howlers howl on.
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NEW LIGHT UPON THE REVOLU
f TION.
In the August Atlantic, we are struck
with the paper in which Charles Ken
dall Adams directs attention to "Some
Neglected Aspects of the Revolution
ary War," pointing out many inter
esting facta generally unknown or un
noticed. After showing from what ir
regular sources popular historical be
lief is usually derived, he dispels the
common error of the supposed unan
imity of the country at that time,
showing how formidable was the Tory
opposition in numbers, wealth? and in
telligence, and the constitutional
strength of their arguments. He
points out many instances of the won
derful "luck" which followed the
American cause, notably in the British
failure to discover Washington's lack
of powder at the siege of Boston, and
the extraordinary accident which
'pigeonholed" Lord Howes' orders to
unite with Burgoyne, two cases that
might have been fatal to our cause.
He shows that the fathers were not so
wise and spotless as generally believed,
details the incompetency and corrup
tion that prevailed in the Second Con
gress, and the frauds and speculations
of contractors. He uncovers the se
cret motives of France in her action
and the European complications which
debarred England from putting out
her full strength against us, and be
lieves that these revelations teach us
that from the beginning to the very
end the Revolution was a far more des
perate and a far more doubtful strug
gle than the historians have taught us
to believe. They teach us also that it
was kept from the disaster that seemed
again and again ready to overwhelm
it, chiefly by that watchful wisdom of
Washington which, to use Goethe's
phrase, was as unhasting and as un
resting as a star.
Perhaps after all the world is not
growing worse, and our politicians and
warriors are perhaps as near perf ec
tion as in the earlier days of our coun
try. People get a great deal better
after they die, and the children of to
day will doubtless talk of the good old
days of '"the war of 1898." And per
haps 'tis best that we remember the
glory of the past without its trials, and
that only occasionally, in articles such
as Mr. Adams', are we told that the
people of the past were as frail as-we.
Send for a few sample copies of The
Progressive Fabuxb to hand to your
neighbors who are not now subscribers.
Tell them that they can get this 8 page
weekly from now till March '99 for
only 60 cents, or till November 20, '98
for 20 cents.
FAR HERS' INSTITUTES. -
John R. Smith, Commissioner of
Agriculture, assisted by Dr. D. Reid
Parker, Prof. A. Q. Holladay, Presi
dent of the A. & II. College, Prof.
W. A. Withers, Director of the North
Carolina Experiment Station, Prof.
F. E. Emery, Prof, of Agriculture A.
& M. College, Prof. W. F. Massey,
State Horticulturalist, will hold Far
mers' institutes at the following times
and places: '
Richland 8, Onslow county, Wednes
day, September 7.
Magnolia, Duplin county, Friday,
September 9.
Exercises begin at 10 a. m. Every
body invited and all interested
in farm work should not fail to attend.
J.L.IRamsey,
Sec'y Dept. Agriculture.
The way of the reformer is hard
very hard. The world knows little
about it, for it is rarely that a reformer
shows the scars of conflict, the pain of
hope deferred, the mighty waves of de
spair that wash over a great purpose.
There have been two or three recent
instances where men of sincere aim
and high ambition have permitted the
world to hear an uncontrolled sob hi
hopelessness, or a word of bitterness at
the seeming emptiness of all struggles.
But men of great purpose and high
ideals should know that the path of the
reformer is loneliness. -They must
live from within; their aims must be
their source of strength. They must
not expect the tortoise to sympathize
with the flight of the eagle. A great
purpose is an isolation. The world
cares little for your struggles ; it cares
only to joy in your final triumph.
Christ alone in Qethsemane; but at
the Sermon on the Mount, where food
was provided, the attendance was four
thousand.
The world is honest enough in its
purpose. It says practically, if you
would lead us to higher realms of
thought, to purer ideals , of life, and
flash before ua like the hand writing on
the wall all the possible glories of de
velopment, you must pay the price for
it, not we. The world has a law as
clearly defined as the laws of Kepler:
"Credit for reform works in any line
will be in inverse proportion to the
square-roots of their importance.' Give
us a new fad and we will prostrate our
selves in the dust; give us a new phil
osopby, a marvelous revelation, a
higher conception of life and morality,
and we may pass you by, but posterity
will pay for it. Bend your messages
O. O. P. and posterity will settle for
them. You ask for bread; posterity
will give you a stone called a monu
ment. There is nothing in this to dis
courage the highest efforts of geniua
Genius is great because it is decades in,
advance of its generation.
To appreciate genius r quire com
prehension and the same characteris
tics. The public can fully appreciate
only what is a few steps in advance:
it must grow to the .appreciation of
great thought . The genius or the re
former should occept this a necessary
condition. It is the price he must pay
for being in advance of his generation
just as front seats in the orchestra cost
more than those in the back row of.
the third gallery. Genius and the re
former must pay the price for advanc
ing the world. The tragedy on Cal
vary is the type of whal greatness
must heroically accept for saving the
world. And Christ labored thirty
years and had twelve disciples; one de
nied him; one betrayed him; one
doubted him and the other nine were
shaky. But today Christianity has ita
hundreds of millions of believers in
spite of all the commentators. Satur
day Evening Post.
WHAT UR. RAY SAIU.
Superintendent Jno. E. Ray, of tho
Blind Institution, says:
"The law provides for a board of.
trustees of seven members to manage
the affairs of the institution. The in
stitution over which I have the honor
to preside as principalis divided into
two departments, white and colored.
These departments are in eeparato
buildings, on opposite sides of the city
of Raleigh, nearly a mile apart. In
selecting the board of trustees to bo
confirmed in March, '97, Jas. H. Young
was selected, probably, with the view
of having a colored representative cr.
the board to give special attention to
the colored department. Young was
confirmed with the others. Of course
he met with the board, and it was hto.
privilege to vote on all questions. H
generally voted with his party frier ds
otherwise he avoided interference with
the management of the white depart
msm. He never came there e-rrent t
attend the board meetings more than
two or three times. Then he saw me
at my office, politely transacted his
business and retired. I don't remem
ber that he ever served on any com
mittee of inspection of the white de
partment. To me he seemed to stu
diously avoid doing or saying anything
that would in the least embarrass any
lady. "He has always been respectful
to me, both in my official and perconal
dealings with him. He resigned about
June 1st, and has not attended a board
meeting in three months. There 13 noi
now a colored representative on they
board."