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THE PBGSE33XE FABHEB : OCTOBEE 18, 1828 W PB0GBE3SIVE mm URS. L. L, POLK, . J.L. RAMSEY. . CLARENCE H. POB. J. W. DENMARK, , . Proprietor. Editor . As so. Editor. Business tl'g'r. Raleigh, N. C. SUBSCRIPTION Single 3utncrlbT. On Yer 1 oo " Six Months. . . . . . . . . 60 nPS?VT oa to ny ;nt Bending cluo or N. JBL F. A. TO THOSE WHO ARE NOT SUB SCRIBERS. As we send out several thousand sample copies of thia issue, we wish to call the attention of those who are not subscribers to the fact that we are still receiving subscriptions at the rate of $1 per year Aa to the paper it speaks for itself. No other $1 North Carolina weekly, not a re hash from dailies, is so large, and no other North Carolina paper of any kind or price gives so much read ing matter of special interest to farm era, and to the ladies and young peo pie. Every issue contains something of interest and value to every mem ber of the family, and the prica is as low as the lowest. Bead this issue carefully, let your wife read it care fully, and then send on your subscrip tion one year, $1. To those who wish to become ao quainted with it before subscribing, we win say: The paper will be sent from now till Nov. 18 :h for only 10 cents. It will be sent till January 1st, 1839, for only 20 cents. It will be sent till March 15, 1899. so that you will get in this time the full proceed ings of th9 Legislature as well as cam paign news, for only 40 cents. You can't effjrd to do without it. Please send in your subscription at once. EDITORIAL NOTES. Davidson County Alliance meets Oct. 22, 1 p. m., with Gravel Hill Sub. The Alliance shoe factory started work yesterday. Send in your orders for shoes. The new ritual is a decided improve ment. A set of six, with key, 60 cts. Order with seal. Pledge your candidates to vote for lower freight rates and two cents per mile passenger fares. Judge Eugene D. Carter, o! Ashe ville, one of the best known and most popular mn in Western Norfh Caro Una, died last week. Wonder why Mr. Atwater doesn't accept our ccer to support mm n ne can show that J.nkins is not in favor of the reforms At water claim3 to favor? Senator Butler will speak at Clinton Saturday October 22nd, and Hon. Jas. B. Lloyd at Black Creek same day. Senator Butler also speak3 at Wil mington, Oct. 25; Snow Hill, Oct. 20; Nashville, Oct. 27; Warrenton, Oct. 29 The 'Timely Suggestions" in our ag ricultural columns should bs heeded, and account books similar to those spoken of on the same page shculd be opened up on every farm. We call the especial attention of every farmer and of every newspaper to the call cf Prof. F. E Emery, S.c retary -Treasurer of the North Caroli na State Dairyman's Association for the organisation cf a L;ve Sjock Aeso ciation in this State. This matter should ba pushed and pushed at once Let us have the Association and let every breeder of live stock come to the State fair with that determination. Farmers should not fail to read the intei eating letter from Bro. T. B. Par ker in this issue He tells some plain truths. And in this connection, we are glad to note that the Basinees Agency i3 proepering and doing a large bu&inees. It is unnecessary to eay that every farmer should patronizo it to do so ii a duty pleasant in every way, and altogether pre Stable. Bro. Parker is there to eave you mone and will do so if you will only let him. Last week we mentioned the fact that ia New York and Connecticut the Democrats have virtually repudiated Bryan and free silver. And now the New Jersey Democrats have held their convention and ignored the silver ques tion. It is plain that the Democratic party is rapidly drifting back into the gold standard harbor. We predict that in 19C0 they will ignore Eilver, turn down Bryan and atteirpt to hum bug the people with the old cry of tarifL " Rev. (?) 7. W. Babb and negro editor Manly are very much displeased with the present State administration. Dem ocratic papers are quoting these lead ing opponents of tusion quite exten eively. You are quite welcome to these two more or less distinguished citizens, Bro. Democrat. We are cer tainly not likely to die of sorrow be cause they are working with the "lilly whites," and furnishing campaign ma terial for "white unions." Ban I "FIENDS I nr at? matt?" TTrtr I A BRAVE OLD MINISTER OF THE GOSPEL -DEMOCRAT -IC MACHINE WORK. Perhaps never in the history of our good old' State has there been an oo currence of which every citizen should be more ashamed than the disgraceful treatment of Rev. J L. Burns at Rober sonville, Wednesday October 12 h Four times did cowardly ruffians, ser vants of the machine now attempting to get control of the State, attack him with rocks or brickbats as well aa eggs. Mr. Burns is a minister of the Gospel, and was standing by a brother minis ter at church during one attack; be lost his right arm in the service f his State in the civil war, and had on a con federate gray suit when these fiendish, black hearted thugs attacked him with eggs and brickbats. Every Christian,' every patriot, 'every soldier, be he Democrat or Populist,should join hands to wipe out the so called Democratic machine, which respects neither pa triotism, age nor Christianity. It must be beaten. Decency and virtue de mand it. STATE IS ALL RIGHT. With the exception of thres States, more miles of railroad have been built in North Carolina since the first of January latt than in any State in the Union. If wecount the projected lines upon which work will probably begin before the end of the year, North Caro lina has finished and begun more miles of railroad this year than any Stat3 in the Union. Judging from reports to manufacturing journals, at least twice as many cotton mills have been built in the State thi3 year a3 in any S-ate in the Union possibly throe times as many, and others are under way. 8sv erai old mills have been enlarged. Tne above facts alone are sufficient to give the lie to the assertions of the hired Domocratic newspapers and hired speakers to the effcci that fusion rule 13 driving capital out of the State or in way retarding industrial progress. SOME DECENT DEMOCRATIC AR GUMENT) Butler is a "Gaiteau faced Davil." Statesvilla Landmark, Oot. 11, 1893. This is "decency!" "Are not th9 negroes the beat part of the fusion layout!' Charlotte Obser ver. This is "white supremacy !" Language ten times as vile and inde cent was applied by the Beaufort Herald Dspatch of 8 apt. 9-h to Mr. H. E. King and our editor in chief too in decent to cppy here. Surely, we have fallen upon evil days whan such vile sheets claim to bo organs of decency If we had no ether rea3on for voting the fusion ticket, we should consider it our duty to do all in our power to crush a machine that attacks brave old ministers of the gospel and by slanders, falsehoods and lack of de cency have disgraced themselves and attempted to disrac the Scate. Tne Democratic statesmen pretend that the white women of the State are very much excited over negro domina tion." We have yet to see one of tHs kind. But we have heard of several who know the cry is a false one. One gentleman of our acquaintance, recent ly told his wife that he did not know that he should vote for all the fusion nominees. Her reply was: "You shall do it." A young man who, it wee rumored would vote with the Demo crats, was told by his mother that be must not vote at all if that was his in tention. There are many other inteli gent ladies in this State who are eqnal ly disgusted with the indecent cartoons and slanders circulated by the Demo cratic machine. Oh, no the ladies of the State are too intelligent to be fooled . . " . 1 A J a Dy tne cry or, nigger. aoa sney are too virtuous to support a party whose only argument is indecent cartoons, and stale eggs for Christ's servants. CIRCUMSTANCES ALTERS CASES Some so called eilver Democrats can't see how Senator Pritchard, a goldbug and The Progressive Farmer, an ardent advocate of free silver, can join hands in support of the fusion ticket. Hut these same so called eilver Democrats can readily see how they and the infamous goldbug negro Editor Manly of the Wilmington Record can join hands in opposing Gov. Rasell and fusion. Do YOU see? LOGIC THAT IS NOT LOGIC A certain class of neppspers and politicians in tbi3 State who do not care how low they sink the btate it tney can thereby secure political spoils, are constantly holding up the 8tate aa an undesirable place to live. They say capital sron'c come here on account of the political conditions existing. A greater falsehood was nevor uttered. North Carolina has been under "fusion rule" as they term it, four years. In that period more capital has been invested in fixed property in the State than during any four years since the war. Manufacturing in all lines has increased faster than in any other Southern State, and all the others are under Democratic rule. Take tobacco manufacturing for instance. Reports show that 7, 683,000 pounds more plug tobacco was manufactured in the State last year than was the year before; 3 450,000 more cigars were made. In four years the number of cotton mills have increased faster than for any other four years, and in addition to new mills many mills were enlarged. Many miles of railroad were built, more, we think, than in any Southern State, and the older roads have been ballasted and greatly improved in the past four years. Among the perma nent railroad improvements may be mentioned the splendid shops of the Southern Railway near Salisburv. which cost many hundreds of thou eandsof dollars. Many other manu facturing concerns have bsen started, including furniture factories, tanneries, and lumber mills. At least ninety per cent of the towns and cities in the State have grown rapidly in population and buildings since 1891. Not Ions ago Charlotte papers boasted that a new residence was completed there for every day last year. The record was nearly as large in Raleigh, there being about three hundred new residences built here last year, many of them fine ones, ana tne building spirit is as active this year. Tne same is true of nearly every large town in the State and many small ones. All this indus trial process has boen right after the worst panic the country ever saw and when the price of farm products is ex tremely low and general trade dull. The man who says North Carolina is not progressing in most lines, and as rapidly, too, as the financial condition of the country will permit, is a elan- derer of the best State in the U-iion. REGARDING NBGRO SCHOOL COMMITTEEMEN. It is admitteed by all parties that the State has not for many years had such an efficient and business like Superin tendent of Public Instruction as she has at present a man whose hears and soul is in the fight for the betterment of our public schools. Mr. Mebane takes no active part in politics and be lieves that the taint of partisanship should be removed from our public schools. In an interview with him a few days ago we asked him what he thought cf the statement now often heard that in some parts of the State negroescon trolled white schools and that vjhito teachers were compelled to go t4uJ- groes to have their vouchers signed, etc. "ine charge, eaia Mr. MeDane. is utterly f alae. There is not, soar as I can learn, a single public school com mittee in the State, a majority of the members of which are negroes. Un der the old law there were many com plaints of mismanagement of funds by ignorant committeemen. Uader the new law, the fact is, that instead of losing control of their schools, the whites h&e retailed c:ntrol of their own and gained control of the negro schools." And so here is another charge of the Democratic negro limity howlers ex ploded. Asked as to the probability of the repeal by the next legislature of the law authorizing the holding of local tax elections, Mr. Mebane said : "I do not think the law will bo re pealed. I trust, however, that the time of holding the election will be changed to the time of holding the general election in order to save ex pense. And, by the way, some par tisans have greatly exaggerated the cost of holding this election last year. "It is charged that the cost was $50,- 000. As a matter of fact, it was only about $12,000 or $15 000." SOME FACTS FOR THE STAR. We were recently in Gulf township. Chatham county. We h ?ard a vagU9 rumor that one Populist in that pre precinct had returned to the Demo cratic party. We don't know whether it was true or not. We did not hear his name. Since we have learned from a reliable source that the Populists there are gaining ground and that some Democrats are going to them. But let us admit that one Populist did go back The next day we returned to Raleigh and found it had been telegraphed to the Wilmington that "at least ose HU-SDRED and fifty populists ' m the precinct referred to had returned to the D jmocrats. This tskes rank with the statement that 700 Populiets in Halifax had gone back, when in face there were at the last election only 262 in the county. Tnis thine of multiplying the num ber populists by 150. it eeems, would not bo very encouraging 10 uemocrais for instance, multiply 50 100 (the num ber of Populietfl in the State) by 150 and we have 7,500 000 Subtract from that 110.000 (a literal eetimate of the number of Democratp) and we have a Populist majority of 7,390,000 So ycu see. according tu me owr a nxtvuiuu ; tic, Populist success ia assured. SOME QUESTIONS ANSWERED. Why The Progressive Farmer Supports the Fusion Ticket Two Open Let ters. Editors Progressive Farmer, Raleigh, N. C: Will you please explain through The Progressive Farmer 1st. Why you sanction everything that is done by the R ; publican party in this State? 2L Why do you abuse the Demo cratio party for every thine they have done? What have the Rapublicans done for the good of the State? 3 i. Where will the People's party get to if it continues to fuse with the R9- publican party? 4th. Tell us what to do with our cry against the gold standard, 'trusts and monopolies now that we fuse with a gold standard party ? 5 th. Where must we look for recruits for the People's party? 6 ;h. Tell us whether Craven and other counties are doing better under negro magistrates and deputy sheriffs than under the white man? We have hare in Alamaace a negro school com mit te man who cannot read or write. 7ch. What would L L Polk do were he here to-day? While I do not agree with you on politics, I like your paper and expect to continue to read it. Tne agricul- tural matter on the first page alone is worth to a live farmer many times the price of the whole paper. J. A. Loy. Loy, N. C. Raleigh, N. C , Oot. 14, 1898 J A Loy. Loy, N. C : Dear Sir: After misrepresenting our position as you do, it does not seem that you could expect u to pub-1 ish your letter. If you will read our I editorials as well as the "agricultural I matter on the first page," you will find I that wo do not "sanction everything I that is done by the Republican party, neither do we "abuse the Democrats for everything they have done." As to what the Republicans have done for the good of the State, will say we are not set for the defense of the Republi cans, a at, taking the record of each party in this State since 1892, the ques tion is more easily answered than the one : "What haye the Democrats done for the good of the State ?'' We will, however, say something regarding this question before closing. As to "where the People's party will get recruits" and "where it will get to" if fusion is continued, that question can be best answered by another ques tion: . ' Where will the People's party get recruits and where will it get to if it allows the 8immons-Ransom gang to again get tne reins or government, aeten another infamoui election law upon u?, repeal the charter of the only I farmors' organization in the 8tate, set I up a double room bar in the capitol, in-1 nrpftSA tha tax on farm and farm stck. 1 run tee State Dapartment without books, approve the infamous oyster frauds and the equally infamous 99 year lease, enact an 8 per cent, interest law and continue their policy of taxing persons attempting to induce negro emigration and of scorning and curs ing all honorable attempts to get the white men of the State together? This is the record of the gang that are now attemptmg co regain coniroi cf the State, and if the Republican nartv has done nothing else, it has at iaQOt. nn nnprntnii with tho Ponuliftta in their iff jrts to nullify these obnoxious lawa. Which party, judging by this rec ord f which you and every Democrat ortmit ia thftir trufl rPftnrd is thn LUUOV w w- M.ftt.Ar fritmi of "the gold standard. O- J ' OI trusts, anu ui rpurawuue, You ask what would Col. L L. Polk do were he living to day ? Let us eee. Col. Polk was the greatest friend the Farmers' Alliance ever had. Do you believe h9 would vote for a party that attempted to kill charter ? it by repealing its Col. Polk favored honesty. Do you believe he would approve a party whose managers manipulated the 99- year lease ana tne uuaaiuus ujs.er frauds? Col. Polk was a friend to popular education. Do you think he wouia re pudiate the party that has given us batter public schools than ever before? Col. Polk was an earnest advocate of sobriety. Do you think he would want a doubla room bar in our State Capitol? Col. Polk favored honesty. Do you ho wnnld endorse bull nena and secret circulars to cheat people out of UIVtu mr their right to vote? Col. Polk was a business man. Do fha Stat. D.-partment managed without books, and money ana business letters unattended to thrown into a waste pile? vx. x-uiB. "cm a niu ww,n n f.innH -r Yn fn-maw Do you think he would want to see their taxes raised, or the six per cent. interest law, enacted for their benefit, repealed? CoL Polk was an advocate of free eiiror and an oDoonent of trusts and monopolies. Do you think he would bq working .with a party that refused a proposition for the election of nine free silver and anti-monopoly Congress men? No, there can be no doubt as to the position of Cel. Polk were he living to day. He would be fighting aa ever for honesty, sobriety, the farmer's rights, and honest elections.. In fact, all your questions may be summed up in this one: "Why does The Progressive Farmer support the fusion ticket?" And the answer is the same as the answer givon to your ques tion regarding toL Polk. We are fighting for his principles. And we are opposed and abused even as he was opposed and abused. The same Naws and Observer, with the same following that abused and maligned him now abuse and malign us. If you read The Progressive Far mer carefully, you know that we are opposed to fusion with the Republican or any other party in either State or National matters. But as you know, there are times when it is not advisable to cut off your no3e to spite your face. In 1896 the Democrats nominated Bryan for President and although Populists dislike fusion, they voted for Bryan almost solidly. Had Da cnocrats done likewise Bryan would to day be President. And this var 'althouffh Poouliats dis- like fusiont they hava co operated with the Republicans in order to keep the State from falling into the hands of the clique, the record of which I have just presented, and who are enemies not alone to Populism and reform, but to the principles advocated by the rank and file of their own party.. The same State Chairman and the same gang that managed the Cleveland goldbug campaign of 1892 are now managing this Democratic campaign. The same F. M, Simmons, whom Vance declared unfit to hold an office to which he had been appointed, is again State Chairman of the Djmrcratic Commit tee. Tne same gang that then rotten egged and abused Populists, the same gang that then circulated secret cir- cufars and fixed up plans to disfran chise honest voters is now in control of the Democratic machinery and the pjune again adopted methods. The same Jno. D. Bellamy, who was the chief promoter of the plan by which the en tire Populist vote of Brunswick county was thrown out, is now a Democratic candidate for Congress. The same News and Observer that then declared that Populists were liars, traitors and hirelings, is again the State Organ of the party. Tne same gang that re j ?cted Bryan's recommendations at the recent State Convention is at the helm. Have not the Populists acted wisely in adopting the surest measures in order to defeat this clique? The man who believes that they will give reform or good government is welcomoto the be hef, but if he wants to keep out of the insane asylum ne saould not make a public confession of it. True they are no howling nigger. Djn't you remember that they also howled incompetency, until their own incompetency was exposed? Then they eaid we were attacking the dead. I Don't you remember that they also I howled "pardons" until it was shown I that in this line Gov. Carr had a worse record than Russell? I Don't you remember that they also I howled about increase in expenditures until they were challenged to show a I 1 single cent misaDDroDriatcd? I I Don't you remember that they also I nowiea aoouc tne larmer oeing naxea i I for this until the charge was proved to be utterly false? I Don't vou remember that they also - I howled about escaping convicts until I . " -k we showed that there were 52 escapes in leys, ana oniy u last year unaer the new regime? Don't you remember that they also howled about the penitentiary until their own record then was made I public? Don't you remember that they also howled about Jim Young inspecting the white Blind Institution until it was shown to be Democratic work? And now of course, they give that meaningless, hypocritical yell, "nig- ger." Tfey have nothing else to do. It it5 a itxau roBuru, uuu juu &uuw tuati mo x. J I . . V. A drowning man will catch at a straw, if nothing more substantial presents it self. Certainly, they howl nigger. It's to keep the people from reasoning. It's 1 to draw attention trom their aisgrace I ful management? of State affairs. It's done m order that they may slip in land disfranchise the poor and unlet I tered. It's done in order to draw at- I t.onfinn frnm thn fant that thnir nartv is controUed by goldbug and monopo- usis anu u uiubi iu uiaw owbumuu from such exposures ol their corrup tion as we have made regarding their T i mn.naa'PTnfmi; nr inR nfirraiaiv nr niAtfl a j I omca. 1 Their howl of "white supremacy" ia a hypocritical one. Read our supple I ment this week. Remember, too, that I when Jim xoung inBpectea tne tfima I Institution under D3mocratic orders it was oil right. When Cleveland gave negroes $50,000 offices it was all rigjit. They howl "white supremacy," but to give white supremacy is no$ their objact To protect womanhood ia not their obj 3t. To give goo government is not their object. To serve the monopolies and rail roads, as directed by overseer A. B. Andrews, is their object. To undo the good work of the present administra tion is their obj set. To put on the statute books a law which will be the death knell of "the freedom and sanct ity" of. the ballot ia their object. We do not believe that you wish to help them carry out this diabolical scheme. But you have been misled, just as they have misled others. And in speaking of the Democrats in this letter, we refer not to the honest rank and file who have been misled, but to the machine that now controls the party. You mention a negro school commit teeman who cannot read or write. We condemn that. Those who appointed him should be ashamed of it. You mention Craven county's negro over seers and deputy sheriffs. Rsad the letter on page 1 from a gentleman of Craven who says there are not as many negro road overseers in his township under fusion rule as there were under Democratic rule. And for a long list of negro officers, read our supplement thia week. We regret to have to print such facta. A campaign fought on race prejudice ia disgraceful. We re gret that this campaign has been fought not on principle, but on "the nigger." But we are not to blame. The party that on May 26 ih rejected Bryan's recommendations, stabbed silver and put secret circular Simmons at its head, had to raise smoke to hide its record, and if it has euflccited in the attempt we cannot help it. We are in favor o! white supremacy. But we do not believe that North Caro lina is in danger of negro domination. Oar Democratic friends say they do fear "negro rule." The Democratic party is the only body of white men in this State that does claim to fear negro domination. And yet, mark well my words, for they cannot be denied, the Democratic party is the only body of white men in the State that ever made an inexcusable refusal of a plan, safe, simple and sure as time itself to get the white men of the State together ani prevent all negro domination. They have never attempted to tell why they refused the Populist proposition to co-operate. 9 Why? Because that act proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that they do not fear negro domination, ob ip tley do fear it, they had tsr the state would suffe3 the horrors of negro rule than that they should risk the chance of losing a few measly little offices. Thi3 cannot be denied. The Demo cratic speakers may dodge, prevaricate and raiae smoke to their heart's con tent, but they cannot help acknowl edging the truth of this statement. By their own acta they have proved it. and thereby killed their last reason for demanding again the reins of govern- ment. A Democrat said to us recently that be wished "all the fusionista who voted for negro rule had to live under negro rule in new Barn or Wilmington." A.nd then wa were cruel enough to ask him if he didn't wish also that air the manners 01 snai party tna put f LU.000 uu ifunauxs uu umertj who attempted co carry negroes out of maoiare, anu me piny inai rerusea Ion May 26ch a plan to get the white I , I men or tne atase togetner, had to live I nnn. nnrun villa We,i he waa "struck silent." Snh impertinent questions put a quietus on the negro nowiers On the paaa day we heard a Demo crat howling about the election of D. Li Russell to succeed 4 99 year lease" Larr. We asked what Russell - had done why he was howling and he seemed positively dumbfounded. It never occurred to him that be ought to have any other reason for doing anytmng except mat tne boeees or dered n. Tne railroad bosses who are mad because of Ruesell's oDDOsition to monopoly press the button and the ZSi75SS JL I a w uiawu i & gpectaC.6. Yea, the Democrats profess friend ship for free silver and honsst elections buo never neglect an opportunity to si;b botn in tne back Tha honest reader of history must admit that they nave provea raise to the people and the cna wonder is that the rank and file of the party cannot see the wolf only half bidden by the sheep's cloth ing Whatever may be his views on co operation, it is the first duty of every patriotic citizin to rebuke such shame- SS.SSthS SS&thS ESrf gooa government and white supremacy I in order to serve plutocracy and the I corporations. a.na no populist can I hat ro w aorva t Via AotiaA rt wAAarv rA 1 no true Democrat can better serve his i . i party than by helping in this effort. I Taanking you for your kind exprea- svjns, and assuring you that it gives me pleasure to answer your questions, I am, Very truly yours, Clarence H. Poe, Ae30. Editor Progressive Farmkh. "I , -f I
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