fHB PEOSiUSBaiVD J?Hliim3jU: NOVEMBER 22. 8 ZJ, KE BILKIN5, M. A. i in lis, W r P1 ;3 The Major Finds Now That He is Not Eligible to Office and is in Deep Trouble He Never Killed a Negro, Never Be lot ged to a Secret Political Society, Red fehirters Nor Kn Klux, and Hence Cannot HoldCffice. B. "Hello 1 Mr. Editor." dayt" B. "Well, not much. Erbout the only things I kin think ov are my own troubles. They are purty nih gittin' the best ov me." R. "What is your txouble now?1 01 B. You see I conkluded when I herd that we hed carried the State that I would git up ter the pie cpunter early in the game an' git in the trough with awl my feet. Bo I went eround an got a petishun Bined by al the prominent an' cffi3hial dymakrata in my eeckehun. I left the place blank that I wanted, so if I missed tire on one I could be sure ter git another. My intentBhun wuz ter look purty high as first; then if that failed tor roost on a lower limb. Then I went ter the county chairman an' axed fer hiz signature. He axed me ter eit down an' then began ter cross question me like a lawyer. He sed he wanted ter find out if I wuz eligible ter cffis before he would sine hiz name. I tole him I he 1 bin a true blue awl my life; that I hed bin whip ped but hed never lowered my flag; that I wuz a dymakrat ov dymakrats. I toleliim that my fo'.ks hed bin regis tered in the dymakrat herd book irum the days ov Tom Jtfferson; that no matter whether aroused by the power ful 8peeche3 ov Jefferson or a negro dominashun nitemare ' editorial by Josephua Daniels, they hed awl ways responded ter the call ov duty, whether they wanted ter or not. The chair man then eed: Z kp, hev you ever killed a nigger P I tele him 1 had not He sed: "Have you ever belonged to the Ku Klux or the Red Shirts, or the White Government Union ?" I tole him I never had the honor ter be mixeo up in any ov these thing Then he sed: "Weil, Z.'ke, your chances are purty slim. I can't sine your petishun, fer I don't think you are eligible. The ofiSses are gom ter ba given ter these who hev thrown their nearts into the wurk. They must go ter men who hev records behind them, records that mean something. Your record sounds too much like you hev bin one ov them gude little boys we read erbout in the Sunday echool literature. I'll do the best I kin fer you, but I don't see how you kin hope fer anything." I tell you thia made my revolutionary blood bile red hot. Gude-bye." STATE FUSION rs NATIONAL. rerria fusion. .Special Correspondence of Progressive Farmer. In your comments on Senator But ler's 6omersault at Greenville, Texas, you say some things in defence of State fusion whilst condemning Na tional fusion, which I wish to notice briefly. You say ' National co cpera tion haa never been anything but a enare and a delusion, a product of the brain of the most treacherous element of the D?mocratic party." We cannot rightly shift the responsibility for fu sion to the leaders cf any other party than our own. The treacherous con duct was on the part of our own lead era. The Democrats could not have ac compliahed anything would not have attempted it even if they had not found ready tools among our own lead ers. The3e leaders were the men who had been trained in State fusion and gotten personal benefit from it. State fusion leads naturally and inevitably to National fusion, and one is no better and no worss than the other. If it is right to co operate to defeat wicked acd sc care just legislation iD the State, then it is t quail y so nation ally. In one respect, Stato fusion is, in my judgment, the woret it poisons at the fountain heal. They are equally destructive. They not only cut off recruits bnt diminish our forces. This has been the result whenever trit d. Look t our party in our own State. In 1893 we had 47,000, Democratic count. Mr. Wilson, our State Chairman in that contest, says he can prove that we were cheated out of 17 000 votes. This would give us 64,000 Now what was our vote in 1896! As th-re was opposition in our party to our candidate for Governor, I will take the vote of Mr. Dockery. i . 3 : i f i It was 32,000 just half the vote of 1892. 8urely no comment is needed. In 1894 all the advocates of fusion said we will not have fusion but thia oae time. I insisted that thia wa8 a delusion, as an evil course once started on would be continued in until retribu tion, that is inevitable, overtook it Besides this, as fusion would not only stop growth but diminish our numbers, tttainry isoiil'l ho rnri( innrri in iririPtl- 3 X Uv WW w-r nitely, in order to retain what was gained. Thi3 you now-, in effect, de fend. Under these conditions what If our party ia stifled in tho States I ' 1 .' m - Ml r. 1 ! cominuousiy Dy iusion, win it ever va worth anything nationally? As cur greatest wrongs are National, will it be wis9 to maintain a party that by mismanagemont in the States actually blocka the way to real National re form? I trow not. True reformers will sooner or later demand something more than this. A young reform party cannot continue to live at thia poor dy ing rat?. It must go forward or die out. You Bay fusion in our State was neo essary in order to overthrow the Dem ocratic oligarchy. How did fusion ac complish this? Simply by eecuriDg a majority of the votoa. Is ia manifest that it was only necessary for the Peo pie's party to have secured a majority to have done the same thing. We could have done thia if we had made a persicttm, maniy fight. The Repub lican party was at that time greatly discouraged and demoralized, and would have corce to us in greatly in creased numbers to help defeat their old enemy if we had stood bravely to oar guns. We have sinned again: t luht and knowledge in this matter of fusion. M'te than one promising movement 8ircc! tne war haa been killed by fu sion Must tho People's party share the same fate? George E. Toggs. Wayneaville, Aug. 20, 1898. The above waa written, aa will be seen, several montha ago; but Mr. Bog g3, finding fusion decided upon, thought it best not to publish it until after the election. Eds ALLIANCE MVTTfcRS. Jorreepondence of the Progressive fcrmer. Billsboro, N. C, Nov 18, 98. It was my pleasure lat DJgac to at tend a meeting of Hiilsboro Sub Alli- auce. Tnia buo. has Den steadily growing for eome months, ad is con tinually adding good material to its membership. Tney have for (some time past b?en drilling tharnpelvea in the new work, and ta team last, niht did some fine work in inimtio:?. Thi.- in itiatory service as laid down m tho dq Rttu&l ia simply charming. They have also ORD-RED THEIR SEW RSGALIA. This regalia is as tuilo Th Presi dent's CDilar is mada of rod with nar row whito border on outf r and ioner edge, the Vice President's a the mmr , except the president will b entitled to three stars on each fide of the lapel of the collar while the Vice w .ll have only two. The Secretary and Treasurer will have collars of green bordered by narrow white as above tho Lecturer will have a yellow collar ( range) also bordered with white. Tne Chaplain will be pure white; Bte vard will be sash of blue bordered with white, cross ing the right shoulder and fastened by a rosette at the left hip, tho two ends hanging below; the Doorkeeper and Assistant will have sashes of white bordered with blue with an inner cord of red. The members will wear white collars bordered with red, with blue cord about one inch from border; all their cillara will b 3 fastened together by rosettes of red white and blue in front This ia the regalia proposed and will be presented to the Executive Com mittee for adoption at their next meet ing. A great many of the brethren have written to know ABOUT THE SHOE FACTORY. To such let me say, the shoe factory is running on full time, and if you could see the beautiful and substantial shoes they are making, you would not wear any others. Yes, you can now buy honest North Carolina good?, made by a North Carolina factory, at as low prices, considering the quality and honesty of the good. Do ycu want children's, men's or women's shoes. either in gsat, pebble grain or Soudan cal(? Tnen send in your order. Do you want men's or boy's Congress or bal, or brcgaL? If so, send in your order. You ask me will the factory continue to run? That depends on you. If you patronize it, it will run, and succeed at that. If you do not Datroniza it. of course it can't run. Orders are coming in, but not fast enough. Stir yourself up, brother Allianceman. Lay aside that long face. Q iit saying the Alli ance is dead. Get the new Rituals. Drill yourselves in the new work. Make up your new regalia, and let's get to work.' We have been playing a dead march long enough. Change the tune; get a lively quick step, and let's make the coming year the finest in '. Alliance work for years. Yours for life and liberty, J. T. B. Hoover, Sec'y Tre&3. N. C. F. S. A. HESSIAN FLY IN THE UNITED STATES "Tho Heseian Fly in tho United Rto-e3" Trig ia tho title of Tlu! ctm No. 16, now series, Division of E ito mology, soon to be iseued by the U S. Department of Agriculture. It was prepared, under the direction cf the Entomologist, by Herbert Oaborn, Pro fessor of Zaology and Eatomology. Agricultural College, Ames, Iowa, and contains many, facts concerning the life history, food habits, and parasitic enemies of this farm pest. The bullentin states that the Hessian fly probably ranks next to the chinch bug a3 a farm pest in the United State?, and its ravages in other countries have long been known and appreciated. It received its name in the belief that it had been introduced into thia country by the Hessian soldiers during the war of the Revolution. An account of its original habits, its very wide distribution throughout the wheat growing regions of Europe and America, and the means of distribu tion are given in the bulletin, together with description of the male and female insects, the eggs, the larval forms acd development, food plants, natural enemies and remedies. It also contains a list of all the im portant papers on the Hessian fiy that have appeared in America and euch of tho foreign works as are of value to the American student. Tho bulletin is illustrated with a frontispiece, 2 plates, and 8 text figures. THE THINKERS. The electoral contest of November 8, resulted in the election of a General Assembly in which the Democr t8 have a large majority; the election of the Democratic judicial candidates, and of seven Democratic Congressmen. The election waa so largely Democratic, and foil wed a campaign so fraught with bitterne38 and with doubts, that the danger now is that the successful candiaates will begin to glorify the party organization or the party name and forgot the transcendent fact that the people rule, and that to them every thing is owed. We tniuk God that we havo come upon a time when no patty organization can carry an election in Nordii Ctnolinu. Tho recent emotion was carried by the cnangmg of votes, by too maopenoont vuio. Lzt it Dt understood, ihcie'oie, thao tiid vote wiii change again unlets utfuirs uro ud minister ta well. B btical Recorder. Il is invariably tno case chat when tho Nortnercer comes South he changes his vie w a tn the negrc question. South ern Piaes is tho oaly town in North Carolina in which negroes are not ai lowed to live. They are not even em ployed as servants, the hotel help be ing white girls and white men being employed for other menial duties. And yet Southern Pines is a Northern man s town. Look ut it every way you will, the trutn stands that the negro's bast friend is the Southern white man. The Northerner, as a matter of fact, cannot tolerate ihe negro. The Southerner feeds and clothes him ; builda school houses, hospitals and asylums for him; goes his bond to keep him out of jail ; lends him money ; gives hia family medicine when they are sick, and sets up grog for the men, bind anas for the women and tricks for the children at Christmas time. That is the way he is treated in the South, with the excep tion of Southern Pines. Charlotte Ob server. The cry of "nigger" waa scarcely heard of until the campaign began about 8x months ago. Then the Demo cratic paper began to rise the niggei" cry. The issue" was magnified until it became the overshadowing 'issue" in the campaign. In addition to the work of the Damocratic press car loads of literature were sent out f re m Democratic headquarters. Everything ugly a "nigger" said or did was taken up and magnified for political eff. ct, and charged up to the "fuaionists." The demoralizing and disorganizing effect that it had can be seen by the election returns. Thousands of Popu lists were already disgusted with fusion and stayed at home on election day, while many others voted the Demo cratic ticket with the hope that in the event of the election of that party, it would at least act in good faith upon its own chosen "issue" and carry out its promise to settle the negro problem and get that question out of politics and out of the way. Lots of white Re publicans did the fame. We have no worda of censure for these men. If we had believed that by voting the Demo cratic ticket the negro question could be eliminated from politics so that the real issues might be brought to the front, we would have voted that ticket notwithstanding that party, aa pre sently organized, is dominated by the gold trust There cn be no success over monopoly in the South so long aa the mgger" usua ia Drought up in every campaign in order to appeal to the passions and pit ju-iiuta of men. But we do not bKtu-ve the Raueom -Simmons macmne is tn cera in its cry of "nigger,'' uuu w- aoa-i heiieve ttmt party will allo .my pi iti to bo enccsed taac will take tkf i.ern "ismo" cue of politics It had served tneir purpcee eo well that zuey will net wilucgly give it up. aiid it tia.s citcaeiit domi nates the Legislature, we predict that it will preterve the ' nigger isue" fer future campaign?. It will be especially useful to the m in 1900 to keep Bryan ism and Populism in the rear. Char lotte Peoples' Paper. STICK A PIN HERE. Correspondence of the Progressive Farmer. One vt tho negro lamity howlers of Cumberland county, 7l3t township, who, by tho way, ia locking forwaid to a seat in the Congress of 1900, re cently had the gall to threaten to with draw patronage from one of Cumber land's best public echool teachers be cause said teacher voted the Populist ticket in the recent election Said negro-lamity howler also asked said teacher to withdraw hia applica tion for said scshool. Is this the beginning of red shirt Da mocracy ? Yourp, H M Fillyaw. Dial, N. C, Nov. 16 1898 LET US HAVE AN EXPRESSION. We suggest that the Chairman of the County Executive Committee ol the Populist party of each and every county in the State call a convention of tho party to meet at their respective county sites some tim9 during the month ot December to decide on a pol icy for the party to pursue and to put the party in solid working order and that during the same month that a Sate Convention be called composed of one delegate from each county to meet in the city of BMeteh. J P. SOSSMAN Charlotte, N. C. AN EFFECTUAL REMINDER. Few pood people practice eo well aa they pray, which shows that they pray without thinking, and then act with out remembering what they said when they prayed: In leading family devotion one bit ter cjld morning, a praying, but not vry practical professor of religion, aked God to remember and pity the poo? ; feed the hungry and clothe the naked. It so happened thai; while he and hia family wero encircling a well furnished table, a ferv minutes later, a poor nughoor came in, wishing to buy a buehel of whp and have it on truet Beicg gruffly denied the fa vor, with a heavy heart he quit the house, and sadly turned hie face to ward his home destitute. But the door was scarcely closed after the poor man, before a little bright-eyfd girl ventured to suggest that "Pa better answer his own prayer, by feeding his hungry neighbor." It was a nail in a sure place. The poor man was quickly recalled, and more than a bushel of wheat given him.- Youth's Compan ion. FIRST DO IT THEN TALK IT. A chaplain in the army during the war waa passing over the field, when he saw a wounded soldier upon the ground. He had hia Bible under his arm and he stooped down and said t) the man, "Would you like me to read you something from the Bible? The wounded man said, "I'm so thirsty, I would rather have a drink of water." The chaplain hurried off, and as quickly aa possible brought the water. After the man had drunk the water he said, "Could you lift my head and put something under it?" The chaplain removed hi3 light overcoat, rolled it up and tenderly lifting the head, put it as a pillow for the tired one to ret on. "No v," said the man, "if I only had something ever mo. I'm so cold." There was only one thing the chap lain could do and that was to take his coat eff and covr r the man. As he did so the wounded man looked up in hi face and eaid, For God's sake, if there is anything in that bock that makes a man do for another what you have done for mo, lee me hear it." There is a world of mfanicg in this incident. The need of today is the acting of the objact lessons that book teaches. Ex. Always mention The Progressive Farmer when writing advertisers. PRIZE-WINNING -SilvBr-17)andDttes. Strictly high class Standard breci fowls for eale ; also eggs for hatching. 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Dear Sir: Since I have been adver tising through your columns I have been entirely satisfied with the results and the amount of inquiries received from the add running in your columns is equal to any of same circulation that I have on my list and I am con fident we have sold as much etock through your medium as any other the same circulation. Wishing you success with your paper and that it may still press still further out, I remain, Very respectfully, 8 W. Smitf. NO BETTER MEDIUM IN THE SOUTH. Adrian, Mich., March 4th, 1898. Progressive Farmer, Raleigh N. C. : Gentlemen: We believe that The Progressive Farmer is as valuable an advertising medium as any other farm journal, in the Southern States, for our business. Yours truly, Page Woven Wira Fence Co., Dr. J. L Reynolds, Special Advertiser. "What Our Advertisers Say." think The Progrepsive Farmer the best medium through which to reach the farming classes in I-orth Carolina. W. G.Thomas. Poultry Bretdrr, Louisburg, N. 0.,IMarch 3, U98. "We recntly rnn for a ehr rt time an advert' eement in The Progres- ivk Fahmeu, fnd we ruu at iUe Mie time ine tame adverti-eme.t in four ther leading papers in the State. nd we wrl.e to av that we received ten replies from the one in your- paver to every ne received from all the other papers comlnned ED-VVARD-& BHOUGriTON. Pinters and Publishers. Pialelgh, Jtf. C. "We have had a very good trade in yourtAte this season, and are wili ng to attribute a part of the re sults to the advertisement in you paper. We have always looked uppa your paper a eatisfactorn in tnls reppeci . and will make use of it Fruit Trees at Vhoksale Pricp, From ono of ti tC5 j-iiiAOVHUO hi 111(3 State. This is a rcre i;DDortun..v f . flrat class as wh-l(wia ,-..,".. ' Ujt warranted from (4 to 7 f-JvJ liva rnd to bo true to nama Writo for Pris T. B. PARKER, S. V A Hiilsboro, N. 0. 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If not pay no attc tion to it. Meat smoked in a few ho urn with KRAUSERS' LIQUID EXTRACT OF SIMM? fill Made from hickory wood. Cheaper, cleacr Ml I sweeter, and surer than the old way. Send fr '4 GOOD EVIDENCE. New York, March 3, 1898, The Progressive Farmer, Ral&l N. C. Dear Sir: As strong evidence i our opinion concerning your papqrm an advertising mtxJium, w& Sji&r mention that we have always hail on our list and our advertisement!! never failed to be in a single issue d: ing tho season of advertising. Yours very truly, German Kali Wopkb. IS MAKING SALES. Milton, Pa., March 4, 189a Dear 8ir: We receive quite t quently inquiries for our circulars Liquid Extract of Smoke and ha! maun sates, mruugu uur uu. u ji paper. Reppfctfully, E. Krauser & Brothkb. MORE THAN PLEASED. I am more than pleased with I:! Progressive Farmer as an advertisi; medium. My ad. in it is bringing i many inquiries, many more than Ik pected, and what ia better, it is brij ing me orders with the cash. Fl those who wish to reach tbe farmj and poultrymen of that great faroatj ing and trucking section betwfc Richmond, Va., and 8avannab, G there as no batter medium than T. Progressive Farmer by which to do Hardly one tenth oi the replies to ao . menuoneu your paper, uuu s a U..fr e:f am running an ad. in no other pa I know that it is your paper that doing the work. Walter L Womble, Breeder of Thoroughbred Fowls, eigh, N. C. Februarv 26 1899 in the future M. OSBORNE & CO., Manufacturers of Harvest ing Machinery. Phi adeiphia. Pa. o J. H G lL. Founder and Machin ist. Raleigh, N. C, says: I have been a coDstant advertiser for the rat i0 yars in England and America, and and have never had as go)d rasidts from the same out ay as bave ctme from my advertisement iu iHIfi 1-ROORESSIVE FARMEtw" Enclosed find check for $2.50 in payment for the ad. yo i insert ei for me. Your bill was $2.00; hope ycu will accept the amount cf check h.s 1 gct alue received icr the ad ' O. L. 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