THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER
Thursday, June 11, 1903;
ROGRESSXWE
Entered at the Raleigh Postofflce as second class mall matter.
Under the Editorial and Business Management of
CLARENCE H. POE.
and Hoke Smith had offended Tom Watson. Tom predecessors, ana nis wont in developing the Col-
Watson also declared that Smith had set up a ma- lege patronage during the early years of his aresi-
chine of his own as bad as its predecessor and dency was remarkably successful. A man of
that he had not carried out his campaign pledges, great resourcefulness, untiring energy, and an al-
Watson therefore urged his followers to vote for most wonderful versatility and range of informa-
Brown. How much influence this had we do not tion, we hope that Dr. Winston's rare abilities
know, but anyhow Brown, who would have been will at once be turned to the service of the State
irr o av.nat iira rnmTniscinneTv if Smith had in some omer line 01 enaeavor.
W. F. MARSHALL,
prof; w. f. masse y
CHAS. M. SCHERER
T. B. PARKER, ' J
C. F. KOONCE, - I -ROBERT
S. FOUNTAIN,
Managing Editor
Associate Editors
Secbetabt-Tbeasuber
Traveling Agent
Westebn Representative
315 Dearborn Street, Chicago, 111.
"What's 5c News?"
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let him alone, is now. chosen to take Smith's place
as Governor of the State.
"Hoke Smith is one of the strongest men in the
Southern States," a friend of his declared to us
two years ago, "but his great weakness is that he
runs roughshod over whatever comes in his way."
This fault now seems to have proved his undoing.
And having found much to admire' in his course,
we regret his fall.
COTTON TRADE CONDITIONS IMPROVING.
MR. TAFT'S PLAIN SPEAKING.
The Republican Convention meets in Chicago
June 16th, and it is now practically certain that
Taft will be the nominee. Mr. Taft, who is noted
for frankness and plain speaking, as well as for
good humor, is also much In the limelight now by
reason of his address on GeneraJ Grant recently
delivered at Grant's tomb in New York City, in
which he recounted the fact that Grant resigned
THE DEFEAT OF HOKE SMITH IN GEORGIA.
from the army in 1854, because threatened with
Nothing more gratifying to Southern readers, COUrt-martial for drinking. Taft pointed to this
however, has recently appeared in the papers than as an illustration of how a brave man can finaiiv
Perhaps the most notable happening of the last the news that cotton trade conditions have im- Lise master over an evil habit, but his critics
seven days for our readers was tne oeteat 01 proved so markedly that American cotton mills tnink ' he carried his "plain speaking" 'too far
Hoke Smith in His, struggle for re-election as uov- will soon be using about tne usual quantity of raw mentioning the matter on this occasion.
ernor of Georgia. . In Georgia the Democratic prr- material again. The first of this month New Eng-
maries settle the question as to who shall be Gov- land factories employing 35,000 operatives began
in
ernor, and for a quarter century until now every funtime work once more, and similarly encourag-
Governor has been given two terms. The defeat
of Hoke Smith, who has 'had but one term, is
therefore significant, and the danger is that its
significance may be misinterpreted. .
Two years ago Hoke Smith somewhat influ
enced in his candidacy, so it is said, by personal
feeling against his opponent, Clark Howell, the
"machine" candidate for Governor won the Dem
ocratic nomination in one of the fiercest contests
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MINOR MATTERS MERELY MENTIONED
The arrest of Theodore Price, of Cotton Ex
change fame, will not likely excite much interest
in the South. All our farmers have discovered by
this time that the New York gamblers play; the
game for themselves only all the time, regardless
ing reports come from Southern cotton mills as
well.
In this connection, it is of interest to note that
the fifth International Congress of Cotton Spin-
ncTS and Manufacturers in session last week kick
ed most vigorously against the American mo- of whether it helps or hurts cotton prices Two
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nopoly of the raw material and the great advance recora-DreaKing ocean voyages nave recently
in prices during the last five or six years. Euro- heen made: the Mauretania crossing the Atlantic
pean nations were urged to combine for the pur- in 4 days, 20 hours and 21 minutes, while the
the South has ever had. Negro disfranchisement, nnsA nf dpvplnninjr ttnn ?rnwlii? in Asia, and Lusitania beats even this by 56 minutes. There
regulation of railway freight rates, and opposition Africa. As these experiments have been going on is general criticism of the inactivity of the Demo-
to machine methods in politics were his battle with distinguished unsuccess ever since most of crats in the closing hours of Congress, and their
cries, and Tom Watson, the Populist leader, with the delegates were born, however, we see no rea- failure -to back up La Follette in his wonderful
thousands of his followers went into the primaries son for alarm on the part of our Southern farm- fint against Standard Oil Aldrich's currency bill,
and supported Smith. - ers now. , ' Ex-Senator James K. Jones, of Arkansas, Demi-
- This time the campaign has been one of sin- The Government estimate of acreage planted ocratic National Chairman in 1896 and 1900 who
gular complications. Governor Smith, almost a this year, it will be seen, shows practically the died-a few days ago, was a native of Mississippi;
ciant in bodv and mind, has something: of a giant's same as last vear only 21.000 acres increase in ana 01 JNortn Carolina ancestry. He was eighteen
-" roughness in dealing with his opponents. Two 32,081,000 total, while the Farmers' Union Presi-
years-ago he denounced Joseph M. Brown, Rail- dents declare there is a reduction of 2,000,000
road Commissioner and a son of Georgia's much- acres and the New York Commercial says that
loved War Governor, and last spring only three there is an increase of .11 per cent.
week's before Brown's term expired and just af-
ter the Legislature adjourned Smith removed
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Brown from office, declaring him unfit for the
place. This action displeased most Georgians.
"Even if Brown is unfit," they declared, "remov
ing him only three weeks before his term expires
years (1885-1903) United States Senator Two or
three local matters also deserve mention in this
week's review. One is the action of the Wake)
County Democratic Committee in ordering the use
of the Australian ballot in the party primaries.
This system counts strongly against, corruption
STEADY FORWARD MARCH OF PROHIBITION. J and bossism in politics and ought to be adopted
The prohibition movement is becoming distinc- everywhere. We also wish to commend the action
tively National in its proportions. Tuesday of one of Durham County in organizing an Anti-Tuber-
weeks its advocates register a great victory on the culosis Association, to which county and city each
can serve no purpose except to humiliate and Atlantic : tne State of North Carolina goin g dry give $ 6 0 0 annually, while individuals supplement :
dishonor him; and besides, the Governor should by 43,000 majrity- Tuesday of the following the fund further by private subscriptions. A
have submitted the matter to the Legislature so week lt makes a'no less notable, advance on the properly conducted campaign of this sort in each
that it could have passed upon the justice of the Pacific: thfi State of Oregon having only one dry county would save countless lives, and is one of
matter."-
THE WHIRLIGIG OF TIME AND ITS REVENGES.
Still the affair did not create much feeling at
the time, and Brown went into private life to
think upon revenge, next, appearing on the scene
three or four months ago when he announced that
he would offer himself as a candidate against
Smith .for election as Governor. At first Smith
county at sunrise, adding twenty more by sunset, the most fruitful forms of philanthropy and pa
in wild and woolly Montana, too, a friend of ours triotism. The third fact to which we would al-
writes that temperance sentiment is beginning to lude is our error in placing Duplin County in the
make itself felt in ordinances for closing saloons dry column in the report of the North Carolina
at midnight and on Sundays! The Democratic 'Prohibition election last week. The final count
Convention of Arkansas last. wppV ale n shows that Duplin went wet by 17 votes, and we
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submit the question of State prohibition to popu
lar vote next year, and with that State injineone
unbroken column of State-prohibition territory
will stretch from the Atlantic shore on the eastern
mention that matter now to keep history straight.
NEXT WEEK'S PAPER,
Next week Professor Massey will write further
on thf WillinmsnTi Plan n f err nwinc pnrn. and
; Charged that Brown represented the anti-prohi- edge of North Carolina to the Rocky Mountain there will be a report of Alabama Station tests
. tionists, but the temperance issue was eliminated
when Brown joined Smith in a public pledge to
veto any bills injuriously affecting State prohibi
tion. In the same way both candidates pledged
themselves in favor of negro disfranchisement.
Smith stumped the State, while Brown, who is a
foothills on the western border of Oklahoma.
RESIGNATION OF PRESIDENT WINSTON.
The resignation of Dr. Geo. T. Winston, for
of the plan by Director Duggar.
"Summer Work in the Poultry Yard" will be
treated by Mrs. J. C. Deaton and we are sure that
there's not a housewife among all our readers
who will not find, it valuable if she has anything
at all to do with chickens on the farm.
A number of inquiries have been made recently
several years President of the A. & M. College,
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iou ween, came as a distinct surprise to nearlv hm.t oor . tho like
man of mOTectual presence and a poor speaker, everybody in the State. Dr. Winston is nn nf and next-week Prof r t Smith will write about
Stayed at home. ' , th mnct riftaA ktm n flhtinr thoco
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nuz just nere anotner player enters upon the are few who have Tendered the Commonwealth
scene. Tom Watson, Populist candidate for the more distinguished service than he. While we
Presidency though he is, still has following- have held the nnininn tw ho choi
enough in Georgia to hold the balance of power more to build
A THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK.
If we, here in America, shall teach the world
hflW tf tho lanH ' wUlinut aVincinor it Wfi Will
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uu ine aericiiitiirai a v s nn i , ... , j t
in such a content thi in h TO,f V s I n ,v - - .v nave written a new page in History. Juus -
' a contest as this n these white primaries, College, even in this he did better than his Otis Hnmnhrpv
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