Tut-oJay, January IT, 1005.
PROGRESSIVE F-
AND COTTON PLANT.
Representatives from fifteen coun
ties shall constitute a quorum at the
State meeting.
10. The organization shall have
power 'to make laws and rules for
its own government. The same can
be changed at any regular meeting
without previous notice.
11. The objects of the Cotton
Farmers and Business Men's Asso
" ciation are to promote and advance
the price of cotton to a basis that
will be remunerative to the growers
and bring to our Southland the gen
eral prosperity that the importance
of the industry justifies.
12. We agree to co-operate with
the Farmers' Alliance, the Cotton
Growers' Protective Association and
other organizations that have for
their objects the same purposes we
have; and wo solicit like co-operation
from those organizations.
13. We recognize that our success
is dependent on the unity of action
of all the farmers and business men
of the cotton growing States.
14. That the annual meeting of
the association shall be he-Id on the
second Tuesday in December.
STATE OJTICERS AND DELEGATES TO
NEW ORLEANS.
After the adoption of the Consti
tution, officers were nominated, the
result being the election of Col.
John S. Cunningham of Person
County, as President, and T. B. Par
ker as General State Agent. It was
resolved that the State Agent should
actively push the work of organiza
tion, that an initiation fee of 25
cents should be charged each mem
berand that the State Agent should
receive $1,000 a year if the fees
would justify this.
Delegates were elected to attend
the New Orleans meeting, and in ad
dition to those named by counties.
President John S. Cuninghom and
five others to be named later by him
were selected as delegates-at-large.
" Each county organization is request
ed to pay the expenses of its dele
gate. Those named Wednesday
night (the first name being that of
the delegate, the second that of the
alternate) are as follows:
Bertie D. W. Britton, Rosemead;
Wm. Pritchard, Aulander.
Bladen R. L. Bridges, Bladen
boro; O. L. Clark, Clarkton.
Cabarrus J. P. Allison, Concord;
Zeb A. Morris, Concord.
Chatham S pence Taylor, Pitts
boro; S. P. Teague, Siler City.
Chowan W. S. Swaringen, Eden
ton; J. M. Forehand, Rockyhock.
Cleveland J. C. Falls, Belwood;
R. A. Miller, Shelby.
Columbus J. O. Brown, Chad
bourn; J. E. Maultsby, Whiteville.
Cumberland A. L. McCaskill,
Fayetteville; Jno. R. Taler. Fayette
ville. Harnett J. M. Hurst, Coats; O.
J. Spears, Lillington.
Lenoir George F. Parrott, Kin
ston; C. H. Foy, lunston.
Iredell T. J. Conger, Statesville;
Dr. J. J. Mott, Statesville.
' Johnston W. M. Sanders, Smith
field; A. Home, Clayton.
Jones E. L. Houghton, Pollocks
villo; Charles A. Rhodes, Comfort.
' Lincoln W. A. . Graham, . Mashpe-
lah. ' - - v - v:;:; ;
Mecklenbrug-H. K. Reid, Char
lotte; W. S. Pharr, R. D. Charlotte.
Moore J. A. Leslie, Vass; J. Al
ton Mclver, Jonesboro.
Montgomery J. A. McAulay, Mt.
Gilead; J. B. Haywood, Mt. Gilead.
Nash J. B. Phillips, Battleboro;
W. S. Jeffreys, Rocky Mount.
Northampton B. F. Pugh, Sev
ern; M. W. Ransom, Garysburg.
Orange T. B. Parker, Hillsboro;
I. W. Pritchard, Chapel Hill.
Richmond H. C. Dockery, Rock
ingham; W. E. Crossland. Diggs.
Sampson W. C. Jackson, Haw
ley Store; S. R. Wilson, Shady
Grove.
Scotland Jno. F. McNair, Laur
inburg; L. D. McKinnon, ,Laurin
burg. -
Union W. C. Heath, Monroe; J.
M. Fairley, Monroe.
Wake A. C. Green, Raleigh; J.
II. Robbins, Raleigh.
Warren J. B. Davis, Warren
Plains; H. B. Hunter, Warrenton.
Washington W. S. Davenport,
Mackey Ferry; Dempsey Spruill,
Creswell.
Wayne Dr. J. E. Person, Pike
ville; F. K. Borden, Goldsboro.
Wilson W. F. Woodard, Wilson;
H. F. Freeman, R. F. D. 2, Wilson.
Delegates are later to be named
from Beaufort, Catawba, Craven,
Gaston, Greene, Halifax, Lincoln,
New Hanover, Pamlico, Pasquotank,
Pender, Perquimans, Pitt, Rowan,
Stanly, Terrell, Vance.
NOW NOR NEW ORLEANS.
ITcrth C&rollaa Tobacco. Trust Uethods
Uay Ba Investigated.
Now for New Orleans I Thi9
great meeting representing every
nook and corner of the Cotton Belt
to be held on January 24, 25, 26, will
deviss ways and means for protect
ing the producers in the future from
the reverses of speculation, and also
a definite plan by which the acreage
can be reduced for 190. Every
farmer throughout the South who
can attend the convention, should
do so. The round trip rate from all
points east of the Mississippi will
be only one fare and a third.
The North Carolina Convention
at least has done its work well, and
all must now await the action of the
New . Orleans Association. If it is
moved by the same earnestness and
intelligence that characterized the
Raleigh meeting it will undoubtedly
bring forth a practicable plan of
relief. And The Progressive Farm
er will have a special representative
at the New Orleans meeting, who
will report it fully for our columns.
Enclosed is check for $6.00 for six
new subscribers to your paper, be
ginning with this week's number.
This is only a start of what I ex
pect to do, as I value your paper
above any other within my knowl
edge, and would if I could put it in
the hands of every farmer in North
Carolina. G. W. Johnson, Benson,
N. O.
The commissioners of Person
County have refused to grant license
to the Roxboro saloons, and the
town is now dry.
Washington Cor. Post, 13th.
District Attorney Harry Skiynner is
here on important business, the be
lief, being that he was summoned to
Washington by the department of
justice for a conference with refer
ence to the investigation of the
methods of the American Tobacco
Company, which the administration
is conducting with the. view of mak
ing out a case of violation of the
provisions of the anti-trust law.
Interest in Mr. Skinner's visit
was increased when it became known
that he was in conference with the
attornev-general arid the interstate
commerce commission during the
day. It is known that Mr. Skinner
furnished the commission with cer
tain data and that he held quite a
lengthy conference with members of
the body. As was to be expected,
the district attorney declined to dis
cuss the object of his visit. He con
fined himself to the simple state
ment that he is here on official bus
iness. "
While it is practically certain that
Mr. Skinner was summoned here
with respect to the prosecution of
the alleged tobacco trust, his confer
ence with members of the interstate
commerce commission is not easily
explained, unless it be that he fur
nished evidence of some sort with
reference to rebates given the Amer
ican Tobacco Company by railroads
that operate, in the South. The
question of rebates has not arisen
in the South the offense being con
fined largely to Western railroads,
and this idea was scouted in some
quarters "to-day. " The interstate
commerce commission has no rela
tion whatever to Mr. Roosevelt's
trust buster arrangements, and so
Mr. Skinner's information which he
furnished could not have related to
the investigation of the- tobacco
trust, unless it involved the ques
tion of railroad rebates.
There . is no authoritative infor
mation on the subject, but the belief
prevails that Mr. Skinner has been
directed to begin an investigation
into the methods of the American
Tobacco Company in Eastern Car
olina, as has been recently intimat
ed would be the case since it became
known that the administration was
in earnest. , North Carolina is the
home of the parent company, and an
official of the department of justice
made the remark to-day that it was
the finest, field in the United States
for probing into the methods of the
so-called trust.
The first information published
anywhere that the President con
templated an aggressive fight on the
alleged tobacco trust appeared in
this correspondence two days after
the election.
A man attended a dinner given
by a witty woman and ate ravenous
ly. "The greatest praise I can be
stow on your dinner," he said, "is to
eat heartily." "But vour praise
amounts to flattery," the woman re
plied. Atchison Globe.
A South Carolina Boquet.
I have read The Progressive
Farmer and Cotton Plant with in-'
terest and profit. Your Isaper is
fully up to the standard, and I wish,
it the success it deserves. South
Carolina has no farm paper and
should support yours. Prof. J. S.
Newman, Department of Agricul
ture, Clemson .College, S. C.
I see my subscription to your valu
able paper is out. I farmed many
years on a small scale, and patronized
our old favorite Cotton Plant. The
union consummated between The
Progressive Farmer and Cotton
Plant last September has made a
strong agricultural journal well
worthy the" patronage of every tiller
of the soil. Dr. C. B. Bobo, Sedalia,
S. C.
I have taken your paper eight
weeks and I find it to be a first-class,
all-round, up-to-date farm paper. I
herewith send you one dollar for one
year. Olin W. Whetstone, Branch-
ville, S. C.
Enclosed find check for $1.00, for.
which please send me The Progres
sive Farmer and Cotton Plant for
this year. Have read your sample
copies sent me .with great interest,
and think it a paper that every .
farmer that is a farmer should take.
H. C. Hahn, Aiken, S. C.
I wish to say that I was one of
the fortunate farmers that took your
publication on trial. I have derived
considerable information and pleas
ure from its weekly visits, and hope
the renewal, for which I send you
herein P." O. Money Order for $1.00,
will prove of benefit to the institu
tion that I have tne ' honor -of -rep
resenting both as treasurer . and as
superintendent of their farm of 300
acres, which last year made a profit
of more than $31.00 per acre over
and above all expenses. J. W.
Bunch, State Hospital for the In
sane, Columbia, S. C. :
Enclosed please find money order
for one dollar for renewal for 1905.
I enjoy the weekly visits of The
Progressive Farmer and Cotton
Plant very much. The article of
Prof. W. F. Massey in your issue of '
the 10th, is worth more than ten
years subscription of your paper if
the farmers of the South would heed
his advice. I wish your paper great
success for 1905 May it wake up the
sleepy and slip-shod farmer and en- .
courage those whose eyes are al
ready open to greater efforts to de
velop this beautiful Southland of
ours. H. B. Buist, Winthrop Nor
mal and Industrial College, Rock
Hill, S. C.
At our county meeting last Satur
day I put in a few sentences for
our worthy paper amongst our farm
ers and secured the enclosed list of
'subscribers. Only two put in for
the year, but j 1 hope; when the three
months are out, all xjan be induced
to join in the good work and renew.
The farmers are getting very much .
aroused" around here and show more
Tar Heel "stickabilitv" than since
about the time of. the jute bagging
fight. Yours to make a verv eood
paper better. -Daniel Lane, Craven
So., N. U. . .
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