Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-11-26
POLKATTACKSVANCE
EFFORT TO INDUCE THE LsGlsLA-
TORS TO REcANT PLEDGES.
Alliance Measures and Principles TO BE
enthusiastically the Enemies OF the AL
iianos on tho Vance side.
rspec,a, telegram to tho pisps,ca.l

RlLsroH. n. c., November 25.-
Tho Farmers Alliance organ, the Pro-
orcssfcc Farmer, in its issue OF this
afternoon, takes up the fight against
Vance. and, as was binted in this CORE
spondence, seeks 10 induce the legisla-
tors 10 "repledge" themselves. 1t says
land the editorial is by Colonel l.. Il.
Polk:
1.-THE party papers Of the State all
claim that they have enough OF the mem
hers o. the House pledged to elect Sena-
tor Vance. What night have the coun-
ties to instruct candidates lnstruc-
ton should come from the peo-
pie in their primary capacity.
This endorsement business was
rushed through the comfy conventions
before the people could have time to
grasp the situation. Senator Vance
wrote the letter TO President Carr Just
before the conventions were held. The
people having so much faith In his in
tegrity did not doubt but that he would
make everything satisfactory. They
hoped that he would. In many counties
whore representatives were instructed
by the conventions a large majority Of
tic people per0 and arc opposed TO
such Instructions.
DUTY OF ALLIANCES.
"The first duty OF true alliance man
In TO see that alliance measures and prln-
ciples are sustained. A majority OF the
members of the alliance in North Caro-
lima have solemnly promised to do oil IN
their power 10 get the State and
national demands enacted into law.
This pledging business was done
under whip and spur. Every Demo
cratic paper in the State loudly pro-
claimed that mo man should be elected
who opposed Senator Vance. The men,
hers of the Legislature in North Caro-
lima should remember how some OF the
members of the last Legislature misrep-
resented the people on the railroad
commission question. They should note
the fact that not one Of these misrepre-
sentatives has been or ever will be re-
turned again"
THREATS.
"On the one side are seventy thousand
alliance Democrats, not two hundred OF
whom ever voted against Senator Vance
These men have been to him in all his
political career what the old guard was to
Sapoleon. They have stood by HIM
LOYALTY and deyotedly in all his trials,
even when he was assailed by many
OF those who now claim to DO his
friends and who are now abusing our
side. Who is opposed 20 us? Who is
on the other side? Whatever else may
be said of them, one thing cannot be de-
nied-cucJU enemY Of the alliance 5n
me STATE is on that side. And they
have arranged themselves on that side
because they hope through the influence
and prestige OF the Senator's name to
divide and ruin the alliance IN this
State"
PAYING PENSIONS.
The Auditor to-day arranged the
amount of pensions TO he paid. The
pension-tax this year raised 1897, 900. OF
this g, 900 goes to settle old claims and
ss6. 900 is divided. The first class OF
pensioners receive S7l; second class
1926 third class 935. 30; fourth-class,
Sl7.75. There are 40 frst-clsss, 22O
second, $50 third and 1850 fourth.
This morning Henry Wagner, a negro
employee. was fatally crushed at the
Seabord Airline station here. He was
TANNED between a moving train and
platform and was disembowelled.
The Raleigh Baptlsts have begun the
work of raising 5000, 900 for their Female
State University here. The construction
OF buildings is to begin March LIST. Rev.
DR.. Skinner has resigned as agent for
the fund.
CURIOUS CASE.
There is an interesting case before the
Federal Court here. a ship captain
named Thomas II. Smith, who was a
blockade-runner during the war, left his
wife in Wilmington $4,000 in real es-
tate. Now George II. Smith comes from
Bolton, England, alleging that he Is
Smiths son, and that the marriage to
the Wilmington wife was null and void,
as his mother was alive when it was con-
summated. The defendants allege that
G.. Ii. Smiths mother was not L. II.
Smiths wife and that if he is his son he
was born out of wedlock.
VIRGINIA NEXT YEAR.
The Christian Conference has adj
journed to meet next year at Pleasant
Grove, Virginia Rev. j. l.. Foster, OF
Raleigh, will preach the annual sermon.
Rev. Mr.. Pettinger, OF Elizabeth, n.
j., becomes rector of the Church of the
Good Shepherd. this city.
President John NJ. Robinson, OF the
Seaboard Airline, accompanied 10y
John c. Winder, its general manager, and
u. T. Myers, general superintendent, is
making tour over all that system and
passed here to-day on their way to the
Georgia and South Carolina division.
AN ENERGETIC WORKING JUDGE.