The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1890-05-01
SOUNDING THE ALARM.
A DEEP LAID PLAN TO ENTRAP THE
FARMERS ALLIANCE.
DemagOgues to Use the Organization
to Further Their Own Selfish Ends
if They Can.
Nashville Argenaut.l

The well-belng OF our State lies IN
the keeping of our farmers, more than
any other class of people. That the
agricultural portion of our community
has many wrongs which should be re-
dressed, goes without saying; that the
General Government has passed acts
for the benefit of monopolists and the
moneyed classes, is fact unfortunate
ly, too we'll known to need repeating
here, therefore we hold that the Farm
ers' Alliance has a grand mission to
fulfill, in seeking to remove these
abuses as we'll as in other ways, en-
deavoring to promote the welfare and
advance the interests of the country.
But as Satan once entered into Para
disc, so in this, as in every other move
ment, no matter how grand or bene-
fetal, base men have been found who
have attempted to prosecute to their
own selfish ends, by what was intended,
and should be employed for the gen.
eral good. 1t has been attempted to
array class against class, and to dis
sever interests which are necessarily
bound up in each other. These dem
agogues have tried to make the farm
ers of the State believe that every
other calling is inimical to theirs.
Now, the man who says that the lead
ing men of our State, are foes to the
farmer, is either a liar or a fool. There
is no man, nor is there any class OF
men in the State, whose interests are
not directly involved in the success of
agriculture.
We are led to these remarks because
we find that throughout the State, there
are broken down political hacks, who
are endeavoring, by awakening the
prejudices of the farmers against all
Others, to secure through them, pre-
ferment which they cannot get else
where, and thereby use the Farmers
Alliance for their own selfish purpose.
We learn that this class is trying to
commit the Alliance to a union with
that class of our people who have been
heretofore, and now are, the worst en-
emies to the South, and, independent
of the Democratic party, make nomi-
nation of candidates for office, to be
voted for next November.
Now, who are they to combine
against1 A Republican leader of
Nash county says, that the Farmers
Alliance will join with the Knights of
Labor and the Republican party in
these nominations. We suppose the
nominee of this combination would be
called an independent. We ask you,
citizen farmers of North Carolina,
what has been the history of the fnde-
bendent candidates in your State? Can
you tell us the difference between them
and a simon pure Radical, dyed in the
wool? When the crucial test comes,
have they not been found in the camp
of your eneuies? Have you ever
found out the difference between vot-
ing for straight out Republican and
a so-called independent? Can you
classify the animal called North Car
olina Independent? Swift Galloway
very wittily and pithily describes the
difference between them as "the same
old coon with another stripe around
his tail.
One of these demagogues, when the
question was asked him as to whether
there was not danger of these indie
pendent nominations resulting in turn
ing our State over again to the infamy
of Republican misrule, replied: "Well
what Of that?" This, of that, men of
North Carolina: Do you want to go
back to the terrible days of '68; do
you want to see our best men thrown
into prison, our women insulted, our
treasury robbed, the State bankrupted
and overrun with infamous hirelings,
sent down to subvert our liberties ?
You surely do not. We are satisfied
that when the time comes to call the
roll, and the question is asked: Farm
ers Of North Carolina, will you stand
by your State and her interests, or will
you Join her enemies? that the answer
will be: we are for North Carolina,
and in spite of political hacks and
demagogues, will stand up for her best
interests, and we are satisfied that they
will not be controlled by any organi-
zation which will commit them to an
affiliation with any such damnable
combination.
The State Chronicle publishes the
following, from the Atlanta Constita-
Hon:
A dicker between the Farmers AL
lance, the knights of Labor and the
Republican party.
This is the latest scheme on foot.
That such a dicker is being attempted
by Republicans here there is no doubt.
This scheme is being discussed by
leading Republicans of the House and
Senate and high officers of the Alliance
and Knights of Labor federation. The
Republicans propose to fine the money
for the campaign, &c.
1t is simply another scheme to split
up the Democratic party, and it is un-
tlestood that very high Alliance men
will be parties to it.
"You pay your money and take
your choice"
And says: Who is sending out such
articles, no one knows. 1t is known
that the Republican politicians of the
Northwest, used every effort in their
power to prevent the consolidation OF
the Southern and Western orders, in