The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1890-07-03
A PERSONAL CARD.

Last week during my absence from
Clinton card was received and pub
lished from DIR. w. Il. Murphy sta
ting that he did not n ceive, while ir
the Legislature Of 1885, memorial
rom the Sampson County Farmers
Alliance praying for the passage of "A
bill creating a Railroad Commission
Technically (that is Il. far a. the man
uscript il cOncerncd) this is true, for
We understand that the Secretary of
the County Alliance failed to forward
copies of the resolution, but DIR. Muir
ply and our other members Of the
General Assembly were informed of
the memorial, for an official state
mcnt that the resolution was passed
was printed in THE CLINTON CAUCA-
SIAN rs the official organ of the
County Alliance and copies of this
paper were sent to Messrs. Kerr,
Stevens and Murphy. In fact they
will all admit that they knew that
such resolution vas passed asking
them to use their influence AID vote
for the passage of Railroad Conn
mission bill.
But there were other resolutions
from Sampson that DID reach the
General Assembly certified to by the
the signatures of the proper author
tiles, and to prove this do not need
the evidence Of any individual, but
can refer to the official proceedings
of the Legislature, if that will be
considered good authority. On pages
81 and 331 of the House Journal,
under the head Of "Petitions and
Memorials" appears the following !:
memorials from several Farmers
Alliances, in relation to the policy
Of giving away the labor of cOnvict5,
to enlarge the jurisdiction Of the
Justices Of the peace, against officials
receiving free passes on the railroads,
and in favor of the establishment of
railroad commission, are presented,
read and referred to the Committee
on Propositions and Grievances, as
fOllOWS:n
Then followed the petitions from
fifty counties to that effect, showing
that Mr.. Stevens presented the petit
tions Oh behalf of the Farmers AL
llances of Sampson county. Mr..
Stevens says that there were twenty
six or tWenty-sevcn of these petit
tiOns and that he noticed among
them the identical petition from his
own Alliance which he himself had
certified as President This was on
Thursday, February 18th, an. the
tWenty-eighth day Of the session,
and it was on that day that / was in
Raleigh, and it was this bundle OF
petitions Mr.. Stevens showed me,
saying, "here are our Alliance peti.
titionS from Sampson" | did not
| IOOh lllIOuSll bllt DuIlulc Dul WAS Ol
course certain that the resolution
passed by the county meeting was
among them. But still Mr.. Kerr
says that there was no demand made
of him to support Railroad Com
mission bill. In answer to this
simply quote a part of his speech
made / think March 1st against the
Commission bill, in which he admits
that the demand was made. Mr.
Kerr said
"There is no public demand fol-
this Commission. True, when a
home the other day / had occasion
to ride out few miles and / cam,
across about twenty members of tn,
alliance and the ringleader was there
l said: "Well, Toys; l see you hav,
demanded that l shall vote for
Railroad Commission"
l hope that the above is plain an,
viii be fully understood by ever,
one. Very respectfully,
MARION BUTLER.