The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1890-05-29
SENATOR VANCE TALKS.
HE SAYS SOME SENSIBLE THINGS TO
THE FARMERS OF N. C.
He Don't Blame Them for Hitting Their
Enemies but Warns Them not to Strike
Their Friends in the Coming Campaign,

Enemies but Warns Them not to Strike
Their Friends in the Coming Campaign.
From the atlanta Constitution
"And now, Senator, what do YOU
think of the future of the Democratic
party?'
"Weli, I doa't see but one little
cloud on the horizon. [ think it is by
far the greatest party that has ever
existed in American politics, aud that
it has more vitality and more power of
endurance and persistence than any
party that we have had, for the simple
reason that it has stuck Inside of the
strict letter of the constitution, the
bond of the union. As no religious
sect ever fiourished at any time in our
country that was not founded on the
strict letter Of the Word of God, so no
political party that is not founded
strictly on the letter of the constitu-
ton will stand successfully in our pol
itics. There is only one little cloud
upon our horizon, and that is the in
reference with our party organiza-
ton that may be effected by the farm
ers'- movements. The farmers have
suffered from our financial policy so
long and So greatly that, having
turned now and begun to struggle for
their rights, the fear is that they will
strike about them rather blindIy and
hit the party that has been their friend
all the time as we'll as their enemies.
The financial policy Of the Democratic
party has all the time been favorable
to the farmer. It is the Gods truth
that all these evils under which the
farmers have suffered and groaned
have arisen from the policy of the Re
publican party. 1t has compelled
them to sell their surplus products in
the cheapest market in the world and
to buy necessaries of life in the dear
est market in the world. They have
SO hedged our country about. with
protective tariff that the farmer now
cannot sell his bacon, wheat or beef in
Europe because Europe cannot sell us
anything in exchange for them, and
therefore, he is burning his corn in
stead of feeding it to hogs and sending
his bacon abroad. The same thing
would have taken place with our cot
ton but for the fact that the God of
nature has given us sort of monop-
oily in the crop. So far as England
could, she has fostered the growth of
cotton elsewhere with the view to re-
lieve herself Of her dependence on the
Southern cotton fields, and she is now
getting the bulk of her wheat from
India, Australia and New Zealand,
and she is getting all her wool from
Australia; and whenever she can, by
building railroads and stimulating ma
tive production get her supplies of cot.
ton from India, there is no telling
what on the face of the earth will be-
come of the Southern people.
The policy of the Republican par.
ty has been to destroy, so far as it
could, the profits of cotton growing in
the South, just as it has destroyed the
profits on corn and wheat in the west.
Now when a man has been driven to
desperation as has the farmer, and gets
chance to redress his wrongs he
don't look at things as nicely as the
Lord Chancellor or lay down his
rules and regulations according to the
strict square. He hits back and re-
| ta.iates on those who have oppressed
him He strikes blindly at every.
body that comes in his way and like
a man on the court green who is spoil
ing for a fight, he will strike one OF
his friends rather than not have a
fight at all; and now on the eve OF
Congressional elections when we need
the utmost unanimity in the Demo-
cratic party, | am very much afraid
that the Alliance people will damage
the party. don't know how it is in
your country, but l suppose it is the
same as it is in North Carolina. The
men who are in these Alliances are
just the best men and Democrats III
our State, and I hope there are men
| of consideration among them who will
see that they don't do their friends a
damage in trying to defeat their ene-
mics, and punish them for the inju-
ries they have suffered for so long"