The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-01-20
THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER
AND SENATOR VANCE.

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These friends think the paper ought
to have resisted the re election of the
Senator 10 the end. On account of
the existence of these views, there are
q 9w things we wish to say to our
readers and friends.
At the Oeginn ng of the differences
betwixt The PROGRESSIVE FARMER and
Senator Vance, it was charged by
many of the Democratic papers of the
State that we were trying to def sat
Senator Vance and were actuated by
a sinister motive. This we Indignantly
denied. We held that no man should
be- elected to the u. 8. Senate who was
opposed to the Sao Trs asury bill, or
other Alliance demands. Noswith
standing this, Alliancemen all over
the State were instructed, and accepted
the instructions, to vote for Senator
Vance. 1t is known to all our readers
that we irmly maintained that posi-
ton. President Carr, with the con,
currence of tue State Executive Com
m,ttee, sent his letter to Senator Vance
with the view and desire of composing
these d ~ferences, and asked if he
would obey the instructions of the
Legislature. He aswered that he
would, with the single exception and
r servation that if such Instructions
involved q moral wrong he woul re.
sign. President Carr and the Execu
tive Committee, under ouc Constitution,
represents the State Alliance when
that body is not in session. Their &C
ton was, therefore, the action of the
State Alliance, and to give it greater
force and strength, every MEMBER of
the Alliance in the Legislature ratified
and end orsed that action by voting
for instructions. It is also we'll known
that in a large number of counties of
the State, resolutions were adopted
instructing their members in the
Legislature to vote for instructions,
thereby giving their concurrence to
this policy.
By accs 2ting the instructions, Sena
tor Vance not only withdraws his op
position, but pledges himselfto vote
for and use all honorable means to
secure the object of the financial re.
forms demanded by the Ocala Con
vention. We opposed Senator Vance
for the reasons given, and we are
frank to say that we would not con
sent to his election to day, if we had
any doubt that he would stand by his
pledge to carry out faithfully the in
structions of our people.
These being the facts of the case,
The PROGRESSIVE FARMER could not
have done less than Withdraw its CD
position, if it cared one fig for its
obligation as the organ of the or
der 7? We have no doubt at all al
to the answer that every far minded
and honorable man, in and out of the
Alliance, will give to this question
when all the facts are before him.
The PROGRESSIVE FARMER is toe
organ of the Alliance in North Caro-
lima. BY this we unders and that the
paper is the medium through which
the Alliances and Alliaucemen com
municaae with each otter, and with
the public, upon all q .estions of in
terest to the friends of our great move
ment. AS such organ, it's columns
are open to both friends and foes, for
the temperate and air discussion of
all questions of a public character. It
III derstands that, in the interests of
truth, it is bound to hear all sides of
every question, and then render it's
opinion, in the language of candor,
upon every issue made up. That it 9
bound as such organ, to speak its own
opinion, without equivocations or eva
sions, or reservations of any sort what
soever. That it is bound to cheerfully
accord to its correspondents the same
rights and privileges that it claims for
itself. But if anyone supposes that,
as the organ OF the Alliance, it is
bound to dip its sails to every breeze
that blows, and turn to every point of