The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1891-05-14
IN HENDE 3SON, n. e.
A Few Personal POints---What the
Alliance Meeting Did.

NuCCLAh5 DIV
Mr.. w. E. Dibrell, editor of the
Richmond Southern 2obaecontst who
attended the recent meeting of bright
tobacco planters, and took in !"
the banquet given them by the Board
of Trade, writes as follows about his
visit and what he saw and heard:
An invitation from the Trade of
Henderson carried us there last week.
We were loath to leave, We par
ticipated in a feast of fact and fancy
-fixings for the five hundred the Hen
derson Trade ted, of the Farmers
Alliance fraternity chiefly.
w. F. Gary makes a good gener-
alissimo. When Owen Davis gets out
of job he has our recommendation
as head-waiter anywhere, while John
and Dave Cooper are just indispen-
sable when Henderson folks have the
honors in hand, and Jack Taylor is
so popular that he got 50 votes out
of 43 voters present (the most unani-
nous majority we ever heard Oh tor
town commissioner. Henry Cannon
chews a new brand of Horse Pasture
tobacco, and thereby hangs tale.
Buck Walker had his factory full and
was waiting for seasons. S. & Z. Wat
kins' three stores would do credit IN
business and bulk and variety to a
city of size. Manager Sam. Watkins
is posted on every plant from the town
pump to the great railroad enterprise
in town, township, county, and State,
and is never too busy to be courteous
to strangers or friends.
The Dibrell and Walker insurance
claim hangs fire in upper courts the
Georgia Home being the only stlcklel
that is stubborn in settling. D. Y
Cooper rules in the warehouse realm
with right and reason, and if we had
a system of sales to adopt it would be
his unmodifed or unaltered; there is
no hitch or hating on that warehouse
floor. Like clock work Cooper cleans
the floor of piles sold, he handles every
pile himself, not mechanically, but
with an eye to business and bids, and
he makes them or gets them.
Regarding the crop, tits three weeks
or more late. Cool nights, hot days
and dry weather invite the festive fly
and rain is badly needed. Planting
is moderate, few plants we'll up. The
crop will depend upon seasons. The
verdict is 80 per cent. of 1890 croE
sold, and farmers are selling their trash
and scrap. Breaks very small; price:
unchanged; few piles reach 80 cents
Filters and green tips rule high at
to &C., smokers stiff, anything bring:
SC; wrapper, reasonable and good; soms
rich mahoganies are offered. Cutter:
are ruled by the American Tobacco
Co., and 22 cents is accounted a ful
price.
We met at Cooper's Mr.. Elias Carr
Jr., of Edgecombe county, a gentle
man-planter, by instinct and educa
ton and lineage, a planter of tobacco
and cotton. Mr.. R. H. Cotton also
sold at Cooper's. He sold some il
Richmond and some at Rocky Mount
the latter market paid So and owe
for part of his $4,000 lbs. raised. HI
pocketed s11oo at Cooper's, s1oe
more than he expected, and wenth home
pleased. He will plant for 10000
pounds this season. Edgecombe count,
reports plants set a week ago ane
fourishing. Tobacco pays better thar
cotton all say.
THAT ALLIANCE MEETING.
There were $50 delegates in session
they represented thirty-two tobacco
counties of Virginia and North Caro-
lina-from the latter twenty one ant
the former eight delegates. Their
was harmony in this husbandary. The.
denounce the trust business, and tn
American Tobacco Co. especially, a
their greatest enemy and that openly
The secret sessions did not leave US il
doubt. The Alliances are prepared
to join ranks with the leaf men t.
defeat monopoly. 1t is business
not for politics or buncombe, but in
sisting upon their own and the dealer
rights to live, without dictation o
values, high or low, on their stapl
product. They comprehend full.
the present situation, and they antic
ipate future results, and will now worl
for ama!gamation with those who's
interests are identified with theirs
They will join hands heartily will
honest men in mutual plans of protec
ton, and will invite the tobacco trade
organizations to formulate plans ane
mutual cooperation in lawful and ex
pedient means to counterfeit the dan
gers that menaces them both.