The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-05-26

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~partisans could not establish within
themselves the belief that the commO-
ton would soon pass away.
Their attacks on the Alliance were
as the small hail falling On a stone
wall. There were little rebounds, and
the hail fell harmlessly to the ground
and vanished Acknowledgements.
Failing to retard or to effect the
growth of the Allianceby attacking it's
principles, the wouldsbe destroyers are
now making one last reckless and dis
pairing attempt to weaken and de
moralize it by the widest possible at
tacks and insinuatiOns against some of
the prominent men in the movement,
hoping thereby to create prejudice,
suspicion and distrust within Alliance
! ranks.
A few days since the Chicago Herald
| stated that Alliancemen Polk, PETER
and Simpson we're holding a confer
ence in Washington with the Demo
cratic leader, Senator Gorman; and
that some kind of an Alliance-D Demo
crat deal was being effected by which
an Alliance candidate for President
would be in the field III 1892. On the
same day that conference was reported
to have been held, PETER was in Bos-
ton, Polk was in North Carolina, and
Simpson was walking around the Ma
tional Capitol seeing the sights.
On the 18th inst, the Philadelphia
Record, suspects" Polk of having
sold out to Quay" the Republican
leader, and says:
president Polk, Secretary Macune
and other National Alliance leaders
left this evening for Cincinnati, deter
mined to prevent the formation of a
third party movement at the cOnven-
ton. They declare themselves opposed
to a third party movement altogether,
and are, therefore, suspected of hav-
ing conferred with Quay, ClarksOn and
Dudley"
Polk does not know either of the
men referred to above, and if he ever
saw them, didn't know it. His atti-
tude towards a third party has been
conservative, since, so far as he is Off
cially concerned he has referred the
whole matter to the people. Macune
is not Secretary, and did rot go to Gin
cinnati in the capacity of an Alliance
representative to attend the confer
ence. He went as President Of the
Reform Press Association which me
in Cincinnati on the 18th, to attend
that body.
These attacks are beginning to get
like those of last year-one of which
was that Polk was going to Kansas to
help r~e-elect Ingalls, to the Senate. An
| other was that Polk was a Brigadier
| General in the Confederate army, cap
tured some Federals at Gettysburg and
was about to lose them, when he or
dered them to be shot down. Of course
these things have been proven to be the
essence of ~falseness and malicious de-
sign.
Now, the New York Times, of the
18th, has an attack on Polk nearly a
column long, in which he is charged
with scheming for the nomination for
President of the United States, but
that his schemes are failing and that
the Alliance, from which he hoped to
get the nomination, is falling apart in
the South. The article is dated at
Greensboro. 1t may have been written
at Raleigh. Perhaps it was. But time
will prove these charges to be as false
as all others are and have been proven
to be. President Polk is d~evoting his
time to his duties as President of the
Alliance. He is involved in no deal
and no scheme. Then why these at
tacks?
The 'ringsters" and "bosses" fear
the coming political storm. They have
failed to stay the movement by attacks
upon it, and now they hope to weaken
it by resorting to the cowardly and
knavish practice of attacking a man
and men with whom they are not &C
quainted, with whom they have never
spoken, with whom they have no affI-
iation, and whom, so far as their
knowledge goes, they T deliberately
and Indignantly trying to Islander and
misrepresent.
DIED.
At his home in LenOir county, on the
10Th inst, William F. Daily, late Bust
ness Manager of THE PROGRESSIVE