The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1892-12-15

| seems determined TO batter the
| remainder Gifts brains out against
him as President of the State AL
liance.-At the above rate, it will
| not be long about 1t: for, in order
to make sure work of it and to
reach its brains by the nearest
| route, the Chronicle has assumed
the attitude Of a billy goat, and
and is making butting motions at
| him backwards, and blindfolded
at that.
If the Chronicle was as wise
and well posted and had as much
| confidence in the intelligence of
the people, as it is ready, volun-
tarily, to attend to other peoples
business, it would blush at its
own ignorance in Alliance mat
| tiers, and would not have disgrace
ed its mission by giving the above
utterances. 1t is the hight of inn
pudence, for the Chronicle, at
| this late date, to try to palm off a
deception On an intelligent peo-
pie by pretending to be the friend
and guardian and godfather of
the Alliance, whose mission in
the world is to keep agricultur-
lists from dabbling in partisan
| politics, further than voting as
the Democratic bosses tell them,
and paying eighty per cent. of
the taxes. The Chronicle has be-
| come a blind partisan, political
crank and the only appropriate
thing it can say is, "where am |
at any how?"
The Alliance non-partisan in
| deed! This chestnut is so stale,
it stinketh. The Grange, Odd
Fellows, Masonry and even the
churches are non-partisan or
CARNATIONS. None but a fool
would say their members, or
even their officers could not act
! with political partisan party,
| save those designated by the
numbers, first, second or fourth.
The Chronicle would have us
| believe that an officer in the AL
| lance can't take a public part
in politics except inside Of the
Democratic or Republican par
ties, parties nationally, that are
opposed to every demand Of the
Alliance. 1t certainly does not
know the meaning of non-par-
tisan, or hasn't sense enough to
discriminate between practices.
Now let us see about this.
The Alliance Is composed Of
private members, officers and
committees. The officers, even
the President, ale subject to the
Executive and Judiciary COM
mittees. Every member Of the
Alliance, from the most hum
BILE to the highest officer takes
the same pledge, and is gov
erned by the same constitution.
Its motto is "equal rights to all
and special privileges to none"
II it is wrong for its President
to dabble in politics, then it is
| wrong for any Of the officers. II
| it is unconstitutional for the
| officers Of the Alliance to take
part in partisan politics, then it's
unconstitutional for any Of its
members to do so too. II the
members Of the Alliance are
debarred discussing partisan
politics, as other citizens, then
they are declared the right to
vote as other citizens. If it is
wrong for Alliance men to act
with one political party, it is
equally wrong to act with any.
| If Marion Butler could not be
an elector on the Peoples party
ticket, because he was President
of a "non-partisan," "agricul-
tural" organization whose adop
ted demands were identical with
the Peoples party platform,
pray tell US how Capt. S. B. AL
exander could run for Congress
on the Democratic ticket, par.
ty opposed to these demands
while being chairman of the
Executive committee of this
"non-partisan" organization:
And how could Ellis Carr run
for governor On the Democratic
ticket while being chairman OF
the Judiciary Committee of this
same "non-partisan" organiza.
ton? And how could J. S Bel
canvass the State for tho no,