The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1892-05-26
To the Farmers Alliance and Industrial
Union Of Halifax County.
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Halifax county met at tue Court /
House according to appointment OF T.
the 10th Inst. 4 little coterle OF F..
LAWYERS sud merchants seemed II
put forward 81 once and proceed 10 .
organize. Having made o-e Of the
,egal profession chairman the next
move was TO appoint committee %
credentials. THIS being Gone, said
committee IN due time reported that
in their view. no delegate 10 the con
veation from tue Primaries snoaid
ne allowed q seat, who would BOT
pledge himself 10 support whatever
| platform and candidates, both State
and National, might be presented
| for his support by the Democratic
/ party.
The arrangement having doubts
less been Concocted by the managers
previously, it vas soon pat through,
and SO was enacted one Of The most
remarkable maneuyers perhaps ever
witnessed in popular goferDmeut.
J Strange Democracy tins D.! hat
more could the sternest autocrat
have demanded Of his plant vassala
than that they should declare
allegiance TO some platform
and some candidates to be Sc
lected in the future, aGd be pEesen-
ted for his sufl'rages, or they must be
cast out as unfit 10 have any voice
in the government Is Democracy
80 degenerated Does this little
oligarchy seeming to assume control
Of the convention suppose that the
Democracy of the county are con-
tentedly submitting to such farce
, The result Of this action was that
one entire township though having
elected and sent to the convention
its fail quota of delegates was de
, 1lared unrepte8ented. Other dele
gates were rejected on the same
grounds. Under such pressure as
this, well Day the party say ''delivcr
me- from my friends"
One member characterized those
2 who differed with him as the 'negrc
party" Sc to the epithets "Hayseed
ers" 'Calamity Howlers" is TO be
added that of the negro party. An
, other compared us to certain tramp'
/ in one of Napoleon's great battles
f | cali the atten ton OF the gentleman
f 20 another incident In The history @
that general, When it appeaTe(
probable that Napoleon might owe
Il run the whole continent, or at any
rate England supposed her lntero8
r endangered, she sent her yelling
r. ton to check hlm n BIB mad career
, Re met MIN at Waterloo. Tie IT
L suit is well known. History repeat
y itself.
Re Now, brethren, we as an organize
j ton had thought on our fOrlOrn cor
~ dition. We had witnessed that tn
National government in its acts hs
&c been so swayed by the money powe
re of the land, as Go le9islate almost e.
8 c'usiveiy 10 their favor and agains
20 that Of the wealth producers. "
~ had realized that while certain elias
es would obtain money from the 60
eminent st one or two per cent, I'll
Id wealth proincers must borro
Z IillouS Ii tlISSS JCb5 vi jtsC BoN CI II tiG
1e at as mach perhaps in some cases I
% per cent. We bad realized tht
while we paid the Ear greater popo
ID ton Of the taxes on our property, I'll
st money lords paid little or none. p
to realized that capitalists have SO II
. HinnleteG c0uCTegS IS 10 have ii
=, amount Of currency SO mach reduce
80 s. t. greatly lessen the market Walt
re % most species Of property ana far
products, II like proportion lnCrea
ing the difficulties aud burdens
those wago earners and farmers WI
notwithstanding sUrict economy al
Industry have been overtaken /
debt
Pardon me for referring to any
- the grievances under wh;ch we snff
~ you already being familiar ~:
ty them. Ny excuse is the desire
ce rivet your attention on them tn
they may not be overshadowsd
bo matters of less Importance. II
strong opposition to our meaaur
"a by the Plutocrats evinced by /
IN means they bring to bear to defe
them, is proof positive Of their ltDp'
-, q lance to the welfare Of the countr
~ There are not wanting evidences
- the vile poison having infected sol
e6- quandam members OF our order.
as that every good citizen should raj
ed to the support of our just cause vi
on the hope of inducing The masses
acquaint themselves with its all
W. and objects, apparently the last no
Of our country.
to Because there are indiYiduaIs
ci+ the community who fear that If
shoul3 succeed, usurlous inter'
nO could not flow into tneir already p
so thorlc Golfers as formally, Is that q
ate reason VIII we should not make
en- faithful effort to prevent them fre
an absorbing, Octopus like, 1.-THE pTocee
OF the hard labor Of the wage earn.
and finally as we almost da
nd witness, gobhle ap the w
Oc- land itself? These with some man
,od facturers and those whom they C
40 induce to chime In with them CO
- pose the main body OF sucn Sou
", ern men who oppose the ALLAN
)ur and the sum and substance Of yo
an offending is your effort to la