The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1891-1893, 1892-05-28
THIRD PARTY DUPLICITV.
Col. Polk Caught on Both Sides of tn,
Fence by Kansas Editor

Col. Polk Caught on Both Sides of the
Fence by Kansas Editor
Mr.. w. +. Hill, the editor of the
Westmoreland, Kansas, Recorder.
found that in the South it is claimed
that the soldier resolution is not a
part of the St. Louis conference plat
form, and that no party denounces
the pensioning of Union soldiers more
bitterly than does the alliance. In the
North, none, according to the state
ment OF alliance men, are ready,to do as
much for thes older as they. So editor
Hill used little strategy, which is
thus described in the issue of the Re-
corder for May 18th:
" We concluded that we would like
to know what Col. L. L. Polk had to
say On this question. A letter, dated
Goldsboro, North Carolina, was writ.
ten to Col. L. L. Polk, asking him
whether the resolution favoring max
ing the pay of the Union soldiers re-
cleved during the ware quail to gold was
part Of the St. Louis conference
platform. Later the postmaster at
Goldsboro was ordered by W. f. Hill
to forward his mail to this place. An
other letter was written from West.
moreland, Kansas, asking Col. Polk
tor the same information as the Colds
boro letter.
The Colonel answered the frs
letter and referred the second to DR.
McLallln, editor of the Topeka Advo
cate. Here are both letters in full
showing how the socalled reformer-
work the soldier racket in the South
and the North:
WASHINGTON, D. c., April 5, 1892
Mr.. Will T. Hill. Goldsboro. N. c.:
My Dear Sir and Bro:-Replying
to yours Of the 21st ult., / beg to
ass ure you that there is no clause in
our platform for pensioning Union
soldiers. 1t never has been there.
1t is not one Of our demands. Lead
ing democrat papers all over the coun-
try acknowledge their inability to
meet our issues when they have to ro-
sort to such villianous and willfull
misrepresentation and lying. To
show you to what great lengths they
will 60 in this direction, the Atlanta
Journal, few days ago in a long edi-
torial, charged directly and absolutely
that the pension clause and woman's
suffrage clause were both in our plat
form. On their part it seems that the
campaign is to be one of evasion, mis-
representation, personal abuse and
downright lying. If they can afford
it, we can. Just simply assert in re.
ply to these charges that they are lies
from beginning to end. The despera.
tion OF their cause could not be more
fully demonstrated than by the COW.
ardly and unmaniy methods they have
adopted. But people are going to
be heard, | pray God that they may
have the manliness and loyalty tc
stand unhinchingly by our principles
Write me and keep me informed as
to the situation in your section of the
State. Would have written earlier
but for the enormous amount of work
in my Office.
Yours Truly and Frat,
l.. l.. Polk.
President N. +. A. & |. L.
TOPEKA, Kansas, May 2, 1892
MIR. NJ. j. McGee, Westmoreland
Kansas.
Dear Sir:--Your letter of Anri
II, 1892 to Col. Polk, Washington
D. c., has been referred to me for re
ply. In answer l will say, ! was Sc
cretary of the committee on platform
in the St. Louis convention. The
resolution relating to the payment o
the difference between the value Of tn,
money in which the soldiers wer,
paid and gold was introduced by
Confederate soldier from Texas, an,
was unanimously adopted, ever,
Southern as well as Northern dele
gate voting for it, just as it appear
in all the reform papers in the coun
try. There is no question about this
| acted as a. secretary during tn
whole session of the committe
on demands, and know whereof
speak.
Yours Truly,
S. MCLALLIN.
The Recorder comments editoriall
as follows on them:
''The above letters are fair sample
Of the duplicity in politics practice
by the so called reformers. To sur
posed North Carolinian, Col. Pol
considers that to claim that pension
ing Union soldiers as one of the de
mands Of the St Louis conference i
'villainous and willful misrepresenta
tior and lying Col. Polk was chair
; man of that conference, and ought t
know what demands were adopted
In writing TO North Carolina,
claims with much enegry to know al
about it. A Northern man gets er
tirely different information from Dl
S. McLallin, who is most positive i
his assertions, because be was secrt
tary of the committee on platform