The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1892-05-05
AN ALLIANCEmAN WRITES.
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Having been solicited" in &C
cOrdance with the vitws OF Col. l..
| l. Polk in his avowal in your paper
of the 10Th inst), come TO dlscarge
! the obligation resting upon me to
express my views, 'frankly aud
candidIY." and adopting his words,
say ''to my mind, my course IS clear
and my road Of duty plain. shali
putsne 1t without regard to con s.
quences to myself, personal, pOiItI-
cal or OF herwise No words could
express my sorrow, yea the deep
heartfelt unieIgued regret, that tx
i>tIng circumstances render 1t my
plain unmIStaKable duty to differ
with our leading officials, and since
do propose to give a few reasons
therefor.
" When | was asked to join the
Farmers Alliance, | was as ured
that it would never interfere with
my religious oil political rIg hts, and
when read in our Constitution, our
declaration of intentions, and saw
tnat all Of the principles embodied
therein were good. right, pure,
equitable and just, and that We re-
solved to work for them in 'StTict-
IS non partisan spirit, to develop a
better state, mentally, morally,
socially and financlally,' and that
the brightest jewels which it gar
ners were the tears of widows and
its imperative commands were to
visit the homes where lacerated
hearts are bleeding; to aSsuage the
sutferings of a brother or a sister,
thought there was much good 10 be
accomplished and no possible harm
therein, cast my lot with them,
and have done what | could for the
good of the order and for the Farm
et's Interest. 1t is true the South
ern farmers met tie " estern farm
ers at ST. Louis i'll 1889 and mu-
tually and sacredly pledged them
selves to stand by each other III the
great struggle for reform and for
Iuotice,' aud again at Ocala; and
made demands by which we agreed
to stand, (and right here | want to
say that the Democratic party en-
grated those Ocala demands in
their State platform, and that North
Carolina Democrats, Alliancemen
and On-liancemen have stood by
them with few EXCEPTIONS until
the St Louis conference met. The
I ol"uel says they met again at st.
Louis (aud there comes the trou0le).
" no met? Those same Southern
aud " eStern farmers alone? Nay.
verify, but "theS" with twelve other
CARNATIONS (who had TAO dele
gates and the Alliance sixty '.reit-
Grated these pledges and reaffirmed
their demands Is this true? Did
they adopt the Ocala demands
only? Had they only done this
there would be no trouble in the
Alliance TO-DAY and none between
A!Iiancemen and the Democratic
party J But didn't they leave out
the entire plank i'll regard to the
tariff? and didn't they demand
o" neI ship instead of coDtrol OF the
railroads? If they did these things,
tbeu they are net the demands OF
the southern and Western farmers
passed at Ocala; and if they did
net do these things, then the
ProqreSsiUe Farmer has misied me.
Again the st. Louis conference
passed resolution "Ibat the gov
eminent issue legal tender notes
and pay tie Union soldiers the diff
terence between the p!tce OF depIe-
clated money and gold.' The Ma
tlOnal Economist Says this IeSOiu-
ton was adopted as "A matter show
log tue sentiment of that body and
not tic part Of the PLATFORM" II
understand 1t, it was either to
Snow what they would do If they
had the lower, Or else it was
fraudulent hld tJI the Sol,iier>' 10 G.
There /. no C,.hceaIing the fac i sat
Some Of our leaders have en,ieay-
oTed lea throw the Alliance into the
/ hiid OF Peoples party. And every
Alliance man knows this is a viola
II of the Alliance constitution
which they have sworn 10 support.
Aud there is no authority iii the
United States constitution for the
government to puIcha~e the rails
lads, ani none 10 take them with
neither regard Gbe constitutions of
the UuIt,d States UuE OF the ALI
ance, l.! :" hat mas We expect you
GO be g0VtIUrd2 | regard the owner