The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1892-09-29

and wished, being without the Senate
and Executive, they claim the only
chance for reform is to vote for the
candidates of the Third party, whose
existence in the national government
and power to control legislation are
evidenced by three or four members of
the House of Representatives and two
in the Senate! Common sense and
Self-preServatiOn would seem to die
tate that we should help the Demo-
Gratis, who are almost in power, to get
altogether in power, and trust them
to correct abuses as they have promis-
ed One strong pull at the polls in
November next would give them con-
troll of both branches of Congress and
the Executive, and the long night of
misrule and Injustice would burst into
the dawn of z new and better day. 1t
would be time to leave them and form
new party when they had been tried
and had proved faithless.
But the leaders of this new party,
falsely called the Peoples, insist that
you shall abandon the Democratic
party now and vote with them. | am
grieved to know that there are quite
number of our fellOw-citiZenS in North
Carolina who propose to follow that
advice. 1t strikes me as the very ex-
treme of unwisdom, and when done
with a full knowledge of the conSe-
quenceS it ceases to be mere folly and
becomes crime. For whatever may
be the hopes or the wishes of these
men, they know as well as they know
of their own existence, that this party
has not only no chance of electing
their candidates at the polls. but also
none of throwing the election into the
House of Representatives, about
which they appear to be most san
guine. Let no man be deceived about
Il Ell Il, i..l,r
be cast for Weaver in this State, be it
as large as they can honestly claim,
cannot wreSt the electoral vote from
both Cleveland and Harrison, so as to
help throw the choice into the House.
1t is absurd to hope so. But thirty
Thousand (30,0O0) votes taken from
Cleveland and given to Weaver will
throw the vote not indeed into Dem
| ocratic House, but into the hands of
Harrison. This result was so plain
that the Republican leaders, notwitE
standing their professions to the con-
trary, determined to not let slip the
| opportunity, and they are now ready
| with full tickets and a complete or
ganiZation to avail themselves of ev
erything which the dissension and
| folly of our people may throw into their
laps. Their promises to run no State
| ticket were manifestly made with the
q y
| ticket into the field, trusting that
| when men get hot and bad blood pre-
vailed they might walk off with the
prize in both State and Federal cleo
| tions. Alas! that want of reflection
| or patriotism should render this
| scheme a probable success. Indeed,
[ it is so plain that no Intelligent man
| can fail to see it or honest one deny
| it, that the only probable, not to say
possible, result of the Third party
movement in North Carolina this fall
| will be to elect full Republican State
| ticket and to aid in the election of a
Republican President and House Of
| Representatives. What is to be gain
ed by that result l need not ask. How
the reforms which they profess to de-
sire are to be obtained through Re
| publican success is something which
| SurpaSSeS human cOnjuncture. No
/ true friend of this commonwealth, /
am sure, will contribute to this result.
| 1t is reported that prominent candi-
| date on the ticket of the Third party
] says he had rather submit to negro or
| any other kind of rule than such as
we have at present: but l am forced to
believe that if this be true, there are
| very few otherwhite men of North Car
Olina who are outside of the Peniten-
| tiary and who ought to be outside,
who entertain sentiments so foul and
| brutal. Our people know that under
| Democratic rule they have had gOJd
| laws, low taxes, economy, and purity
| in the administration of their affairs,
| and / hope and believe they will not
| lightly risk it's overthrow by casting
/! useless or hopeless votes in November.
| The class of our people who have
had greatest cause to complain of
| vicious legislation is the agricultural.
/ Fhn rfu hi oh hnc or lu ic4a n
| this, and continually declaimed
| against it on the hustings and have
| struggled manfully to repeal it in the
halls offlegislation, is the Democratic.
| You will bear me witness that unre-
| mittingly since have been your rep
| reSentative in the Senate / have both
spoken and voted against that unjust
legislation. At home, as you know, i
| never ceased to expose it's inequalities
and to advise the farmers to organize
for resistance to it. When they did
begin to combine they had the sympa-
thy and good wishes of almost every
Just man in the United States who
| was not in some way the recipient OF
the plunder arising from this abuse.
Never was. there a political move
ment of our people founded upon bet
ter grounds or more reasonable COM
plaint. But that which feared, and
against whichn / earnestly warned
them, soon came to pass. Men who
had little interest in agriculture
and much interest in their own for
tunes aspired to be its leaders. Often
men who had failed to obtain office
from either of the old political parties
concluded to farm the farmers and
raise personal crops of honor and profit
out of them. They pressed to the
front, thrust the real farmers aside
and involved the Alliance in the wild.
est and most impracticable PROPOSE.
tions ever heard of among sane men
and in defiance of their constitution
soon converted it into mere political
party composed of the diScontented
and the disappointed elements of SO.
ciety, processing no fixed political
principles or regard for the COnStitu
tion of their country, but striving
only to obtain the very worst of class
legislation, which is their sole idea OF
craftsmanship. Their proposition to
purchase and control all the lines OF
transportation and telegraph in the
United States at the expense of many
billions of dollars, and of refunding te
the soldiers the difference between
paper and gold at the date of theil
payment, at least a billion more; ol
Ioaning people money on real estate al
lower rates of interest than the mar
ket rates, and kindred schemes, are Sc
prepoSterous that to argue them seri
ously is a slander upon our ciyiliza
tion; and the advocacy of such meas
ures for the hitherto most ,conserya
tive element of our society is a Motif
cation to all the world that we art
approaching that stage of demagogu
ism and communism which mark {
people as unfit for self-goyernment.
4 My unfaltering confidence is in thu