The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1892-02-18
STRAIGHT TALK FROM A REPRESEE-
TATIVE MAN.

the Statesville Landmark and then
think minute and you will see TO
what straights the enemies of the AL
lance are put and the little game
they ale trying to play:
"The Landmark had an entertain
ing conversation, Tuesday, with J.
ID. Click, Esq, of Chambersburg
township, ex-member Of the legisla-
ture and now chairman of his town.
ship executive committee, in the
course Of which he said that the AL
lance, as it originally existed, COM
mended itself to him in all respects,
but that it has been entirely perver-
ted from its original objects and so
has left him. So long as it was
farmers association, designed to
alvanc" the interests of the farmers,
he was with it heart and soul, but
now that it has become q personal
machine which is being worked to
promote the political interests of
certain individuals, he has no SYM
pathy with its aims and is prepared
to say that it is doing the country,
and particularly the farmers, injury.
Squire Click is for the Iree coinage
of silver, and says that Cleveland's
attitude to this question is the only
objection the Alliance has to him,
and that after all he is not certain
that Cleveland does not know bet
ter than he does what is best for the
country. He has no stock whatever
in the sub treasury heme, and
says that the Democratic party and
old-fashioned Democratic principles
are good enough for him."
Now Squire Click may be a good
man, as good a man IS there is in
Iredell county, but we are sure OF
one thing, that he does not know
much about the Alliance, except
what he has learned from reading
the Landmark and papers of that
kind. In fact we are sure that he
does not know what the fight is
about. He says IF the Landmark
quotes him correctly that the
organization is simply "persOnal
" achine." Now we call upon him
and the Landmark to say whose
personal machine it is. This state
ment is SANDER upon thousands of
earnest, Intelligent, honest and hard
working citizens; and these same
farmers will pity his ignorance and
littleness when he says that the
organization is an injury to the far
mers themselves. He is repo, ted to
say tina! he is for the free coinage Of
silver, but his next statement shows
that he has Lot the courage of his
convictions, for he is willing to give
up what convictions he my have if
MIR. Cleveland says so. He says that
Cleveland's position on the silver
question is the only objection the
Alliance has to him. We don't be-
lieve :hat a man who expresses him
selfas Squire Click has Tor is re-
ported) can speak for the Alliance
Of Iredell county. But when he
says that he is opposed t. the Sub
Treasury, the Landmark is happy.
1t is that part of his statement that
makes his opinion valuable to that
paper. Well the number who are
opposed to that great fundamental
plank which is the remedy we offer
to correct the great evil of evils, is
80 small that the Landmark can
afford to give each one of them con.
siderable space. They are 50 scarce
that it is great price Of NEWS to
find one and the fact must be pub
llshed. The last state ment that
Squire Click is reported to have made
was "that old fashioned Democratic
principles are good enough for him."
is ridiculously amusing or ratherit is
sad. For it sounds like Squire Click
has a good heart and an honest
purpose, but shows that he has been
woefully mislead. 1t shows conclu-
sively, as We said in the beginning,
that he has never known what the
the fight for reform was about. II
the old fashioned Jeffersonian prin-
ciples of Democracy had not been
perverted, the Alliance would never
have come into existance. The AL
lance as it stands to. day is a pro-
test against the perversion of Dem-
ocracy. We challenge Squire Click,
the Landmark and all other oppo-
nents of reform to show O single
principle of Democracy as prOmul'
gated and advocated by Jeffersopian
that the Alliance (the so-called
"personal machinery does not en-
dorse and advocate. we pause fol
an answer to the challenge.
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