The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1892-09-28

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walk off with the prize iii both
State and Federal elections,
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
il or honest one deny ii, that
the only probable, not to say
possible result of the Third
Ipartg movement in North Car
DINA this fall will be to elect a
full Republican State ticket
and to aid III the election Of a
Republican President and
House Of Representatives.
What is to be gained by that
result | need not ask. How the
reforms which they profess to
desireare to be obtained through
Republican success is some
thing which surpasses human
conjecture, No true friend Of
this Commonwealth, | am sure,
will contribute to this result.
1t is reported that a prominent
candidate on the ticket of The
Third party says he had rather
submit to negro or any other
kind Of rule taan such as we
have at present; but / am forced
to believe that if this be true
there are very few other white
men of Nor0h Carolina who are
outside of the penitentiary and
who ought to be outside, who
entertain sentiments so foul
and brutal. Our people know
that under Democr Itic rule they
have had good laws, low taxes,
economy, and purity in the adj
ADMINISTRATION of their affairs,
and hope and believe they
will not lightly risk its over.
throw by casting useless or
hopeless votes in November.
The class of our people who
have had greatest cause to COM
plain of vicious legislation is
the agricultural. The party
which has steadily resisted this,
and continually acclaimed
against it on the hustlngs and
have struggled manfully to re-
peal 1t in the halls of legisla-
zion, is the Democratic. You
will bear me witness that uare.
mittingly since l have been
your representative in the SEN
ate have both spoken and
voted against that unjust legis
lation. At home, as you know,
| never ceased to expose its in
Iequalities and to advise the
farmers to organize for resist.
ance to it. When they did be-
gin TO combine they had the
sympathy and good wishes OF
almost every just man in the
| United States who was not in
some way the recipient OF the
plumber arising from the abuse,
i Never was there a pOlitical
rlovement of our people found
| ed upon better grounds or more
reasonable complaint. But tina
WHICH I feared, and against
which | earnestly warned them
soon came to pass. Men who
mad little interest in agricul.
ture and mech interest in theii
own fortunes aspired to be it:
leaders. Often men who had
failed to obtain office from eth,
! er of the old political partie:
concluded to farm the farmers
: and raise personal crops Of hon
or and profit out of them. They
pressed to the front, thrust the
real farmers aside and involved
/ the Alliance i'm the widest and
most impracticable propositions
! ever heard of among sane men
and in defiance Of their consti
: tuition soon converted into g
. a mere political party composed
! Of the Disconnected and the dis
appointed elements Of society
! protesting fixed political prin
, ciples or regard for the COnsti,
= tuition of their country, but
, striving only to obtain the very
worst Of class Legislation, which
p is their sole idea Of statesman,
ship. Their proposition ia
| purchase and control all thC
, lines Of transportation and tele
graph in the United States al
the expense Of many billions oi
dollars, and of refunding to the
soldiers the difference between
paper and gold at the date Of
payment. at least a billion more,
Of loaning people money ON
real estate at lower rates OF
, interest than the market rates,
and kindred schemes, ore 80
pFeposteF0us that to argue
them seriously is G slander upon
our civilization: and the ady0-
cacy Of such measures for the
hitherto most conservative Gle.
iuent Of our society is a Motif
cation 70 all the world that we
are approaching that stage Of
denag0gism and communism
which mark a people as unfit
| for self government.
| Ny unfaltering confidence IL
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