The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1892-06-08
TIE THIRD PARTY.
The Question Of Back-Pensions to Union
Soldiers.
"The tangled web We weave
When We practice to deceive"

II ne lduSleO HeU we weave
When We practice to deceive"
w. F. Hill, the editor of the West
Inoreland, Kansas, Record, found that
in the South it is claimed that the SOL
dier resolution is not part Of the St.
Louis conference platform, and that no
party denounces the pensioning of
union soldiers more bitterly than does
the Alliance. In the North, none, ac-
cordlng to the statement of the ALI
ance men, are ready to do as much for
the soldier as they. So Editor Hill
used little strategy, which is thus de-
scribed in the issue of the Recorder for
May 18th:
THE THIRD PARTY TRICK EXPOSED.
"We concluded that we would ike
to know what Col. L. L. Polk had to
say on this question. A letter, dated
Goldsboro, North Carolina, written to
Colonel Polk, asking him whether the
resolution favoring making the pay of
Union soldiers received during the war
equal to gold was part of the st. Louis
conference platform. Later the post
master at Goidsboro was ordered by W.
F. Hill to forward his mail to this place.
Another letter was written from West
moreland, Kansas, asking Colonel Polk
fer the same information as the Colds
boro letter.
"The colonel answered the first letter
and referred the second to Doctor Nc
Laliin, editor of the Topeka Advocate.
Here are both letters in full, showing
how the so-called reformers work the
soldier racket in the South and the
North:
THE SOUTHERN EDITION OF THE ST.
LOUIS THIRD PARTY PLATFORM.
"WAsH1NGToN, D. c., April 5, 1872.
"Mr. Will T. Hill, Goldsboro, n. c.:
"My Dear Sir and Brother:-Reply-
ing to yours of the 21st ult., I beg to
assure you that there is no clause
in our platform for pensoining Urion
soldiers. It never has been there. It
is not one of our demands. Leading
Democratic papers all over the country
acknowledge their inability to meet our
issues when they have to resort to vii
Iainous and willful Misrepresentation
and lying. To show you to what great
lengths they will go in this direction,
the Atlanta Journal, few days ago in
long editorial, charged directly and
absolutely that the pension clause and
woman's suffrage clause were both in
our platform. On their part it seems
that the campaign is to be one of
evasion, Misrepresentation, personal
abuse and downright lying. If they
can afford it, we can. Just simply as
sert in reply to these charges that they
are lies from beginning to end.
THE desperation of their cause could
not be more fully demonstrated than
by the cowardly nd unmanly methods
they have adopted.
"But the people are going to be heard.
I pray God that they may have the
manliness and loyalty to staud un-
flinchingly by our principles. Write
me and keep me informed as to the sit
uation in your section of the State.
Would have written earlier but for the
enormous amount of work in my Of
flee.
"Yolrs truly and paternally,
L. L. POLK,
president n. F. A. & I. T."
THE NORTHWESTERN EDITION OF THE
ST. LOUIS THIRD PARTY PLAT
FORM.
"ToPEKA, KAN, May l, 1892.
"Mr. J. Mckee, Westmoreland, Kan
sas:
"Dear Sir:-Your letter of April q,
1892, to Colonel Polk, Washington, D.
G., has been referred to me for reply.
In answer will say, was secretary of
the committee on platform in the st.
Louis Convention. The resolution re-
lating to the payment of the difference
between the value of the money in
which the soldiers were paid and gold
was introduced by Confederate SOL
dier from Texas, and was unanimously
adopted, every southern as well as
northern delegate voting for it, just as
it appears in all the reform papers in
the country. There is no question about
this. I acted as secretary during the
whole session of the committee on de-
mands, and know whereof speak.
"Yours tculy,
rs. MCLALLIN."
A WESTERN EDITORS COMMENT ON
THE PARTY THAT FACES BOTH
WAYS.
The Recorder comments editorially
as follows on them:
"The above letters are fair samples Of
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