Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1892-05-05
Alliance Demands Reviewed

Alliance Demands Reviewed.
Correspondence News and Observer.
CENTREv1LLE, Franklin county, N.
O., April 26th.
Having been "solicited," Tin &C
cordance with the views of Col. l..
L. Polk in his avowal in your pa>
per Of the 10Th inst,) l come to dis
charge the obligation resting upon
me to express my views, cranky
and candidly," and adopting his
words; say 'sto my mind, my course
is clear and my road Of duty plain.
[ shall pursue it without regard to
consequences to myself, personal,
political or otherwise" No words
could express my sorrow, yea the
deep heartfelt unfeigned regret,
that existing circumstances render
it my plain unmistakable duty to
differ with our leading officials, and
since l do l propese to give a few
reasons therefor.
When | was asked to join the
Farmers Alliance, | was assured
that 1t would lever interfere with
my religious or political rights, and
y. hen l read in our Constitution
G r declaration of intentions, and
ST Y that all of the principles em-
b, lied therein were good, right,
p1; e, equitable and just, and that
we .esolved to work for them in a
est richly non partisan spirit, to de-
velop a better state, mentally,
morally, socially and financially"
and that the brightest jewels which
it gathers were the tears of widows
and its imperative commands were
to visit the homes where lacerated
hearts are bleeding; to aesuage the
sufffferings Of a brother or a sister, |
thought there was much good to be
accomplished and no possible harm
therein, | east my lot with them,
and have done what | could for the
good of the order and for the farm
er's interest. 1t is true the South
ern farmers met the Western farm
ers at St. Louis in 1889 ard mu-
tually and sacredly pledged them
selves to stand by each other in the
great struggle for reform and for
and again at Ocala; and
made demands by which we agreed
to stand, (and right here | want
to say that the Democratic party
engrafted those Ocala demands in
, their State platform, and that
North Carolina Democrats, Allie
aDcemen and nonliancemen have
stood by them with a few excep.
tions) until the St. Louis confer.
ence met. The Colonel says they
met again at St. Louis land there
comes the trouble). Who met
Those same Southern and Western
farmers alone? Nay verify, bu1
"they" with twelve other organiza
f tons (who had 74o delegates and
the Alliance sixty "reiterated
! these pledges and reaffirmed thei1
: demands" Is this true? Did they
|. adopt the Ocala demands only
: (Had they only done this there
would be no trouble in the ALI
ance to-day and none between
Alliancemen and the Democratic
party.) But didn't they leave on
the entire plank in regard to thu
tariff? and didn't they demant
ownership instead of control of thu
railroads! If they did these things
then they are not the demands o
the Southern and Western farmer
passed at Ocala; and if they did no
do these then the Progressive Far
mer has misled me.
Again, the St. Louis conference
passed a resolution 'tthat the gov
eminent issue legal tender note
!, and pay the Uniun soldiers the di1
ference between the price of depre
ciated money and gold" The Va
tional Economist says this resolu
ton was adopted as a matter show
ling the sentiment of that body an
not as a part of the platform" If
understand it, it was either to sho'
that they would do if they had tn
,owor or ol,o # was a fran0u1ou