The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1892-03-15
THE BID FOB THE SOLDIER VOTE.
A question has been raised as ,o


whether the resolution to pay the
soldiers the difference between the
money they received and gold was
adopted at ST. Louis, and if so by
which body that was there assem-
bled. Inasmuch as the Industrial
Conference adjourned at 6:22 and
the Peoples party convention as
sembled at 6:25, it is not easy to |
ascertain exactly what was done by
each body. Mr. BUTLER thinks
that the resolution was not adopted
by the Industrial Conference, but
he is mistaken. He was . member
of the platform committee, and
knowing it was not in the platform
submitted and adopt I'd, he was not
cognizant of its passage.
What are the is cts7 The major
ity report of tie committee on
platform was submitted on the
| morning of Feb. Oath in the Indus
trial Conferenc. meeting. The con-
ference then took q recess until the
afternoon without voting upon the
report. They reassembled in the
| afternoon and then a minority re-
port was presented by Mrs. Will
| LARD, of the W. G.. T. o., demand
ing woman suffrage and prohibition.
The majority report was adopted,
and did not include the resolution
to pay the d ference between paper
money and gold to the Fede-
raj soldiers. But the very
next business transacted b, the
Industrial conference, and so re-
. corded in the National Economist,
two resolutions were introduced,
the first submitting the question Of
woman suffrage to the States, and
the second to pay the Federal
soldiers the difference between the
4 paper money they received and gQL
at the rate prevailing during the
war. Both these resolutions were
adopted, thus committing th'
farmers and lahorers who tool
part in that Conference to tn
monstrous and unjust proposition
which would take billions of dollar
to pay the 2,778,3O4 soldiers VIII
enlisted in the Federal army. w
know that North Carolina Alliance
men do not endorse this, the mos
corrupt and demoralizing bid eve
made by any party or body in tn
history Of the world for the soldier
vote. We take it that the reason
North Carolina's delegates did no
rise to their feet in indi ignant pro
test was because they did not under
stand it. We know that upon theil
return home they denied it,
passage, and did so truthful,
: so far as they knew. Mr.
BUTLER, as a member of the coin
! mittee on platform, secured the de
II feat of any such proposition in tn
committee, and was not cognizan
that such a resolution bad beer
: adopted. The only thing to do nov
is to repudiate it. It is not diff
cult to see why the author Of tn
resolution, ali emissary of the G. A
R.. desired its passage as q resolu
: Ition rather than as declaration IL
the platform. 1t was so that in tn
:. North the Third party men coul
:, declare that a vote for their par
"a ty meant a vote to pay larg
- bonus to the 2,778,3o4 soldiers VII
70 received paper money for their Sci
;. vices: and in the South the Thir
% party advocates could deny tia
- there was any such plank in th
"a platform. Both would be speakin
:. the literal truth, and the votes
>, both sections would thereby be s.
cured. But it would not work. II
&c triotic men, both North and Soutl
- will see through this miserable an
in contemplate trick, slipped in witt
out the knowledge Of the patriotl
delegates, and utterly repudlatc II
all tgo-fa ced party that thus starts Il
We existence by piece of duplicity an
not treasury looting unsurpassed IN tt