The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-08-16

Committee; Elias Carr, twice President
of the State Alliance, and now Chair
man of the Judiciary Committee; r,
j. Powell, Chairman of the State All
ance Legislative Committee, and J, +.
Young, of johnson county, member of
the same committee; E. @. Bedding
field, twice Secretary of the State Ali
ance; Senator N. M. Culbreth. of
Columbus, member of the State ALI
ance Judiciary Committee and Alliance
Lecturer for 9th Congressional district;
Senator j. S. Bell, of Clay, State Lee
turer for 1912; ]. S. John on of
Rockingham, member of the Alliance
State Executive Committee; Hon. A.
Leazar, member of the State Alliance
Judiciary Committee; Mr.. J. B. Hol,
man, of Iredell, twice President of his
County ALI lnce; Capt. w. E. Ardrev.
r. A. Grier and five hundred more
good Alliancemen in Mecklenburg
county ex-senator Wiley w. Farmer.
Representative Nathan Bass, WILEY
Barnes and most of the good Alliance
men in Wilson county David Alexan-
der, representative from Tyrrell, A. D.
McGill, representative from Cumber-
land; Messrs. Sorrell, Merritt, Clark,
Page, Allen and a majority of the ALI
ancemen in Wake; Hon. A. H. A. Will
Iiams, member of Congress from the
Fifth district; Hon. w. A. B. Branch.
member of Congress from the First
district; Hon. B. f. Grady, member of
Congress from the Third district; P. G.
Aston, Jr., Matthew S. Davis and
hundreds of Alliancemen in Franklin:
A. Fl. Merritt, Edwin w. Atwater, and
many other Alliancemen in Chatham;
Jno. @. Scarborough, of Johnson; w.
W. Long, of Warren; M. l.. Wood, of
BERTHE; w. j. Rogers and r FL. Stan
Gill, of Northampton, and thousands of
others, whose names | do not give be-
cause it would take up too much of
your space.
If these are good Alliancemen, then
[ am a friend to the Alliance. l defy
my sharp critic to quote a single word
uttered by me in regard to the proper
policy of the Alliance that is not en-
dOrsed by these gentlemen. If I am
an assassin, so r they. If they are
true, so am l. l am proud to stand or
fall with them. If S. II. Arp desires
to drive all such men from the ALI
ance, it is possible he may succeed by
slandering them as he has slandered
out, the Alliance will lose the men
NLOLl4 IL LCGO u OAOUCu lllOOUs Ollu bll0 ulGll
it needs at the helm to-day if the ALI
ance craft is not destroyed. If S. Fl.
Arp desires to drive away the help and
sympathy of all men, not eligible to
membership, but who have sought to
advance it's real principles in "a
strictly non partisan sense" he may
do so, but in the contests for real re
forms in which good men will be en-
gagged, their help will be sadly needed.
So far as | am concerned, his attack
upon me $50 slanderOus and so false as
to react upon HIM shall neither make
me lose faith in the honest men with
whom l have been battling for reforms
since | became an editor in 1880, nor
shall it deter me from performing my
duty In uttering a word of warning to
those who T in danger of being de
ceived by S. Fl. Arp. | have the au
thOrity of Mr.. VIM S. Barnes, Secre
tary of the State Alliance, for believ-
ing that whenever partisan politics has
entered the Alliance, it's influence has
been weakened and it's membership re,
duced. Such is the testimony of every
State Secretary the State Alliance has
had since its organization. .
The attempted attack on me as State
Printer is too silly to merit notice. l
was elected State Printer in 1887 before
the Alliance existed. [ was reelected
in 1889 when the Alliance was begin
to grow strong. [ was re elected
in 1891 when the Democratic Alliance
men had a majority in the Legislature.
When | was a candidate in 1887 and
1889, Col L. L. Polk gave me his en-
dorsement and assistance, as did the
other leading Democrats of the State.
When l was re elected in 1891 I lad
the active support of Mr.. Marion But
Ter, President of the State Alliance,
and received the vote of every mem
Der of the Legislature, except the Re-
publicans, and numbered as my sup
pOrters every Allianceman In that body !
and every member who was not an
not in the State. | think he took no
part whatever in the contest. but after
my election he congratulated me upon
the victory I had won. If my election
was wrong, not only was the election
wrong of every State Printer that pre-
coded me, buG also the wrong was done !
by Alliancemen and non-Alliancemen
alike, for it is a fact that I can prove
thHt there has not been o. session of the |
since 1885 IUhen o. bid aUus
not made to do the 1UOrE cheaper tbon
the price faced by lauO. There never
will be time There are ten thousand
L the State to day who would
agree to be Governor for less than the
allowed by law.
1t is utterly and wantonIy false to
say that l am, have been, or desire to |
be the organ of the Alliance. l publish
a weekly paper for the advocacy of
such principles as I believe to be best
for our people. I commend those prin-
to my readers by appeals to rea-
son ana by open argument, and l have
confidence IN the ultimate triumph of
those principles: If any farmers, or
with me to secur the blessings of good