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

is no concealing the fact that some
of our leaders have endeavorcd to
throw the Alliance into the third
or peoples party. And every ALL
liancemen knows this is a violation
of the Alliance constitution which
they have sworn TO support. Aud
there is no authority in the United
States constitution for the govern
ment to purchase the railroads,
and none to take them without
paying for them, If then you
neither regard the constitution of
the United States nor of the Alli~
ance, by what may we expect you
to be governed? | regard the owner
ship of railroads as impracticable,
and if insisted on it will prove a
burden to the Alliance.
consider myself pledged to work
for a better state mentally, morally,
socially and financially" and to do
so with equity and justice; and I
cannot under this pledge vote to
take the property of any individual
or class Of citizens of tie United
States against their wishes, and at
the same time involve the govern
ment in a debt of ten or twelve bill
lions of dollars, a debt which I fear
our children's children will never
see paid. MOI did I think it equit-
able or just, or consistent with Alli-
ance principles, to pay the Union
col11oro +ho IifforaDoa ha4uaor
g~reenbacks and gold, and not pay
the men who fed them, clothed
them, shod them, armed them, fur
nishcd them the medicine to heal
their wounds, or the labor that made
the power and bullets with which
they fought, the blankets under
which they slept, and many other
things too numerous to mention,
winding up with the claims of those
who furnished the transportation.
If that was not a sectional resolu-
ton [ confess [ wouldn't know low
to write one that would be. I am will
ling to be taxed to pay all just United
States pensions for disabled soldiers,
but 1 will not be willingly blind
folded and led by a party that pro-
poses to pay such claims twenty
seven years after the parties have
been paid once in full and legal ten
der q. S. Treasury notes. If I did,
which God rorbid; when [, in ODE
dience to one of the most impera-
tive commands of our Alliance con-
stitution, visited those widows whose
"tears are the brightest jewels we
garner" and those Southern homes
where lacerated hearts are bleeding,
many Of whose inmates are suffer
ing, crying and almost starving for
the ne-cessaries of life, and told
them I voted to tax the little they
have left for such purposes, do you
think they would feel that [ was
trying as a brother to assuage their
sufferings? Nay, but they would
rightly say you are hooking US, and
making our miserable condition
worse.
Now I will not charge any one
with dishonesty, or impure motives,
or question his fidelity, that may
differ with me. Harsh aud angry
words but widen and breach, and if
we are brother Democrats in or out
of the Alliance, we are but furnish
ing our common enemy with weapons
to fight us by de%nouncing each
other. You all know it will be ruin
Gus to turn the State over to Re
publicans. With all the other at
tendant evils, don't you think Mr..
Morton with his fifteen millions OF
n. G. bonds could control a legisla-
ture composed of the party who
created them and again revive them
and put us in bondage: Let Is moi
lump out of the frying pan into the
fire. 1 know not what others may
d., but this is my resolution. To
, go as / have done for many years
into the Democratic primaries anc
the convention, if a delegate. Stan6
squarely on the Ocala demands al
endorsed by the Alliance and Dem
!, ocratic party, and work for them
and support the nominees Of sale
convention; and thus will [ be act
/ ing consistency with my Alliance
friends, my Democratic friends
working for the best interests of m,
country, with a clear conscience and
, the approval of my God.
, P. G. ALsToN, JR.
Buckhorn Alliance All Right.
Chatham Record.
Buckhorn Alliance, No. 1872, il
session April %, 1892, adopted thu
following resolutions:
RESOLVED, LIST. That we do oppos
g the st. Louis platform in regard t.
the government owning and opera