The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1892-06-17
PRETTY TOUGH.

hibited at the court house thursday. IL
was indeed a sublime spectacle-the diff
ferent delegations in their collective stu
pidity. Those men representing the
alliance party, just n brief month be-
fore met in the same building and de-
manded that Hon. A. H. A. WILLIAMS
pledge himself to support certain planks
in the St. Louis platform. These planks
referred to finance and railroads and
some other matters which the calamity
howlers deem important. If WILLIAMS
accepts these principles of ours as his
principles, said these alliance men i'm
pliedly, expressly and specifically, then
WILLIAMS is our man and the alliance
will rally to his support. We believe
him honest.
That is what they said, though in
different language yet in words as en-
phatic and of the same import. Will
LIAMs returned to his seat in congress,
after receiving the congratulations of
his friends and hearing with satisfaction
the generally expressed belief that he
would be reelected.
But what did these fellows who pirate
about the dishonesty of other parties do
They called another convention from
this fifth district for the ostensible pur-
pose of electing delegates to the Omaha
convention. In the call which the world
read there was no intimatiOn that an
other man wouldb nominated for con-
gress to defeat WILLIAMS. But very
adroitly the call embodied a sentence
which is always tackled to the tail end OF
similar calls to the effect that the con-
vention was called to transact such other
business as might be deemed desirable.
And then when the other business was
finished up jumps a calamity bowler and
yells for a congressman. WILLIAMS
will not do. The same men who boosted
a month ago that they got all they asked
for; who laughed to know that they had
frightened democracy until it trembled
through and through and told them if
they didn't see all they wanted to ask
for it and it should be given, ~repudiated
their own acts, became contradictory
and seemed to care nothing of what they
had promised WILLIAMS. They were
bent on sowing seeds of dissension they
proposed and did make it possible to de-
feat democracy and by LINDLEY's nomi-
nation WILLIAMS is already defeated and
the result is tO be that Tom SETTLE, of
Rockingham will be one to help in the
next congress-and he is a republican.
That is what the third party has done in
this district and all admit that it has
played smash with the democratic party.
While THE GLOBE has no politics and
reserves the right to an opinion, it must
be admitted by all that such double,deal-
ing and such hypocrisy and such abso-
lutte betrayal as the records of that yes
terday's meeting show, has not its parallel
in the history of North Carolina politics.
The third party is a party of wreckers !;
a party of disappointed and ambitious Ones
who will betray the principles for which
their fathers fought-and merely for a
mess of potage only dreamed Of.
WILLIAMS or any other man will rep
resent us we'll enough. Individually we
do not care a tinker's lamb whether we
have a man in congress at all-but when
men who claim to see so much corruption
and chicanerY in other parties as these
fellows composing the third party, come
out boldly and defiantly and ~repudiate
their own acts; give the lie to what they
officially did a month ago and capture a
convention without issuing a call-well,
it is time that people generally looked
about them and wondered if there was
any political honesty in any party.
But no matter Let the great world
spin forever down the changing grooves
of time.