The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1892-08-11

alone, as the Farmer would have us
believe, feel the depressing effects OF
the low price of tobacco, cotton, &c,
and the consequent g hard times.
It is mean and unfair to try to array
the people in the country against the
towns in any such manner as this, and
no one who is the true friend Of the
farmers will do it.
JEROME DOWD, OF CHARLOTTE.
1t was conceded by every editor at
the Press Convention in Charlotte,
that Jerome Dowd was the right man
in the right place-as Chief locker
after and entertainer of the guests, and
his place seemed to be every where,
and he was there-at all times. We
knew Dowd could make good speech
at banquet and get up a fllst-class
paper, but other qualifications must
now be put down to his credit. We
agree with the Hickory Press and
Ca0Anian when it says:
Too much praise cannot be &C
corded Mr.. Jerome Dowd for the
manner in which he engineered the
convention through. His energy,
management and assiduous attentions
to the want. of all helped largely to
make the press convention the most
successful one ever held.
AN UNWARRANTED ATTACK.
In the Vance Farmer of last week
there was an editorial article attacking
Capt. w. b. Shaw Oh account of
speech made by him at the Demo-
cratic county convention on the 18th
of July. With the personal affairs of
either Capt Shaw or Mr.. Rowland we
have nothing to do, but as Demo
cratic newspaper the GOLD LEAF will
not permit such an unwarranted and
baseless assault upon ali honorable
gentleman and Democratic speaker to
pass unnoticed and unrebuked. The
cause of Capt. Shaw's offending was
his reference to the recent labor
troubles at Homestead, the foreign
element which has been cngrafted
upon society and the various Organl
cations under one name and another,
and the analogy drawn between these
and the St. Louis convention, saying
the Farmers Alliance was in the mi
nority there and that the meeting did
not truly represent the farmers of the
country.
We were out of town at the time
and did not hear the speech in ques-
ton, but numbers of intelligent, repu-
table gentlemen who did hear it tell
II, that Capt. Shaw said in effect that
he was heartily in sympathy with the
Farmers Alliance as he understood it..
He was raised on farm and was a
farmer himself and his feelings and
sympathies were with the farmers.
Many good men in the Alliance have
been betrayed by designing men into
the Third party. The St. Louis con-
vention was composed largely OF labor
unions and other organizations in the
North; and these are chiefly composed
| of foreigners, many Of whom are the
off sCourings of Germany, Ireland,
Russia and Hungary, who have en-
grated into the Northern society the
elements of anarchy, nihilism, COM
munsm, and other socialistic features
that have led to the recent disgraceful
and lamcntable affair at Homestead
| This the Vance Farmer pronounces
false, and then it INDUCES in a phil
ippic charging Capt. Shaw with saying
1.-THE St. Louis convention was compos-
ed of nihilsts, fenians, communists and
all other its, which we are assured are
not in strict keeping with the teach
ings of the 9th Commandment.
Capt. Shaw cast no reflection upon
the Farmers Alliance or the honest
tillers of the soil outside of it. If the
Creator has dealt with the editor of
the It0Nte Farmer in such an unkind
manner that he Is incapable of under
standing Alright, or if he is SO consti-
tuted by nature that he wilfully per
verts the truth after he has heard it,
! that is his own misfortune and not the
! Speakers