The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-01-05
THAT ADDRESS.
The Intent of it and the Result--Non-
Partisan to go Into Democratic,
but no Other Party.

he intent Oh IL ana the ReSuIC--No on
Partisan to go Into Democratic,
but no Other Party.
Mr.. EDrTOR:-I see in flaming head
lines III the Wilmington Star what
that paper is pleased to call joint ad-
dress of Democrats and Alliancemen.
That paper quotes the action of the
State Alliance Lecturer last week in
declaring that Alliancemen are not par
tisan, that it must steer clear of parties.
even if old parties or new parties adopt
the Alliance platform in toto. In other
words it must steer clear of the Repub-
lican or Peoples party, but it is not
nOn-partisan to issue a joint address
and affiliate with the Democratic party.
If there is any other object in this
address than to tie up the Alliance
sentiment of North Carolina so it can't
assert itself in 1892, the writer of
this article, life long Democrat, can't
see it. Ii that address is to be regarded
as an Alliance and Democratic address
jointly, then the Alliance should have
named it's five members of that com
mittee and not Mr.. Ed. Chambers
Smith or anybody else. Who delegated
any such authority to any body of
Alliancemen to do such work as that?
If the StnT and other partisan papers
puts the right construction on the
words of Alexander, Carr and others
of that committee, the writer of this
communication a county lecturer, as
before said a life long Democrat, a
Confederate soldier who took part in
the first and last fight of the war, an
Allianceman who thought we were
organized to promote principles and
measures and not parties and never
feels badly over it, He feels that pure,
non pOrtisan Allianceism has received
a dangerous stab at the hands of its
members He feels after having ridden
hundreds and hundreds Of miles with
his own conveyance and by rail and
never having received dollar for 1t,
if the rejoicings of the Star and other
papers that have fought us at every
step we have taken is right, then his
work and his effort is all in vain. We
do not object to the Allianceism that
crops out in that paper, but we object
to "partyizing" this movement which
inevitably leads to sectionalizing it. If
Alexander, Carr and others have a
right to do this sort of work with a set Of
Democratic politicians then Ben Glover
and Gerry Simpson have a right to do
the same work with a set of Kansas
Republicans, and when that is done,
the Topeka Capital, the Wilmington
Star and Nelcs and Observer will be
happy, for they will have accom- plished
exactly what they have been working
| for. l. e., to partyize and sectiOnalize
this movement, and the old saying Will
come in. eff so soon it is to be done
! for, the wonder is what it was begun
| for" But to be sure these brethren
cannot have intended it in the light it
appeared, in thelight the partisan press
regard it. If so, Allianceism in North
! Carolina will condemn it; if so, my
own Sub Alliance, every one of whom
always voted the Democratic ticket, is
ready to condemns. it overWhelmingly.
| The address states or implies that the
Democratic party must be kept in tact
in order to defeat future force bill.
| IF the party had been the only thing in
| the way that iniquitOus measure would
be a law of the land today. The Re
publicans had the President, had the
Senate and had the House. Senator
German gets the credit of doing more
| to defeat it than any other man. He
said the independent Alliance senti-
ment of the country defeated it. A
resolution from Democratic and Re
| publican AIlianCemen went up from
Ocala in opposition to it, and Plumb
Teller and other Republican Senators
in Difference to the feelings Of Re
| publican Alliance constituency voted
| with the Democrats and defeated it,
| and when you drive these Republican
Alliancemen back into partisOn Repub-
| licanism as this address is calculated
TO do, then Republican and Democratic
money power will resume its unim-
! NEEDED onward march
Fraternally,
J. NJ. CUTCHINs,
Lecturer Edgecombe County