Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1892-09-15

an Eaves' victory.
G. w. Sannderlm Says He Didn'r
Use the Language Ascribed to Him.
Progressive Farmer.
Mr.. Editor:-In your issue of this
week (Sept. 6th) you assail me for
entering the campaign as a Demo
cratic speaker, and in order that you
may break the force of my influence
you. ascribe to me words I never ut
tered, and represent a condition at
the time of delivery of my address
before the Wake county Alliance
that did not obtain
LIST. The address i'll question was
not delivered Sin a recent meeting Of
Wake County Alliance" if by that
Is meant a meeting with closed doors
as some Of your readers say you in
tend to imply. The address was a
public one, made on a public occa-
sion, to which the public were gen
orally invited, and they did me the
honor to attend in large numbers.
2nd. The people present to hear
me will remember that I used manu-
script in the delivery of my address.
I did this in order to be able to pro
tect myself against such misrepre
sentations as appear in your article
This manuscript 1 still have IN pos
session and it Is open to inspection.
In it the sentiment does not appear
that is attributed to me in your
editorial, namely: Brethren, your
hands are crossed and tied. If you
do not stand firm upon your platform
and vote to have your principles en-
acted into law, your feet will also
be ted. In the connection to which
reference here is evidently made in
your article 1 was urging the neces-
sity in farmers preserving their or
ganization as a means of promo
ton and protection of their best
interests against the capilistic
combinations and unjust legis-
lation directed against them.
did not want the Alliance Oryanisa-
ton to go down. l said: SIN ad-
dressing you us Alliancemen, [ do
not mean to address you as members
of the Alliance as a political organi-
Zation. In that matter [ would say
Put the Alliance back where it was
or it will disintegrate and die. Let
the mission of the Alliance be edu-
catioral, leaving the educated con-
science of its constituency to con-
strain and direct their voting rather
than the use of a political restraint
of any sort. Let the mission of the
Alliance be like that illustrated in
the Persian fable where a man walk
ling along the road picks up d lump
Eof clay and finds it fragrant.
|"Whence, o, lump of clay, do you
derive your fragrance ," he asked.
/" I have been lying close to the Rose
of Sharon %, said the lump of clay,
sand have been sweetened by it's
presence and influence" So let the
Alliance, with the pure principles
and aims it set out with, lie close to
every class, every profession, every
interest, not to injure them, butte
sweeten them with the gracious per-
fume-of it's influence. It is a noble
organization, capable of SO much
good if kept true to its original aims
and purposes. Let us keep it there, I"
ETC., etc. It is a far different thing
to urge the maintenance of organaza.
ton and such a course as this for
the Alliance Gas / have always done)
than to urge that it becomes a parti-
san organization, as / would have
been doing if I had used the words
ascribed to me in your editorial.
With sentiments of personal regard,
Sincerely yours,
e.. w. SANDERLIN.
Miss Antique. You ought to get
married, Mr.. Oldchapp.
MI. Oldchapp Earnestly.
have wished many times lately that
I had q wife.
Miss Antique (delighted). Have
you, reallya
Mr.. Oldchapp. Yes. If I had a
wife shed probably have a sewing
machine, and the sewing machine,
would have an oil can, and I could
take it and oil my Office chair. It
squeaks horribly.-N. Y. Weekly.