The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-05-02

fuses to publish such official communi-
| cation i6 ceases to perform its func
tions. The Economist published a gar
bled report of the proceedings of the
Supreme Council at Memphis, and re-
fused to publish a letter of the secre-
tary correcting the same. Since the
Memphis meeting, and previous to the
meeting of the Executive Committee,
1t refused to publish two official com
m~unlcations of mine, for the following
reasons:
The fifth whereas" refers to two let
tiers sent by President Loucks person
ally to the press from Huron, South
Dakota, before the meeting of the
board in Washington. They were not
published in the Economist for three
reasons: First. We did not suppose
them official because they were simply
gosslpy news letters which received
publication only because the writer
was President of the Alliance Second.
Being mailed from Huron. South Da-
kota, to all papers at the same time
they appeared in all the Western and
Southern papers about the time they
were received here, and had we pub
llshed them they would have been an
Gent history by the time they reached
our readers. Third. Both the letters
contained false and insulting matter as
to the editor of the Economist. He
evidently wrote one for the express
purpose of saying that the editor be-
lOnged to Gideon's band, and the other
to Intimate that the editor withdrew
from the contest at Memphis on &C
count of disappointed ambition, which
he knew to befalse. Economist, March
18th.
In this the doctor furnishes the very
best of reasons for making the change.
If to be placed on an equal footing with
other Alliance papers make it 'ancient
history" for the less enterprising or less
willing to publish, was it not high time
to withdraw the special privilege?
More, tie autOcrat of the official organ
whilst declaring it to be his duty to
publish oil official communications,
good or bod, reserved to himself the
right Ghd prGctjced 1T of mutilating
and garbling the official communica-
tiOns, Or rejecting them athis pleasure.
If they were ''strictly non partisan"
that is strongly democratic it was his
duty to publish them promptly on re
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ing to enable him to insert as a supple
ment. The doctor says that Both the
letters contained false and insulting
matter as to the editor of the Econ
OmiSt." 1 deny and dare him to quote
such paragraphs.
The Supreme Council had said 1.-The
time has arrived when all Alliance pa
pers should be put on the same foot,
ing" I obeyed 50 far as I could by
sending advance slips to all the ALI,
ance organs so far as I had the list. He
admits this, but the fact of placing all
on ''the same footing" was very dis
tasteful to the good doctor who just
dotes On equal rights to all and spe
cial privileges to none" except himself
Or the Economist. That the doctor
withdrew from the Alliance at Mem,
phis because of disappointed ambition
is not only false but painfully true.
He knew all that he complains of at
that meeting when after posing for
support several times when the time
for election of officers was at hand on
a personal matter he posed once more
and with tears in his eyes, his voice
full Of quavers, and his manly bosom
heaving tempestucusly, he appealed
for support asserting that it was "a
case Of life or death for him." Not for
the order mind you, not for the cause,
but for him personally. 1t was we'll
understood before he left Washington
that he was to capture the presidency
If possible and side track the Alliance
on non-political, co operative work
it might not in future interfere
with Democratic supremacy in the
South. Failing in that, he was to split
Alliance on sectional lines. He is
to deliver the goods but will fail
n his contract. The doctor dwells with
great deal of JUNCTION on "the honor
If the Alliance and the interest of jus
ice" his idea of the same being an an :
lual whitewash of DR.. Macune. The
honor of the Alliance demands the ex-
of traitors. The order was
aved the trouble in one instance by
he doctors withdrawal. =
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