The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1893-04-27
RICHARD RAZOR
~ CkTkWBk AND ALEXANDER COUN.
TIES
He Attends The County Teciin. OF the
Alliance Aud Hears Br. Thompson
Talk.

10 all whom it NAV concern: This
is to inform You that ] attended tine
quarterly meeting of Catawba County
Alliance. We arrived at Catawba
station on the - in time for dinner.
We found II sub-A lliaEccs out of
the 10 they have in the county rep
/ resented and some Of them had a.
many as six delegates. If we had
gone there TO attend an Alliance
/ funeral we would have felt very lone
some. Every hing was peace aud
harmony. The committee on the
good Of the order read their report
Just after we went in, and when they
read the part of the report referring
to the Business Agency we thought
if we had been one of the million
dollar cranks that tried to destroy
the Business Agency and had had
any respect for our selves we would
have done like old Judas, gone out,
and not hanged ourselves but got Il
mules ancestor to kick us to death.
Mr.. A. G. Shuford made a short
speech and showed the importance
Of patronizing and keeping up the
Business Agency. We found that
the cowardly attempt to kill the AL
lance charter has strengthened the
Alliance in Catawba county. At
one O'Clock the Alliance adjourned
for dinner. We have no words at
our command to describe the dinner.
The evening was taken up offering
resolutions and appointing commit
tees. The work for Friday was all
put into the hand of committees and
instructed to report Friday morning.
At o'clock the visitors were all
assigned homes for the night.
J. f. Click Of the Hickory Mer-
curry and myself being the huDgriest
looking men in the crowd, were as
signed to men with large farms,
myself 10 j. b. Bridgers and Click
to Mr.. Sherrell. We can't tell how
Bro. Chick Jared only from what we
could see, he would not say, but we
noticed his coat and vest fit very
tight Friday morning and they were
loose on him Thursday. When he
left we noticed he was mighty free
to talk, was smoking a cigar and
acting like other people.
The Alliance was called to order
promptly at 9 o'clock by President
Sherrell, minutes of Friday read
and adopted. The different COM
mittees made their respective reports
as they were called on in their order
and committees were instructed to
find out as near as possible what
amount of money if any, would be
drawn from the Business Agency
fund. They reported there would
be but little if any, and it was re-
solved to replace any that might be
taken out at once. Other business
of minor Importance occupied the
time up to II o'clock, when dinner
was announced. About 200 of
Catawba's best citizens including a
good sprinkle of ladies assembled
around a table groaning under its
weight of good things. After an
hour of general good time it was
whispered about that DIR. Cy. Thomp-
son, the State Alliance Lecturer had
arrived and would lecture. The
Alliance assembled, the doors thrown
open to both saint and sinner. DR..
Thompson was introduced and spoke
for 3 hours and a half to a crowded
house, as many Of the unconverted
had come in, some of them were
very much disappointed, as they had
come, they said, to hear third party
speech, and the DR.. failed to give
them that kind, but he give them
Alliance doctrine. After speaking
was over the DR.. showed some SAM
Piles he had from the Business
Agency office and made short talk
on that line. The Alliance closed at
5 o'clock to meet in July.
Near Newton as the DR.. was going
to Taylorsville to speak on Saturday
and could not get off until 7 o'clock
he with Bro. Chick and your Scribe
were invited to take supper with
Bro. George Cansler, 1t was there we
found out why it was that Bro.
Click clothes fit so tight, and we
also found that the DR.. was at home
when seated at a good table as we'll
as on the platform, but he has not
learned how to eat Catawba county
horseradish; ask him about it and
see the tears come in his eyes. At
Z we bid good-by to Catawha and
boarded the train. AS the DIR. was
billed for a speech in Taylorsville
Saturday he prevailed on us to ac-
company him, with the understand
ing that if he needed singer l was
to DO the singing act. We arrived
at Taylorsville in due time. After
q good nights rest and a hot break
fast we began to mix among the
brethren who were coming in on
horse back mule back and some foot
back. At II o'clock quite crowd
was in the court house. The DIR.
gave them two hours. We suppose
his speech did not over Joy the hearts
of some that heard it but they
opened not their mouth. We met
one Of Alexander's best citizens in
the person of Bro. Norton the rep
resentatiye from that county. We
asked him about his board bill, he
Informed us that he had receipt
for the amount of his board bill
in his pocket. Alexander is in the
middle Of the road and will be found
their when called on. Bro. W. NJ.
league is putting in some good ALI
ance work and will continue to do so