The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1893-03-09
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three Senators of the ! party. and
Senator Atwater advocated IL IN the
committee before il was reported TO
, the Senate. IL is therefore a meas
ure acceptable and endorsed by Al
liancemen in all parties.
We do not doubt that attempts
will be made TO work up prejudice
against the Democratic party be
cause of this measure and the cry
will be heard "You are prosecuting
the Alliance" This will be the plea
of those who would pose as martyl =
: before the people. But unhappily
for such demegogues, the wind has
been taken out of their sails. When
ever they criticize the Democratic
party for this measure, they criticize
the leaders of their own party who
! in the Senate were its strongest de
fendeIs.
We think the matter has been
happily ana justly settled, and we
congratulate the General Assembly
upon its wise and conservative ac-
ton
We were not in Raleigh when the
amendments were prepared and
passed and have not been there since,
but from the corl espondence before
us, we brand the above as untrue.
The paper that sets itself up to say
who are demagogues and who are
not, should first be capable of telling
the truth, whether it suits its parti-
san purpose or not. The crime Of
Ananias Is almost as bad as the sin
Of demagoguery.
Senator AtWater a member Of the
committee was opposed to the amend
ments but notice was served on him
| that if he refused to sign the report
of the committee recommending the |
amendments to the Legislature, that
they would recommend that the en-
tire charter be repealed. This was
pretty piece of bull-dozing fol- a
Legislative body. Under these cir
cumstances Senator Atwater seeing
that we were in the hands of men
who had no regard for justice,
thought it was better to take the
amendments than to lose the char
ter. But IN this Senator Atwater
was mistaken. Men who play the
bully and stoOp to mean underhanded
acts are always towards. Unless the
Legislature was made up of fools it
would not have dared to repeal the
charter after we had offered to do eve I
/ ything that was fair or even asked
The fact is the Legislature found out
that it was in hole and had come
near buttlng it's political brains I
out. They could not repeal the
charter without committing politi-
cal suicide, and if they simply ac-
cepted the two amendments which
we offered in the present charter,
they failed to accomplish their pur- '
pose, which was to cripple and f. S
nally kill the Alliance. So they v
Matched up some more amendments, '
and thought if they could get the c
of the Alliance men, {
bers that that would save them. So !
they commenced their bull-dozing to
accomplish this purpose. Senator
should have defed them
and dared them to repeal the char
5er. For what they did do was mean
'r than if they had repealed the
charter outright. The Chronicle
ays that the amendments are ac- 1
'eptable to Alliancemen in all par /
les" We dare the Carolinian to I
lame one Alliancemen who has not r
leselted the demands of the organ .
eaton, that the amendments are O
to. Name one.
The Carolinian further says that o
here are some Eho will try to pose 6
IS martyrs and work up prejudice
gainst the Democratic party. If
h ere were any who would be dis
'osed to play this role, it will not be
necessary, for a simple statement of d
he facts is enough to damn the &C n
ION OF the Legislature in the eyes .
# all honest and fair-minded people. =,
IS to the remainder of the above
Tipping We will comment later.
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