The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1893-02-02
COMMANDER VANDBRVOORF
This Distinguished Citizen and
Commander Chief Of The
Industrial Legion
Writes a Letter Of Acceptance
Which Burns With Patriotic
Fervor and Abeunds In
Wise Counsel for
Ref0rmers.
Hon. J. II. TURNER, Adjutant Geu'l:


Dear Sir and Brother Your official |
notice of my election as Commander |
n-Chief Industrial Legion of the |
United States received. / deem II |
proper TO state as yoa know, | was
aot present at the meeting at Mem
,his, and did not know such an or
Ter was to be organized. | am
assured that the Legion does not
interfere IN any way with any of the
industrial orders which have SO
grandly done their pat in educating
the people, but simply fills the long
felt want of supplying a compact
political body, in which all can unite
in one common creed and the only
test ofmembership to be loyaltyto the
platform of the peoples party. Ii /
deemed that we should in any way
conflict with any of the great indus
trial or labor organizations, / would
have nothing to do with it. We must
meet the combined money power of
the nation in a conflict, such as the
world has never witnessed and we
cannot do it without perfect or
ganization. We must in some way
weld INTO one strong potent, political
body all who sympathize with our
cause and win and educate the mass
es to proper sense of the condition
of the country and teach them that
the only way out is to overwhelm
the money kings at the ballot box.
The only secrecy surrounding the
order is simply enough to prevent the
enemy from finding out our plans.
| deem it my duty to accept the
position so cordially and unanimous
ly rendered and to pledge to the
unselfsh devoted workers who
founded the Legion my unfaltering
loyal support to the cause II
advocates. | realize the burden
thus imposed. The overwhelming
correspondence and the calls made
for me to come and organize dem
onstrates the fact. | can truly say
that | have made continua
sacrifice for the good of others anC
| pray that strength may be giver
me from the Giver of all Good t.
bear the burden. / will need th
hearty, undivided support of all tn
true, unselfsh members of our par
ty. The rank and file OF the pee
| pies party march so far in front an
! are so inspired by the holy caus
: they love that they need no leaders
No man is absolutely necessary /
: this movement. When our grear
l hearted, noble brother, Polk, fell i
:. battle for the right and perished
a martyr in our cause the ranks close
e up and moved forward with h
t precious name written on all OF
r hearts.
= WHEN.
vi When one firm regulates the valr
! of all cattle and hogs in the lam
y. when a sugar trust raises the prI'
e = at their will; when coal comblr
- adds,millions to the cost ofthat artlc
IL when the banks of New York al
1t Boston could break the banks
1t twenty-five states in day; when Il
IN price of wheat and cotton is made
it a foreign market and the value I
ot duced below the cost of producti'
Jv because cash contributed by ali
= lords demonetized the dollars of o
8 father; and organized labor is {
as sailed by the mailed hand of arroga
he power; when thousands of the vile
or horde of paupers reared in the mid
c. of the fostering vice and squa
ty misery in Europe are vomited on o
of shores to take the place, at starv
ton wages, of our honest, indepe
dent working men and women, a
Id the President, congress, and all t
governing power refuse to rig
he these wrongs.
bo TITS TINE.
it To band together in an orga1
or zation whose onward march will
of irresistible.
The defeat of the republican pa
tn I shows that a political revolution
nc pending. The tremendous vote pol
In, by the peoples party, aggregatl
Ia over million, makes a nucl
Iar Of men trained in the fight, who
ted be a band of missionaries carry
the torch of truth and preaching
gospel of deliverance to all the p
HE pie. / want to warn all that G
host who cast their ballots of b
rnt that they must be cautious IN Il
of work.
Some trade and traffic with
. enemy, fuse and confuse until
11i radiant sunlight of principle Is
'iu' in a struggle for place. We n
sill stand for truth if we would red,
be the people. Our cause is too sat
uch to be bartered away in a
rth struggle for Office, we should
nd s.sell our birthright for mes:
the pottage." am opposed to all
, of sion with either branch of
- - enemy. We have nothing in c
TOY mon with the controlling leaders
anu either party. Our conflict for
next foul years will be with
who party in-power. They will not
s73, their pledges and will be "weie
reat in the balance and found want
of by the thousands who voted
COR democratic ticket hoping for re
rod The republican party is crushe.
as the dust. 1t has accomplished
o5a mission and we must rise on
ue ruins of the democratic p;
the Where our people hold the bal
70 be of power as in California, Mon
store and elsewhere they should $
liver like our grand hero Taube
N at through all the storm, and .
rket surrendering his trust, but cast
go last ballot alone and went ou
o the conflict in the Ill. legisls
'o,n like the mail clad knight of old
'aine honor untarnished. Only thu
need clinging to principle can we 7
has tain the honor and glory OF
tparty and insure its final victol
We should stand for the right
ED. all Americans with a longing d
) too to preserve popular govern
1t it administered by the hands o
con- plain people to all our post
Ifl We should stand for the freedo
,raad our race from the despotls
European money sharks and