The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1895-08-29
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CHARLOTTE, n e. Aug. "a
was . delegate to the North Carolips
State Farmer. AllIancs that net IN
the town o! Cary on Tuesday, tbs
18th. l took note. Aad bad fully
intended TO write up|the meeting.
the town. the good raiious; say
something about the ugly men. the
pretty women, &c but before I
could get my mind eowpos~d, the
cobwcbs out of my EYES aud my pen.
ell sharpened. everybody had written
NJ the whole hx aud had IL pub.
lished and in fact had stolen eli my
'hunder. The only thing left for mo
to say is that Gary furnished the
rations and quarters. and the Stat.
Alliance furnished 10 to ! appetit~s
without international agreement.
We were invited to attend the an
nuAl picnic Of Smith Greek Alliance.
IN Warren county. on the 10th. and
rs the State Alliance WAS not in that.
We have State right on that write
mp" and we will use it.
We left Cary at 1880 .. m. by the
S. A. l.. route; arrived at kidgeway
AT 2:3O p. IN.
From Raleigh to kidgeway ve
made eleven stops Five of the stop
ping places, io-wt: Wake Forest,
Franklinton. Kittrell, Henderson.
and Middleburg a.s nourishing
towns. The othGe SIX ws found Ia
be just wide places in the road. The
most of them have plenty Of land for
building a town but have not seen
proper to build up TO the present
writing.
Some of the land on the route ap-
pears to be good and fertile. Jadg-
ing from the growing crops, some Of
the land il too poor IL raise . row or
an umbrella on. In fact We saw
sOme land near Raleigh that is too
poor to make trick without using
fertilizer in the mud.
We were met at the depot at Ridge
way by that big-souled, warm
hearted, Christian gentleman. the
Hon. w. b. Fleming, president of
Warren County Alliance.
We found Ridgeway to be beau.
tifull little town, pretty much scat
tered. They mix their farming there
as badly AS the Democratic party
mix their politics, but they are much
more successful. They raise corn,
wheat, oats, cotton, tobacco, grapes,
dewberries, strawberries, b.Ackber-
ries. peaches, apples. &c.
Friday morning. the 10th, in COM
pxDy with Maj. Fleming and his
family, We were driven to the picnic
grounds, about two and oue-half
miles distant. Smith Creek Al
lance owns four acres of land and
has erected a building on it for Al
nance purposes. They meet once .
year, between the 10th and 2Osh of
August, hold a regular Alliance love
feast, aid Judging from some things
we saw with our on eye closed,
there was some, "sure enough" love
feasts ut that days meeting. Nc
makeshift about it; and l will say ]
don't think the boys could help il.
A young man wlo could stand oh
and not offer to talk to young girls
who were as pretty As May, deservei
to be severely punished. We came
very near saying that he should be
made to join the Democratic party
or at least one branch of it-but W
still have some fellow feeling lef,
and will not say that.
Well, have gotten side-tracked
| l will say that this was their fourth
annual picnic and they always 30
lect some good looking man from ,
distance zach year to make q talk
hence our reason for being ava,
from our Office on this occasion.
At o'clock diuner was announced
The grove was dotted over will
tables, loaded with the best of food
melons. peaches, apples and grapes
and the crowd that surrounded IN,
tables was estimated at between 81.
and seven hundred. More thai
twelve basket full were taken up.
Among the prominent Alliance
men we had the pleasure Of meetinl
were Bros. X. +. Rose, G. II. Flem
ing. H. B. Hunter, Rev. L. C
Perkinson, J. H. Mayfield and man
others. We have never seen bette
order. We will go this lone better
and say we never have seen as goo
order where such . crowd was te
gether.
We forgot to say that Bro. job
Graham, the newly elected vIcs
president of the State Alliance. is
citizen of Ridgeway and is at th
head of a high scnool in that tow
May the shadow of the citizens Z
Warren county never grow less.
At the last election in Ware
county modern Democracy was en-.
in it,"
, At the next election they will q,
black the board They will not ha,
, any more showing than . hare-lipps
. how at n whis, limo mafeh ov n m Il