The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-05-26

Ma Dear Senator MeorbOOrne:
Your letter in THE PROGRESSIVE
FARMER of the 12"h inst. is noted, and
in reply thereto l offer the following
editorial clipped from the April Let,
1892 issue of the Agricultural Bee for
your edlficatiOn and others who are like
you Sd persistent for coalition in North
Carolina in 1896. What l then wrote
in reference to coalition, with your,
then desirable Democratic wing ma
chine, is equally as true to day with
regard to fusion with your new allies
The retormers of North Carolina
! have been invited to remain in the
! Democratic camp to secure relief, and
when a certain element among the lead
ership do b gin to s2ape cher sails SO
as 70 accept TIE invitation and capture
the conventions upon the st. Louis d.
mauds, they are met by a ready set
trap to defeat the accomplishment Of
any possible good TO the pain people
| by such coalition and If those leaders
persist in their suicidal policy, they
evidently do it with their eyes open
aud without any real hope of success,
except in coalition, and they deserve
all that may follow their eeuseless
course Of procedure; the people should
sec TO il that they are alone III their IN
! wise p0licy-the bare ida, that in
North Carolina l should be q Demo
crat, and elsewhere q Peoples party
man, that is to say, my politics would
have to be determined not by any fixed
| principles but rather by my location
this of itself should make any sane man
resent any efyrt that would so place
MIN on question Of party. II DlmOc-
racy is good enough for me in North
Carolina it is good enough for me
throughout the United States, on the
other hand If it is not good enough il
National issues and the Peoples party
is, then the Peoples party is good
enough for me in North Carolina also,
and friends, there is where every hon
est reformer who will use his brains
will get before the election comes in
the fall. Think OF capturing and re
forming any party on (new) principles
which repUdiate, with a fractional part
Of the same crowd who as a whole have
been working along that line to reform,
for every thirty years, a party run by
New England politicians against the
industrial interest Of the South and
West, and in the interest Of the money
rings Of New England is ridiculously
simple indeed to my mind. To those
who are honest in their idea of reform,
and true to the principle ag contained
In our reform demands, there is but
one honest way cut Of the present ON
plex taRgle, that is form your OWL
party and leave the old ones to go their
own way, this is the only e~x2edient
meth-d, it occurs to me, as open to Ne
now, IN doing this We draw upon the
merit Of our principles, while the PEG
pie may be drawn, and at the same
time we give tangible shape, and evi-
dence o. good faith to oil true follow
ers, VINO would otherwise lose faith, 10
m .tter what fusion might be made;
then, too, it would command the respect
Of even an enemy, while coalition would
place a band upon Us that time would
not e~fface, and a divided house. forn-
ing two halves, not q whole me-, and
09th likely to fall"
Senator, did you not disregard this
ny earnest protest in 1892 Did you
not visit Wayne county as Lecturer
for tha State Alliance and attend g
mass meeting 1 called to meet in the
court house April 16sh, 1892. and there
as q non resident, when Bro. Butler
asked for a test vote, record yourself
= S me of The eighteen who voted against
organizing the Peoples party for
Wayne county2 l answer, that you
did.
Did you not attend Bro. Buffers Al
liarce conference OF May I'm, 1892,
and do ell you could to get the endorse
ment OF that conference for capturing
the Democratic machine and against
organization of the Peoples party I
think you did.
Did you not, after falling to get such
endorsement OF the conference, & Oupon
your own responsibility and Judgment
in the Democratic State Convention of
May 18Th, 1892, and there build a plat
form of which free silver was one of
the planks, ard put up Elias Carr as
your candidate for Governors l am Of
the opinion you did and if you did not
personally do so, you were endorsing