The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-12-08

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sufficient to pay State tax M year
that, too, over the protest of the citi
zens who paid for it, and led in the
fight against the sale by the Honorable
and lamented gentleman, a Democrat
of sterling worth and integrity, VIM.
T. Dortch, Sr., of this city. This same
gang Of politics likewise leased the
North Carolina r abroad for ninety
nine ear to the Southern six years
before they had any right to do so,
fearing, as well they might, the wrath
of the people and their own removal,
before they could satisfy the greed of
their own unworthy desires and fill
the pleasures of their bosses.
Citizens of North Carolina iu the
attempt of the A. & N. @ r R stock
holders aided and Allotted by Southern
Railroad Carr, Elias, who while an ex
State Alliance President, and as resi-
dent of the State House Mansion, re-
fused in 1895 to accord the honors Of
State courtesy, as Governor of North
Carolina, by a formal reception of the
the members of the National Alliance,
as visiting members, when in Raleigh
to hold a meeting of the National Ali
ance and attend the laying of the cor
ner stone of the Col. L. L. Polk Monu-
ment, we see a determination to either
rule OF ruin plainly manifested and
attempted. They claim that the rail
road is paying better than ever before
and is very valuable property for the
State, under their management, it be-
ing Democratic politics, and in the
face of this claim, they positively re
fused to lease, or Cff5r to lease, it out
until after they felt sure a majority
of the people in the State were going
to repudiate their politics in downing
their representative Mr. Cyrus Wat
SOD. Then to keep the representative
of a majority of the people of the
State from controlling and running the
State road, in the person of Hon, Dan
lei L Russell and a State Legislature
fresh from the people, they conceive
the idea In their mastery brain, that
it is ruin, destruction and the height
of folly for the will OF a majority to
prevail, after they had already spoken,
and for their representatives to enter
into the control of their own pros,
perity when hidden to do so by the
citizens at the polls, acting upon the
~rsnnS~I1 %Lak %L11 -o~ wo~ I'D
should not attain, even though the PEG
pie demand it of rightly a large
me- ority. The minority swear by the
eternal limit of time that they will not
surrender and that the politics as en-.
dorsed in 1876 by a majority for them,
equal to the majority in 1896 against
them, is still right and must continue,
regardless Of consequences and they
determined to keep it out of popular
popular p~olitics-that is subject every
four years to a change, at the will Of a
majority of the citizens of North Caro-
lima, and put this property of the State
in the hands of private corporate greed
and trust, representing politics in run
ming this road, one of the States most
useful institutions remaining to it,
over which the citizens shall have no
control.
Gentlemen of North Carolina poll
tics, is the science of government, ad.
ministered by the representative OF a
majority of the people, and, hence, in
our State, subject every four years to a
change at the will OF q meiori5y of our
citizens at the polls. Therefore, in
my judgment, State politics. in the ed
ministratiOn over property belonging
to the citizens of this State, is By far
superior to that as proposed by this
little mullet set Of ssockholder as a
minority fighting against a majority
by offering to maintain their politics by
turning owe State property into a
trust company. that would act as a
curse in so far as a remedy would lie
to the citizens in correcting any evil
they might set up, and I protest against
such folly being permitted as being
dangerous and ruinous to a State gov,
eminent Of, for and by the people.
It it were good politics, in this rail
road matter to take it out of popular
politics by the Democrats, while they
are in control, and turn 1T over to a
trust, formed for the purpose of leas
ing it, and run it by private Democrat
politics, it would be equally as good
and certainly as reasonable to take all
State property out of popular politics