The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-11-09
BRO. sOssAMAN TO The BAT.

Correspondence Of the Progressive Farmer.
CHARLOTTE n. o.
In your issue of October 26th we
read a column article over tina sigma
ture of Bro. A. j. Moye, OF Pitt county,
a member of the last double back
action twenty four horse power Gen
eral Assembly Of North Carolina. HIS
letter ia supposed to be an Alliance ar
ticle, but he switches off the shoe fac
tory, rust-proof oats, sewing machines
and such like to give us a side wipe, a
part Of which is misleading, to say the
least of it. We will reproduce what
he had to say and ask space for com
ment:
TN your last Issue Bro. Sossaman is
guying those ot~Us who were at the
last State meeting for not writing for
our beloved paper. OF this I do not
complain"
After writing half column Alliance
stuff and good hard horse sense stuff,
here he is egain:
DEO. OOSShu4dA 660A4o W SCSPOSA64Ay
anxiousthat We should let politics alone
Well, Bro, take your own medicine
and let that Middle of the Road anti
Butler gang severely alone, and don't
you go about over the State a~pologizing
for any boilers and traitors to
cause and principles. Don't try to dis
organize the Peoples party and at the
same time insist that we shall let poll
tics severely alone"
l. We have advised Alliancemen to let
partisan politics alone in off years. A
move was made sometime back to have
the State juuketed all over by partisan
politicians right at the time of year
when the farmers could least afford to
spare the time, and they were to call it
an educational campaign. We are
happy to say that the scheme went
down like q morning fog; the people
saw it was too thin. We favored, and
always did, educating the people In
the reforms demanded by the Farmers
Alliance, and we stand to day fiat
footed on them, sub treasury and all
but we could not see where the educa-
tional part would come in to have the
country full of men in this eff year
yelling railroad free passes. We have
since we were commissioned National
Lecturer made perhaps twenty
speeches, and half OF them since the
late Raleigh circus, of which Bro Moye
was a member, struck tents. We
have had men of aII political parties,
and religious beliefs, men of all trades
and professions, to listen to us atten
lively. Merchants, bankers, mill men,
railroad men, farmers, doctors, preach
ers, lawyers, donothingers and negroes,
twenty four kinds of Democrats and
Republicans, Populists and Prohibi
tionists of all sorts and sizes; and we
defy any man of any party, profession
or trade of all that cOnglomeratioD, to
say that we eve made a partisan
speech to an Alliance assembly, or even
bordered on it. We have told them,
and will continue to do so, that if the
men of all classes and conditions that
are suffering from ungodly and vicious
legislation, both State and National,
that is in the interest of the classes,
would get into the Alliance or school
house clubs, and discuss their condition
and the condition OF the country in a
cool, calm, non partisan way, instead
of following blindly the lead of any po-
litical trickster of any political party,
that reform in all branches of the gov
eminent would come about sooner.
As to the middle of the road, that is
where we stand. We have long sincs
become disguised with seeing the true
reformers bargained and sold like cat.
tie, and fused with everything that
could not outrun US, swim the Allan
tic, or climb a greasy pole. Just
such work has set the reform move
ment back four years, and as for let
ting the anti-Butler gang alone, bless
} our soul, that is what we are doing,
and that Butler gang is as lonely, SO
far as we are concerned, as q blind calf
would be in the jungles of Africa. We !
are not indebted to any of them for |
politically or other wise; none
Of them are big enough to lead as unless
they get in the road ahead Of US and
are going Jul road; there are none Of