The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1897-04-07
TIE AGiTATORS ALL HAVE OF
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Statesvslle Landmark

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Statesvslle Landmark.
1t were we'll if the good plain
people Of North Carolina would
take day off and devote it to re-
Election upon tie political events
Of the past ten years or such
matter. II they would do this
they would remember that a. far
as ten years back the State was
prosperous, that there was peace
between theN people, and that
there was g fair degree of individ-
ual prosperity throuh-out our Dor
ders. Then there sprang up q
race OF agltaters, who carried the
gospel of discomfort to every court
house and crossroads and preached
it into the homes CT the plain pee
pie. Everything was represented
as wrong. The sub-Trcaslry bet
ter, las needed; there ought to-
be $50 Per capita, issued direct to
the people; the government ougi.;
to own tie IL lroads. And ali
that sort of thing. The party in
power had done nothing wrong
it had governed the State in Wis
dom, and hone-Iy, for twenty
years bat it Was oyerthrown, and
what Is the result?
The agitators all have Offices!
That is the first RESULT. Col.
Polk Saw the promised land, but
! died without having entered ii.
Bat see Butler, Ramsey, Thomp-
son, and all the brood. Run the
list over in your mind cnumeratc
those who were foremost in TO
menting this strife, ia State, dis
trlct and county. Each Of them
has an Office. The loude.t
mouthed and the wildest-eyed have
the best those who have been tie
most violent and vinaic:ive have
the snuggest places, but if there Is
q single one Of the agitator wht
has not gotten an Office, Or place, i,
is because there were net plac,
enough
And what bave the plain people
gotten? 0, they have gottc,
higher taxes for their share
They have gotten worse code O.
laws than they have had since re-
construction; they have gotten s
Judiciary weaker III ability THAI
they have kno"n since the war
and from which they may or may
not get justice; they have gotten /:
government les; efficient in ever,
one Of It's del artments than the,
had lefore; they have gotten F.:
Legislature which has disgracet
the State in the eyes of the Union
and they have gotten a Governo
who has set the people BY the ear
and will keep them SO for fou
years.
But the agitators have gottei
'Frelief.'
enty-two years ago, whel
| North Carolina hada government
in all respects better than the pres
ent one, the plain people, wit
Vance as their leader, marched O.
the position behind which the Re
publican party was entrenched
stormed it and captured it. b
and by it Will dawn upon ther
that they have been hoodwinked
that a gang of scheeming sell
seekers have walked over thei
neck5 into fat Offices, and tina
they never meant anything bette
at the outset than to make Of til
I people stepping-stones for then
selves to place and power. The
: a day of reckoning will come
: North Carol.nians are slow
move, but they move with teriffi
power when they start. And the
will start when they realize full
: that they have madea cats paw:
and that agitators who pat thei
2 up to the undoins Of Tie work tie
[ did under Vance in 1876 have Il
: chestnuts while they themselv,
e have nothing but burnt fingers.