The daily times. [volume] (Wilson, N.C.) 1902-1936, 1918-12-20

]. I. GREEN
Points Out the Troubles of the
Farmers Union in the
MarshvilIe Home
REPUBLICANS IN CONTROL

WdfSNVIlIS E1CII0
REPUBLICANS IN CONTROL
Last spring after had held a
conference with my conscience and
better judgment and relieved my
self afn exceedingly undesirable at
titude some friendly critics gave it
as their opinion that I should have
stayed in the council" suggesting
that "it may be possible for the con-
servative membership of the organ
ization to purge it Of politics" 1t
should be noted, however, that an
other member of the council, "
Prof. c. G. Wright, followed with
his resignation and two other mem
bers, w. H. Moore and G. T. Wea-
therby, refused to stond for re-elec-
tion last week at Wilson. Things
had happened in council" meetings
during the year to hemind them that
Whatsoever you sow that shall ye
reap" When Doc Alexander pro-
vided for "vindication" at the men,
orable Winston-Salem meeting by
causing the defeat of the biggest
and bes: agricultural worker in the
South. pr. Clarence Poe, and de-
scended to the other end of the
sliding scalea nd enlisted as chief
manager of his ring a sore-head
Butler-Rapublican it presented the
beginning of the ned of the State
Farmers Union. Whatever may
have been it's past achievements
it was evident to any student of the
history of farmers organizations
that it's prestige and influence as a
potent force in this State were gone
forever.
When suggested last spring that
there has probably never been a
more opportune time to begin to
organize a successor to the Farmers
Unian, which should retain most OF
it's finances at home in the local or
ganizations l was severely and fran
tically criticised by the Alexander
Dixon machine, kept well oiled by
finances which under better and
safer plab of organization would
have been kept at home in the Local
and County Unions where it has
been greatly needed. The sugges-
ton tha d successor to the Farmers
Union should be organized struck a
vital partt in the Docs machine. 1t
was somewhat like throwing mon
key wrench in the machinery while
it is in notion.
After the government authorities
had decided that Dr.. Alexander's
"Bulletin' was an undesirable pub
lication to be transmitted through
the mails, Leader Dixon's Cooper
ator" at Wilson was chosen as the
Docs campaign organ which was
sent unsolicited to all members who
had not dropped out of the Unioh
and to some who had already with
drawn. Having plenty of the farm
ers' money in the FAIRIES treasury
they found no difficulty in financing
this campaign sheet which Faires
himself snnounced was to be issued
in defense of the head" of the
State union. The first few issues
of Leader Dixons "Co-operator,
following your humble servants res
ignation, were almost insanely ffran
tic, and in character and tone II
ranked lower than any partisan pa
per that has been issued in the State
within decade. 1t was what you
might tenn a typical campaign SIAN
der by wholesale denunciation oil
everybody who opposed him. And
of course liberal potion of it was
directed toward the ex-organizer-
Lecturer, of Union county. So fran
tic and insane. were their charges
against him that they even denounc-
ed the county in which he lived
boldly declaring that 1t was a
Stacker" county in the purchase OF
Liberty bonds after it had just over
subscribed its allotment by about
thirty thousand dollars. II nothing
else is finally saved from Docs ma