The Monroe journal., 1920-02-20
NaRsHyIILE HOME REPLIES
To THE wANHAw ENTERPRISE
Editor Green Deyotes a Warm Num-
ber Ia the Discussion Of Doc. Alex
anter and Farmers Union.


Enterprise had the last word. but the
Home came out with the following
reply in its Tuesdays edition:
After he had been suddenly and un-
expectedly promoted TO the position as
secretary Of Monroe Chamber of Com
merce we have been wondering how
the editor-secretary or secretary-edi-
tor OF the waxhaw Enterprise could
blend his enthusiasm for Doc Alex
ander's State Union and his enthus-
lam for the Chamber Of Commerce
and make II dove-tail and fit in har-
moniously. But he seems to be serv-
Ing both organizations to the best OF
his ability. In last weeks Enterprise
he makes lengthy defense OF his
support of the Docs State organiZa-
ton in which he still proclaims his
loyalty as follows:
I'VE have been and are now loyal
10 the State Farmers Union and will
continue to be until the Union itself
becomes unsound. The principle of a
State organization is much sounder
than the principle of the independent
locals Mr.. Green is trying to set up
over the state"
Since the anti-Alexander faction
surrendered the State organization to
him in the fall of 1918 il is we'll
known fact that it has since been a
one-man organization and is still a
one-man organization and that one
man is DR.. Alexander. who is still one
of the officials. II is furthermore
known that since the State organiza-
tion was turned over to the doctor
politician il has been nothing more
than a small political side-show that
manufactures political tissues and
sends radical political dope down to
the few scattered Local Unions which
its members are expected to swallow
with their eyes closed and then sound
the praises of Aexdanerism and
"cuss" out everybody who refused to
swallow the dope and accuse them of
being "disloyal''-of being under the
corrupting influences of the kept
press" and special interests, etc. The
original purposes and principles of
the Farmers Union have been ignored
and the State organization converted
into political adjunct which holds
out no hope of relief except through
political acton. This. too. in face of
the fact that the Farmers Union con-
sttntion (which the writer helped to
framcl has in ii every safeguard that
could be provided AGAINST committing
this sort of political suicide. And yet
the Chamber of Commerce secretary
still has the nerve to declare. in ef-
feet. that these latter Alexander po-
litical principles are Sound" and that
the true cooperative principles, as
are now being admirably exenpified
in the profitable cooperative activity
Of independent organizations like the
Wmgate Business Union. are "un-
sound.
What the editor of The Home is ex-
ceedngly anxious to know is just
when and how Secretary-Editor MIS-
bet constituted himself as authority
on what are Sound" Farmers Union
principles and what are "unsound. $
Is there any significance in the fact
that he never became actively inter-
ested in the Farmers Union until af-
ter Dr.. Alexanders anti-draft politi-
cal campaign had brought the organ
ization into odious publicity and dis
repute? If so, the probability is that
he has never known, and possibly
never will know, just what the origi-
nal and fundamental principles of the
Farmers Union were. IL is exceeding
ly regrettable that his loyalty" didn I
begin prior to its evolution into Alex
anderism. Being rather young in
years he might possibly have acquired
more practical and patriotic concep-
tion of what is Sound" and "un-
sound"
While we are talking about the
soundness of things we'd like to ask
Secretary Nisbet few up-to-date
questions. If he'll promise not to be-
come embarrassed
|. II he is still loyal to the doc.
tors State president and State Union,
does he endorse the premature and
frantic political campaign which the
State Union is now making, almost to
the exclusion of everything else,
against the revaluation of property,
the purpose of which is to more near
ly equalize the tax burden? If he
doesn't endorse ii he isn't loyal to
the State Union.
2. As new convert and as dele
gate TO DR.. Alexander's recent State
Union at Greensboro did Secretary
Nisbet consider the selection of a
State executive committee in private
room by the doctors political ma
chine Sound" way to elect import
ant officers whowere formerly select
ed by authorized delegates?
z Aftar HEARING tho financial 70