ADVERTISING RATES: -tSiSSa-m SANFORD, NORTH CAROLINA, SATURDAY, JUNE 28,1890. A List of Pledges Presented to'Can didates-Cot. lones’.Refusat to Sign. Charlotte Chronicle. Yesterday L: M. McAlister, Sec retary of the Farmers’ Alliance oi Mecklenburg county, waited on Col. II. 0. Joneg in his office, and handed a printed card with flix“de . ri.inds’’ and six pledges to.be sign ed in''toe presence of or witness',; s lining being provided on the card for the signature of the witness. Col. Jones took the c^rd, and told Mr. McAlister that he would write whatever he might have to say. The card is as follows: The Demands of-the National Far mers'• Alliance and Industrial Union as Ratified hy a Majority of the Sub-Alliances 'in North Carolinat 1. That we demand the aboli tion of national banks, and the substitution1 of legal tender treasury notes in lieu of" national bank notes, issued in sufficient vol ume to do the business of the coun try on a cash system, regulating the amount needed on a per capita basis ds theu business interests; of- the country extends, and that all mon ey issued by the government shall be legal tender in payment of all debts, both public and private. I approve of the above demand, and if elected to a seat in the United States Congress will endeavor to have it enacted into a law. . (Signed)- « - Witness - - * !i. That we demand that tJon gress shall pass such laws as shall effectually prevent the dealing in futures of all agricultural and me . chanical productions: preserving a .j stringent system of procedure in trials, as shall secure the promp cpnvietinn, and imposing such pen alties as shall secure the most pert: feet compliance with the law. 8. That we demand the free and Unlimited coinage of silver. A. That we demand the passage! of laws prohibiting the alien owner-' ship of laud, and that Congress take darly steps to devise some plan to obtain all lands now- owned by ' aliens and foreign syndicates: and that all lands now- held by railroads Ond other corporations in excoss of Such as is actually used and needed by them, be reclaimed by the gov ernment and held for actual settlers only. 5. Believing in the doctrine of “equal rights to alt and special privil eges to none,’1 we demand that tax ation, national or State, shall not be used to build -up one interest at the expense of another. We believe that the money of the country should be kept as much as possible with the people, aud hence we demand that 411 revenue, national, State or coun try, shall be limited to to the neces sary expenses of the government , economically and honestly adminis tered. 6. That Congress issue a suth cient amount of fractional paper currency to. facilitate exchange through the medium of the IJnited States mail. I approve of the above demand, find if elected will endonvor to have it enacted into a law. I also ap prove of the purpose of the bill in troduced into the U. S. Senate by Senator Vanco, and known as the Sub-Treasury Bill; if it is not shown to be unconstitutional, theu I will introduce and advocate a bill to abolish bonded warehouses for whis key, etc., and also a bill to abolish National Banks in accordance with the first demand On this card. (Signed) - - - - VVitpe THE BACK Of THE OAKD. On the revenue side of the card is the following statement: This card is prepared for the pur pose of pledging the candidates for humiliation anu election to legisla tive offices, to support these de mands, which huve been ratified by a large majority of the subordinates in North Carolina. • Politicans have so often deceived ns by their vorbal promises, which they break and then deny having made, that we have decided for the future to take the>r pledges in black End white. ij. i-liu uaumaate - to whom ' tins eiird is presented for/ his signature signs it, then the person wlio pre sented it will immediately send it to the secretary of the State Alliance to be kept for reference, so that if any constituent of said candidate desires to know if he favors our de mands he can get information from the State Secretary. If the candidate refuses to sjgu this card, then the person whypre sented it will immediately "report that fact to the tterretarj of the State Alliance. " If the candidate signs the obli gation to support a portion of ‘ these demands and refuses to agree to support the others, then he can, if he chooses, give his reason, in wri ting, for sodoing, and they will be forwarded to the secretary and filled with the card; or if a candidate who refuses to sign any of them,- desires to give his reasons for so doing, if he will reduce them to writing, they will be forwarded and foiled with the notification of his refusal-. COL. JONES REPLIES AND REFUSES TO SION THE CARD AND GIVES HIS REASONS THEHEFOR. When Mr: McAlister presented the card to Col. Jones, the latter said he would reply to the secretary in writing; and yestenday evening Col. Jones-mailed a letter to the Alliance, of which the following .is a verbatim copy: Charlotte, N. C., June 18,1890. L. M. McAlister, Esr.: Sec. Mc-ckleuburg County Far mers’ Alliance. Sir: I have earfully read the de mands in the shape of a declara tion of principles submitted by the | Alliance and respectfully decline to sign the same. In announcing rny ; self as a candidate I distinctly sta ted that'I did so subject to tile de i cision of the Democratic Convetion i to be held at Laurinburg on the 29 of July., If nomineted I shall be the candidate of that party, stand ing squarely upon its platform. My first allegiance is to thy party wuuae czuiaiunie i aspire ro ueeoine. To it, in my opinion, this country owes whatever of liberty and good government it enjoys, and whoever undertakes to set up a standard of political principles independent of it, is disturbing its harmony and de stroying its efficiency. It is the party of the people. As a proof the ■fact, it succeeded on yesterday in 'securing the passage through Con gress of a hill providing for the free coinage of silver, which I notice is Cue of the measures demanded by the Alliance, and it is engaged at this very moment, in a struggle against the great evil of class legis lation in the shape of burdensome tariffs, subsides, &c., which is anoth er of the evils of which the Alli ance complains. Can not the peo ple safely trust this great party to labor for it in the future as it has done in the past? But there is anotheer objection which I have to signing the pledge which you present in behalf of the Alliance. I am reliably informed that of the twenty-five-hundred farmers in this county, less than twel ve-h undred of them are connect ed with the Alliance, and that in this Congressional district less than one third of them belong to it. Now you have excluded.these non Allianee men from your delibera tions as you have excluded me; yon have not given us an opportunity to hear your discussions of tliese measures. If elected to Congress I will recognize this fact, that a large majority -of my eousituents arc farmers. I hope I should labor for their improvement, but I certainly would be liable to be greatly em barrassed if I were to pledge my self in advance to that one-third of them constituting the Alliance with out waiting to hear from the two thirds majority for whom the Alli ance does not speak. It seems to me that the Alliance has erected one-third of less of . the farmers into a speciul class, and is demanding class legislation in accordance., with their peculiar views. Is not this' doing what the Allianee itself condemns? The white men of this State cannot af ford to divide or risk division. The Republican party has commenced a new crusade against the South in the shape of a Federal election law that proposes to set up over us at the polls supervisors, creatures of its owpi to rob us Of theinestimable right of a free election.. It has not' abatedone particle of its hostility to our people and in such a crisos Ood forbid that you or I or any other white man should imperil that unity, ill the ranks of the Democrat ic party which has, been our only .Salvation in the past. Respectfully yours, H. C. Joses. * . li.?.: • -I alliance candidates. The Farmers’ Move in Politics in this State. C'ajft. John It. II asmey in Notional Den oc rat. At the threshold of the campaign the Democratic party is confronted with a new factor in State politics It Is needless to disguise the fact the Farmers’ Alliance', with-a mem bership of over 100,000, |is a power ful ami dangerous political organ ization in this State. It is a non political organization, they say, but how is it that in every county where the organization has any foothold Alliance men are candidates for of fice? How is this claim consistent with the fact that the President of tho State Alliance, the ex-president, two or more of its chief lectures and its treasurer are candidates fur Congress in their respective dis tricts? The Alliance newspaper in this State urges the election of Al liance men to office without past political affiiljations. The air is full of' attempted and prospective com binationswith the Republican party. It is not known what the Alliance aspirants, who may be defeated for nomination in a regular Democratic convention, may do. It is freely talked that they Will not accept its decision if it does not suit them to do iL There has been no formal an nouncement or public avowal on the part of any Alliance candidate of his candidacy. County conven tions meet and instruct their dele gates to-the Congressional conven tions to vote for an Alliance man for Congress. ' Immediately the s atement follows that the Alliance | is not a political organization and that the action of the convention was not by any Alliance authority. They vote in the primaries as citi zens, not as Alliance people. It is true that, they all vote one way, and that is the, Alliance way, hut that may be only coincidental. Every known Alliance candidate up to this mujv its a lseuiucjui*. a nuy are iiitfu of ability and prominence. They are men of high political private in tegrity. Their good faith nobody questions. If they . jjermit their names to go before a Democratic convention, submissive to its decis ion follows, of cousre. Yet there is uncertain, indefinable unrest that makes the situation perplexing. It differs from the situation in South Carolina, Georgia and Alabama. In this State tire contest is over coun ty, legislative, judicial and Congres sional candidates. T The State convention meets only to ratify the judicial district nomi nations; The issue cannot be rais ed iu State convention as in Alaba ma, for the contest is, virtually over when the State convention meets. So the county, Legislature and Con gresssional district’ must settle the issue as it may be presented. In the counties where the Alliance is storng it will dictate the nomina tions. Where it is weak there is dh apprehension that it may combine with the Republicans and defeat the regular Democratic nominees. The Legislature elects a United States Senator. There is an overwhelm ing sentiment in the State in favor of Senator Vance’s reelection. It has been expected that he would favor the subtreasury bill. Will the fact that he does not favor the bill pro voke the Alliance Legislature to ig nore public sentiment and defeat his re-election. So the situation is anomalous and beset with irita ting complications. The Democrat ic leaders are cognizant of this con dition of things, and so far as dis passionate, conservative, harmoni ous, mature action can avert mis- I chief it will be done. i »■" AXLIANCE CANDIDATES. In the First District, now ably represented by Mr. jBkinner, Farmer Branch is the Alliance candidate for the Congressional nomination. The Alliance and anti-Alliance for ces are about evenly divided, and it wiil be nin And tuck between Branch and Skinner. In the Second, or ‘'Black District” now represented by Cheatham, the only negro in Congress, Mr. Elios Carr, president of the State Alli ance, is a candidate. Owing to Re publican defection and the negro ex odus the “Black District” is debata ble ground. The Democratic nom ination lies between Carr and ex Congressman Simmons. In the Third District Farmer Mc Clammy Is a candidate for renomi nation ; he is a member of the Alli ance, but that does not protect him againtt Alliance opposition, . Farm er and ex-.Congresswan Wharton J. Green, who is also a member of the Alliance “in good standing,” is a candidate. Mr. Aycock, an aggres sive and popular young politician slid lawyer, is also a candidate. In tlie Fourth District Bunn seems to have a walk-over. No op position to his renomiuation lias de veloped as yet' Captain “Baldy" Williams, an Alliance man but not an Alliance candidate,-seem s to be Welt ;4o the lead in the Fifth District. This dis trict is Democratic, but is enjoying the costly experiment of a'Republi can' Representative in Congress. Brower, the present iucumbcfit.jitm tMs tftir natty machine#^, n'i ; puny form that don’t know whatS < vigorous exercise is, only in some1 ball room, and never took a genuine, sun-shine bath in all their life.. Air Editor Who DM His Duty; Av&usta (On.) Chronicle. Colonel Screws, the veteran edi— .tor of the Montgomery AdvertUer,. continues to receive congratulations* not only from all points in Alaba ma, but from other States, on the gallant' and successful fight he made i'j the cause of pure Demo cracy in the heated gubernatorial ^ race of Alabama which*has just en~ ded in thei triumphant nomination of Hon. Tbos. G. Jones. , The fight was against Commis sioner Kolb, the Alliance candidate, it being claimed that the selection of a man in a secret Alliance meet ing in which the general people of the State had no voice, and outturn: hiih forward as the man for whom, everybody must vote,, was arbitrary undemocratic and' dictororiah Though Kolb went into ' the'- C9H-\ vention with nearly enough votes to insure his nomination, and ~ though all the strength and in—. ■ fluence of f the Alliance was brought to bear on the members of the convention to secure the needed majority, he was defeated in a straiglitout Democratic fight, and in the name of pure Democracy. It was so strongly urged that hirirom ination would mean disaffection in. '' the Democratic ranks arid encour agement to the Republicans, that at - last all the anti-Kolb Democrats united on one man and nominated' Jones. In the fight against undemocrat- , ic methods Colonel Screws bore leading part and deserves the con- 1 gratulationshe is receiving, while the manly manner in. Commission er Kolb pledged h» support to the nominee after his own defeat’ made him many friends, and establishes his Democracy, even though he diet come before the convention by: undemocratic methods. . The Democrats of the South can not afford to wrangle amang them selves and open the way for the • common enemy. Let Southern, men cling to the methods of pure Democracy, and not be divided among themselves. In hoe■ sitjno. vimes. N. C. Crops. Eastern District. The weather in this district has been very warm with plenty sunshine. Rain-fall has been hadly ditributed, very lit tle falling iu some places and too much in others. Average rain-fall ' this week 1.10 inches. Heavy rain did some damage to crops in Bladen comity and probably in Rotjeson county. Heaviest amounts report ed, 8.03 'inches at Lumberton on two days; 1.20 at New Berne; 1,10 ;at Garysburg. Central District. The rain-fall has been about the average in this district, but not well distributed/ At Clayton, Johnston county, heavy rain and high wind on the 17th did considerabla damage to oats and cotton. The temperature, was ahove the average with plenty of sunshine. Crops are “booming,” Western District—Unusually heavy rains are reported in McDow ell county, doing some damage to crops of all kinks. The average rain-fall for the week in this da-1' trict was 1.00 inch, but was also badly distributed. The largest amounts reported were 1.45 inches at Davidson College, 1.02 at Mt. Pleasant, 1.37 at Statesville, 2.88 at Dallas. Heavy rains also occurred in Rutherford eouty. The general crop prospects continue excellent.—