r Raleigh News and Observer. J
We understand that there is a defi
nite feeling among many Alliance men
that Senator Vance has treated them
badly. They are under the impression
he undertook to amend the Sub-Treas ! 01 form, u a lady or a certain name, giv
ury bill and agreed to support it after it ty own was stay1 there. On be-
should have beer put in shape, and -
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he could not vote for it.
We do hot understand that they ob
ject so much to his differing with them
in regard to the constitutionality of
the measure, for they differ among
themselves as to that, but they make
the point that he undertook to put the
bill in such shape that he could vote
for it, and after introducing it, said he
could not support it.
To be sure they are wrong and do
Vance a great injustice. They get
their ideas from the Progressive Far
mer and the National Economist,
papers that have spread these incor
rect reports and will not correct them.
We had hoped that Col. Polk would
see that his own paper should deal
justly by Senator Vance in this matter,
for he says that he is Vance's friend :
and we had also hoped that the Na
tional Economist would state the whole
truth about the matter, which, how
ever, it has not yet done.
The Alliance men who have im
bibed this impression probably see no
other papers but the Progressive Far
mer or the National Economist, and
it seems that the light of truth will not
reach them through those columns.
