Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1879-06-05
Organizing Reforms.



We have passed the begging time ol
our reform and are now furnished with q
very full set of, at least. nominal leaders
With a speaker in every town, writer
for every column OF the friendly press,
and knowledge Of the peoples wrongs be.
ing increased, the people will undoubted.
ly find a way of relief some time without
very much ceremony or political fastidi-
BUSINESS"
But some time" is a very bad time to
do a thing that ought to be done now.
Relief may be commenced within twelve
months, If the convictions already ripe in
the popular mind can be made available.
1t is to be expected that in country as
broad as our continent, there will be more
than one commanding center of agitation.
! should expect not less than three some
what independent sections, and those
three equally original centers of reform.
The Pacific coast or trans-mountain sec
tlon, the central or Ohio and Missippi,
and the eastern states. These are not de-
pendent upon each other for political
light and, Of course, they will be putting
their reform struggle into organic shape
at about the same time. 1t is not too
much to expect that with This independ-
ence of growth we should find the whole
reform people of the United States with
exactly the same name for party and pre-
cisely the same manifesto of principles
and purposes? 1t would be simply absurd
to look for such coincidence. One sec
tlon will be little in advance of another
in giving shape to the popular will. But
it does not follow that the other sections
little less forward in time are under the
organic dictation OF the one first pro-
nounced.
We have not had any other occasion for
the sudden organization Of reform. for the
whole people; and what was done towards
the emancipation OF the blacks in thirty
years we are preparing to do in four.
Therefore, let there be no IOcal dictator
ship in the east, or in the west. Any as
sertion OF priority or educational efficiency
as ground for demanding anew party al
legiance will only disaflcct and diminish
the strenth which the one cause needs. As
compared with the old parties, the nation
ais and the greenback labor parties Tor
party are distinctly and sufficiently one.
The sameness of their purpose is proof
that the people do see eye to eye. The
fear that an eastern reform organism will
be false to its advertisement, is to assume
that the people Of the east do not know
anything.
There is one admission due to the Chi.
cago organization. 1t represents the peo-
pie direct. If the national section
would have the unrescrved endorsement
of all the people, let them submit them
selves to the people in the very outset.
Then, if a convention of the peoples
representatives in the east declare for any
thing different from the wishes of other
sections more advanced in movement it
will then be necessary simply to hold Il
congress ofsections at Chicago or st. Louis.
and, with single delegate from each state
the peoples emancipation party of 1880
will be in shape for an early victory.
Mr.. POmeroy has done very discreet
and proper thing in organizing the people
into clubs, for education and action.
What they do in council then becomes
popular, because they did it. We do not
need any symbol Of Mr. Pomeroy himself,
nor does he wish any. Had Il word to
him privately, would say, Haul down
that democratic flag from your paper!"
We don't want anyhod'ys democrat"
now. 1t quarrels with the genius and
spirit and economy of our movement. The
American liberator would be thousand
times better for the symbol of leading
editor and for the name of his paper.
Furthermore, tie convention made up
from the clubs Initiated by Mr. PomerOy
do not constitute the authoritative man.
ayers for the United States. The con
gress thus made is not broad enough, be-
cause thousands ofcxcellent allies among
the people had no voice in that CON
vention, and these, whether east, west or
more west, have right to be heard in
council.
The situation now calls for confer
encc of sections or committees. IL is too
late to ignore such conventions as those
at Chicago, but its appointed agents must
regard themselves not as generals-in-c chief.
but as only equals in council with any
other committees who represent people of
the same financial minds.
The worlds emancipation movement is
already triumph in prospect. The most
ambitious may now reel SAFE IN making
investment. We shall suffer from am
bilious feeders. Beware of them. Men
are made vain by new opportunities. To
all who have been forward and honored in
their selections, we say, as a kind of
preacher, be ready to fall into obscurity
rather than let the people and the republic
suffer harm. There is political dignity
more valuable than leadship. To the
people we say, be yourselves. You can
not fuse as old parties. Two bullets can
not be hammered together. They must
both be melted down. then run into
common mould.
There would be no traitor leaders, if
they did not count upon your solid an
cient partyism. Fuse yourselves apart
before you think of running together.
Party control always passes in afew years
from the people to the committee. Com
mittees of apostolic successional assumpt-
ions never allow the people to do as they
wish. Old leadership in parties is always
corrupt. Only when they are first elected
can they be relied upon, because then it
usually costs something to carry the flag
Let MS lead Ouy'seIreS A, J, G.,