The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1889-08-16
SHEEP AND GOATS.
FROM rEMBINA COUNTY.

SHEEP AND GOATS.
Jamestown Capital.
FROM rEMBINA COUNTY.
ED. CAPITAL:-We are working hard
in Pembina county. The republicans
refused the Alliance to take any part in
the primaries. The democrats have
asked the Alliance to come into their
primaries and elect our own men in their
party. They offer the farmers all the
show they want. The democratic eau.
at Z p. IN. All are cordially invited to
alliance in Pcmbira county have agreed
to work with the democratic party.
T. H. Mcmillan.
Hamilton, Oak. Aug. 5, 1882.
There is also published in the same
issue of the Capital letter signed n.
G. Massey reciting the same story.
So far as the most of the leaders of
the alliance in this county are concern.
ed, their action, rs stated above, is
but repetition of their usual tactics,
except that this is little more open,
and we presume their influence will
have about its usual effect.
But in Mr.. McMillan's letter, VIC
have this peculiar charge against the
republican party, '"tl,e republicans re.
fused the Alliance to take a part in
the primaries" The author of this
expression must have meant one of
two things, the Alliance as All organ.
lied body, or the Alliance as indi.
viduals. Ii he meant the first, lie is
correct. because the call for caucuses
called on republicans, and the Alliance
as an organized body is no part of the
republican party any more than the
Methodist church or the Masonic
society is. The only way the republi.
cans could coalesce with tile Alliance
as u body, would be to treat with them
through representatives elected from
each body separately. The mixing at
the primaries means the absorption of
one organization by the other. A
member of the Alliance can so to the
caucus of the republican or democratic
party in good faith as a republican or
democrat. His connection with the
Alliance is no bar, but such Il conncc.
ton is no qualification.
The custom that participation in
the primaries is allowed only to me M.
bers Of the party, has become 80
definite and well established that in
many states. and we think in this ter.
ritory. 1t is u matter of statute law.
The converse of this, is what We wish
to Call the attention Of republican
Alliance men to. If, by custom and
law, only democrats can vote ut dem.
Ocratic primaries, it follows that all
who vote at democratic primaries are
democrats with all the word implies.
And this is just tile manner in which
a large number of the Alliance leaders
in this county are seeking to entrap
honest republican Alliance workers,
and for their wages they are to get the
united support of both organizations
for themselves and their own selfish
purposes.
Mr.. Stimmel said, that a man could
be II good republican and a good Ali.
ance man, and we presume some hon.
estly believe they can he good demo.
Gratis and good Alliance men, but there
is 10 such "tlirtl-breed" us a "repub.
observation-disclosures. You cannot
Simaese twin the republican and demo.
cratic parties by al Alliance ligament.
Any man, whether Alliance or other.
wise, who responds to the call now
published by the democratic commit.
tee for county convention thereby de.
clares himself u democrat. \ .'tlemo.
cat" and not "4Alliance" is the word.
DO not be deceived; you cannot, under
the call mentioned 60 as an Alliance
man, you can only 80 as Il democrat.
Every man mag choose the banner
under which he will fight but it will
he well this fall to look on both sides of
the banner. The ass may cover him.
self with the lions skin but if you
look sharp you will see the long ears.
Another. expression used by the cor.
respondent of the Capital is that "The
democrats have asked the Alliance to
came into their primaries and elect
our men in their party. They offered
the farmers all the show they want"
1t is an undisputed fact that tile
members Of the Alliance and their
sympathisers are in "a majority of
about four to one in the democratic
party Of this county. And the one
sings seductively to the four, "Come
into my parlor." utterly ignoring the
fact that said "parlor" and '.sllow"
belong already to the INVITED guests,
by virtue of their superior strength.
This article is already too long to
go into any lengthy defense of the
republican party and of the refusal"
to allow the farmers to attend primar.
les. But the following facts are all
answer in themselves. The farmers
are in a large majority in the republi.
can party. The minority could not ere.
fuse" representation to the majority.
Of the delegates elected by the primar.
les and participating in the conven.
ton, two thirds were farmers OF mem.
bers of the Alliance; Of the delegates
selected to go to Fargo, six are farmers
or Alliance members, and several of
others are more OF less engaged i'm ag.
riculture, and q majority are in favor
of what is more Importance to the AL.
lance than county delegates, a farm.
Ell candidate for governor.
In conclusion we would again warn
republicans against being enticed into
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