The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1889-10-26
ALLIANCE" AND THE GAZETTE.
GRENADA SENTINEL: /:

EDITOR GRENADA SENTINEL:
We, of course, concede the claim of the
Grenada Gazette that the article, al
lance and their lands" in that paper of
September 18th was intended as zone of
friendly advice and written with the best
intention and kindest of feelings"-and
accept it as entirely satisfactory so far as
the Intention" is concerned, but must say
that the phraseology employed was most
unfortunate, the leading idea at variance
with the declared purposes ofthe Alliance
and the article, zone of those accidents
or mistakes common to every human"
The issue still remains as to what ques-
tions are of most Immediate and direct
Importance TO the farmers of the coun-
try. The Alliance of Grenada County is
not prepared to accept the teaching OF
the editor of the Gazette in that article,
hut its members are wont to bestow
little thought on the subject themselves,
nor can they be deferred, by abuse and
ridicule, from free discussion of all
matters in which they are interested, or
bulldozed into seeming acqulescence by
the flourish of bludgeons and tomas
hawks.
We are entirely unacqlainted with
the aberdeen Weekly" but if its edi.
tors are not members of the Alliance and
it is an ."oficial organ" only to the ex-
tent of publishing notices, etc, gratis
It's reproduction of "Alliance and their
lands may be excused.
By what standard is the Gszete able
to single out and identify the "represen-
tativc men" of the Alliance? And who
are its representative men? We take it
that the representative men OF any Or
der or society are those who are most
heartily in accord with its principles,
and are most Jealous in its support; and
they are most generally found in the
officials who represent it, Besides the
officials, the County Alliance has an
Executive Committee which represents
it in the intervals between the SESSIONS
and for all practical purposes is for such
time the County Alliance This com"
mittee is constituted the authority OF the
Alliance, and it seems if any certain
number of the members of the Alliance
may be denominated "the representative
men" OF that order, that the members OF
this Committee are entitled TO that DIS
tinc:ion, and if they have endorsed the
position of the Gazette in this controVer-
~, they are the ''aw in this case" and
we most humbly submit to their author
ity and make all necessary apologies
But have they done SO? If not, then
who are "the representative men
OF the Alliance, and what is their num-
ber? We do not deny that some Alliance
man, or even more than one, may have
attempted to smooth the ruft1ed temper
of the editor ofthe Gazette. or avoid In
curing his venom by agreeing tina
"they saw nothing in the article to cal
forth such torrents of abuse" and II nj
or they had been pressed further would
doubtless, have owned that thy did no
see any torrent of abuse" cit er, becaus
it existed only in tie imagination of tn
editor of the Gazette. But we do den.
the assumption that be Or they are "th
representative men OF .he Alliance" L
any case we fearlessly leave the part
have taken to the judgment of ou
brethren, and us tearlessly leave to tn
decision of candid public which part
iu this contest has INDUCED in torrent
of abuse" or which has kept within tn
bounds of fair and decorous controvers.
If the editor and proprietor OF the "a
zstte are as familiar with their buslne'
AS they ought to be they know that W
have been reader and subscriber OF thu
journal from the first number, that v
nave been noted in the Alliance as !
warm supporter and earnest friend th'
the change OF ownership to the prese'
p,oprietors the son, and son-in-law,
an old friend and ''comrade in arms
could not have lessened the existil
friendship. These gentlemen may kno
ofsome reason why we ought to be
them grudge, but it they do we a
ignorant off. and it is unnecessary for
10 disclaim having entertained any SUI
hostile feelings.