The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1890-11-20
THE VICTORIOUS FARMERS.

In looking over the causes that con-
tributed to the overwhelming defeat of
the Republicans on Nov. 4, it becomes
evident that it was essentially victo
~ of the farmers aud laboring men of
the country. over the combined forces
of the manufacturers and mill owners
backed by all the power of this cor
rupt administration.
In 1888 the Democratic party was
fully committed to the policy of lower
IMPORT taxes and cheaper living for
the masses. For time Northern la :
boring men could not be persuaded
that the absurd promises Of the pro
tectionists that higher tariff would
bring better wages and cheaper neces
saries were a snare and delusion.
The working of the Mckinley bill
Soon opened their eyes tn the true po-
sition of the Republican party towards
the wage earners. The Republican
press may howl that the bill hasn't
been given trial, and that the imme-
date rise in prices was not due to pro
tectian but to the greed OF re tailers,
but tue farmers gave their answer to
this sophistry at the ballot box They
will ha,e none of it. They hove
caught on to the idea of protection and
understand in whose favor Mckinley
g. Co. are working.
TIE Farmers Alliance was well or
ganized in most of the Western and
Northern States and did grand work
for the cause Of good government.
Ohio was the only one Of the great
northwestern states in which the farm
ers were not organized, and to this is
probably due the only partial defeat
of the Republicans. Had the Buck
eye farmers been we'll organized, they
would have swept the state for the
cause of Democracy and tariff reform.
Look at Kansas and Iowa. These
great agricultural states have been
giving a republican majority of any
where from forty to ninety thousand
majority. What has brought about
the revolution? Nothing less than
the organized, intelligent farmers
vote. They have long been tired of
the burdens imposed upon them by
the high tariff humbug, but have new
er before been brought together in
effective unity 8" they could make
themselves felt. Although they failed,
by Il few votes, of electing their Gov
ernor in Kansas, they have gained the
Legislature and Will retire the pluto
crat, Ingalls,. who has been lending
money to the laboring men of the
State at Is per cent. interest, to the
shades of private life. A great effort
will be made to buy up some of the
Alliancemen by the politicians SO that
John j. Ingalls, may be sent back to
the Senate to look after the interests
ofthe trusts. If this attempt should
be successful, then farewell to the in
fiuence and power Of the Alliance in
Kansas. But we have better opin-
ion of the honor and earnestness of the
farmers than that they will become
the football for corrupt politicians to
kick whittier they list.
The farmers of the country demand
cheap money, free coinage of silver,
cheaper necessaries, less law and more
Liberty. These they intend to have, if
possible.
s,Ifthe Democrats gain possession of
all the branches of this government In
1892, as seems PROBABLE, they will
pass the free coinage bill. lower the
tariff, and pass other wise laws for the
relief of the farmers. If they should
fail to do this, their political goose
would he efectualIy cooked at the
next election, and the farmer vote
wou d fall upon them with the same
sickening thud as that which has just
paralyzed the G. 0. p. At present,
with the Presidency and the Senate in
the hands of the enemy, the Demo-
Gratis will not be able to accomplish a
great deal, but wait for 1892.