Omaha daily bee., 1890-10-02
WOOSTER WRITES HISTORY
The Dictator of the Alliance and His
Rule OF Ruin" Policy.
SOMETHING FOR FARMERS TO THINK ABOUT
Charles Wooster. the Fdrmer or
Merrick County, Answers His De-
famers In a Spirit ell Discussion
of the Alliance Movement.

ftor of 'rHE BEE: In this letter, with your
permission IpurpOse noticing some attacks
persons to myself, andnot SO much because
they are personal as this, that while | am
made the target, they are meant more or less
to include all republican members of the a.
lance. Andright herOI may remark incid-
dentally, hat by Npu bican me embers OF the
alliance I mean those members who, having
formerly been republicans, are now intending
TO vote the party ticket, even though they
moy not in all Instances vote 1t straight.
While arepublican may be allowed some lib
erty of action, he may not place himself in
full and direct antagonIsm to his party ana
yet maintain his party standing. The claim
persistently put forth by the LEADERS, OF the
new party that he, as also democrats and
prOhibitioniss may do SO, Is not only very
absurd but very dishonest and utterly un-
worthy of men who, like themselves are
"pure and hon orblen by profession Un-
questionably voter has perfect right to
form such political connections as he may see
fit but ho should understand once for
allthatif hGstands in with the new party,
heis neithera rcpu bliCan, democrat nor
party pohi bitionist. And itmaybe remarked
further that though there may be C0mpara-
lively few members of the alliance who now
write or speak openly against the new parry,
there are yet thousands of them all over the
state who, If not now opposed to 1T, viii, aS
they CON mmence more and more TO tOunderstand
the treachcry, theduplicty and the overween-
ing ambition Of their leaders, who, in viola
tiOn of the constitution an d principles OF our
order, and in stultificaion of their own acts
and words, off cial and unofficial, have vlr-
tually Nrcedthe alliance into partisan poIit-
iCa action, see how they are being tr1cked
and mistreated by these faithless leaders and
will rcpudiate that party at the polls The
sober ed, we-m Gaming citizen will not
ulWnvS fol nv and how down tn the iTTpS
sibe mountebank who cries, "Lo, here is
Christm
As "A specimen Of the dastardly work that
is being done against epu blican members of
the alliance by their"pue and honOrab blen
brethren who have joined the new party, l
copy the following from the Farmers ALI
ance OF September l3:
COMPLIMENTS OF ALLtANcE NO. 004 TO MIR.
CHARLES WOOSTER.
SILVER CREEK, Ncb, 1S0O-Whercas, THE
BEE and other period icals Of tn g statc,ln their
efforts to obtain correspondence ad verse to
the al lane g and nue pendent ticket, arc now
bIned with insults and lies against Mr.. Bur
rows, Powers and 9th ers, q harging them with
selfish and SOrd Id motives, and one of the most
them isCharles Woos ter OF Silver Greek, who
claims to bea IN emberof the alliances tn ere
fore, bC IL
Resolved, Thatwe, tile members of ALI ance
No 94 know WOOste to be an enemy of the
alliance, and believe he became a member of
that we know him to be- cOnte ntious and un
reasonable man, and believe lin to be en-
ployedb by the railroad or some other party
For tn epu rpOse otdcfeating the ind epenoent
ficket, and we hereby denouncO him
traitor to the cause.
Now in the first place it may be noted that
The above precious document is without date
as to the month and day, the name of the ai-
ance Is not given, 1t isnot authenticated by
the signature ofthe president or secretary
and large part Of the preamble is taken
from an old editorial in The Alliance, while
as to the grammer and the rhetoric of IL, the
thing is a literary gem Of the first water.
Assuming that Burrows did not write it him
self, 1t would look as though the brethren
tried to do something and could not. To graf
MY their spleen at beng unable to answer
NE, they have, however, Su cCeeded in ar
ranging succession Of falehoods, vulgarly
known as lies, and b urrows for similar rea-
son has pu blished them.
am charged with having insuted and lied
about MesSB. Burrows and Powers. If so /
have sinned grevousy. Their sacred per-
sons ought TO be secure against the foul
breath of the slapderer But, iftheSe gentle
men wish TO be accorded that reverency and
veneration which is due unto the high priest,
The ought not to assume the airs of the polit-
1cal boss, orresort to the tricks Of the polit-
ical intriguer. There was once Ouch man
who became furiously enraged toward a
Yankee because, as the Duchman said: 'Hc
t0t me shust vatI vas" That is w hat is the
matter with Burrows and Powers / have
been telling them just what they were and
shall do 1T some more. Heretofore / have
given my chief atten ton to Mr.. Burrows be-
cause as is we'll kno Hn, he is the head of a
little political coterie Of which Mr.. Powers is
asubordinate though useful member. |
trust Mr.. Powers will not feel that he has
been neglected. If | have erred will try
and make amends by devOting my next letter
whollyto him. If 1 have been telling such
wicked lies about them. it scemsa little funny
that neither they nor any Of their supporters,
80 far as am aware, have attempted to prove
them such or to refute single charge have
made. But then / know anna foeman un-
worthy of the steel Of such doughty cham
pions.
And have Alright to make such charges.
provided produce solid evidence in support
OF them, as think | have soon eror later done
III every instance II these men, being tenn
porarily at the head Of n great ssocation of
which anna member and which by its con-
sntu tlon and laws isa non partisan assoca'
lion, attempt touse that association to break
down the political party TO which belong
and continually outrage my feelings by Wilt
lying and traducing that party, have the
right as member of the alliance to strike
back, and lshall do 50 with interest.
Ii the Farmers Alliance is the official
organ of the alliance, and II the alli-
ance is n0n-p PARTISAN what right
have the editors of that paper to make it
also, as they have done, the champion and
VI es"h ~ PpNtlSoi psif W! NNutI EBul
have they to abuse and speak c0nte mptu ously
OF party 10 which thousan ds of the mem
bers OF the alliance belongi Seldom do they
have awoM to say against democrats and
never against prohibition ionistS, but all their
walls OF wrath are reserved to be poured out
on the devoted heads of republicans. Is 1t
true that all political inamy Is conferred in
our party . Is II true that we are the willing
slaves and tools of the demagOgue and the
political cOrruptionisti 1sit true that all our
great leaders are unworthy tho respect and
confidence Of the peoplei Is it true that we
ARE the enemies of our own interests and oi
the interests of our wives and childrenl Is
IT true that we are the enemies of that coun-
try which we more than any Others once
savedwith our treasure and with our blood
think not, and il l mistake not the temper
OF the people, and especially offarmer repub-
licans, they will rebulxe these bowling hypo.
critics and will on tho fourth of next Noyem
ber set the seal of their overwhelmlng . con.
'demnation on them and on their methods
"Ne, the membersof ALLAN GO No. 994 know
Wooster TO be an enemy of the alliance ,
Talks cheap but men should have enough
Belf-respect MOTTO tell n straight up and doyyr
lie like the above. No attempt Is made u
prove their assertion and no one can quote ,
word Of mine or refer to an actwhereby an
shown to be an enemy or the alliance On tn.
contrary | have stood by tho alliance anC
have tried to protectt from the machin alton:
Of these of It's members who have been anC
are attempting to use it TO advance their owl
trates the beauty OF the alliance going int.
Ag.It -.