Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1890-11-22
Republicanism in the North.

OI tnc NOrtnWest, whose 1arm.
ing is the principal interest, that
Northeastern Republicanism can
manage Northwestern Republi
canism without making any con.
cessions to it.
The stronghold of the farmers
interest is in the South, and De.
mocracy, the dominent party of
the South, ought to be the party
of the farmer. But it is not, and
lie not likely to be under the pres
ent management of the Demo-
cratic. party.
The men who are elected to
office are nominated by profess
sional politicians who live about
the towns and who are not in
sympathy with the farming in
terests.
These town politicians nearly
always use liquor and money to
effect their purposes, and il is
therefore almost practically inn
possible to put into office men
who are known to be opposed to
this, and the great mass of the
farming community of the bet.
ter class is opposed to this; so
that the interests of the farmer
and the plans of Southern De-
mocracy are radically at variance.
The plan by which the Alliance
people may best accomplish their
purposes is to coalesce with the
ProhibitiOnists in their effort to
overthrow the liquor traffic; help
them to elect sober and moral men,
in which event the country would
stand even better chance for rep
resentatiOn than the towns, and
with this kind of men in office the
just claims Of the farmer would be
most naturally secured to him.
The statistics of our country
show that an immense per cent. of
the physical and moral evils of the
land proceed from the use Of
liquors. The Use of liquor by our
politicians, either personally or to
influence others, is almost univer-
sal; and as the country is full OF
political evils of which the farmer
is the greatest victim, it is reason
able to suppose that the use OF
liquors is the cause of this evil
Just as we see it to be the cause OF
the evils of which the Governments
statistics can, and do, take cogni
zance. The thing for the Farm.
, ers' Alliance men to do then is tC
fall in with the Prohibitionists and
help them to cut the tap root o.
; the whole trouble-the liquor traf
! fc.
Let any farmer in Fayctte coun
| ty or the Bluegrass region look a
: the discouraged condition of tn
1 farming interests here, and then lie
e him remember how many of thos
! who represent us, from the Unite
States Senators down, are habitua
r an excessive drinkers of whisky
the worst and most demoralizin
1 of all drinks, and he will see caus
r and effect indissolubly linked to
: gether.
:, Overthrow these men by tn
: principles of Prohibition and pu
sober and high toned moral me
t in their places, and you will hav
l in power the class of men t
= whom the sober and just claims Q
: the farmers, who has the pures
and most honest of all callings
h will naturally suggest themselves
}, / caught from among the most in
? telligent of these Alliance me
t some significant appropriations O
! this idea.
They had their headquarters a
| the Ashland House in this city
f and the main Office was nearly al
the time crowded with them.
: From this Office there is an open
, ing into a saloon. One Of tn
/, Alliance men said to me, "Witl
l all these Alliance men in here,
have been watching that door AM
l it rarely opens. If these wer
Democrats, that bar-keeper in ther
! would have to employ extra help.
8 Those of us who have been t
. the old party conventions and tn
Prohibition conventions at Lieder
, kranz Hall, in Louisville, probabl
remember the saloon attached t
A the building that is opened for tn
: old party conventions and unOccu
D pied when the Prohibitionists ar
I there.
9 If the Alliance people cast il
e their lot with US we can sweep tn
+ country. They can all consistently
! be PrOhibitionists, because that
) a platform upon which all mora
, men and good citizens can stand
But all PrOhibitiOnists can not b.
3 Farmers Alliance men, becaus
| u large portion Of the Prohibi
tionists are not farmers at all am
/ many of our most influential mel
) are ministers and other professions
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