Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1890-11-26
THE FARMERS, MOVEMENT.
Hsw The Democratic Party Proposes 70
Corral the Alliance In Politics.

Corral the Alliance in Politics.
From the st. Louis Republic.
(Dem.): Senator Harris of Tennes-
see expresses the opinion that the
Farmers movement has run its
course and that it will not figure at
all in the campaign of 1892.
In our opinion Mr.. Harris ex-
presses a view based on altogether
insufficient information. Nothing,
to our mind, Is more certain than
that the Farmers movement will
decide the election of 1892 IN favor
of the party that intelligently advo-
Gates the principles Of Jehersonian
democracy.
II by any folly the democratic or
gsnizstion could bs put in opposition
to this movement, the democratic
machine would be smashed" But
we anticipate nothing Of the kind
Mr.. H arris' own state of Tennessee
has set AL example of the highest
political wisdom in this respect. II
threw open all its doors to the move
ment with come in, gentlemen;
this 10 your party; make yourselves
at home here which the Tennes-
see farmers did with a rush. II,
after getting iu, they shocked the
feelings of the holisekeepers by in
considerate treatment of certain ven
srable articles of furniture, by sitting
down on them first and requesting
their removal TO the garnet after
wards, 1t was no more than was to
be expected. The main thing was
that these farmers, being democrats,
were made to feel at home in their
party, and that instead of hamper
ing it they gave 1t a new momentum.
AS a result of this movement in
the south, a democratic leader for
whom we have the highest regard
may be displaced here and there
with 3 new man, but such incidents
are inevitable in the changes of our
politics. and though those who are
thus threatened may temporarily y
despair of our institutions we trust
and believe that they will live to re-
jslce that the whole country, for
this generation and the next, has
been infinitely benefited by their
sacrifice.
But it is In the West that the
Farmers movement will achieve it,
greatest results. The West is the
battle-ground of our future politics
, where the struggle for larger free
dom aud for the justice so long de-
MED IL to be decided. The Farmers
movement in the West gets impetus
from men who are democrats al
heart, but who have so long affiil
lated with the republican party OIL
civil war issues that it is hard fo
them to change at once from the re
publican TO the democratic party
The Farmers movement Is thei
"half.way house." They are OF
their way into the democratic party
aud they will never stop until they
get into 1t unless they are headed
of and deliberately stainpeded bach
into the republican corral by demo
.
cratic leaders. Having no mind Il
see this done, The Republic ha
! urged democratic farmers among it
readers to 70 into the movement, t
y preach democratic principles, and
keeping always in view the fact tha
only through the democratic part.
: IL it possible to WIN and hold free
. dom, to show the republican come
. cutters the way to make themselve
felt and to force justice for the agri
c cultural states Of the West an,
South.
The farmers movement in tn
west has already achieved gram
results. 1t has made wholesal
" slaughter of the old bloody shir
politicians who kept up civil wa
! sectionalism in the interests OF tn
y plutocratic Oligarchy. But as yet
. has only made q good beginning
o 1t will keep on until the agricuItu
i raj states, west and south, are NJ
g longer disunited in politics by tn
i follies, crimes and blunders of pas
y generations.
u OF course democrats will not in
y dorse the "sub-treasury" scheme G
! atrong government aud class social
;. issm. They cannot do that, bu
u they do not need to do 1t. 1t Is
y mere "fad," introduced by artfiI
. politicians to discredit the move
i ment. The farmers will soon throw
y 1t aside and, no longer encumbere,
y by 1t push on to achieve homes
T. government, with low taxation
: nOn.interference by government il
! trade, and q close observance of tn
u highest natural laws of finance !,
y the regulation of the currency.
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