Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-04-24
THE ALLIANCE.

to make itself felt In Kansas and 1t was
conceded that it would be an import
ant factor in the next election, few
people ever thought the republican
party of Kansas would have the audac-
ity to meet the alliance arguments with
their old thread bare argument of pref
udice against the southern people.
That is just what the republicans are
now doing. The alliance, on nearly
every occasion, reiterates the declara-
tion that they are in favor of ''equal
rights to all and special favors to
none.'' This would seam to be pretty
healthy principle to apply to a repabli-
can form of government. Because
Ingalls, has, during his long term in the
senate, given his support to measures
in the interest of a favored few at the
expense of the many, and because
the farmers alliance declare their ina
bility to point to single measure that
ingalls, has ever championed in their
interest during his long service in the
senate, ,sand refuse longer to support
him, the republican, newspapers of
Kansas are making a direct fight on
the alliance. The National Economist,
a paper published in the interest of the
alliance, has reiterated the charges Of
the Kansas alliance and demands
Ingalls, retirement. The Economist
rejoices that the action of the Kansas
alliance gives evidence that they are
no longer governed by sectional hate
but are now looking to their own inter-
est. In reply to this statement the
Leavenworth Times, Col. Anthony's
paper, and leading republican paper
of Kansas, saws:
Now, the resolution adopted by the
convention at Topeka did not SO much
as mention Senator Ingalls, course on
the southern question. Its authors did
not dare to give this as a reason for
fighting him, for they mew that on this
question he has 80 900 bnajOrity of the
Kansas people with hin. But just the
same the Economist is right-thongh
indiscreet-in attributing the attack
upon ingalls, to the opposition he has
aroused by his condemnation of south
ern methods of carrying elections. Let
us see:
The president of the National Farm
ers' Alliance is L. l.. Polk, of North
Carolina. Its secretary is J. III.
Turner, of Georgia. Its treasurer is
w. II. Hickman, of Missouri. Its lee
turer is Ben Terril, ef Texas. And
the only one of it's CHIEF officers who is
resident of state that is not part
of the solid south is the vice-president,
Ben. H. Glover, a renegade republican
of Kansas.
"a renegade republican Of Kansas?"
Every republican in Kansas who is a
member of the alliance, according to
this infallible republican party organ is
renegade. A republican who asks
fer equal justice for all, is a renegade;
the republican who asks for free coin
age of silver is a renegade; the repub-
lican who asks that means of trans
portation be owned and operated in the
interest of the people, is renegade;
the republican who asks for free sugar
and bounty to home producers, is a
renegade; the republican who asks for
the abolition of trusts, is renegade;
the republican who demands the reduc-
tion of the salaries of county officers, is
renegade. The republican who asks
that expenses of state and county print
ing be reduced, is a renegade. Any
republican who will not support a
republican for United States senator
who is opposed to the above things
enumerated is renegade. Any repub-
lican who is opposed to giving up his
the debt to hang over him, is a rene
gade. These are some of the things
| which Ben. II. Clover, vice-president of
| the alliance, has endorsed, and for
| which a leading republican paper in
Kansas calls him renegade republican.
1t must necessarily follow that every
other republican, who believes as does
Mr.. Glover, is renegade republican.
Oh! you alliance rebels, come back
into the republican camp and howl
against the southern people or you will
be everlastingly lost. How are the rob-
ber barons and trusts going to continue
to rob you if you quit standing on your
hind legs and bowling, like ingalls,, at
the south.
| The farmers alliance of Kansas can
| do good work, not only for the farm
ers, but for the whole state.'' How!
By voting the republican ticket. just
what they have been doing ever since
Kansas became d state. They have
voted that ticket until they have been
nearly robbed of their house and home
But keep up the rebel howl; if thai
fails the republican party of Kansas
will meet an overwhelming defeat al
the polls next fall.-Wichita Denocrct
Will They Do It?
A correspondent of the Kansas
Farmer talks plainly on the subject OF
"Who shall be senator?" in the follow
ing manner:
what the farmers of Kansa: