The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-12-16

sanship that derives its feeling and its
motives from the political antipsthies of
a generation now passing away. If to be
opposed to perpeEuating these antiquities
makes any organization Of citizens an
" a~ttachnent to the Democratic party"
ItHmuSt . conceded that that is tFe only
party which can lay claim TO being ma
tional Ill its spirit and purpose, and a
charge Of this kind is the highest c0n phi
ment that could be paid to it by It's enc
mics or its friends.
10 view of the unde liable fact that a
large part of the support of the Farmers
Alliance in the Western States is drawn
from the ranks Of the Republican party,
the assumption that it is already working
in behalf of the Democratic party can
hardly be assuring to intelligent Republi-
cans. 1t shows how far the party estrauge-
ments has gone, and the charge that
members Of the organization are virtually
Democrats is calculated to confirm and
perpetuate the estrangeme t and to
induce those who have heretofore been
Republicans to act with the Democrats
hereafter. Mr.. Dingley, of Maine, is n
of the men who are disposed to treat the
Alliance as q attachment to the Demo
cratic party" and he assumes that in 1892
1t will not put a national ticket in the
field, out instruct its supper ers in each
Stat to take such part in the campaign
as they may think wise. We fail to see
what comfort he can derive fir om that as
sum )tlon. l the organization is now de
nounced as a mere appurtenance of the
Democrat tic party, and if it's protest against
the Force bill is UNDECIDED as the effect of
Dem cratic wire-pulling, wha: chance is
there that It's Republican mem oers IN 1892
will think it wise to support the party
which has treated their action WITH con
tempt IN respect to )ne of the purposes
which it has most earnestly q owed?
1t is not the farmers alone or the lin
iuStrlal" classes that are associated with
them in the Alliance movement VIII are
opposed to maintaining the spirit of
S~eCtlOnalism. II there should be an as
ISOLATION of merchants, or manufactu, erS,
or traders intent upon promoting their
interests throughout the country, they
would also find that a continued division
of feeling between North aad South
would be destructive of their purpose
and in conficl with the interests which
they sought to promote. The continued
prosperity Of the coun ry depends upon
harmony between the sections and an
uninterrupted Co. operation in industrial
and commercial effort among the States
North and South, This is plain to any
b ,dy of citizens the moment they assocl-
ate themselves together for any purpose
Invested Of party motives. 1t is useless to
maintain that a national election law is
no intended to excite sectional antaQo
nisms, for tat is certain to be it's effect,
aud it is, in fact, the purpose of its pro
motors, who have the mistaken idea that
their parry will profit by it in the North.
The very existapce Of the Farmers Ali
ance in the States of the West and North
west, and its avowed principle IN regard
to this matter, ought to convince them to
the contrary, bat hey do no seem t. be
open to conviction, to appeal, or to pro-
test. They are cherishing al obstinate
determination to try the patience of the
people yet once more.-N Y Tunes.