Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-01-24

weeks ago we gave 6u1LOT DGyl Oh tEt5
Logan Freeman, a little plain talking
to, for raising the party war whoop
and trying to head of the Farmers
Alliance movement and drive all re-
pubIicsn and democratic members of
the Alliance out of those parties and
into the Union Labor party. We re-
minded him of the fact that the Al
/ lance is not a political organization,
and that any attempt of a member Of
one Of the three political parties to
make it political would arouse the
prejudice and antagOnism Of mem
bers of the other parties and set them
to pulling each others political ears,
and thus retard and iniure the AL
lance. Our article was temperate in
! tone, respectful in expression, true In
statement, and was endorsed very
earnestly by prominent members of
the Alliance. But Notwithstanding
our fairness and unquestionabIy cor
rect position, Brother Boyd flew into
a rage and last week came back at US
in his paper with the severest denun-
Citations and personal abuse. Here
are some of his charges and epithets:
The HERALD editor is a canting old
/ hypOcrite. = = Friendly are you
to the Alliance? Why Judas Iscarot
would turn pale in your presence. s.
* Come down Off the fence. you can't
serve God and MammOn. You can't
serve the Alliance and the republican
| or democratic parties, as they are both
owned body and soul by the mOnOpO-
lists, and the leaders of the rePubll-
can party are the fathers of the whole
accursed blood. Your carrying water
on both sides has made you a marked
man as the veriest hypOcrite in the
county. Brother Dague your hypO-
critical veil is too thin. The dogs
that licked the sores on Lazarus
would pass you by, as the many var
ieties Of blood would poison the best
Of them.
From the above extracts our read
ers may see that Brother Boyd's feel
ings have been slightly rufied We
have heard that sportsmen say that If
there is considerable futtering among
a flock of birds after a discharge of
shot among them, it is a sure sign
that some of them are hit Brother
Boyd evidently was hit by our shot
or he would not take on so. We are
sorry he is so angry. Certainly he
had no cause to become so, for our
article was free from personalities
and dealt with facts alone. The whole
trend of our editorial criticism was
that the Alliance was a non-partisan
movement, and would accomplish
great good if not dragged into politi-
cal squabbles. We submit it to the
best Judgment of every candid,
thoughtful man if our statement is
correct or nOt-that if Brother Boyd
IN his paper begins to arouse party
prejudice and abuse republican and
democratic farmers, and to call them
j and their party associates robbers and
i thieves, and like complimentary
names, if such a course will not have
a tendency to cripple and injure the
Alliance? To us, and we say it in al
Z candor, it looks like he was determined
3 that no farmer, unless he pledges him
self to JON Mr.. Boyd's political party
should be allowed to join the Alliance
. He does not seem to be able to under
stand how any person can differ from
him and be honest. Because W,
sometimes criticize the action of tn,
! republican party, and endorse som,
= plank in a democratic or u. L. plat
" form, or speak commendingly Of som,
public man who Is not a republican
Bro. Boyd proceeds to declare that VI
! are son the fence" His theory seem
} to be that if a man claims to be a re
! publican he must defend everything
v republicans do, and white-wash an,
d cover up all their wrongs, and swea
by all the gods in Roman mythOlog
II that all the other parties are who'll
g corrupt, and the members thereof ar
le Williams who ought to be in the pen.
to Tertiary. For our part we can Sc
is some good and some error in all, an
p we believe we have the manIness an
T. love Of country developed in I
u enough to censure the party Of whic
rs we are a member for wrong done an
r accord credit to those of other organ
IS cations for good and patriotic acI
to without bias and prejudice. To do 5
Or is political hersey and hypocrisy
he the eyes Of the Logan Freeman.