The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1890-08-15
FARMERS ALLIANCE.
OPEN THE WAY.

How to Make tho Congressman of tho
wcst and South Vote Right.
Will you pardon word from ono on
tho retired list" relative to tho now
Peoples party? This is q movement Of
cessful Let tho report go out after
election that the vote of Kansas has
been changed from u plurality Of S2,-
600 for the high-tax and high-prtced
money party Of so, 600 majority for tho
Peoples party, and the effect would be
felt not only at Washington but at the
capital Of every civilized government on
the globe. 1t would be worth moro to
the cause Of labor and the people than
q thousand strikes and labor riots,
because IL would demonstrate
the power of the ballot in
signrfng wrongs. And the wrongs
would DO righted. Such vote would
put every Congressman in the entire
West and South to work for Western
and Southern interests, instead OF Wall
street and Pittsburgh. The Peoples
party would not havo to wait for relief
till their own members took their seats,
but they would find the work we'll ad-
vanced boforc March 4. 1891. Such
being Its importance, no mistakes should
be made. The Peoples party should DO
no close communion party, but as broad
In Its invitation for voters and co-work-
ers as the namo would imply. Let all tho
people be made welcome who can stand
on tho platform of the industrial classes
adopted at st. Louis. One resolution or
expression at tho lato convention has a
bad look. 1t Is to tho effect that nc
nominee OF the Peoples party should
accept the nomination OF any other
party. This looks too narrow for Poo
ple's party or for tho emergency. H.,
!, when, astacket shall es6tee4u aefast6II1
Of good and true.a1 - o. stSs tesSs$
on tho ST. Louis platform. the Union
Labor party chooses to bring out its
machine and indorso the ticket, must
candidates treat them with discourtesy
and reject their nomination.? So Of tho
Democratic party. If, when the Demo
Gratis find that every plank of the st.
Louis industrial platform is taken from
Jefferson, Jackson, Calhoun. Bon
ton, and the founders of their
party, they should decide to In
dorse not only the Peoples plat
form but the ticket also. and
operate their party machinery for its
election, must the nominees repel them?
So Of disaffected members of tho G. A.
r. If their posts see fit officially to
join in the procession CO tho people for
the people, must they be insulted and
ordered out of the column? Also, there
are scores of Republican newspapers that
disagree with tho plutocratic, Wall
street policy Of Congress, and should
they, Tor the purpose Of administering
rebuke, fall into line, must they be
ropulsed?
In 1854 Congress removed all tho bar
ricrs to the progress Of black slavery,
and It started out on It's march via
Kansas to Bunker Hill monument
and q fcw mon, in 1854. '55, SO,
concluded they would keep II
out Of Kansas These mon were
OF all parties and shades OF opinion.
Somo were Yankee and some were Lib
eral Wings, some Bourbon and some
Barn-burnGr Democrats, some were Lib
erty party or Free-Soil men and some
Abolitionists, but all were for a free
State in Kansas. They accepted the
situation and adopted a platform with
only ono plank, ,namely-Free State
No questions wcro asked rs to party
affiliations, and all were equally wei.
como at the communion table. So,
now, when Kansas propo scs to check
tho advanse of white slavery, lot all
VINO win ioips tsGlra nt1iiaI