The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1890-09-05
ATHN STORY.


covery. 1t has found out that the
movement called the farmers alliance
Is confederate scheme to turn the
country over to the Democratic party.
1t publishes what purports to be an ac-
count of the origin of the farmers alli-
anee as furnished by Southern
Gentleman" whom Kansas man met
recently on a railroad train. The
story is to the effect that the inception
of the farmers alliance was In the
South; that it is made up chiefly of ex-
confederates; that its original purpose
was to disrupt the Republican party
in the North, and restore the Demo
cracy to the control of the govern
ment. According to the statement of
the Southern Gentleman" Kansas
was decided upon by the founders of
the alliance in the South as the CEN
trail point of attack. The Sunffower
state is to be captured first. This
plan Of campaign was agreed upon be-
cause the South hates Kansas and
hates Ingalls, and because, as is set
forth by the "Southern Gentleman.
farmers are easily deluded and led in
any direction by men who can talk
glibly and get their confidence. No
class is more easily gulled by glitter
ing generalities and more thoroughly
moved by appeals to their prejudices
than the mass of the farmers" The
sore-headed politicians were to be
brought in, the resubmissiOnists cor
raled, and with the Democrats who
could be coanted upon as being solid
for the movement, Kansas was to be
wrested from Republican supremacy,
and with Kansas in the Democratic
column, the biggest part of the battle
would be fought.
The author of this interesting dis
closure would not consent to reveal his
name to the public because he lives in
the South, and if it were known that
he has given the snap away, the ex-
confederates would make it too warm
for him to he quite healthy. His iden-
tity is therefore hidden under a desig-
nation which conceals his personality
and merely hints at his local habIta-
tion.
The Capital treats the matter in all
seriousness, and makes all earnest ap-
peal in its editorial columns to the
voters of Kansas to avoid the danger
GUS pitfall which the designing ex- con-
federates have laid for them. 1t is
fearful lest Kansas should be betrayed
by trick into surrendering the re-
suits of the war, and it puts on his
guard every man who believes in the
Union and is opposed to the extension
of slavery. 1t adjures the farmers of
Kansas to employ solemn deliberatiOn
in making up their minds whether
'they will play into the hands of the
Southern Democrats who have ruled
Congress for nearly the entire period
| since the war, by force and fraud, and
by which they also elected a President
whose whole business was to kill pen
| sion bills and advocate free trade and
| the demonstration of silver"
1t is truly surprising that as sensi-
BILE paper as the Capital should at
| tach any Importance whatever to the
silly story to which it deYotes three
columns of space. The whole thing,
from beginning to end, bears upon its
face the impress of fake" and if
it had not appealed to the partisan
prejudices of the Capital that paper
would never have given it moments
consideration. The farmers move
ment is too spontaneous and far reach
ing to admit of the theory that it is the
result of a conspiracy. 1t is by no
means complimentary to the intelli-
gence of the farmers of the North to
assume that they have been hoodwink-
ed by the ex-confederates of the South,
and made unconcious parties to Il mere
political plot. The farmers alliance
had its rise in causes which are clear
ly apparent to any careful student of
current events. The prevailing eco
nOmic conditions made the Organiza-
ton a necessity, and it is a perfectly
logical result of the abuses which it
seeks to correct. Concerted action on
the part of the farmers has been rem
dered imperative by the insoience of
mOnopolies and the Determinations
which have been made against the
agricultural classes. The Capitals
attempt to discredit the alliance by
trying to make it appear that it is the
outgrowth of ex-confederate influence
| aud is the creature of the ''Brigadiers"
is unworthy Of that paper and will not
benefit the party for which it speaks.
No effort to bring out the bloody shirt
in Kansas this year will succeed. That
garment is barred by the statute of
limitations. The farmers now are in
the saddle and not the brigadiers.
Richmond surrendered twenty-five
years ago, and the peOble of the coun-
try are now preparing to wipe out the
last relic of the rebeilion-the war
taxes of which they have grown weary.
TX. C.. Star.