The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1890-08-14
FARMERS ALLIANCE.
OPEN THE WAY.
How to Make the congressman of tho
Wost and South Vote Right

How to Make the congressman of tho
Wost and South Vote Right.
VIII You pardon word from ono on
She "rctircd list" relative to tho now
Peoples party? This Is movement OF
/ vast importance If 1t can be mado sue
cessfui Let tho report go out after
election that tho vote of Kansas has
; boon changed from Il plurality of 50,
600 for the high-tax and high-pricod
money party Of 10000 majority for tho
ieoplc's party, and the effect would bo
felt not only at Washington but at tho
capital OF every civilized government on
the globe. 1t would DO worth moro to
tho cause of labor and the people than
thousand strikes and labor riots,
because 1t would demonstrate
tho power of tho ballot in
rlghtlng wrongs. And the wrongs
would DO rightod. Such vote would
put every Congressman in tho ontiro
west and South to work for Western
anu Southern intorcstS Instead OF Wall
etrcot and Pittsburgh. The Peoples
party would not havo to wait for rcliof
TIL their own members took their seats.
but thcy would find tho work wcl ad-
vanccd botorc March 4, 1881. Such
oclnR lts Importance, no mistakes should
DO made Tho Peoples party should bc
no closo communion party, but as broad
In Its invitation for voters and co-worl1-
ers as tho namo would imply. Lot all tho
people be madc welcome who can stand
on tn" platform of tho industrial claSscs
adopted ut st. Louis. Ono resolution or
expression At tho late convention has q
bad look. IL is to tho Cffuct TINT nc
nominee OF tho Peoples party should
accept tho nomination OF any other
party. This looila too narrow for a Poo
plc's party or for tho emergency. If,
when ticket shall have been selected
OF good and true men who stand orcct
on tho St. Louis platform, the Union
Labor party chooses to bring out its
machine and indorso the ticket, must
candidates treat them with discourtcsy
and reject their nomination? SO of tho
Democratic party. If, when the Demo
Gratis find that every plank Of tho ST.
Louis industrial platform is taken from
Jefferson, Jackson, Calhoun, Ben
ton, and the founder. of their
party, they should decide to in
dorsc not only the Peoples plat
form but the ticket also, and
operate thCir party machinery for its
election, must tho nominees rcpcl them?
so OF dlSaifCCtcd members of tho q. y.
H. If their posts SEQ fit officially 20
Join in the procession Of tho pooplc for
the people, must they bo insultcd and
ordered out Of the column? Also, thcrc
arc scores Of Republican newspapers that
disagree with tho plutocratic, Wall
street policy of Congress- and should
they, for the purpose Of administering
q robukc, fall into line, must thoy be
rcpulscd?
In 1854 Congress removed all tho bar
| ricrs to tho progress Of black slavery,
and IL started out on its march via
Kansas to Bunker Hill monument;
concluded they would keep 1t
out Of Kansas. Those men were
of all rartios and shades OF opinion
Some wcro Yankee and SomC wore Lib.
cral Wings, some bourbon and sOmc
Barn-burncr Democrats, sOmc were Lib
crty party or FrcoSoil mon and some
AbolitionistS, but all wcro for a free
State in Kansas. They accepted the
situation and adopted platform with
only ono plank, k,namcly-Frco State.
No questions wcro asked as to party
affiliations, and all were equally well
como at tho communion table. So,
now, when Kansas proposes to check
the advanSc OF white slavery, let all
who will join the army of industrial
freedom be welcome In this first and
most important encounter C. Robin
son, In Kansas Farmer