The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1890-04-17
rae ALLIANCE AND Irs ADVISERS

THE ALLIANCE AND IRIS ADVISERS.
Kansss Chief
lt Is amusing TO read the advice
that IL volunteered the Farmers Al
lance by various newspapers. Take
for example, the AtchisOn Gi0be. IL
wants the Alliance TO set aside the
politicians, but still it wants 10 TO
snow under the Republican party.
IL calls upon the Alliance to fight
the tariff to the bitter end, TO de-
clare in favor of rssubmission, and
to not start grocery stores. And az
ter urging 10 Ia oppose pI election aud
prohibition, and to dsWn the Repub-
llcan party, Il wants the Alliance to
sustain Senator Ingalls,. This IL q
fair specimen Of the kind Of advice
given the Alliance. Does the Globe
Imagine that Il can start q huge
boulder rolling down the mountain
side, aud prevent 10 from crushing
any pet object that may be in the
way: That ID can set out q prairie
IRE, aud persuade IL to spare certain
flowers in its course" That IL can
harangue any class of men into q
wild crusade against certain princI-
piles, without sense or judgment to
govern them, and induce them to
grant special GaVOrs to certain
known champions Of those princi-
piles?
There are a lot of shysters, adven-
iurers, aud impractieable schemers
la the Alliance, that will carry 10 TO
any lengths. IL permitted to control
it-thBt IL what they Ere there for.
But n majority Of the members, Ws
take 10. are level headed. They
have been practical men heretofore,
aud will hardly lose their heads BY
going into the Alliance. In other
words, q large majority Of them are
Republicans. While every member
of the next legislature, or even a
MA juriiy OF them, may be Alliance
Iueu, they will at the same time be
Republicans: aud while looking out
for tue interest Of the farming aud
labOring community, they will not
become eats paw la the hands Of |
the Democracy. There IL nothing
about that party TO attract them. |
The bees may swarm from the old |
hive, but 10 will not GP because they |
want TO go aud dwell with the |
moths.
A meeting of Alliance representa-.
tlves was held ia Topeka, last week,
which seemed To be attended largely /
by the impracticables spoken of, |
and by the Union Labor and Social |
istie elements that are seeking to |
carry OUT their mischief through the
Alliance. As IL usual with them on
such occasions, they resolved la IA
vOr of or against every thing they
could think Of, aud made them
selves ridiculous. Among other
things they resolved that when a
mOrtgaged farm shrInks In value,
the person from whom the money
was borrowed should stand half the
loss. Then they resolved against
the reelection Of Senator Ingalls,,
who, al that very time, was making
= speech In the Sensts against the
trusts: Aad, to appropriately cap
the climax, they demanded the APP
pointment Of p. b. Maxaon, as Rail-
road Commissioner. This Maxson
IL q chronic shyster and fraud. He
10 q constitutional Rrumbler aud
kicker. He has belonged to every
snIde party and issue that ever came
up In the sb4e, and has been fOFsv-
Or grabbing for ONCE. he was q Re-
publican until he was kicked cut Of
= land office, when he became dis
gusted with the party, and CON- |
bAnkerlng for reform" {
He IL utterly unreliable, and unft
Tor any oft1ce. At the same time,
they resolved against engaging In I
politics A set Of men Whs resolve
against Senator Ingalls,, and IN IA Z
voF Of p. b. Maxson, would better Z
Keep cut Of politics.
As TO the Alliance emitting with {
he rcsubmissionists, 10 II sufficiens
10 state that Prohibition received I
10 heaviest vote from the farmers
N the localities where the Alliance
q nov strongest. It IL hardly prob q
lbls that they have gone into the ,
Alliance fer tbs purpose 81 kicking {
,gsinst their evn wOFk. lie