Omaha daily bee., 1890-08-23
THE ALLIANCE PARTY.
"A Farmer Declares That the Alliance
is Not a Political Party.

IL MOI u IohIkCat Eutty.
SILVER CREEK, Neb, August 2l.-To the
Editor of TIE BEE; Mr. j. Burrows in a
half column editorial in his ''official organ"
of the 10th attempts to prove that the new
party, of which he is godfather prophet,
priest and king, is not party He is con-
tmualIy insisting on this; he seems to be
very sensitive on this point; parties are such
terrible bad things that he seems very much
distressed for fear somebody will think he
has been trying to start n party If the new
party is not party, win Mr.. Burrows some
time kindly tell us what is the essential diff
ference between it and the real genuine
arti Gle! lie appears to think 1t Is not
part V, chiefly on the ground that as vet he
has not seen fit to name his bastard OH
spring, just AS though all of us had not
known babies to live and grow fat for two
years or more without name. If he is now
SO firmly persuaded it is not Il party, ] appre
hend that after November next ne viii have
no possible doubt of it.
But If this ''it' is not party, what is it!
1t has all the ear marks of a party; looks
like party; acts like party and if ] may
be pardOncd for the seeming lweVGrcnCo to-
ward the father of it, smells like party, |
sometimes argue to an alliance man, la
Burrows, that this ''t' is not a party, and
almost invariably the innocent granger re-
CARDS me with an injured Look as though l
were trying to guy him and answers "Well,
if it is not party what is itP' Echo re-
spends, ''What is ito'
But why should our dictator 50 strenuOusly
insist that the new party Is not Il party
Principally for two reasons:
/. His standing in the alliance, his con-
sistency, his honor absolutely depends upon
his upholding that fiction, and
2 If he can make voters believe they can
vote the new party ticket without losing
caste in the old parties, then he will greatly
increase the chances of the new party.
Now in both these particulars he appears
as the arrant lluave and demagogue and in
previous letters | have shown him aud
his p5cOWOrlcrs to be traitors to the
alliance From his sublime standpoint of
self-assumed virtue he may ignore the points
that | make against him, but the farmers will
not ignore them and next fall their votes VIII
show that they were able to penetrate the
flmSy veil with which he attempts to hide
his own political trickery while he piously
points to the republican party and utters the
culprits cry, stop, thefN'
ii he can make the alliance believe that the
| political war they are now Waging is not a
| partisan contest then he in u measure clears
| himself Mr. Powers, Mr.. Thompson and
others of the charges have made against
| them.
| [ will not here offer any further considera-
| tions to show that the alliance is engaged in
a partisan contest; the fact is potent 10 all !;
! to undertake to prove it would be about like
! trying to demonstrate our axiom.
AS TO the second point, what republican,
y
! ticket and done all that he could TO defeat
his own party would have the face to gointo
republican primary year from this fall
and claim right to take part in iti | do
not believe that Mr. Burrows, with
all his offrontery and check, would
undertake to say that such mau had not
| Justly forfeited all his old party rights and
! privileges.
And yet, while Mr.. Burrows insists that
| his nondescGpt Is not n party, he evidently
has "A longing anticipation that it may some
| time become one. His bowels ycarn for the
day to come when his ''declaation of princl'
plesn shall become the platform OF great
national party. II pains me to say that |
| think that day will mover come; but, If IL
does come, pledge him on my sacred honor
that, il my feet are yet permitted to tread
my native sod, viii rise in my place and
! with uncovered head move that the nation,
! with big az, ~ erect a monument In eadur-
| ing and cmblcmatc brass to the memory OF
the three founders of that great and glorious
party, viz, Bellamy, Burrows and Bam'
6oozlem. CHARLES WOOSTER.