Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-07
BETWEEN TWO FIRES,
The Farmers Alliance Bound to be
Fought Fiercely by the Leaders
of Both the Old Parties.
MAYOR G0URLEY OUT OF POLITICS
Pittsburgers Show Their Love of Art by
Increased Patronage of Pict-
ure Stores.
MAYOR GOURLEY OUT OF POLITICS
THIEVES ENJOY BLAINES EIOQUENCE
Count Who Furnished Considerable Amusement by His
Love Of Powder

Judge Thomas Smith, of Warrenton, Va,
who has been at the Duquesne for several
DAYS, left last evening, over the Baltimore
and Ohio, for the South.
The Judge is one of the finest public
speakers in his State, which has always had
4 reputation for its orators. In chat about
the future of the Farmers Alliance, he said,
sarcastically:
at is a good thing for the disciples of
Agricola 10 organize, as long as they keep
out of politics, but the instant they start a
third party tney are bound to come to
grief. The farmers feel that they have
been excluded from the counsels of the two
great parties, and they now think If they are
properly represented that they can quickly
solve all the tough and puzzling problems of
government This feeling was born of brood
ing over their adversity, and they are even
wild enough to imagine that if the conduct
OF affairs is left to them they can make the
rain fall and the sun shine when either is
wanted.
An Outlet for Disappointment.
''The chances are that disappointed men,
who can't get anything in the Democratic or
l.
Alliance for what it is worth. President Polk
may be very disinterested man,
but be will look out for all the beneficial re-
suits AS a third party the Grangers will
be inimical to Democrats and Republicans,
and both parties will fight them. In this
case it is only question of time until they
go to pieces.
Il am a Democrat, but 1 think every
good and honest Republican is opposed to
the iorce bill. In the South we regard it as
az attempt to force the whites into sIbor-
dlnation to the negroes, and we will never
consent 10 the rule OF the blacks. We don't
object to men OF our own cuticle, and if this
race were removed from us the South would
be Indifferent to the Federal law. Even If
il is passed We will certainly devise some
plan to cIrcumvent its operation.
Bayonets and Sabers at the Polls.
Intelligence would never submit to such
an outrage. The idea of placing officers at
the polls, with bayonets and drawn sabers,
savors more of Russian tyranny than the
boasted American freedom. The attempt is
not made to pass this bill out of love for the
negro, but for the purpose of perpetuating
Eepu oicanism through him. The South
ern people do not object to the black man.
We acknowledge our dependence on him
aud his worth in the commercial world as
an emplOye, and yet we would gladly sup
plass HIM tomorrow with white labor.
In Virginia We have always had fair
ballot. The colored people are Indifferent
70 their rights to vote, and in the extreme
South seldom exercise the prerogative. In
several OF the Southern States like Louisiana
and Mississippi L believe they are in the
majority. 1t makes us angry when North
ern Republicans make charges against us
which / know are not true. saw frankly
that the ballot is fairer and more honest In
Virginia than in Pennsylvania, where white
men, am told, are bought Tor money and
coerced to vote according to dictation.
When these men come to the South and talk
about dishonest elections, is it any wonder
that we are provokedr'