St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-08-04
THE ALLIANCE PARTY

Notwithstanding the Pioneer Press
has written the Alliance party out of
existence, that organization still gives
signs of animation. with, the prospect
that it will be pretty lively corpse be-
fore the election is over. 1t is possible
that in the case of the Pioneer Press
the wish was father to the thought
when it solemnly averred that the AL
lance party was dead. 1t is still the
horrid nightmare which disturbs Gov.
MERRIAM'S ambitious dreams, and his
organ would readily snuff it out of ex-
istence if such a thing were possible.
But party which springs into life in
response to the demands of an oppressed
and tax-ridden class, and that class
constituting, as it does, the basis of all
material prosperity, is not apt to expire
at the command of a machine organ.
When new parties are manufactured
simply to suit the purposes of design
ing politicians their sudden collapse is
in the natural order of things. But
it is different where a party is founded
on principle, and where it assumes Or
ganization without the aid of the pro-
fessional politicians. The Alliance
movement i'll this state is part of a
general movement extending into all of
the states, and wherever 1t appears it
succeeds in creating the utmost con-
sternation among the old parties.
Down South, in Georgia and the Caro-
linas, it is playing havoc with the Dem
| ocratic organization. In Kansas and
| Nebraska it is knocking the stuffing out
OF the Republican party. With these
notable examples of the power and in
f1uence of the Alliance in unsettling
political conditions, and its success in
causing stampede of the old political
hacks, it is not probable that the Min
nesota farmers are going to voluntarily
surrender the vantage ground they now
occupy. The farmers of this state have
as much or more to complain of than
| the farmers in Kansas and in Georgia.
| They suffer the same expressions. only
| in more aggravated form; hence it is
not reasonable to suppose that, after
| having organized party and placed a
ticket in the field, which will have as
| fair show of success as any ticket that
| will be in the field this year, they will
| break ranks at the first fire and surren.
der their organization. The Alliance
movement was not organized for that
purpose, as the machine organ will find
out before the campaign is over.
1t is true the Alliance leaders are not
| making much of noise, except the few
who are receiving hire from the M Err
RAM machine and who are doing their
utmost to break up the Alliance party.
But the leaders who made the party,
and are able to keep it together, are eX-
eeedingly quiet just now. The Pioneer
Press CONSTITUTES their silence into pur-
pose to abandon the fight, when, as a
matter of fact, they are just getting a
good ready to enter the fight. They are
organizing and aligning their forces,
and when the trumpet sounds the battle
| call the machine organs will be sur
priSed to see what an army there will
| be of them.
The fact that the Alliance party has
not opened brass band campaign is
| the evidence of good sense on the part
! of the leaders. They are really better
politicians than their enemies give them
credit for. More can be accomplished
! by quiet and judicious work than by
the footing Of horns and the Haunting
of banners. The ''hoorah'' of cam
! paign doesn't count for anything except
in the wind-up, when it can be made
effective in getting the forces into line
| for the final charge.