The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1890-08-07
THE ALLIANCE.

Said substantial farmer to the editor
of the HERALD few days since, Are you
not going to espouse the cause of the far
mer this fal?l" A very proper question,
indeed. and readily answered in the af-
frmative- When pressed as to what the
questioner meant by the "cause of the
farmer" it developed that he individual
ly meant such men nominated by the al
lance conventions as had formerly been
democrats. That farmer is now and al
ways has been a consistent democrat,
and will support the alliance nominees
for member of the legislature and county
commissioner in this district, was in
doubt as to the governor and the balance
OF the state ticket, and openly repudiated
the alliance nomination for member of
congress. And isn't that about the sort
of support the alliance will receive from
the democratic members of it-soliciting
votes for the cause from republicans,
while reserving the right to scratch out
every name which has previously been
enrolled as republican. Take this coun-
ty as a fair sample. The St. Cloud
Times urges the democrats to endorse
Messrs Brown and Cleveland, both dem.
ocrats, in this the only republican dis
trict in the county, but says not word
about supporting the state or congress
sional nominations of the alliance.
he I'm -.
lance was started in politics as mere
democratic annex, but the leaders of the
democracy are straining every nerve to
make it so. They are posing for pur-
pose. They are ardent advocates of its
candidates when such candidates are
democrats-but they do not even assume
to endorse the principles of the move
ment, much less IT'S candidates who are
or haye been republicans. They would
use the organization to pull down the re-
publican party in this state, and install
in the legislature and the executive de-
partments the friends and tools of the
democratic triumvirate, Messrs Kelly,
Doran and Hill. Turned oyer to the ten
der mercies Of these men, the interests of
the farmers would be protected, as the
dove cote was protected by the hawk,
in the fable.
A word to the farmers of this vicinity:
Read carefully the platforms of the ALI
ance and republican conventions and
compare them. In what do they differ
upon points of special interest to the far
mer? But, says the anti-republican,
what assurance have we that the repub-
lican party will honestly carry out this
platform if successful at the polls? The
statute books are the best evidence. All
the legislation so far achieved in favor of
the agricultural class has been distinc-
lively republican.
The strongest fact in refutation of this
position is the Mckinley bill now pend
ing, which has been made a caucus meas
urea most illogical, untenable and i'll
advised movement. 1t has been repudi-
ated by leading republicans, not only of
the northwest, but of the east, the most
conspicuous being James G. Blaine-and
no one can question his loyalty to his
party. High protective tariff is not con-
ducive to northwestern prosperity. Pro-
lection, pure and simple, such as is de-
demanded by both alliance and republi-
can platforms of Minnesota, is the only
tenable policy for purely agricult-
aral districts, and the HERALD submits
that the republican party can be relied
upon to make that policy effective.