The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1890-08-15
FARMERS ALLIANCE.
OPEN THE WAY.
How to Make the congressman OF the
Wc.t nnh South Vote Right.

How to Make the congressman OF tho
w~st and south Vote Right.
Will y"u pardon Il word from ono on
the "rctircd list" relative to tho now
Peoples party? This Is q movement Of
vast Importance II 1t can be mado sue
ccssful. Let tho report go out after
election that the vote of Kansas has
been changed from plurality of S2,-
600 for the high-tax and high-priccd
money party of $4,000 majority for tho
Peoples party, and the effect would be
felt not only at Washington but at tho
capital Of every civilized government on
the globe. 1t would DO worth moro to
the cause of labor and the people than
thousand strikes and labor riots,
because IL would demonstrate
the power of the ballot in
Fighting wrongs. And the wrongs
would DO righted. Such vote would
put evcry Congressman in tho ontire
West and South to work for Western
and Southern interests, instead OF Wall
street and Pittsburgh. Tho Peoples
party would not havo b wait for reliof
till their own members took their seats.
but they would find tho work we'll ad-
vanccd before March 4, 1891. Such
be made. The Peoples party should bc
no close communion party, but as broad
In its invitation for voters and co-work-
crs as the namo would imply. Let all tho
people he made welcome who can stand
on tho platform of tho industrial classes
adopted at ST. Louis One resolution or
expression at tho late convention has a
bad look. 1t il to tho effect that nc
nominee OF tho Peoples party should
accept the nomination Of any other
party. This looks too narrow for Poo
ple's party or for tho emergency. If,
when astickct OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Of good and truemS Wn6 stSnE efaef
on tho ST. Louis platform. tho Union
Labor party chooses to bring out its
machine and indorsc the ticket, must
candidates treat them with discourtcsy
and ject their nomination? SO of tho
Democratic party. If, when the Demo
Gratis find that every plank of tho st.
Louis industrial platform is taken from
Jefferson, Jackson, Calhoun. Bon
ton, and the founders of their
party, they should decide to In
dorsc not only the Peoples plat
form but the ticket also. and
operate their party machinery for its
election, must the nominees rcpcl them?
So Of diSaifcctcd members of tho G.. a.
r. If their posts sec fit officially to
join in tho procession Of tho people for
the people, must they ho insultcd and
ordered out Of the column? Also, there
are scores of Republican newspapers that
disagree with tho plutocratic, Wall
street policy of Congress. and should
they, Tor tho purpose of administering
rcbukc, fall into limo. must they be
rcpulScd?
In 1854 Congress- removed all tho bar
ricrs to tho progress of black slavery
and 1t started out on It's march via
Kansas TO Bunker Hill monuments;
and few mon, in 1854, '55, SO,
concluded they would keep it
out of Kansas. These mon wcrc
OF all parties and shades OF opinion.
Some were Yankee and some were Lib
cral Wings, some Bourbon and some
Barn-burnGr Democrats, some were Lib
crty party or Frcc-Soil men and somc
Abolitionists, but all were for Il free
State in Kansas. They accepted the
situation and adopted platform with
only one plank, ,namcly--Frce State
No questions were asked as to party
affiliations, and all were equally well
como at the communion table. SO,
now, when Kansas proposes to check
tho advanse of white slavery, lot all
VINO WIN join tAaGrarlzS' - -
freedom be wclcoM' III
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