Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-10-08
CONTRADICTORY WITNESSES.

The Alliance Is Hated and Feared BY Both
Old Parties-Ingalls and Ashe.
This is a magnificent team! They
trot beautifully, in double harness,
along certain lines The Ingalls, Sian
der Bureau wrote long letter of abuse
and vile Misrepresentation to the Kan
sas people in regard to the President Of
the National Alliance. Captain Ashe
has also recently written much about
him. There is a striking and signif-
cant resemblance between the charges
made by these two representative party
men, For instance, Captain Ashe says:
HE was failure as a soldier" So says
the ingalls, Slander Bureau Captain
Ashe says: HE was failure as a
farmer" So says the Ingalls, Slander
Bureau. Captain Ashe says: HE was
failure in journalism" So says the
Ingalls, Slander Bureau.
Captain Ashe says: The Ingalls, SANDER
''WilI any consilera- Bureau says, speak.
BILE number of our ing Of fthe"rebel trait
Democratic friends let r Polk and his CO.
Colonel Polk draw conspirators:"
party and per1nH the of the scheme of these
Republicans t." tri- would be revolution
umph YER then? Tha ists is to divide the
is the question. We,R pub lean vote. and
think not. We believe to clpture States
the peop;e will turn enough North, which,
q deaf ear to G, lionel with the Solid South,
Polk's entreaties in would restore the
this matter" Democratic party to
power"
Captain Ashe says: He was a failure
as Commissioner of Agriculture. So
says the Ingalls, Slander Bureau.
1t is intimated and believed that the
Ingalls, Bureau gets its charges from
North Carolina. After the splendid
performance of this superb team in
double harness, we leave the matter
with the public to make up its verdict
Can Captain Ashe tell how it is that he
and Ingalls, should run so close together
in this schedule of charges? We ask
all honora BILE men to look at the follow
ing:
Captain Ashe saysJ The Ingalls, Slander
He was failure as Bureau says: "He
Commissioner of Ag- afterwards appeared
riculture, and when as Comm ssioner of
the legislative exam Agriculture for his
| lining committee came State. In this latter
to examine into mat position he served q
terS connected withlfew years, when, for
his office, If we recOl- reasons best known
lect Alright, he locked to his bondsmen, he
up his desk, left his retired. Whether his
office and resigned. ieficit has yet been
That was su s tantial made good, the rec
ly the response he ords of the Agricult-
made to thu eXamin- lural Department at
ing committee ap- Raleigh will show"
pointed by the Legi-
lature, the peoples
representatives. And
so he was a failure as
q Commissioner Of
Agriculture"
The people. in reading the above
charges and falsehoods, will have an
opinion as to where the Ingalls, Slander
Bureau got its information. The Alli-
ance will see something of the base
methods adopted for crushing our order.
For the complete refutation of the ma
licious and mean intimation that we
came out of that Office under a cloud,
we introduce the following. We intro
| duce first the editor of the News and
Observer, Captain Samuel A. Ashe. In
the issue of that paper, dated June 6.
1880, was an editorial from the pen of
Captain Ashe. which reads as follows:
Colonel Polk yesterday rendered his resig.
nation OF the position of Commissip pner Of
Agriculture In accepting it the executive
committee express great regret and speak
In high terms of The excellence Of his work
Colonel Polk was appointed Commissioner
upon the creation of the Department of
Agriculture in 1877. He has at all times con-
Quoted the affairs of his Office with marked
ability, energy and ZEAL and has placed the
Dep rtment upon high plane of merit and
favor. We regret that he has seen nt to re-
sign, and feel assur that the Department
has lost a most excellent head and the State
an earnest servant.
Out Of his own mouth he stands con-
demned. What can honorable fair
minded truth-loving men think of such
conduct? What will our honorable
brethren of the press of the State think
of 1t? What answer can such q man
make before the bar of public opinion?
Our next witness:
EXECUTIVE OFFICE
Raleigh, June 4, 1887.
Hon. !. L. Polk:
sire that you should be relieved from the
duties OF Commissioner of Agriculture, the
executive committee of the Board of Agri-
culture consent to accept the resignation of
| your office just rendered.
The committee, in doing so. beg leave to
assure you of their high sense of your char
| acter as an officer and as a man, and wish
you abundant success in your future life.
Very respectfully,
THOMAS j. JARVIS,
KEMP p. BATE
THOMAS II. HOLT,
Executive G immIttee.
| This is the character of a paper that
assumes to sit high in the councils of
Democracy. This is the paper to ira
/ ANSO OAN oA0AANOA BOOA AnOn VINO are
honestly striving, through their organ
ization, to better their condition.
| We earnestly plead the pardon of our
readers for affecting them with such an
exhibition. But it is our duty to show
the means that are employed for the
overthrow of the Alliance. .-Progressiv
| Farmer
The Democrats of North Carolina dc
not seem any better pleased with Colonel
Polk than the Republicans of Eansas,
and there is decided similarity also in
the charges they bring against him.
The ground for those charges will ap-
pear from a perusal OF the above from
the Progressive Farmer, of Raleigh, N.
G. 1t is also shown how much there Is
in the great cock-and-bull story of the
Capital concerning the Democracy Of
the Alliance. They do not regard it as
Democratic in the South, the State-house
editorials to the contrary notwithstand-
inR.-Topeka lKan.) Advocate.
|
Ingalls, Code Of Ethics.
We find in tha National Economist a