Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-06-26
Democratic Schemers and the Al
lance

40 ONS&AA1AhS W ehN
minds of the republicans who have
Joined the farmers alliance, that they |
are liable to be used for the purpose of |
pulling democratic and union labor |
chestnuts out Of the fire. When the
alliance was first started it was loudly |
proclaimed by the leaders that the or
ganization was to be entirely non-pOli-
tical in its makeup. Many of the re-
publicans of the county went into it in
good faith, believing that as a nom
political organization, some good to the
farming community might be gained.
Instead of running the organization as
non-political one, the democrats and
the union labor politicians are slowly
but surely turning the organization
into the rankest kind of political
machine, whose object seems to be to
revive the waning doctrines of de-
mocracy and spread the union labor
heresies which the people so unmerci
fully rejected at the last election.
The democratic and union labor pa
pers are already bold enough to tell
the republican members of the order
that they must renounce every vestige
of their republican doctrine and adhere
solely and strictly to old dried up doc
trines OF those two ancient political ex-
creSences in order to hold their stand
ing in the alliance. The Dickinson
County News, one of the rOttenest
bourbon sheets outside of the southern
states, in its last issue assumes the role
Of dictator to the alliance of this cOun-
ty. 1t says: mo matter how great
mental cOntortiOnist man may be, it
is an impOssibility for him to believe
the republican and alliance doctrine at
the same time.n
This means, of course, that In order
to be member of the alliance, accord
ing to this bourbon idea, republican
must renounce all the principles and
doctrines of his party, which have car
ried the party and the government
through so many triumphant victories
during the past thirty years, and adopt
the Internal heresieS of democratic
union laborism. 1t is no inconsistency
in the eyes OF this bourbon sheet for a
man to be democrat and an alliance
member at the same time. The noisi-
est member of the county democratic
central committee is one of the noisiest
members of the alliance, yet there is
no demand from our bourbon friend
that this democratic politician shall be
'kicked out of the alliance lest he
should prove himself spy and an ally
of the democratic party"
1t is only when man belongs to the
republican party that he is required by
our democratic and union labor friends
to renounce all allegiance to all other
political or hizatiOns in order to retain
membership in the alliance.
A great many good republicans be-
long to the order. They did not go
into it with the view of deserving the
republican party or any of its doctrines.
They joined the order on the strength
of the representations that the organi-
cation was to be strictly nOn-political-
Had there been the least intimation
that the purpose was to found a new
political organization or to create an
, adjunct to the allied forces of the dem
ocratic and union labor parties, the re-
publicans would have refused to take
part in such an underhanded political
scheme. The republican farmers in
this county constitute very large ma
jority of the republican party, and it
was wholly unnecessary that they
should found another political party in
order to elect any man they desired to
see elected. Politically, they are no
stronger in the alliance than out of it.
These demOcratic-u labor allies
know this too we'll. So, in order to de-
ceive the republican farmer, they an
nounce that the organization is to be
non-political, and when they have
succeeded in getting the farmers in the
order on the strength of these false
representations they tell the republican
farmers only that they must renounce
all their former political doctrines, and
adopt such peculiar Authorizations a
may suggest themselves to the mind of
a democratic-union labor politician.
A number of farmers in this county
have already withdrawn from the Or
der on account of the evident attempt
on the part of the democratic and
union labor fellows to convert the Or
der into an adjunct of these two old
political organizations, and we appre-
bend that unless there is quistus put
upon the arrogance of the union labor
politicians and this bourbon News
whose editor is a member of the
| county democratic central committee
that very many more will decide that
the democratic-union labor combina-
ton is too unholy an alliance for them
to belong to.
Beggs' Family Medicines.