Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-07-10
FARMERS ALLIANCE.
OPEN HE WAY.
How to Make the congressman of the
West and South Vote Right.

| How to Make the congressman of tbs
West and South Vote Right.
viii you pardon a word from one on
| the '.tetired list" relative to the new
Pe6p1g's party This Is movement OF
vast Importance II it can be made Sue
cessfdi Lev the report 60 out after
election that IKE Vote of kaassSs has
been changed IRON q plurality 81 81:
900 for the high-tax and high-priced
money party of $4,000 majority for the
Peoples party, and the effect, would be
felt net only at Washington BIT at the
capital of every civilized government on
the globe. 1t would be worth more to
the cause of labor and the people than
a Thousand strikes and labor riots.
because IL Void aemBhstrate
the power of the ballot IN
righting wrongs. And the, wrongs
would be lighted, Such vote would
put every Congressman ii The entire
West and South to work for Western
and Southern interests, instead of Wall
street and Pittsburgh. The Peoples
party would not have to wait for relief
but they wohid HHd tie work we'll sa'
vanced before March 4, 1891. Such
being its imbortatice, no mistakes Should
be made: The Peoples party should be
no close communion party, but as broad
in its invitation for voters and co-work-
ers as the name would imply. Let all the
people be made welcome who can stand
on the platform of the industrial classes
adopted at st. Louis. One resolution or
expression at the late convention has a
bad look. 1t is to the effect that nc
nominee Of the Peoples party should
accept the nomination Of any other
party. This looks too narrow for PED
pies party or for the emergency. If,
when ticket shall have been selected
of good and true men who stand erect
on the st. Louis platform, the Union
Labor party chooses to bring out its
machine and indorse the ticket; must
candidates treat them with discourtesy
and reject their nomination? So of the
Democratic party. If, when the Demo
Gratis find that every plank of the st.
Louis industrial platform is taken from
Jefferson, Jackson, Calhoun, Ben
ton, and the founders OF their
party, they should decide to in
dorse not only the Peoples plat
form but the ticket also, and
operate their party machinery for its
election, must the nominees repel them?
So of disaffected members of the G. A.
r. If their posts see fit officially to
join in the procession of the people for
the people, must they be insulted and
ordered out of the column? Also, there
are scores of Republican newspapers that
disagree with the plutocratic, Wall
street policy of Congress, and should
they, for the purpose of administering
a rebuke, fall into line, must they be
repulsed?
In 1854 Congress removed all the bar
riers to the progress of black slavery.
and it started out on its march via
Kansas to Bunker Hill monument;
and a few men, in 1854, '55, Sc,
concluded they would keep it
out of Kansas. These men were
of all parties and shades of opinion.
Some were Yankee and some were Lib
eral Wings, some Bourbon and some
arn-burner Democrats, some were Lib
erty party or Free-Soil men and some
Abolitionists, but all were for free
State in Kansas. They accepted the
and adopted platform with
only one plank, namely-Free State.
No questions were asked as to party
affiliations, and all were equally well
come at the communion table. So,
now, when Kansas propo ses to check
the advanse of white slavery, let all
who will join the army of industrial
be welcome i'll this first and
most important encounter. Robin
son, in Kansas Farmer.