The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-11-06

MPIEsOFTHEIRIYI
REfUTINo some Oct lArEsr
sLANDERs.
Silly Talk About stanford,s Ambitious
PlaB-The Georgia Leglslatnrs I'M
dorses the OcaIa MISUNDERSTANDING
OF Falsehood.
Copyright, 1901, by Reform Press News Asso-
citation, New York;
Viewed as a curiosity the gall and i'm
pudence Of some Of the correspondents
of the metropolitan" press discount
anything that has been achieved or dis.
covered since the construction of the
pyramids of Egypt. Last week some
brilliant genius in San Francisco sent
the New York Mail and Express Other
wise known as the HWail and Distress'1
a telegram from which the following is
taken:
sit is learned from sources wholly re-
liable that Senator Leland Stanford is
the power back of the Farmers Alliance
movement. Bill Stow, a noted lobbyist
and wire puller from the Southern Pa
ciic company, is engineering the scheme
to have Stanford nominated for presi-
dent by the National Farmers Alliance.
President L. L. Polk, Of the Alliance
party, who arrived on the Pacific coast
few days ago, has been addressing the
farmers Of southern California. He
came to the state upon invitation Of
Senator Stanford, who was anxious to
increase, if possible, the interest in the
Alliance movement in southern Cali
fornia, a section Of the state where
Stanford is rather unpopular.
'sThe senator has his plans for the Al
lance nomination well laid. The ticket
will be Stanford and Polk OF Stanford
and Morgan. The senator is determined
to get the nomination, and money will
be used lavishly among the leaders Of
the new party to this end. He has al
ready in his interest some of the best po-
litical managers and manipulators in
America. These will be backed with
millions, if necessary"
Y 4
If you should sit down and engage in
conversation with the person who sent
that dispatch, he would in all proba-
bility say that newspaper men do not
print anything unless they have some
foundation for the statements they
make" And yet this fellow sits down
deliberately and writes what he knows
to be q lie. In other words, he didn't
know it was the truth, and therefore he
is responsible for the lie. 1t may be
that his foundation for sending out this
statement was a small modicum of the
millions which he talks about so glibly.
X X X
President Polk does not know any
thing about the wirepuller Bill STOW,
and Senator Stanford never knew any.
thing about President Folks visit to
California. He went there on a pressing
invitation from President Marion Can
non, of the California state Alliance,
and Mr.. Cannon is uncompromisingly
opposed toeven SO much as talking about
the bare possibility of Mr.. Stanford's
presidential candidacy. He will have
nothing Of it.
But to cap the climax, this colossal
genius of a correspondent says:
"This is not idle talk, but embraces a
scheme that is in active working order
throughout the United States"
He is perhaps the only fellow who
knows anything about this scheme, and
it may be that it is worth something te
him to know it. But he must not mag
inc that there are many Alliance mer
like him. There may possibly be a few
Alliance men who would sell out cheap
but the average member can't be bought
for less than 81 million dollars, spot cash
and this correspondents gauzy and gilt
tering scheme would absorb all the mil
lions on the Pacific coast before two or
binary Alliance townships could be in
duced to "whoop up the BOOM" w
can'tspeak with knowledge %concernin!
the price of ''some of the best politica
managers and manipnlators in America.
We know, however, and speak will
knowledge when we say that no amour
of millions can make any man the polit
ical god Of the Alliance. 1t will taxi
brains and sterling honesty to do this.
= X y X Y =
Some weeks ago it was announced b,
the press with a grand flourish of trum
pets that a resolution had been introduced
into the Georgia legislature favoring thu
! Alliance platform, and that it had beer
rejected by a vote of 81 to GO, or there
about. But this whole thing was
fabrication. It was an abominable an
nouncement, and whe1- subsequent actor
showed that anything but the truth hat
been told, the press kept obediently ant
deliciously silent about it. Now let!
have the truth about it. Before til,
legislature adjourned Mr.. Trammell in
troduced the following resolution:
Resolved, By the house of representatives
the senate concurring, that our senators ant
representatives IN congress be and they ar,
| uCICDy kCAACSGCu " CoC SlSil luC St4'
votes to secure legislation which will correc
the evils complained Of by the National Farm
ers' Alliance and Industrial union in CONVEX
ton at Ocala, Fla, especially those that relate
to the present financial and taxation policy u
the government.
An effort was made to choke this cf
by Mr.. Reid, who introduced the follow
ing resolution, which he offered as a sub
stitute:
That as Democrats we owe cur allegiance tt
the Democratic party, whose platform of prin
ciples is in harmony with the demands of thu
great mass of people.
That in view Of the decided Democratic ma
jority in congress, we urge upon them, as GU
representatives, the Importance of taking
such action as will best secure to the Who'll,
people such legislative relief as will meet tn,
exigencies presented in the changed condition
of our common country.
We especially ask that such legislation b
enacted that will give immediate relief to tn,
people from the burdens arising from the VI
Just tariff and the Ubiquitous financial system
IF our government.
When the voting began, the question
was of course on the resolution Offered
by Mr.. Reid. Did it pass? Not much