Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1891-08-26
The Alliance Leaders.

Congressman Tillman, who suppor.ed his
brother, Gov. Tillman, Of South Carolina.
the farmers Alliance candidate at the last
gubernatorial election in mis- State, made q
speech at Columbia last Monday in which
he said:
II know ali the leaders of she Alliance.
They are sorry set. The demon Of smbi-
tion Is whispering iu Poik's ear that he
might be ehe Presidential candidate OF the
third party. Hence he has gone over 10 the
sut-sressury scheme aud ia hobnobbing with
tho third party. he is mighty weak man.
He is potter's clay in their hands.
"Machiavelli Maouue failed at everything
he undertook until he got paper which au-
other man msde success. Who ls Ma.
cunep An ex-rspublican. He is republi
can to-day. Born In Wisconsin, he eventu-
ally foated to Texss, where be found the
people hslf crszy, got into the Alliance Ex-
change st D alias, which had about SIS, 900,
which soon went and he went, too. He
ddn't run away. He only went to the na-
tional capital, where there was bigger field.
There hs made himss slf chairman Of the Ma
tioua Alliance legislative committee-5e
and Aopzo Wsddell, of South Dakota. He
was also appointed chairman OF the Nation
al Alliance executive committee, 30 that he
works the bosses in making and execot-
Ing the laws. He was then the great l am
He issued orders and cracked his whip. Gen
tlemen. if God Almighty ever stamped viii
lisn on the face of any man when He sent
him out to warn sn nnsuspecting world
against him, He did Is when he created Ma
cune.
HE has an eye like serpent, counten-
ance like fox, with the nerve OF lion, and
the honesty OF penitentiery convict. Meth.
or Polk, the president OF the Alliance, nor
Terrell is q farmer to-day. They sre not
identified with you In interest. They are
all on the make. And who IL Terrell? He
owned o little patch of ground In Texas, but
the sun WAS too hot for him to work. He
took to tramplng around to suggest this
humbug as a remedy for your distress. He
succeeded at it spleudidly till Willetts turn.
ed him out. Now he is assistant lecturer.
He told me himself he had sold his little
farm. He travels around living on the fat
OF the land, welcomed by the brothers and
sisters wherever he goes, and lives like
lord by taffying and deluding the people,
Masking you all dissatisfied telling falsehoods
and suggesting remedies that an eighteen
year-old boy would be ashamed Of"
Mr.. Tillmen said the motive of these dem
agogues In starting the eub.treasury scheme
was:-
"First-They wanted to continue their
salaries. They we're getting the quarter of
dollar assessment and they wanted to do
something to earn 1t.
"Second-They intended to break the solid
South, Macune thought it would divide the classes.
I think he took pay from the republican party.
Third-He wanted to break up the farmers
movement and keep the farmers from efecting
any legislation for their interest.
SIN this l think they re in the pay Of the
manufacturers and also in that of the great rail-
road kings See how deeply he laid his schemes.
He suggested imprscticable measures, which no
man who had respect for his opinion would ever
advocate They thought they could beat down
the peoples parasites and get the Offices them.
selves. Macune is cspable Of all these things. I
tell you he is a remarkable man, remarkable
scoundrel, the equal of Machiavelli in diplomacy
and state craft.
From Jefferson's time to the present you and
your fathers have belonged to the democratic
party. What little liberty and prosperity you
have had siuce the wsr your democratic brethren
at the North, cooperating with your own repre-.
| sentatves, have given you. advise you to q
man to stand by the party that has stood by you
in the psst, and that relief is almoet in sight
do not desert the party Of your fathers snd run
off after strange gods."