Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1891-09-23
A NATIONAL v;cTo.

Cannot Re Won BY Sectional Party
tracts From Letter From q GeoEI
Allianceman to tho Southern AlliAL =
Farmer.
"A1 men of sense admit thai il is un-
just federal legislation that is bank
rupting the agricultural and business
interests of this nation Relief. then,
must come by abolishing this unjust
system and establishing a just one
How is this to be done? Local char res
will not accomplish this desirable end
II every state in the south voted solidly
amount to nothing.
10 gain victory men north of
Mason and Dixon's line, and men south
of this line must tunite-alliancemen of
all parties, north and south, are
thoroughly organized. Their interests
and those of the organizations of
all the laboring men are identical.
These organizations can elect our
next presidential ticket Now the
old parties, both democratic and re-
publican, are war parties The very
name of the republican party is hateful
to most southern men, so also the very
name of democratic party is hateful to
most northern men. Why is this the
case? Because for four years the re-
publican party waged war on the
south. So, also, for four years the
democratic party waged war on the
north. Now, there is a kind and fra
ternal feeling existing between alliance
men north and south, and desire to
unite and vote for men who will restore
our nation to its primitive purity.
Now, would it be brotherly for our
alliancemen north to exact of alliance
men south that they should fight their
political battles under the republican
fagP No, it would not Nor do they
ask this of their southern brothers
'Well, we should not ask our north
ern allianceman to fight their political
battles under party or flag that they
have all their lives been fighting. What
then must be done? Why all that our
northern brothers ask of us is to form
a national party, one that knows no
north, south, west or east, party that
demands equal rights for all and special
privileges to none. This is the price of
freedom. If we cannot rise to this
point OF patriotism and manhood all is
lost The man or set of men who think
that northern alliancemen will fight
the battle of political reform under the
democratic bhnner is simply fool and
does not deserve the name of a states
man. Neither will southern democrats
fight the battles of reform under the
republican flag or party. The masses
of both sections are sick and tired of
the war of the bloody shirt because
while this foolish war is kept up the
Shylocks of the nation are absorbing,
by their control of politics, all the hard
earnings of the producers. Now, the
alliance, as an organization, cannot go
into, or form political party, but the
individuals that compose the alliance
can form any party that suits their
taste or interest. No time should be
lost but alliancemen as individuals
should call at once meeting in some
central city and form a state organiza-
ton, and this should be followed by an
organization in each county in the
state. of course the old mossbacks
and old political bosses that have grown
to be millionaires on a congressman's
salary of $1,000 a year will set up a
howl They will crack the party lash
over the heads and around the heels of
former democrats, and try to hold them
in rank by such weak and puerile argu-
ments as that it is necessary to keep up
a solid south in order to preserve white
SUPREMACY"