New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-08-03
rur UINING ALLIANCE.

swe have had q sample of the compromise
r,ode INV the calf with its butcher" This IS
tho oninion EXPRESSED by Mr.. w. c. Terry
Democratic eadsr in Kansas as to the relations
81 bis Marty With the Farmers Alliance. 90
stronp is the resentment at the behavior OF INC
Alliance that a convention Of Democratic editors
from ali parte of that State, which was heiu
IN Monday at Topeka, and attended by all the
Loading men of the party, adopted formal adj
dross urcine members of the party to perfect
It's organization in every county, and nominate
and support full party tickets, and TO stand
erm AGAINST q" the idotic theories of the Farm
ers' Alliance" 49,,
Nothing more superlatively stupid than this
can be imaained For these same men, no
l,nper ago than last November were engaged IN
encouraging and aiding the Alliance to the ut
most of their ability, and countenancing all It's
ohs,,rdest theories. Their present declaration
il \ shameful confession of their want of prin-
chile last fall They were ready then to pros
titute themselves for the sake of gaining GER
tain Offices But because the Alliance has de-
voured all the spoils and left nothing for them
these Democrats denounce as idiotic the same
theories which they enthusiastically recommend
ed to the attention Of farmers in November
These theories are not more foolish than they
were nine months ago. They are not more plainly
dangerous to the welfare of the state or inc
country They are not more papaby offensive
as being intended to benefit particular class
at the expense of all the rest OF the people, tnan
they were last November. But few offices
have been lost, and the Democrats 60 into
Ind uirtup Since they
cannot get fat places by favoring the Alliance
theories they are sure that those theories are
idiotic. and contrary TO Jeffersonian principles,
and they solemnly resolve that class Legislation
is highly Objectionable.
II is admitted by all parties that this Demo
cratic resolution, if observed as it is likely to
be by the great body of Democratic voters, Will
simply destroy the Alliance in Kansas when
the Democratic voters publicly draw out OF that
organization its Republican members will not
hesitate long. They are much the more numer-
Gus. but they have from the first been disturbed
in mind by the feeling that they were being
used as catspaws for the benefit of the Demo
cratic party. The only consideration which has
1t all restrained them and prolonged their ad-
heson to the Alliance, it would seem, has been
the desire to deal fairly with such Democrats
as have separated from their party and com
mitted their fortunes to the same new organlza-
ton. The moment that the Democrats draw
ont and seek to restore their own party organ
ization with its original strength the Repub-
Iicans will know exactly what to do, and there
will remain in the Alliance only that small body
or od-1a>hioned Gleenbackers or fiat-money
men who have for years voted third ticket IN
Kansas as in some other Western States.
40 doubt the Democrats of Kansas are as
sisted in their revival of yirtuous indignation
bv the spectacle OF events in Mississippi. In
that State the Democratic Convention held July
Il denounced tho Sub-Treasury scheme with
out reserve. and the campaign for United
States Senator which is now in progress is re-
sulting in the overwhelming defeat of the ALI
ance. At latos. accounts the nominations for
members of the Legislature have been carried
by the Alliance people in only nineteen dis
tricts, while the opponents of the Sub-Treasury
scheme, who are supporting Senator George for
reelection. have carried the nomination in
sixty-eight districts dispatch states that
at looks now as though there would not be
40 votes in a Legislature of 17S members IN
support of the Sub-Treasury PLAN"