Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1891-05-13
ANOTHER VIEW.

While Mr.. Hall is Keeping His Eye on the
Gubernatorial Plum, the Missouri AIli-
ance Will Keep Its Eye on Him.
At meeting of the allied industrial
| organizations at st. Louis in December,
1889, what was known as the sub-treas-
ury plan was formulated and adopted
as one of the measures which should be
demanded for the relief of agricultural
depression. We have been unable to
find the vote upon the first adoption of
that plan. There was at least major
ity in its favor. The plan was pub
lished and submitted to the people and
was discussed in the sub-organizations
from one end of the country to the
other for full year. At the end of
| that time the supreme council of the
order assembled at Ocala, Fla The
delegates to that convention were fully
conversant with the sentiment of their
constituents upon this subject, and
when the vote was taken to determine
what had been the result of the years
| discussion, but four delegates in all
that great convention could be found
to record their judgment against
1t. It is measure that COM
mends itself to the good sense of
all fair-minded men who are honestly
desirous of the best interests of Ameri-
can agriculture, and who impartially
investigate it's provisions. Having bee i
originally adopted at st. Louis and
then Reimbursed at Ocala with so great
unanimity, we submit that it may be
fairly considered an alliance measure
1t may fairly be considered a funda-
mental part of the organization. There
is vast multitude of people who believe
in it and have embraced it as one of the
chief planks of their platform There
are also great many people who OPP
pose it. They are not members of the
organization, and can urge their oppo-
sition consistently. How a man like
Q. S. Hall, who occupies so prominent
position in the order, can consistent
ly oppose 1t we are unable to under
stand He certainly has no great fol-
lowing in the order and cannot ex-
pect to have. That he has right to
oppose 1t we do not deny; but he
should get outside of the order to do So
A man who is in the organization
should support its principles and meas
ures, and if those principles and meas
ures do not suit him he should get out
AAO OL4J dtCb ALb OWn lnCOn-
sistency when he remains in an organ
ization whose principal doctrine he dis
approves He subjects his motive to
serious question also in thus remaining
in the order while antagonizing its
leaders and its principles. This is es-
pecially true when the whole weight of
his influence is exerted to hold the
membership within the ranks of the
democratic party. His course leads to
the suspicion that he is holding his po-
sition only to control the policy of the
organization. In this he will fail. The
Missouri alliance will go with Kansas
1t has strong reform sentiment which
would have controlled the politics of
the state long ere this but for the fact
that it has divided its strength between
the two old parties; and, in thus divid-
ing Mr.. Halls party has come out on
top He may be interested in seeing
this condition continued, If, as it is
rumored, he has an eye on the guberna-
torial chair, this is undoubtedly true.
The Missouri alliance should, and un-
doubtedly will, keep an eye on him.
Topeka Advocate.