The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1891-09-15
ON THE WAR PATH.

SdS. III jill IuLCIflC" LO-Nhy OOAO
POLK stated that the alliance movement
was gaining thousands of converts
throughout the South daily and the great
mass of farmers, planters and laboring
men had deserted the democratic party
and were standing squarely on the Ocala
platform. 'There will be a third party.
and l believe it will sweep every state in
1892. The third party might have been
prevented four months ago, but it is now
too late. Our people have been abused
and sneered at by the democratic bosses
and democratic press, and we will stand
it no longer"
But did he say it?
He will deny it, and the farmer will be-
lieve him-the scales still stick to the
agriculturists' eyes. The old fraud POLK
will not be a winner after a while-but
he is doing now what GOULD used to do
in New York. That vulture was a demo-
crat in democratic precincts, a republican
in republican precincts and an indepen-
dent in independent precincts-but al
ways for the Erie.
POLK is all things to all men. He has
depended on his mouth to contradict
himself. He thought that he could make
an assertion in Wisconsin that farmers
in North Carolina had to face democratic
shot guns in order to vote their senti-
ments. When reported, how easy it was
for him to deny that he had ever said it.
He comes back to North Carolina and
says that the democratic party is the far
mers' party and his idea is to oust the re-
publican o~fice-holders. Then he goes
into Kansas, where General Discomfort
has been in command, and he bowls for a
third party. He imagines that when he
has the ~bellyache all the farmers in the
world need liberal doses of paregoric.
But the old scoundrel-a scoundrel in
a dozen ways, is being apprehended.
He is learning that some reporters are
camped upon his trail, and the people of
America are viewing the fraud without
shading their eyes. The mask has been
torn off; the fellow has about run
aground.
In the South we need no new party if
the old party will do its duty. This pa
per has no use with politics or for poll
t~icians, but it does have some use for de-
cency.
And this is why it is glad to see the
awakening glad to see POLK standing
as he ~does-nude liz his trickery and his
hypocrisy and his deceit, before the
working people of America.
Had the man been sincere; had he en-
ployed methods which were honest and
which belonged to a statesman which he
is not had he thrown away the tricks
and small-plays of the mountebank which
he is; had he not been venal in his de-
mands for money-and had he shown
he was fighting for the great
principle which underlies liberty
of the masses and demonstrated
hat when he attacked corporate
power and corporate greed he
was doing it to free his fellow country
men from their thraldom-had he done
this, we say LIEUTENANT Polka
colonel no more forever-would have |
held the open sesame to the situation.
would have been idolized by honesty
where to day he is cursed. He would
have been the Moses where he today ap-
pears as the JUDAS. Had he been honest
with himself he could have been a giant
where he is a sneak. THE GLOBE has
40 use for such mountebanks-and it
has the proud distinction of being the
irst paper in the state of North Carolina
% point out his treachery and demagogy.
And it battled alone for months and it's
'eward is that the fellow is on the run
he first-class papers of the state are
him up even as we showed him
Up months ago.
POLK is a dead oyster.
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