Telegram-herald., 1891-08-20
ALLIANCE WEAKNESSES
Mountsbankism VIII Prove 10 be
Its Destroyer.
DAMAGE WROUGHT BY II TO KANSAS
Iat~rsiew with rremtnent Kansas
Gentieman-Ths Alliance ktili strenG
b1x kiaass Nv MoantebAsks
Like Simpson

From the inter oceAh.
: Al. Gardenh re. well known Kan
sas Republican. registered from Topeka
at the Palmer House yesterday.
II cannot say that / believe the
Alliance is losing ground Ia X kansas,"
he sali 10 a reporter Tor the Inter-
Ocean. An illustration OF the fact
that the party which fathers the sub
treasury. warehouse and other central
ization ideas Is still a strong factor
in X ansas politics was presented when
not long ago. the leaders OF our party
found IL necessary 10 inform Preside Mt
Harrison that "a certain appointment
which he contemplated making would
operate strongly against the Republi-
can party and play directly into the
hands OF the Alliance. This was when
Mr.. Harri on Lad favorably eonsider Il
and was npon the point OF making the
appointment os Chief Justice Horton,
Of tho Kansas Supreme bench. 10 the
position OF Judge of the new Land
Court. which was created by the hast
Congress to ad u i Il put "a land Il inns
in Arizona. No better man than Judge
position. But by removing him from
the Kansas bench there was great dan
ger that the vacancy would be filled
10y an Alliance man. Such contin-
Gcncy would have been OF no very
great moment i'm itself hu, the election
by the Alliance of a man TO assume
the Chief Judgship would have been
by no means desirable exhibition
of strength
There is no doubt that the Ali
ance Is strong in Kansas. but there
is iust as little doubt that it's strength
VIII surely y ~ n thrtics of the
Alliance leaders are continued much
loncer. The phylloxera. which.
figuratively speakiI%. must sooner or
later blight the Alliance tree is noun
tebankism. FinninrS. ~ politics never
has been and never will be successful
There have been af ew political hu-
morists in this country who have been
able to draw sufficiently upon pcrcn-
NAL OF humor to support their rcpu-
tations in that line. but the career
OF your average funny man in politics
Is meteoric el'v enhenlc~"l The farm
ers' Alliance is gradually destroying
itself by an excess of Simpsonism. The
plans proposed by the Alliance for
the redemption of this country from
the 'drmnition bow vows however
visionary, impracticable and prema-
ture they may be- will never BE- looked
upon seriously by the people Of this
country as long as they are presented
for consideration by men whose chief
claims for popular approval are based
nj. To Il daraf. leh 20
AMI replace truths with unwarrant-
edly pessimistic untruths. Jingoistic
handsprings NAV wi1 TIC mob for
time, but the rulership of this country
will never be turned over TO tho Farm
crs' Alliance until the Alliarce is able
to offer as y rrmNiv Tor evils and in
equalitics that undoubtedly exist some
better scheme OF government th9n that
which the Alliance LEADERS, are ondcav-
oring to fndoctrinate at the present
time.
The Farmers Alliance has done
more harm to Kansas i'm one season
than has been wrought by the grass
hoppcrs IN twenty years. BY prop
aCating she idea all over the country
that Kansas rs in the last stages 81
agricultural and commercial prostra-
tion and that all Kansas interests
are unpn the verge OF total financial
disrupt ION. the. Farmers Alliance peo-
pie do not seem to realize that they
aIe following n suicidal policy as In
imicAl to their own interests as II Is
completely devoid OF sense or truth.
The state of Kansas has never been I'm
as prosperous n condition as IL is to-
day. The claim that Kansas Is mort
gaved from north 90 south needs no
other rofutation than the census sta
bears no greater weight than Is horne
by nearly all tho great agricultural
states of the West Moreover. the
number Of agricultural mortgages In
state offers no Indication whatever
that the state il not in a pro porous
condition. | dare say tho majority
Of mortgages on Kansas farms were
taken out solely for the acquisition
OF more land by the farmers and not
on account OF starvation and famine.
as claimed by the alliance people.
There can he no better way of silenc-
ing the mon who east these reflect
ions upon the state of Kansas than by
the statement. which is verified by
tho records. that there were more
farm mortgages paid Off last year than
ever before in the history Of the state
and I should not be surprised II this
were the case throughout the entire
country