Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1891-03-04
OUR CONDITION..
The Alliance and Cleveland aud Sill

| The Alliance and Cleveland huu 81"
yer.
| To he Editor Of he Dispatch
That the Democratic party cannot elect
n President in 1892 without the support OF
tbe Alliance is too obvious TO be doubted
| bv auv rational man. That the Alliance
| will not support any man opposed 10 one
| or more of its cardinal principles ought 10
| be equally plain. Now, the free coinage
Of silver is not only cardinal principle oi
tho Alliance, but is one OF the most con
servative measures proposed by IL 1or the
relief of the suffering condition OF tne
agricuItural classes. II follows, there
fore. that the recent letter of Mr.; Cleve-
land on the silver question renders nls
election TO the presidency an lmposslolllty.
While this letter NAV show him to be an
outspoken man, having the courage Oh
his convictions, yet IL equally delh4H-
strates that he is not wise man, anu ls
not in accord or sympathy with the OBJ
pressed masses of the people. for pa ny
ike the Democracy, dependent upon Ihe
confidence and good will of the people Tor
victory To nominate such a candidate IN
1892 would be equivalent to political Je'o
With the Republican party, however. the
case il quite different. Having struck
hands with monopoly and plutoeracy, ana
being repudiated therefor by the people,
they have no hope of success except
through corrupt means. We may. there,
fore, naturally expect to find them allleo
to the money power. and bending in sub
seryiency TO the will of Wall street, whilst
thew say, with Vanderbilt, by their acts, II
NOT in words, 1.-THE people be d-ned.'
On the other hand, the Democratic party
processes to be the party of the people,
and if true to it, profession cannot I run
with the hare of the people and hold with
the hounds of Wall street.
The party press and leaders seem 70 be
slow TO realize the true condition OF the
masses and the magnitude of the revolu-
ton which is going on. The producers
are rapidly becoming the mere bond
servants of the money power, ana are
fighting for their very liberties and homes.
The ship of state, launched by the fathers
of the Republic, has been seized. by
pirates under the guise of patriotism,
robbed and scuttled, and will soon sink
with McGinty to the bottom of the sea,
and the pleasure-yacht of the plutocrat
| sail sacreligiously over its tomb, unless res
| cued from destruction by the hands OF the
The leader of the reform forces in 1885,
| must be q man in sympathy with the
masses, and one who thoroughly believes
in the government of the people, by the
| people, and FOR tl9 people. II Jue DeluO-
| cratic party refuses TO nominate such 0
candidate they will create the necessity
| for a third party and share the fate CT the
| late Republican party; for the Alliance
| aud other kindred organizations possess
| large majority of the people of the coun.
| trv, and are already united IN common
| cause.
II would be grave if not fatal mistake
| to act upon the faith that the political
revolution last fall meant Cleveland and
| tariff reform" II ls true, az Dir. Cleveland
saws. that il was brought about bya cam
paign of education" but the chief educa-
| tional factor was the history OF the con-
| duct and management of the finances OF
| the country for the last twenty-five years
4 the tariff being only one chapter in that
| history, and that not by any means the
| blacklist. Good money, more money, anC
cheaper money is the CRYING need of the
| country, and must be the shibboleth of the
/ coming battle.
The use of silver equally with gold as
monev-metal has been justified by all past
history and approved by the experience OF
mankind in all the ages Of the world. Mo
| nometallism is the heresy of financial uni
tsrianism. The Alliance believes in the
orthodox trinitarianism of gold, silver, anC
paper currency. 1t Is tho faith of tht
| fathers, and in this fifth We will fight x
| victory or death. A. Is.
CLAIKsvILLE. Va, February q, 1891.