Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1891-06-13
OUR CoLICKY FRIEND OF THE
CUMBERLAND BOTTOMS.

job of pulling the Farmers Alliance
out of the niie-holes, and the editor
has already displayed the first symp-
toms of failure in becoming very cross
and fretful over his task. He snarls
and growls like an irritable bear
every time somebody punches the
Alliance in the short ribs. The last
manifestation of this fretful spirit
which we have noticed on the part of
the Record is column of attenuated
sarcasm launched at the STANDARD
and the Farmers Reliance" The
Record credits the STANDARD with
proposing "a plan of relief for the
farmers calamities," etc. This is
more honor than is due us. Mr.. h.
H. Mason, a prominent citizen Of
McMinnville, was the author of the
Reliance platform and the originator
of the order; the STANDARD first pub
lished this unique platform, added its
hearty endorsement, and recon-
mended it to the farmers of every
county in the State. A number Of
other papers of the State in comments
ing upon it have elaborated the bene,
fits which would accrue to the farm
ers from such an organization, and
the Record is the first paper to offer
an adverse criticism which we have
seen. The Record says the plan of
the Farmers Reliance" or the
STANDARDS advocacy Of tit is not
exactly clear which the Record aims
at-"contains also an implication of
laziness on the farmers part" We
affirm that nothing but guilty con-
science can find any implication of
laziness in either. The Record then
takes up the three planks of the Re-
lance platform, and on narrow,
pessimistic view, discusses at length
the letter, artfully concealing the
spirit of the same. 1t is mere waste
of words to present an argument of
anyIkind to a man who crawls back
into shell and only views men and
measures through a gimlet hole, as
the editor of the Record seems to
have done. The editorial columns of
the Record for some weeks past,
every time the Alliance or any of its
pet political schemes have been
touched upon, have displayed all the
symptoms and characteristics of a
cross. grained, bilious dispeptic. Now
we know Brother Gold to be a man
of broad and liberal views generally;
the Record is one of the brightest and
neatest country weeklies in the6tate,
and until it got hung up on this AL
lance snag it could always be relied
upon to advocate progressive ideas
and sound Democratic doctrine.
But Brother Colds system has evil
IDENTIFY become overcharged with Cum
berland river malaria, and this has
produced a stagnant condition of the
brain, owing to which it has absorb
ed a lot of impure Polk-Macune-Mc
Toiler Alliance literature that other
wise it would have thrown off with
out any perceptible effort. He needs
something for his liver, and tempo
rary change of air andlwater. With
all the Records abortive effort al
satire upon the simple platform of the
"Farmer's Reliance" it lamentably
failed to develop single weak poin
in either plank, Here is the plat
form in full:
l. Work hard ten hours in the day
three hundred days in the year,
>. Never come to town WithOu
bringing something to sell.
8. Never buy anything withOu
paying for it.
Will the editor Of the Record I'm
dertake to say that there is anything
in the political Authorizations of tn,
Alliance calculated to bring more sue
cess and happiness to the farmer THAI
living up to the spirit of the allow
will do? We would like for Brothe
Gold to tell us how long he thinks hi
paper would exist if he gave it n,
more attention than fifty per cent o
more of the farmers of Tennessee de
vote to their farms? We would ais