Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1891-05-27
CAROLINA POLITICS.

Doctrines and Claim They Have No Other
Recourse.
"a very significant political meeting
was held at the state capitol to-day
( April ~. 1t was the first white re-
publican meeting ever held in the state,
and it is said TO be largely the out
growth of the alliance wave which
swept over the state last year. The
of the meeting was the
presence for the first time of a number
of leading white citizens who have
heretofore been associated with the
straight-out democratic prrty. Among
them were DIR. Bowen, Mr.. Hannah, of
Spartansburg: James Hunter, of Union;
DR., Monroe, of Union, and others.
Fifty-one clubs We're represented The
meeting elected delegates to the repub-
lican league convention at Gin
cinnati This movement is re-
garded with some concern here,
taken as it is, in consideration of the
repeated declaration of the alliance in
favor OF third party. The white
democrats who are in it say that the
old democratic party has been elbowed
out of existence by the farmers move
ment, and as they will not subscribe to
the platform aud principles of that
movement they will go into the repub-
Hcan party. There are so many demo-
Gratis in the state who are disgusted
with the Tillman administration that
there is some danger of the movement
developing into stampede from the
democratic party as it exists in this
state at the present"
The foregoing press dispatch is
copied from the Montgomery Adver-
tiser. Although it is one of the most
remarkable and significant movements
made in the south for decade, that
paper made no editorial comment or in
any way referred to it. If this action is
commended for the ''straight-out''
South Carolina democrats to pursue,
and worthy of its commendation, it
ought to have accorded it. On the con-
trary if it is dangerous and wrong in its
tendency or purpose, it should have
urged It's objections to it or denounced
it. 1t did neither. Why? Are the
bonds of putocracy a stronger hold
upon the Advertiser than the democ-
racy? Is this plutocratic policy so good in
its estim ton that such a movement
against the democratic party can find
no objections for it to urge? Here is
plain, positive eff of faction to dis
rupt and destroy its idol and the halo
shrine at which it has pretended
to pour out it's most sacred Ii
bations for years; and not a word
against it. Why this Indifference?
Why this careless disregard? Why
this remarkable silence? What does it
mean? If ffty-one primary alliances
in Alabama had met and elected dele
gates to the Cincinnati conference, the
Advertiser would have been yelling
and denouncing the movement as fear
full and awful: as threatening the solid
south and white supremacy, and it
would have charged its advocates with
entering upon crusade to destroy all
that is loved or priced at the south; but
for that number of democratic clubs in
South Carolina to do worse-actually
uniting with and becoming a part of
the republican party, and sending dele
gates to one of the conferences of that
party, it does not even arouse an ex-
preston of surprise, much less de-
The average reader will no doubt be
perplexed to find an answer to these
questions and the unaccountable con-
duct of the state organ of the demo-
cratic party, rather the organ of the
plutocratic faction of the democratic
party of Alabama. To us it is no sur
prise. On the contrary, both the action
taken in South Carolina and the course
of the Advertiser were expected. We
have been reliably informed and be-
lieve that similar denouement as that
taken by the Haskell faction in South
Carolina last fall was intended by the
anti-alliance faction in Alabama last
June, and that it was only prevented
by the shameless manipulations which
rendered it unnecessary. 1t may be
intended next year, if similar con-
tingency shall arise. The Advertiser
does not now propose to furnish am
munition with which it may be de-
stroyed next year-condemned out of
its own mouth, as it were-and that
may account for its silence.
But this movement of the South Caro-
lima ''straight-outs,' which means
straight ont of the party when they
can no longer control it, has deeper
and more far reaching than
many suppose. Il is the initiatory step
of the plutocratic democrats in the
south, which may be expected in every
state in which they may fail to dictate
and control the party. 1t means also
that this plutocratic element is intent
on running the democratic party on the
plutocratic schedule, and if they fail
they propose and intend to initiate the
example set by their co-laborers in
South Carolina. {. 1t foreshadows also
that there are but two political ele-
ments in this country-the money pow
and its servants, tools and co-adjutors,
and the great mass of the producers
and laborers and their allies and friends
the robber and the robbed, the OPP
pressor and the oppressed, the blood
maker and the blood sucker.
The bold, open and unmistakable pur-
pose Of these ifty-one democratic clubs
allying themselves with the repub-
licans is, to say the least, manly and
brave. They do not mince words about
it, make their threats nor slyly ship in
at the back door; but they come boldly
to the front. publicly avow their pur-
pose and openly enter upon the plan 70
carry it out They are with the repub-
licans on finance on silver, and against
relief for the producers and laborers.
There is no reason why they should
not unite. They make no change of
base nor change of policy. In fact,
they are consistent. as far rs politics
are concerned The slight difference
between them and the repub leans on
the tariff and the basic principles Of the
government, 1t seems, conld be easier
reconciled tlian their difference with
the allianeenea on their demands and
purposes. Montgomery (Ala- Alliance
Herald.
"A convention will assemble at Gov.
ington, KY, this month, for the pur-
pose of nominating a state peoples
ticket for the fail election.