The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-09-25


Then with this stunning proof comes
that dodge" The old party organs are
now ~qnadrupling the vindictive and ma
licious fight on the officials of the Alli-
ance. And some of them allege as a rea-
son for this that they are not opposed to
the Alliance. but the Alliance has put
forth dangerous" men as it's leaders
and officers. On this plea the onslaught
of the old party organs is terrific and as
merciless and constituencies as they
know how to make it. Lying? Lying
is not a strong enough word to apply to
the reports they have circulated and put
out during the past few weeks. AS an
instance it may be cited that a recent re-
port has been sent all over the country
to the effect that the president of the Ma
tional Farmers Alliance and Industrial.
union had gotten into a quarrel and was
about to be forced into fighting a duel.
This yarn was sent out and repeated aud
elaborated with such persistency that
some friends of the national president
became alarmed and began to telegraph
him. begging him not to take such q
step.
The whole yarn was a fabrication By
somebody who can get better pay by
connecting such lies for the old party
press thar he car make by respectable
efforts. The bigger the lie in such cases
as his. the bigger the pay. and for this
particular one the fabricator must have
received a nice little sum. There is not
SO much as a shadow of truth in n
part of the circulating report. Proni-
nent newspaper men in the national
capital have been carefully told that the
whole thing was false. but so far none
of them have been honest and fair enough
to contradict it by the channels through
which it was sent out,
From now on this kind of sneahng
and knavish warfare in Alliance officials
may be expected. The Reform Press
Bureau warns Alliance men and friends
everywhere to weigh every slanderous
attack well. The attacks will be noted
at headquarters and dealt with in a
proper way. The men whom the state
and national Alliances have chosen as
officers and leaders will be pointed to as
men who are trying to '.mislead the peo-
pie" They will be shown up as men
who are seeking high political hcnors,
and who are trying to gain them through
tie powerful organization of the ALI
ance. They will be subjected to more
SANDER and vilification than any other
men on earth. But. brethren, let it be
remembered that these men hold their
Offices among you through no seeking of
their own. There is not a single office
in the national organization held by a
man who sought it. You put the re-
s~ponsibilities of Office upon them. And
now, when they are subjected to the vii
famous and outrageous ISLANDERS of a
power whose most intense wish is to see
our organization disrupted and ruined,
what shall we do? From everywhere
comes the shout and cry, .sStand by
them!"
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There is a man down in South Caro-
lima named Tillman. He has been a
member of congress for several years,
and yet nobody eve heard Of him till he
began uttering foul and malicious and
foundationless SANDERS on Alliance off
GERS. When he began this work the
old party press took him up and has
almost given him a national reputation.
What a spect.lclel A man winning
fame @ by ability to SANDER? When,
such men as this shall try to make it APP
pear that the oficersaof the Alliance are
a set of knayes and soft headed idiots,
are they to be forsaken. Again the
grand r echoes from everywhere
Stand by themI'
Now it would be we'll for these old
partisans to understand that Alliance
officials are not leaders as the old par
tisans understand that word. In the
Alliance movement the people are lead
ers. They assemble and formulate a
platform of principles. Then they select
men and say to them, Represent these
principles before the world for us.
Wherever q man has tried to be a
leader in the Alliance, he has been msrci-
tessly squelched. Witness the Alliance
of Georgia. which almost relocated to OBJ
Ilivion two men who took issue with AL
lance principles. Witness the Missouri
Alliance. which repudiated President u.
I6. Hall because he tried to .slead" tho
people away from their Alliance princi-
pies. Witness the Mississippi Alliance:
which expelled McAllister because he Rg-
nred in a scab~ convention which adopted
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