The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1891-07-16
COLONEL POLK TALKS,
THE PARTISAN PRESS AND THE
FARMERS ALLIANCE.
LATTER CLAIMS MISREPRESENTATION.

The Alliance and the Political CUES
tion-Strength of the Order in Differ
ent States-The Third Party Will
Stick in the Northwest.
Especial Correspondence to THE SENTINEL
WAsHIN GToN, July, 13.-Col. Polk
rs here. He says: ''The partisan
press is full of Misrepresentation of
the Alliance. You must have heard
of the alleged action of the Kansas
suballiance, to the effect that, as the
South was not represented at our
Cincinnati convention, it was a
scheme to carry the country in the
next national election for the De-
mocracy, and therefore the suballi-
ance in question would return to the
Republican party. Now, this was
made of the whole cloth The presi-
dent of the Alliance came out in
card denouncing the whole story as
falsehood. No such resolution was
ever introduced, yet it gets into
print, and people who read only the
partisan papers fancy the Alliance
has gone to pieces in Kansas, and
that it's members will go straightway
back to their old love- the Republi-
can party. l want to tell you that
those notions are absurd. In Kan
sas to-day we have from $4,000 to
O,OOC members gained since the
0f
Does that look like loosing strength?
We are growing faster than ever
ard arethoroughlv united
Will there be a third ticket in the
Presidential race?
81 will give you a straight answer:
So far as the Northwest is concerned
the third party has come to stay; it
will have a ticket in the field that
will sweep Kansas, North and South
Dakota, Nebraska, and other States.
In the South don't know what will
be done, but l say in all sincerity
that if the Southern Democratic lead
ers do not put a stop to their intoler-
ance, prescription, and denunciation
of our order and it's principles there
will be third ticket in the South
also. There is q great deal Ofhuman
nature among Alliance men. They
have stood a good deal from Dem
ocratic leaders, but they are grow
ing weary and may turn on their de-
tractors"
1t is true that you have demanded
the resignation of President Hall, of
the Missouri State Alliance, because
he is opposed to the sub-treasury
plank?
about as true as the story that
as commander of Il Confederate brig
ade l had some prisoners shot in
cold blood at Gettysburg never got
higher than third lieutenant and the
Union soldiers l had executed existed
only in the fertile brain of partisan
editor. No, President Hall has not
been asked out of the order. [ have
had some correspondence with him
and think that he with Wade of Ten
nessee and McAllister and Beeman,
of Mississippi, are making sad mis-
takes in deviating one iota from the
Ocala platform.
What about the charges that DIR.
Macunc has sold out to the protec-
tive tariff advocate?
''Tbat is on Il par with the other
stuff. We never notice the calumn-
les directed against our prominent
men. The public has got so used to
the fakes of the party organs that
little dependence is placed in what
such papers say"
Don't let any one contradict your
Col. Oates interview. 1t is abso-
lutely correct, was taken especially
fnr nd +
can be vouched for by a responsible
pers are trying to deny its reliabili-
ty. They will hear from Col. Oates
in still stronger terms from his own
state in few days"
Secretary Fosters views of the fl
nancial situation are given to the
public in an editorial signed by him
self and published in the New York
Recorder yesterday morning. 1t is
mainly devoted to consideration of
the appropriations made by the last
Congress, all of which he does not
pretend to say are beyond criticism,
yet in every instance where they
were improper he claims it will be
found that they were supported as
much by Democrats as Republicans.
On the whole he justifies the budget
and insists that this is billion-dol-
lar country. AS to the ability of
the Treasury to meet its obligation,
he repeats the forecast he made some
time ago that the Government will
have money enough to cover all its
expenditures and add a handsome
sum to what has already been paid
on the bonded debt. He also ex-
poets, and has reason to believe that
the proposed extension of SOL ,0O0,-
900 of A per cent will be so favora-
bly, received by the banks that about
$2a, 900, 900 will be added to the CIR
culation in national bank notes. It
is rather a rose -colored view of the
situation, and rather a novel way of
presenting it to the public, but every
body will join the secretary in the
hope that his encouraging predic-
tons may come true. Secretary
Foster would not have written the
article above referred to if he had
not known the people blame his par
ty for the vast expenditures of the
billion dollar Congress. He cannot
get around the acts of that Congress.
They are facts which stand out in
bold relief and they are ominous.
They threaten the defeat of the g.
o. P. in 1892 and he knows it.
Tobacco Statistics of Alabama.
WASHINGTON, d. G., July 13.-The