Nevada County picayune., 1891-07-23
TURNING ON THE LIGHT.
Exposure of McCune's Methods
 In with the Republicans.
TIE REPUBLIC BuEEAr. Cor. Huh St. & Penn. Ave, M ,.uINDrnN ID C Iun 1n 4l.

light on the true inwardness of ")r. Macune. the editor of the National Economist and the strutting boss of the Farmers Alliance created a mild sensation in Washington this after noon. Not that there was anything in the article that most people m Washington familiar with alliance matters arc not already familiar with hut the fact that the farmers were getting onto" Macune, were begin ming to suspect him, to talk abont him, to publish their opinions regard ing him, was considered suggestive. l There is but one opinion concerning Macune among those who know him well-that he is jobber from the word go. He is in the Alliance for what there is in it for him. He never was farmer, knows nothing about farming, has no sympathy for farmers and his business in life at the present time is to bleed farmers and make life as easy and comfortable and protita- ble for himself as he can.
 Macune has tired a great many ways in the course of his life to make a living. He tried painting in Tex as; not artistic painting, but daubing fences, barns and gatepssts-a work it will be admitted, that does not require much skill but he was a fail ure at that He tried running ho- tel in country town, and sccceeded at that until he got into debt to everybody who would trust him, and then he vacated the town suddenly and has not since returned there. He tried to edit four-by-ten news paper. mostly patent matter, and he was a dead failure at that. He act ed as a drug clerk for awhile, and there is where he got the title of "Doctor and he failed at that.
 Then, when crowded to the wall he rented fifty acres of land some- where in the vicinity of Cameron, Texas, and tried to work that for awhile. It was then he joined the Alliance as a farmer, but as an Ali ance man he was success. He spouted from town to town, from hamlet to hamlet, from place to place in Texas, snd managed, by the force of his "gab and gall" to get himself elected president of the Texas Ali ance.
 From the Texas Alliance he branched into the National Alliance and was equally successful. He dis covered his calling. It was to work his gall for all it was worth. He established the Texas Alliance Ex change at Dallas and bled the farm CTS of the state to the extent of near ly half million dollars. Then he came to Washington. Here he pur- chased house, not an SS ,00O house, as has been reported, but much
 
 more costly edifice, and he lives here Tn great style. He struts here as the boss of the Alliance, and his business is to intimidate everybody who will not fall into his snaps and snares. He established a business connection easily, in his Washington career, with sharp crowd of Geor- gia Yankees, of which Inman and Calhoun arc representatives and agents. It is understood that he re- cievcd a very handsome sum to act as the member of the Legislative Committee of this combine here at the national capital. Subsequently he went to Georgia to make one of his emoloyers, Pat Calhoun, United States Senator.
 A year ago Macune was putting on all the airs of an emperor in Washington and threatening with his dspleasurc everybody who had the hardihood to differ with him, contest his supremacy or question his meth ods. There is a well-authenticated story in circulation here that the ashington correspondent of a Geor- gia newspaper which wants to be metropolitan, and at the present time is coaching candidate for the Speakership of the next House, of- fended Macune and the great nabob instantly wrote to the managers of the Georgia paper demanding the immediate dismissal of the cores pendent. Instead of telling the ar rogant upstart to go to warm eli mate, the managers of the Georgia paper apologized to him, dickcred with him, courteously remonstrated with him, and asked if an apology from the correspondent would not