Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-01-01
WARNING ELEMENTS.
The True State of Affairs Between the

/ The True State of Affairs Between the
Republican Party and the Alliance.
The inherent hostility toward each
other of all agricultural and labor or
CARNATIONS and the Republican party
has been apparent for some time past.
Efforts have been made. both by Repub-
| lican politicians and leaders in the in
| dustrial bodies. to conceal the fact. but
it has remained plain and undisguis-
! able. 1t has been easy to see that if
| these societies We're not organized as
protests against the Republican party,
| then there has been no occasion or eX-
cuse for their existence. That party is
the only one that can justly be held re-
| SpOnSible for the evils of which they
complain, and for the want of le@isla-
ton which they consider necessary for
the promotion of public welfare.
The Republican cam paign managers
exhausted all the arts of political diplo-
macy in the late campaign in the effort
to convince the industrial elements that
there was no antagoniSm between them
and the Republican party. After the
election returns had convinced then
that the effort had failed, the disguise
was partially thrown off. and express
sions of resentment, guarded but none
the less significant. began to appear
from the Republican leaders and in the
Republican press at the attitude of the
| farmers movement in the Republican
| States of the West and Northwest
! Since the recent declaration against
the force bill by the National conven-
ton of the Farmers Alliance all re-
serve has been abandoned, and it may
10 S1il Hp+ hi hny
clared war against the Alliance. The
bitter denunciations of the movement
by the Republican statesmen at Wash
| ington are only one indication of the
| feeling. The party press is still moro
| violent and Outspoken. The New York
Tribune ridiculcs the meeting. The st.
| Louis Embellishments prescribes brains
as the great necessity of the organiza-
| ton. But il is the Cincinnati CONNER
cial-Gazctte that teaches the extreme of
hostile expression. in the course of a long
/ attack. by saying:
In its secrecy. its oaths and It's press censors
it is non Anne rican both in its organization and
its methods. Its tendency is toward cox
muniSm n wild an perniciOuS any tina: LAS
heretofore cursed the world Its present mani
:estations will prove of great value, and in
eStimable National blessing, If the thoughtful
citizens OF The land will study them with care.
Such expressions of Republican feel
ing against the producing classes are
more logical than just. 1t is as pos
sible to make oil and water mix as to
effect any fusion of purpose and action
between the Plutocratic Republican
party of to-day and the classes who are
organized against Plutocracy.
The Republic is not surprised to see
the Republicans forced into the position
which is natural to them. 1t is sur
prised, however, to see charged as
reason for taking it that the farmers
party is an ally of the Democratic
party because it opposes a force bill.
| The fact is, whether Republicans are
| capable of understanding it or not, that
| the Democratic party has less to fear
from the Lodge bill or any other like
measure. than have the farmers par
| ties, the worl<ing-men's parties,
| any new organization seeking to in
| crease its nu nbers and extend its in
| fiuence. \ Federal election bill which;
| lodges such tremendous powers of con-
troll in the hands of a party in power
would necessarily operate heavily
against new parties struggling for
recognition and existence. In its prac-
teal application to elections it would
serve the purpose of perpetuating the
power of Il dominant party long after
the conscience and intelligence of the
people had condemned its principles and
/ policies.
| The farmers have not failed to
this, or to realize its import as affecting
| them and others who are to follow them.
| They have spoken not only for them
selves, but for posterity. 1t is well
/ that they have. since the violent kick
| they have provoked from the Republic
an party has shown its cloven hoof.-