The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1891-08-20

~ Alliance going into
&R& the Third or Peo-
El ~ pies Party. We
Some few of its members may do SO
under the wrong impression that such
a cause will right the wrongs of which
the order justly complains. But they
will be few in mum Der and, compare
lively speaking, without influence.
And they will soon discover their
mistakes and return to the Democratic
party. In its success alone is to be
realized the condition of affairs desired
by the Alliance We do not say this
because the Democrats have a mono
poly of the wisdom and virtue of the
country. We do not doubt that the
motives of some of the organizers of
the Peoples Party are pure. But the
Democratic as now constituted lacks
only few votes Of winning success.
Even if the principles Of the Demo
cratic party, it would still be unwise
for it to seek to draw votes from the
Democracy, for then it would be in
surfing the success of the Republican
party, the common enemy to reform.
But by uniting the forces the Demo-
cratic party can win great victory,
and then will come just and wise legis-
lation. 1t is the only way it can be
secured
"But," say some Alliancemen, s'sup-
pose the Democratic party wins and
its representatives prove recreant and
do not enact the needed legislation,
what are we to do?'
This is a pertinent question, and
gets at the root of the matter. If the
Democratic party is given full control
of the Government, which it has not
had for single day since 1860, it
will give all the relief to the people
that can be given by legislation. But
if its representatives should prove re-
creant (they have never been recreant
in the past as a partly then, and only
then, would patriotic man be justi-
fled in considering the question of
Withdrawing his allegiance to the
Democratic party.
If the Democratic party should
violate its pledges, and prove recreant
to. its principles, it ought to die and
all good men ought to leave it. We
love it and cherish with ardent fond
ness its achievements and its principles
which are eternal, but if it should de-
part from its principles and become
the tool of monopoly, we should not
| hesitate to withdraw from it and ad-
wise all patriotic men to do likewise
But to even consider such a step
when we remember that
I. The Democratic party is not re-
sponsble for a single i'll of which the
people justly complain and protest
against; and
2. The Democratic party at every
stage protest against the national bank
ing act, the denomination of silver, the
protective tariff, and the grant by cor
rupt means of public land to railway
corporations.
When we recall these two facts we
see how unjust it is to the connection
with its corrupt opponent, and how
unwise for any Democrat to consider
leaving it just as it isupon the threshold
of complete national success.
We do not believe there is any dis
position upon the part of the Alliance
in North Carolina or the South tc
leave the Democratic party, and we
do not believe any considerable mum,
Der will be SO unwise. Why do we
say this2
We believe that many of them will be
actuated to this course as much be-
cause of their love to the Alliance as
by their love Of party. The Alliance
has great mission and a great chart
and as long as it is true to its declara-
ton OF principles it is a strong power
and exerts a wholesome influence.
We do not believe they will go into
the Peoples Party because to do SC
would be to violate the declaration OF
principles of the Alliance. In that
declaration, item one reads as follows.
We therefore resolve
I. To labor for the education OF
the agricultural class, in the science OF
government, in a strictly non partizan
spirit.
If this declaration means anything,
it means what it plainly says. To &C
| into partizan phlitics would be to
violate the letter of their Declaration
of Principles, and to open the door Of
strife and of division and confusion
which would bring weakness and
ruin. The thoughtful members
of the alliance know this and will
not follow any movement that is VIC
lative of this principle of the Alliance
This is why we are not troubled.
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