Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1891-02-20

wSllerbady tosent looss from their
'old pasty, ~ ~ 10 means ready 70.
turn their baCks On their own life
long polisical convictions and join
The Dstnocrstic party-giving up
everything, while their Democratic
allies refuse 70 give up anything.
Nor h Il possible Tor the Western
movement itself to develop into !
national movement, in time, at least,
for the next Presidential campaign.
The u~niication Of the different po-
litical organizations where such or
ganisations already exist,
would, in itself, require con.
siderable time. When that is
done there IL the rest Of the nation
70 be organized BY states, by coun.
ties, by cities, and by townships.
In three-fourths Of the nation il
would be necessary to educate the
people in the principles Of the move
ment and to inspire confidence in
it's leaders, and to do this with few,
If any, daily organs a. champions,
and hundreds Of dailies expanding
themselves In connecting falsehoods,
spreading ineinuations and ISLANDERS
and keeping up = continual fusilade
Of ridicule, Misrepresentation and
sarcasm. TO organize such q move
ment in the teeth Of such opposi-
ton, with the means.at hand, in the
present condition of public senti-
ment, and to do it in time for the
campaign Of 1892 is a. task simply
impossible to perform.
A third point is that this move
nent has left = large multitude Of
voters without a national party, and,
il we are correctsin the above state.
nlents, with no chance Of organizing
. rev party in time for effective
work in 1892.
A fourth point 10 that the very
States in which this movement is
strongest and in which it has sue
ceeded in drawing votes from both
old parties to tho greatest extent,
are the States in which the Prohibi-
ton sentiment is most powerful, es.
pecially among the farmers. First
on the list Of these States is Kansas,
the strongest prohibition State oil
the Union. Next is Nebraska, where
the rural population would have had
q Prohibitory amendment to-day
had il not been for fraud and VIC.
lence in one or two OF the cities ol
the State. Then come the two Dako.
tas, both Prohibition States. Then
come Minnesota, Iowa, and Michi.
gan, in every M of which Prohibi.
ton has = strong gripon the farmers.
In both Minnesota and Michigan
there was considerable alliance Of
forces between Prohibitionists and
farmers in the late election.
A fifth point is that the Prohibi.
ton party, with it's organization in
nearly every state in the Union, in
nearly every county in all the more
important states, with All issue that
has a grip on all classes and in all
sections alike, with an established
press, able speakers, and a compe.
tent fund pledged for the coming
campaign, has already manifested
in it's platforms in state after state
as well "a in its press, a cordial dis
position to espouse the real strategic
issues in the farmers platform
namely, reduction Of tariff, increase
Of currency, extension Of the Gov.
ernment's control over railways and
abolition Of national banks as bankl
of issue. In other words, to sum il
up in q phrase-NO CLASS LEG
ISLATION-a winning shibboleth
but one which the farmers them
selves, in . separate class party,
could not use.
What, then lie the manifest des.
tiny Of the farmers movement
One Of three things: To lose itsel
in one Of the old parties; or, to fat,
ten out entirely; or, to help build
on the foundation already laid BY
the Prohibition party, the party O
the future.
Which shall it be?
MOODY's SUCCESSOR.
On the thirty.ninth ballot, on.
hundred thirty-nine votes were cast
Of which Rev. James H. Kyle, o.
Aberdeen, received thus
| olnct;rr him TT q CncaSc. Co. So