The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-08-01
WAR IN the ALLIANCE.

WAR IN THE ALLIANCE.
The last issue of the National Econ
Omist has for its principal feature more
than two pages of extracts from vari-
Gus Missouri Alliance organs, refer
ring to the war on DIR. Macune. the
| editor of the National Economist. be-
gun BY President L. :. Hall, of the
State Alliance. DR.. Macune prefaces
this missouri department" a. he calls
it, by the following statement:
"in presenting for this IL issue
only of the Economist a Missouri de-
partmcnt. the editor makes Ii slight
devi ton from the heretofore policy
of this paper. The Economist posi-
lively disclaiIns any responsibility for
the sentiment expressed by its CORE
spondents or in my of the clippings
il may print from other papers. 1t
has been and is now the policy Of the
Economist. a. the official organ of the
National Farmers Alliance and In
dustrial Union. to carefully avoid per
sonal condemnation of any member
of the order. no matter how great the
offcnse or positive the evidence of
guilt. The order has its own proper
tribunal in which TO try every offender.
but the d~i>graccful fight made by GER
tain members of the Allianre upon
the demand of The order has been 50
vigorously circulated by the subsidized
press of the country as to bring those
matters more prominently before the
rank and file of the farmers of the
country than the expressions of the
national organ can do. They have
been circulated, printed and reprinted
by the city. daily and country weekly
all over the land. and now comes the
complaint that. if the Economist re-
fuses TO quote what the reform papers
say on the question. that il is dcrclict
in IFS evident duty to try and present.
as u national paper. what the local
reform papers say on this subject. In
response TO this evidently just demand
il is deemed best to present. in one
issue of the paper only, a collection of
the expressions of the different reform
papers of Missouri. and then to dc>iSt.
assuring the reader that were this
policy kept up it would require fully
this much space every week. as il
would have done for the past three
months"
The last sentence is certainly an in
gcnuous confession. If it would re-
quirc over two pages a week. cOntin-
uously. To answer the attacks of MEM
bers of the Alliance upon Brother
Macunc. those attacks must he very
persistent and bitter.
The language used in these extracts
concerning Brother Hall is not sugar
coated. False" "untruc., 81 dema-
gogue,' a "Bcnedict Arnold" a
Judas a "pot-hOuse politiciam"-
these are some of the cpithets applied
TO Brother Hall in Brother Macunc's
paper, whose policy it is to avoid
personalities"
The inwardness of the fight is easy
o get at. Hall is afraid of a third
party Alliance ticket in Missouri. lie
5 a free trade Democrat, and wants
he tariff for his platform. and L. :.
Hall for the Democratic candidate for
Governor. lie knows tie Democrats
If his State will not swallow the sub
Treasury scheme, and lie is fighting il ,
md lis chief sponsors inside the order.
1t is sad to see brethren thus be
pattering each other with muddy !
If this sort of thing spreads.
lot ali the press censorship the ALI .
nee Grand High Supreme Council !
an exercise can avoid a rupture of !
he body. Linen like this would he
letter washed in the Alliance kitchen. !
'ehind looked doors. Publications {
ike these are not judicious. They =
i've TO the outside world the impress c
that inside the grips and pass '
lords of the Alliance of '.brothcr>" I
here are as many jcalousies and rival /!
les and hcart-burnings as in the old a
olitical parties. !