The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-01-01
THE ALLIANCE MOVEMENT.
Tho Washington Correspondent OF tho
NV York Herald Gives 1t Consider
afinn I'D.

NV York Herald Gives 1t Consider
alton. .
'Thc specter of the Farmers Alliance
ovcrshadows all other political consider
ations here. Clever politicians estimate
the vote polled by that organization in
the recent election at not less than o.
500, 0O0. The Alliance people themselves
are saying nothing that can be construed
as an indication of their future purposes.
The expectation is that their party will
increase so rapidly during the ncxt two
years that their voting strength in 1892
will not fall much, if any, short of five
million. In that event they will
undoubtedly place a presidential
ticket in the field with a
moral certainty of carrying half a dozen
southern and western states. Already
they arc claiming all the agricultural
states in 1892. This is, of course, an
exaggerated and oversanguine view of
the situation growing out of their recent
success, but they have a reasonable prob
ability of carrying North and South
braska and Minnesota. Their leaders
here state that not only will they CON
tinue TO develop strength in the states
"hSAS WHY hoNC uIlCdd1 5IOHJl
unexpected power, but that Ohio,
Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey,
and Massachusetts offer them all equally
promising field. The work of organic
ing will go on rapidly in these states
from this time, with the possibility of
bringing one or more of them also under
their domination.
1T is obvious to any student of political
u ifo irc that fIn a l1io~aa ,o--Jo 80 Lf.xI
ing their OATS as they fguratively put
it. They organized originally TOR mu-
tual benefit, but they have drifted into
politics almost imperceptibly from the
start, and their manifest purpose now is
to secure control of the country, Or at
least develop such strength as will en-
between the two great parties. It is not
their intention to consolidate with either.
Their leading men say they will welcome
any man or set of men who may choose
to enter their ranks, but they can only
be admitted by %renouncing forever their
former political affiliations. 1t is only ns
a distinct organization with distinct aims
and purposes that they can hope to win,
and from this course they will not swerve
a hairs breadth. The alliance people are
claiming fifty-tive votes In the next house.
OF this number forty are straight
out alliance representatives and fifteen
others have committed themselves In
writing to the measures advocated by
them. The more important of these
measures are the free silver coinage and
s~ub-trcasury bills. They will not stop,
they say. until they secure the passage
of both. Judging from their conversa-
ton they expect to do this before the
close of the Fifty-second congress. There
is one tenet of their political faith which
fair-minded men, without regard to
other considerations, will cheerfully en-
dorse. They are opposed to sectional
ism and to the statesmen who support
such doctrines. They say that
their principal opposition to Senator In
gals arises from his malevolent and re-
peatcd efforts to widen the breach be-
tween the north and the south. His
other sins they could forgive, but this
they regard as objectionable. They
were asked what, in that case, they pro-
posed doing with Senators Hoar and
Chandler, They replied that as soon as
the organization became stronger in Mas
sachusctts and New Hampshire those
gentlemen should be Immediately turned
down unless their '%brigadier scalping'
tactics, as they term them, ure aban-
doned."