Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1891-03-25
THE SILVER QUESTION.

President Folks Paper Warns the Demo-
cratic Party That Cleveland Can Not Get
the Alliance Vote.
Ex-Mayor Grace, of New York, said
in a recent speech in Texas that the
political issue before the country was
the tariff; and Mr.. Cleveland was the
man who made that issue, and that he
was the man to put into the white house
upon the issue which he made. We
have no fault to find with Mr.. Cleye-
lands views upon the tariff But we
think there is more than one issue be-
fore the people at this time. 1t looks
very much to us as if silver or no silver
was an issue to be tried in the next cam
paign; and Mr.. Cleveland's views upon
that subject are not likely to assure his
election to the presidency. The New
York democrats are a cool set. They
hold a meeting of such men as Mayor
Grace, and calmly select the issue to be
tried, and the man to try it; and then
they notify the country of their action,
and expect the boys to whoop 'em up
and ratify their selection. We want it
distinctly understood that the Farmers
Alliance does not intend to stand the
cool impudence of the New York demo-
Gratis any longer. We tell them plainly
that the alliance will not help them to
elect an anti-silver man to the presi-
dency of the United States in 1892. If
Mr.. Cleveland is put forward as the
democratic candidate we intend to hold
ourselves aloof and act independently.
No gold bug" shall sit in the white
house in the future with the the permits
of the Farmers Alliance.
The indications now point to the fact
that the democrats of the east and west
are fixing to make desperate effort to
force Mr. Cleveland upon that party and
the country as their candidate for the
presidency in 1892. 1t seems certain
that the democrats cannot elect their
man without the solid vote of the south
ern states. In several of these same
southern states the Farmers Alliance
has the power in its own hands; and it
does not intend to be driven by the old
threadbare story of sectionalism into
voting to put an enemy of silver money
into the white house to succeed Mr.
Harrison. The free coinage of silver is
one OF the most vital demands formu-
lated by the alliance movement; and
we mean to secure the object contem-
plated by this demand, or we mean to
know the reason why. We make this
statement as no idle threat. We
speak by the book; and we mean
exactly what we say. We shall permit
no shuffling with our just demands for
financial reforms. We know what we
want, and we shall know how to get it.
If the democrats of the south will do so.
they can put silver man upon the
ticket next year-a man who will be
acceptable to the alliance-and so win
before the people. If they are not
willing to do this, they must take
what follows. There is no doubt at all
that the majority of white alliance
men in the southern states are demo-
Gratis and would prefer to vote for a
democrat for the presidency. But we
do not hesitate to say that we will
give our support to any good repub-
Ecan who adopts and stands by our
principles before we will give it to a
democrat who opposes our principles.
We have been pleading against angry
partisanism in the conduct of public
affairs, and we mean to practice what
we preach. We will vote for the man
for the presidency who represents our
views, regardless of the fact as to
whether he has heretofore been a dem
ocrst or a republican. -Progressive
Farmer