The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1891-07-31
TO be Read out Of the Party.

Mr.. Oates, of Alabama, of whom we
had something to say last week, is again
the subject of our notice. Mr.. Oates
seems to think that he and few others
of like ilk are the Democratic party of
the South, and arrogates to himself the
right to read out of the party every man
who contends for the Alliance demands.
Now this strikes us as about the cheek
lest thing that our attention has been
called TO in these latter days, coming
from a man who does not possess the
least vestige of Jeffersonian Democracy,
else he never would have voted to ex-
tend the charters to the National Banks,
for another twenty years, and could not
have voted to loan 100000 dollars to
the cotton exposition at New Orleans.
Hear the gentleman as reported by the
Savannah News:
A WARNING TO DEMOCRATS.
In an interview published in Washington on
Thursday, Congressman William e. Oates Of
situation in the South, said: LAS view It, the
situation is a serious one, and feaught with
longer be ignored. TIE xllsUee Is trying to
swallow the Democracy of the bO..Nern States
lock, stock and barrel. 1t Is bent on putting out
Democrats come boldly 70 the front and declare
their hostility to the pet doctrines Of the Alliance
the sub-treasury scheme, government ownership
Of the transportation lines and government loans
on land securities. we are in imminent danger Of
ruin as party.
Nah x.,naf ba cow G IN loans uiIi vaf,p
If the managers of the New Orleans ex-
position has ever returned that money, l
have never found it out He can loan
or give money to a corporation, but to
an oppressed farmer, never. Its uncon-
stitutional, you know.
The Savannah News echoes the warn
ing of Mr.. Oates in the following ords:
There is no ADLER or more sincere Democrat in
the South than Mr.. Oates, and he as man does
not hesitate 70 express his opinions. If he were
not profoundly convinced that the Democratic
party is in danger Of being ruined he would not
| say so. Believing that II is In danger. he is
prompted to utter warning.
The News further speaking of the
probability of the Alliance getting con-
troll of the Democratic convention Of
Georgia says:
There is a chance, Of course, that enough Ali.
ancemen in this state who believe In the Ocala
platform win get into the next state Democratic
convention 70 control that body, because an ex-
sTaogdinary snoTt Is beng maze n behalf Of thss
straight out Democratic principles the 0cala
doctrines viii not appear In the platf orm Of the
The warning OF Congressman Oates is intended
TO arouse Democrats all over the South TO the i'm
| portance of attending their primaries and state
organizations may be placed in the positi Of
/ subscribing to doctrines which they do not an
prove and of encouraging the third party move
ment.
This seems to be plain talk, for it APP
pears that in the great state of Georgia
the Alliance numbering, as it does,
10000 members, are the Democratic
party, and if through the advice Of Mr..
Oates, the papers who are laboring in
the interest of a government run by
plutocrats and tariff moHopolists should
read out the members of the Alliance,
there would not be great many left.
But it is left for the Memphis Ava
handicapped, to put the finishing
to the reading out business" Read it,
farmers, and after you have digested II,
tell US in the name of that God who
made all men equal; tell as in the name
of the immortal Jefferson, whose
motto was equal rights toall and special
privileges to none," what you think?
The Memphis Archaeological,
strong Democratic paper, discussing the
Alliance movement, says:
Now let us be frank. What do these political
members OF nonpolitical organization desire or
meanH Candidly, their yaporings mean that un-
less the Democracy continue in ONCE these p0-
Iltice representatives of nonp0litica1 ergsnfxa-
ton. there viii be trouble. Candidiy. 1t means
that II q few nameleSS nobodfes cannot rule the
roost, there VIM be trouble. What should the
Democracy dOs Surrender No. thousand
times no. Better far better TO go to defeat than