The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1891-08-07
He Ouits The Alliance.

Editor w. Il. Lawson, OF the agriculture
al Journal, Of Motgomery,Ala and char
man of the Democratic Executive Com
mittee, on June 18th sent a letter asking
for a withdrawal card from the Ander-
son Alliance on the ground that the Al
lance had departed from its original pur-
pose and had become a political organi-
cation, which was inimical to the demo-
cratic party. The Alliance refused to
give a withd rawal card, and Mr.. Law
son withdrew from the organization. In
his editorial announcing his withdrawal
he says:
The Alliance, in snppressing indlvid-
ual thought and, action. destroys the
means of material progress, material CIV
ilIzation and human liberty:
The alliance demands of its members
the sacrifice of their principles and con-
victions Of a lifetime upon a common
Alliance altar; that thoughts
and principles shall be held
in common by the brotherhood, in de-
iance of the laws of nature and Of God.
The profound scholar is not allowed to
hold opinions and express convictions OF
long standing, strengthened by study and
research, they must be placed upon the
Alliance alter and there sacrificed and the
possessor pass out a nonentity, or advocat e
principles which his judgment does not ap.
prove. Through this means the individ-
uality of its members are buried in its or
ganism and their intellects dwarfed and
warped to suit every passing breeze, in
stead Of being ~broadened and developed
The Alliance leaders are industriosly
working up the AMI and file of the order
to the point OF delivering them bodily
into the third party. They are lying
down propositions that, If assented to by
the membership, inevitably takes them
into an independent political movement.
The ultimatum has been but forth by dec
l~aration of Its national Presidents, its
speakers, osans and resolutions of Allan
ces, that if the democratic party does not
incorporate into its platform the Ocala
dem ands that the will support the party
that does. They know, and every in
telligent Democrat knows, that the Demo-
cratic party will not incorporate the Ocala
demands in it platform. A majority OF
the Democrats are opposed to the Ocala
demands in their entirety. Not one-ffty
of the Democrats of Alabama, are flavor
of the Ocala demands in their entirety,
nor do we believe that a majority of the
Democrats in the Alliance are in favor
of them.
Every republican and indie pendent that
is eligible is a member of the Alliance,
and they have largely directed and con-
trolled the Alliance in Alabama, and
have used every means to SOW the seeds
of dissension in the ranks of the Democra-
tic party. They have taken every oppor-
tunity to abuse and m~isrepresent the De-
mocratic party and prominent Demo
Gratis and make them responsible for con.
ditions that they have earnestly sought
TO remedy for twenty or more years
They have denounced in unmeasured
terms our State officials for honestly dis
charging their duty uuder the law, and
commended those who have been shown
to be dishonest by official investigation.
The claim set up that the Alliance IS an
organization in the interest of agriculture
ia untrue. While pretending to be on
the side OF the people, It is In
fact on the side of of6ceseeking politicians.
The Alliance has relegated the tariff to
the rear as an issue and the free coinage |
of silver is taking the same course. Pres
ident Polk a few days ago had it teIe-
graphed over the county that the demand |
of the Alliance was tor nat money, with
the emphasis on the fiat" He sees, and
80 does everyone, that the amount Of cur
rency contemplated being issued upon
land and products cannot be maintained
on a parity with gold and silver, and
therefore the demand is for fiat money
and for driving specie out of circulation.
We will not submit to any interference
with our political thought and action.
We place white supremacy above negro
domination, and, constitutional methods
above despotism, the rule of the people
above class rule, legislation for the mass
es above class legislation; and, as the De-
mocratic party best represents these
views, the only honorable curse left us
is 70 come out of the Alliance and stand
with the party that carried the Southern
party through the greatest trial that any
free people have endured in modern
times; the party that knows no north, no
south, no east, no west, and under its
banner, and upon its platform, all classes
and distinctions can stand. We will not
be a party to, nor join IN with, the repub-
licans and third partyii les in the Alliance
to capture the democratic party, and
crush out the best democrats in the par
ty. We will not do this thing against
men who have been true to the princi-
pies of the party, true to them since the
war and true to them now. We shall
act with party as a whole, according TO
It's established usages, and not with any
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