Dodge City times., 1891-06-26
HoNEsTVs EXPERIENCE POLITICIANS.

is now shown in Mississippi and Ohio.
In the former state the democratic ma
chine has been worked to the utmost to
demOlish the sub-treasury and ''other
hercsies of the alliance" and in the lat
ter the republican machine is adopting
the same methods.
The unmistakble evidences every day
presented that party fealty is losing its
power among the rank and file of the
people, and the fact that with one ac-
cord the great common people in all
sections of the country are announcing
a determination to vote their principles
regardless of party lines, does not indi-
cate any change of principle on the
part of the people. It is rebellion
against tyranny and oppression. because
it is tyrany and oppression for the party
machine" to stifle free thought and
speech by prescribing a political plat
form that must be adopted under PEN
atty of expulsion. Reason and justice
should be the only guides to party pol
icy, and when they are supplanted by
the machine" I" the legitimate fruits of
machine methods must follow. The
fruits of the mild sway of reason and
justice are prosperity and happiness,
while the fruits of machine methods"
are corruption, crime, hatred and vio-
lcnce.
The National Economist is the official
organ of the National Farmers Alli-
ance and Industrial Union. and it is
therefore its duty to contend for the
principles of the order, and in such con-
tentiOn finding the chief adversaries to
Ike the machines" of the two political
parties, conducting in concert bitter
war upon the order as above stated, it
becomes the duty of the national organ
to fire back at these enemies of the
peoples great cause. This is an un-
pleasant task, and leads to a conflict
fierce and terrible, in which the Econ
Omist, on account of its devotion to its
plain duty, is assailed and DETAINED
in every possible manner. The
Economist has thus far withstood
these attacks and fought simply on the
defensive, contending honestly for the
principles of the order The ina
chimes" have in the north denounced il
republican party, and in the south as a
republican agent to disrupt the demo-
cratic party. They have from both
north and south accused it of trying to
lead the alliance into a third party
and denounced its editor rs
venal and ambitious, and the
people, recognizing the utter falsity Of
all these attacks. have sustained the
and its editor throughout all
this persecution for devotion to prin-
ciple, until to-day the Economist is in a
more prosperous and more popular po-
sition than ever before, and it hereby
determination to fight in
this holy cause from this on, not only
in the defensive, as in the past, but in
the aggressive It will attack the ina
chimes" of both parties: not the princi-
pies Of either party, but the machines
This will be done for three reasons:
First it is the '.machines" that are
lighting alliance principles; second,
hey are corrupt and without principle,
and being SO must be vulnerable and
subject to complete destruction by the
sword of reason and justice. and third, |
{ Is the duty of the official organ to re-
turn the fire that has been quietly !
borne until the objects of the assail- |
,nts are exposed rs determined on the |
destruction of the liberty of |
he people.
The Indictment hereby brought
against the '1machines" of both parties
5 Corruption, Tyranny. and Oppres-
ion! The specifications will require
months to describe. and the evidence Is
% voluminous that it will be presented
laily for yearA What brazen enront-
~ for the 'machine" of either party
. come before IN honest puhlie and |