Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1891-06-17


nized as time shall unfold the political
history of the future Its immediate
effect must be to strengthen and invig-
crate the reform movement and to
greatly benefit the alliance educational
work. 1t is notice to the political
bosses that the methods of the past
will not longer be tolerated, and that
the party securing the support of the
great common people must take sides
upon the questions of land, transporta-
ton and finance, as pointed out by the
Economist two years ago. If the bosses
are wise they will heed the warning
and recognize the fact that they can
not by agitation and the flourish of
the party whip longer perpetuate the
reign of sectional hate to keep the peo-
pie in hostile camps on issues of the
dead past, while they are robbed by
land monopoly, railway abuses and
financial manipulation. A perusal Of
the platform, in view of the upanimity
and readiness with which it was adopt
ed, should convince even the politi-
clans that the people have a proper con-
ception of the evils of the present sys-
tenn of government and propose to cor.
rect them. There are, however, those
prominent in bossing both parties
who are interested in perpetual
ing these evils, who would lose
their occupation if they were cor
rected, and as consequence they
in their selfshness would rather see
the party destroyed than to see it re-
formed. If such succeed in dominating
both parties, they will drive from their
Ill o;f
ing only the boodlers to bemoan their
folly in the fall of 1892. The issue is
now fairly presented to every candid
friend of free institutions, to either re-
form his party or quit it and accept one
embodying the reforms calculated to
carry out the principles contemplated
by the trainers of the constitution The
people will not longer submit to be
dominated by corrupt party bosses
They are thinking for themselves.
The partisan press of the country has
advertised with big, black headlines and
numerous sub-heads the action of the
meeting as the birth of the new party,
but it is not 1t simply provided for ed
ucation on the Ocala platform, for CO.
operation with the conference to be
held in February, 1892 and, if neces-
sary, to call a convention to institute
the party in June, 1892. tits necessary
that this fact be recognized and en-
phasized, because the partisan press of
the south, where the conflict is now very
bitter, will TEEN with falseboods about
! the capture of the alliance by lot of
sorehead politicians. They will say
that parcel of men afflicted with office
itch, who had rode every reform move.
ment to death for the last twenty years,
called the meeting for the purpose OF
tacking the alliance tail on the kite OF
their aspirations, and that all alliance
men who advocate the alliance plat
form of Ocala belong to a new political
party instituted in opposition to the
democratic party by disgruntled repub-
icans of the north for the purpose OF
securing negro supremacy in the south.
Page after page of such false and vile
rot as this will be dinned into the
unwilling ears of alliancemen of the
south in order to drive them from
the support of the sub-treasury plan
and kindred reform measures. The
| people care not that few professional
reformers participated in the call from
| the Cincinnati meeting, since the meet
! ing was attended by the rank and file
and its action wise. The very candor
of reformers is what makes them sub
ject to be so often called cranky. They
| advocate what they believe, whether
popular or not. They are often called
| fools and cranks, but never insincere;
and the sub-treasury is the only meas
ure ever presented that could harmonic
and convert all the cranks in the coun-
try at the first pass.
But the point to disarm the partisan
attack to be made in the south is, that
the Ocala platform still belongs to the
alliance, and the peoples party will not
appropriate it for political purposes
until the farmers shall fail to do so in
February, 1892. Now, therefore, if the
democratic or the republican party, or
both, shall take an equally just position
on these questions, then the peoples
party will have to find new reason for
launching on the political sea. Other
wise, those parties can have no claim
! upon their members who believe in the
'new dispensation." They have plenty
of time and an ample opportunity to
forestall it.-National Economist.