St. Landry democrat., 1891-07-11
The Alliance in the South.


We make the following extracts from
a remarkable article which appeared in
the last number of the Lafayette Vim
dicator:
A keynote has just been struck,
whose vibrations will soon be felt
throughout the length and breadth Of
this country. To the bugle blast now
resembling in the air, the Democracy
the endangered Democracy of the
Southern States-ls now giving no un-
certain response. The scales arc rapid
~ falling from the vision of the delnded
followers Of Francis. TillOu Nichols.
State Commissioner of Agriculture
Adams viii, find ere long, notWithstand-
ing his proteStations of fealty and loyalty
to the party to which he is so deeply in
debted, that he and his associates. such
as the Hoiloways ct i'd oD'nc genus, are
now on trial before the country, and
that they will be held to strict ac-
countabIlity for any attempt by their
followers to disrupt, or even relax or
enfeeblc the ties that now bind the
Democratic family. To it we owe to-
day our state sovereignty and our po-
litical enfranchisement. TO it, we owe
white supremacy, regulated labor, the
suboldination OF the unru'y to the cause
of law and order, and our present en-
| Wed progress and prosperity: bastard,
therefore, is any man who, basely III
trigueing for purely selfish PURPOSES
and partisan ends" seeks to misIead the
honest. virtuouS but ignorant and I'M
suspectng farmer into a course that
must eventually prove suicide to him
self and injurious to every principle
that has 50 far guided us out Of our
troubles.
We have been led to these remarks
| by the pcrusal Of the prophetic utter
ances OF II loyal and gifted son OF the
South, and they are in perfect accord
with the views frequently expressed by
such trusty leaders as Reagan Of Texas,
CARLISLE of Kentucky, and a host of 9th
ers well known for their devotion to
the South. Read them carefully, and
if you are not in heart a renegade, you
will find at once wherein the danger
lies. We copy as follows:
Representative Oates, Of Alabama. who is an
Old-fashiOnad Democrat of the most unconl-
promising sort, takes Il very serious view OF
the Alliance movement i'll the South. Speaking
to-day, he said that he thought that the South
EN- Democrats were too tiuid and trllSttul III
dealing with the Alliance and that they did
not fully appreciate the seriousness OF the sit
uaton. " 100 many of or folks he said,
ARE trying to make friends with the Ali
ance, in hopes Of holding their own hereafter.
They but deceive themselves. The Alliance
folks are not fooled but our people are com
promised. The fact is just this: We have got
to fight the Alliance right ont with all our
IN; ght or it will ctt the best OF lis in the South
Norman can believe in the sub-treasnry and
land loan schemes and claim to be Democrat.
The line must be drawn sharply and ut once
The Alliance is now i'll the minority, but it is
organized we'll ana our people are weakening
themselves by cutting Shy OF the fight. What
we must do is to organize against the Alliance
and beat it out of existence. If We do not it
wi beat us, though we are III the maj )rity.
In every Democratic cOnventiOn-for it is
in these convention that the Alliance seeks to
get control "a resolution should be offered
cOndemnlng the sub treasury scheme us uil-
constitutional and uGdenOGrdtic. Ii this res
olution is voted DO VII the convention is an Al
lance and not Democratic convention and
the Democrats should retire and hold u con-
yentiou elsewhere. This plan Of separating
the Democrats from the Farmers Alliance
should be followed in every State in the
South"
This is bold language; but it has the
ring OF the true metal and wien we
look about US here at home, We are
constrained to admit the force and JUS
tice of his ideas. The fusion Of the
Nichols Anti-Lottely wing of tie
Democratic party with the Self-ap-
pointed representatives OF the Alliance
hfoh tuSL lOoh pave DtItif
Rouge some months ago; the attempted
absorption in st. Landry of the negro
element into tue order, checked, for
tunatcly, by the interposition of, such
courageous men as Jack Thompson,
and others, well konwn leaders of the
Farmers Union in that parish the eu-
logistic resolutions passed at meeting
at Bayou Chic0t last fall, acclaming
Harrison and his Republican Congress-
with a "tiger )" the appointment of
Mr.. Adams, as State Commissioner of
Agriculture, because of the supposed
commanding influence which he pre-
tends to WELD over the mem bers of his
association and last, though not least,
the resolutions adopted in Catahouia
parish, by the Farmers Parish Union,
all tend to show that Congressman Oates
is a keen political seer, and that he is do
ing yeomans service upon the watch
towers entrusted to his sentinelsEip.
The Georgia melon crop is now be-
ing shipped to northern markets, and