Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1891-07-01
PARTISAN ALLIANCEMEN,

Blinded BY PartI.anShip They Cannot Dis
tinguish Between Friends and Enemies.
1 notice that w. B. Garoutte comes to
the front, as usual, with one of his
characteristic partisan communications,
in which he, as is his custom, advises
alliancemen to become partisans and
vote the democratic ticket. Fearing,
however, that his partisanship may be
considered too intense for consistent
allianceman, he offers as an excuse the
astounding and ridiculous statement
that the democratic party advocates
alliance principles. Ye gods and little
fishes. What single demand is there of
the Ocala platform that the democratic
party indorses or advocates? Where is
my chestnut bell? l know that Mr..
Garoutte will spring upon me that
hoary old chestnut tariff reform"
would suggest to Mr.. Garoutte that
he obtain file, covering the last six
months of Puck, the illustrated nation
al organ of the democratic party, and
see if he can denote one single principle
or demand of the alliance that has not
in Puck, been villainously and insult
ingly denounced and ridiculed Indeed.
he need go no further back than the
last issue, June 8, to prove the truth of
what say. Let him take that issue,
and studying well the vile and insulting
cartoons therein contained, give us the
exact degree of intensity of the absorb
ing love entertained by the democratic
party for alliance principles. Does not
he know that the bosses and leaders of
the democratic party have entered into
a conspiracy with Wall street to stamp
out and destroy the Farmers Alliance?
If he does not know this let him study
the utterances of such men as Carlisle
and Mills, and he will become con-
vinced.
Is he not aware that in several of the
southern states the alliance is at this
very time engaged in struggle to the
death with this very party we are
asked to believe advocates alliance
principles. Mr.. Garoutte had better
read the news from Texas, Mississippi,
Kentucky and Tennessee, and he would
perhaps be greatly profitted by reading
the national organ of his order, and the
state organs of the alliance in the vari-
Gus southern states.
In this connection the editorial utter
ances of the Progressive Farmer Presi-
dent Polk's own paper, are of intense
interest and grave portent Here is a
short sample of such editorials for Mr..
Garoutte to digest;
"The question what will the alliance
do with the new party? is on the lips
OF tens of thousands of anxious people
to-day. Well, it ought not to take
much wisdom to answer that question.
The new party has adopted the alliance
demands into its platform. Does any
one suppose that intelligent alliance
men will vote against /, party that
adopts those demands and in favor of
party that not only fails to adopt but
resists those demands? The western
alliance states have already gone into
the new party. VIII not the necessity
OF alliance unity force the other alli-
ance states to go into the new party
also?''
MIR. Garoutte says; us it possible any
man Is so ignorant IN politics as to sun
pose third party could be organized in
ayear and halt TO cope with either the
republican or democratic parties"
1t may surprise Mr.. G. to learn it,
but it is a fact nevertheless, that with
in the space of sixty or ninety days the
new party will be the best organized
political party in the United States. 1t
is already such in Kansas, Nebraska,
Minnesota, and the pakotas- Mors.
over, it will be numerically, in voting
strength, the most powerful party in
existence, The Farmers Alliance and
kindred organizations smbrace within
their folds more than half the votes of
the United States. MIR. Garoutte fur.
ther says: THE only sure way for the
success of our demands is to assist the
democratic party to kill the republican
party and when that is done we can or
ganize second party mot third and
force our demands, Il We haye any ur.-
heeded, and want to go into politics. 4
shoald imagine that one of the
surest ways to divide the alliance
against itself upon partisan lines is to
use the ...e 49, - a'onmAnte .1-1nced NV
Mr.. Garoutte. Does he suppose that
men OF principle Will ferla coalition
with their lifelong political enemies
and unite in the ranks of one of the old
parties2 1t is true that unprincipled
men, political bosses and wire-DuIlers-