The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1891-11-27
The Peoples Party.

sented formidable front and claimed
the earth, THE HERALD boldly and
fearlessly championed the cause of
Democracy and aroused the severe
condem nation of the Alliance there
by. So much so, that orders went
forth from headquarters boycotting
THE HERALD, and resolutions from
the Alliance Union to that effect were
published in our esteemed Demo-
cratic % contemporary, the Maury
Democrat. We reproduced these
resolutions, and at the time called the
attention of our readers to the oft
repeated sentence that "these resolu-
lions be printed in the TOiler and the
Maury Democrat" We remarked at
the time that our neighbOr seemed to
be STANDING in" with the "Toiler"
gang, and we also remarked upon the
painful, MOTTO say suspicious, silence
upon absorbing public questions. II
our readers will remember-and we
think they will-we called their par
ticular attention to the fact that our
esteemed contemporary was q Mug
wump, and that THE HERALD was
the only paper in this county fight
ing the heresies of the day and cham
pionIng the cause of Democracy.
At the same time we prophesied
that when the battlel was oyer and
the danger past and Democracy was
on top, there would be none to crow
so Justify and shout so loudly and be
quite so rampant Democrat as our
esteemed contemporary. We re-
marked that THE HERALD was do
ing the fighting, but that when dress
parade day came our ,neighbor would
be Gin it." 1t was in July last that
we commented upon the "straddIes"
of our contemporary, and asked our
Democratic readers to stick a pin
there. We now ask them to remem-
Der that pin and stick another one
here. We may have occasion to in
dulge in these "reminiscences again,
for it will be important in 1892 that
we know "who is who"
AS we started out by saying, we do
not care to waste much ammunition
on dead duck. The Alliance is a
ve-y dead duck. The Peoples Party
has captured it and gobbled it and
swallowed it whole. The Peoples
Party men have given themselves IN
til February to digest the Alliance,
and to determine what plank they
are entitled to in the platform.
OF course Mr.. Mcdowell denies
that the Third Party was endorsed
by the Supreme Council of our Noble
Order. But this worthy sachem is so
given to lying that his denial
strengthens the Otuer side of the case.
Just exactly what was done, the
'subsidized press" (as our friends the
enemy are disposed to term u.s. can
not infinitely tell. But enough is
known, and known beyond question,
to satisfy any sane man, that the
Alliance is a component part of that
heterogeneous mass, called for short
the Peoples Party.
Whether the action, binding one to
the other was had at a regular meet
ing of the Supreme Council of the
Alliance, or whether It'll was effected
at the meeting of the Peoples Party,
cannot precisely be determined and,
is of no Importance.
The leaders of the Peoples Party
proclaimed boldly their purpose to
capture the Alliance; during the
several days sitting of these con-
ventions they announced several
times their progress in this direction,
and gave out to their. followers the
cheering intelligence that they
thought they would succeed. Finally
when they had succeeded they adj
dressed windy document to their
followers the country over, claiming
that they "were p. rfectly satisfied
with the result and had accomplished
more than they expected"
OF course Mcdowell will deny it.
1t stands him in hand to do so.
Therein lies his strength. The PeO-
pies Party has no Office to give in
Tennessee; therefore Mr.. Mcdowell
is bitterly opposed to being captured
by them. he prefers instead OF cap
ture the Democratic party and enjoy
the spoils.
OF one action however, there is no
denial. The Supreme Council en-
dorsed, unanimously, without adding
to or taking from, the Ocala platform.
That commits the Alliance as politi-
cal organization to the sub-treasury,
the land loan, the government owner
ship of railroads, and all the new
born crazes and political heresies of
the day. The schemes are antagonis-
tic to Democratic doctrine, Demo-
cratic teaching, Democratic princi-
Piles and Democratic presidents. No
Democratic convention will endorse
them, for no Democratic convention
can without stultifying itself. No
Democrat, therefore, can remain in
the Alliance and support the de-
mands of its Supreme Council, with
out antagonizing the platforms and
principles of the Democratic party.
The difference between an Alliance
man who subscribes to the O3ala plat
form, and Democrat, is just as great as
the difference between q Democrat and
a Republican, and Republican has
Just as much right in a Democratic
convention, as has an Ocala-platfOrm
Allianceman.
The die has been cast, and Demo-
Gratis who find themselves in the ALI
ance, should hasten to get out.
The cry will perhaps be raised that
"you are reading men out of the
party" Men who subscribe to
heresies such as these, read them
selves out of the Democratic party.
THE American of yesterday con-
tajns the following: HJOhn Henry