The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-12
HEALLlANCE DENOUNCED.

| with US"
THEALLIANCE DENOUNCED.
| WASHINGTON, July 1L-Congressman
| Oates, of Alabama, is in the city on private
business. In discussing the trouble in his
section between the Alliance and the
| Democratic party, he said:
"The sub-treasury and land loan de-
| mands Of the Alliance are so utterly in
! conflict with the ancient doctrines of Dem
| ocracy which have been clearly set forth
in every national Democratic platform for
| ninety years, that no intelligent and
earnest Democrat can support them; and
| therefore | favor test OF the Democracy
| of those present in every primary meeting
| and county convention by vote upon a
resolution declaring the sub-treasury bill
and the land loan bill TO be undemocratic,
unwise and unconstitutional measures.
| Wherein is this Objectionable? The AL
| lance no longer confines itself to agricul-
| ture, but has fully embarked in politics.
Some of its leaders and newspaper organs
| openly boast that they will capture the
Democratic party How do they propose
to capture it? Not in the light of day, but
| by agreeing in secret conclaves, from
| which other Democrats as good as they
| are excluded, on their men to nominate
| for office, and then by force of organiza-
| tion and concert of action, even in coun-
ties where they are in the minority, to
| CODCTOl DDc CODN6QJIOU. ne ITduGSLD6u
and professionals about town and the
candidates for Office are afraid to oppose
them.
There was as much rejoicing among
Alliance leaders over Hampton's defeat as
there was over the defeat of Ingalls, Their
policy is to down every man who is prom
ineut in political life, without regard to
party. unless he humbly submits TO their
dictatiOn and will do their bidding. When
before in all it's history did the Democratic
party ever allow any secret, oath-bound
organization, with its grips, signs and
passwords, to come into and control its
councils and dictate its nominations? The
KnowDothings came near it, but failed.
Has the party changed its principles, lost
its pride or ANONYMOUSLY surrendered its
prestige TO this new order, right in the
face of the finest prospect in thirty years
for universal victory in 1892? l hope not.
There has not yet been any bill intro
duced in congress to buy or control all the
railroads, steam boats and telegraph lines.
I suppose that viii be presented at the
next session if DR. Macune gets the bill
before get to it. We will discuss that
when presented in d practicable shape.
Congress, some three or four years ago,
passed a law TO regulate interstate COM
merce and the carriers thereof, which, al
though ably and wisely administered by
the commissioners, has not yet passed be-
yond the experimental stage. / thought
that congress stretched its power to the
utmost tension to do that, and I have yet
to discover that any benefit to the people
has resulted from it.
when the Alliance, in some twenty
five counties of my state, indorSe the
Ocala demands without qualification, ex-
ception or limit, as they have doEe, aud
thereby demand the enactment into law
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scheme with the storage warehouse at
tachment and Stanford's crazy land loan
bill for the benefit of one class of the peo-
pie of the United States to the exclusion
of all others, and TO cap the climax of
folly, demand that the United States shall
control or own all the lines of trapSporta-
ton and communication and incidently
the entire commerce of the country, 1t Is
high time that the Democratic party in
Alabama should wake up and inquire
how much Democracy there will be left in
it after the advocates of these measures,
who call themselves Democrats, have COM
mitted it to these heresiess
Another pertinent inquiry is how much
liberty would the people have left and
how long would it endure after those
schemes are put into operations Some of
the Alliance men and several of their
organs abuse leading Democrats, bid
defiance to the party, yet claim TO belong
to it, attend its primaries and frequently
control its counsels. This is as complete a
fraud upon the party as though done by
Republicans; and many of them are in
fact Republicans and rejoice at the pros
pect of defeating the Democracy through
the Alliance. 1t should not be tolerated
nor submitted to.
WHO are their leaders, the mouthpieces
of the order? Polk, editor of the Progress
sive Farmer; Macune, editor of the Econo-
mist; BaltZell, editor of the Alliance Her
aid; Lane. editor of the Huntsville Mer-
curry When did they or either Of these
gentlemen ever become an authority on
Democracy? What have they ever done
for that party or to advance its principles?
Let them answer and set forth a bill of
particulars that the people may know
whether they are Democrats of such stand
ing as entities their opinions on Democrat
ic party questions to respect. Let them
tell what position they have held and
what experience they have had in legisla-
tion or as great Democrrtic leaders, that
the people may know how much weight
TO give to their opinions in these grave
matters of public concern. Let them tell
the farmers Of the country how many and
which of them ever owned a farm or how
much farm produce they ever raised, so
that the farmers may have some idea as to
which of these leaders know the least
about legislation or farming.
These high priests of the Alliance in
convention assembled, speaking for the
entire order, declared in favor of these un-
democratic and unconstitutional measures;
and Mr. Adams. the president of the AL
lance in Alabama, was consistent when
he said that all Alliance men who did not
indorse these along with the other de-
mandS should withdraw or be expelled
from the order. Why should a man be
tolerated as a member of the church when
he does not believe in the most important
articles of faith of that denomination?
There are thousands of good men in Ala
bama, among them some of our best citi-
zens, who belong TO the Alliance and yet
are opposed to the three odious measures
above named. They exercised a most salu-
tary influence in the past towards modera-
ton and conservatism, but they seem to
be unable any longer TO do So"
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