Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1891-09-16
THE TRuTH At LAST:

Editor Worrell, of the jackson Dis
patch, seems to be endeavoring to emu
late the example of the circus per
former who rides two horses at once.
Quoting an editorial from the Herald
exposing tho treacherous aims of the
alliance, Mr.. Worrell says:
ITO say the least of il we think the
above rash advice. If the policy of the
It would destroy the democratic party
in Tennessee. The Herald should not
forget the power of the alliance in
the state convention last year, when
Buchanan, the farmers candidate, was
nominated and triumphantly elected
governor. This is no time to talk about
direct divorce between the democracy
and the alliance. The fact is, we don't
believe the alliance and the democrats
in Tennessee are going TO separate be-
cause tho Herald and American advise
such an Gnwise course"
The Herald, in all sincerity. admits
that it would be better for the demo-
cratic organization in Tennessee to be
destroyed than to be compelled to bow
the knee to and swallow the heresies
of the alliance, as expressed in the re-
cent state convention in this city. But
what does the Dispatch think about it?
Is Worren prepared to indorse and
clamor for the adoption of the very
things that during all the years of its
existence, the democratic party has op-
posed? Shall the organization that has
redeemed the south be made subserv-
lent to the will and cranky vaporings
49, 49,. =
ton to be answered, and the Jackson
Dispatch is one paper that should put
itself on record unequivocally. It
should say whether it is for against
democracy. There Is no middle course.
Nashville Herald.
The Nashville Herald in this, and the
American, which has been working to
the same effect, are right The alliance,
when it enters upon distinct political
career and puts itself in opposition to
the democratic party In the south, can
not look for any other course by demo-
Gratis but one of such strenuous opposi-
ton as 1t invites In Texas, where the
alliance last week ordered the expulsion
from the order of all men who do not
support the wholly absurd and idiotic
sub-treaSury scheme, the pace has been
set for all the alliances in the country.
Accordingly we understand the alliance
OF Mississippi, which will meet in the
agricultural college in Starkville, pro-
poses to pass a similar resolution,
which, If 1t is enforced will compel the
expulsion OF every opponent of the sub
treasury acheme and make of tho local
alliances, and Of the state organization,
close, secret and oath-bound societies,
as proscriptive In spirit and as intoler-
ant narrow and bigoted as the know
nothing lodges were which ANDY"
johnson crushed in this state and Gov.
Wise in Virginia We have such faith
In the American farmers that we be-
lieve 1t will only be necessary to call.
their attention to this fact to secure a
general rally by them in Mississippi,
in Texas, and in Tennessee and the
south generally to tho proposed rcorgdn-
ICED alliance achich is to be opposed to tho
sub-tredsuTy scheme, and also, we be-
heve, to tho oath-binding secrecy of
the order. There can be no valid OBJ
lection, and never has been any, offered
to the farmers forming organizations
for their mutual protection and i'm
provement. But when they seek to
bind to their heresies a great political
organization whose history is luminous
with expositions of its defense and sup
port of all classes of the people, fight
ing for their rights and liberties, then
they invite and must expect
the opposition of every man
who understands democratic prin-
ciples and has made those
principles his own. The democratic
party is essential to the peace, order,
growth and contentment of the people
of the south in a special sense which
cannot be understood or appreciated in
a northern or western state. Impair
its strength, and thus lesson its power
successfully to cope with the republican
party. and peace, order, growth and
contentment would be here impossible.
The man, therefore, or the men who
attempt to break up the democratic
party in any of the southern states for
any cause or reason pertinent merely
to him or themselves, is public enc
my, are all public enemies-they are
opposed to peace and order-and are
utterly reckless as to the growth or the
contentment of their fellow citizens
This is the logic of the situation as it
appears wherever the alliance attempts
to coerce the democratic party or
usurp its functions and duties as
the trusted political organization
of the people. The action
of the Texas alliance, and that pro-
posed to be taken to the same effect bv
the Mississippi alliance to-day, is of a CO
ercive aud usurping character, making,
as it does a preference for the Ocala
platform sign and evidence of men,
bership, which no man who is demo-
crat and desires to remain a democrat
can consistently accede or consent to.
No democrat can consistently pledge him
self to maintain, stand By and support the
Ocdta platform BY preference. For every
democrat is bound by the national plat
form of 1883 and will be, until the plat
form of 1892 is substituted for it. For
the principles promulgated in 1888 we
have been and are contending, and we
must continue to contend for them.
With them we swept the country last
November, carrying so many of the
states as were necessary to increase our
column to thirty-two, leaving only
twelve states for the republicans. If
we only stand together solidly and con-
tinue to fight manfully for the platform
of 1888, there can be no doubt of our
success in Iowa, Ohio and New York
this fall, and of our sweeping the coun-
try again next year, electing our presi-
Dental and congressional tickets. Is
this not prize worth working for? Is
such a prize within the reach of the
sub-treasury alliances? We answer
no." because, all told. they do not
number million and half of voters;
they are not in numbers half the 4,0O0,-
600 farmers in the country. Why, then,
should democrats do otherwise than
night them IS mischievous organize
tlon which can only invite chaos, mis-
rule, disorder and disaster to the south?
Let us. then, fight them manfully and