Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1891-06-24
KEEP COOL.

"Let Patience Have Her Perfect Work.
The eBloody Chasm Must Be Bridged and
Psrtisanship Destroyed.
This is a queer world EVERYTHING
seems to run to extremes, while a pace
that is just about the proper speed Is
deemed by some too fast and by others
too slow. We are too prone to Judge of
the condition of others by our own sur
roundings, and bound every other per-
sons achievements by our own possi-
bilities and opportunities.
Some few reform papers in the north,
and very many papers in the south, are
swapping and snarling at the heels of
that splendid exponent Of glorious
principles, the National Economist, and
saying very unlind and Ill advised
things of that able and fearless organ
of the National Farmers Alliance and
Industrial Union. Some of these pa
pers are in the north and some are in
the south Those in the north froth
and fume and fret because of the slow
progress the Economist is making
toward third party action, and talk
about having smoked out" the Econo-
mist and forcing it to define its posi-
ton" ETC., etc, These papers, some of
them, accuse the Economist of being
run In the interest of the republican
party, while others of them accuse it of
being democratic in its leanings and
tendencies But they all agree that the
Economist is opposed to third party
movement and that it is endeavoring to
retard the progress of the people toward
independent political action. On the
other hand the democratic organs in
the south are unitedly belaboring and
villifying the Economist for trying, for
sooth, to disrupt the democratic party
and set up third party in their midst.
Here is specimen instance of this kind
The Paris, Tex, News published the
following paragraph:
''The National Economist, the organ
of guerillas, is opposed to Cleyelands
nomination. He is truly man of des-
tiny"
Whereupon the Delta County AL
lance passed the following resolutions.
whereas, The Paris News, a paper pub
lished In Paris, Texas, on March s. 1891 made
false and slanderops attack on the Nation
al Alliance by saying the National Econo-
mist, the official organ Of the guerrIIlas is
opposed to Mr.. Cleveland's nomination in
1872, therefore be IL
regular session at Hobbs on the 2nd of
April. 1891, that we denounce all such utter
ances, from whatever source they may come
and we believe further that no such attacks
would come from paper who had the best
interests of the laborIng people at heart, and
that we think such insinuations beneath the
dignity OF gentleman.
Resolved second, That we believe II Ia
wrong Tor any alliance member to patronIzo
paper that would use such false and abusive
language on the laboring men OF America
These same resolutions were pub
lished In the Alliance Vindicator, Of
Sulphur Springs, Tex. The Paris News,
commenting upon the foregoing resolu-
tions, says:
Our attention has been called to a
series of resolutions printed in an OBJ
scure third party organ published at
Sulphur Springs; adopted by the Delta
County Alliance, which is a formal an
nouncement of boycott against the
News. In order to give any one who
may have been misled by misrepresent-
alton it reproduces the article COM
planned of. Here it is in full"
Here follows the paragraph before
quoted. The News goes on to say:
The meaning of this is too plain to
be misunderstood by any fair minded,
honorable man. 1t is well known
fact that the National Economist is the
organ of the alleged third party. and it
| was to this party that reference was
made when 1t used the word guerilla
It Is a good word and the News be-
lieved then, and does now, that it just
fits the case. The author of the reso-
luton perhaps didn't know what the
word meant In order to enlighten
him we viii say that it means band