The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-03-28
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This is the view that the leading Dem
o:ratic paper in West Virginia takes Of
the farmers Alliance. We are sure
that the Republican farmers Of the State
will read 1t with interest. We quote as
follows from yesterdays issue OF the
Wheeling Register:
The Alliance Is composed mainly OF farmer
Republicans who would no longer stand tho
abuses OF tho Republican party, but were not
quite ready 70 take up win the DemoclAuc
party. The movement ID ~ wide a. our coun'
try,hnd tho noHt important and Bignihcatt that
has taken place In generation. II has already
EOunded the death.kneIl OF the Republican par
ty,to whose abandoned doctrines The Alliance
members will never return. Ihey GRE h re
srdllh tOpaTdI The Democratic party, and Will vote
with the Democrats on the most important ques'
lions Rt Issue between tho two old parties AZ
ter they have exhausted themselves In tEy Ing 70
Isiorm the country q one sWooP, sna tscU Ia,,s
settle down with tho party Of tho people In
whose principles they really believe.
II 1t BIO really true, as the Register
claims above, that the Alliance people
believe in the principles Of the Demo.
cratic party, and yet do not formally
act with It, it must be because they either
do not know that euch Is the case, or,
knowingit, are engaged in playing the
role Of a side show to the Democratic
party, with Wow Of detaching and
holding Republican farmers from the
Republican party for the use and benefit
OF tho Democracy.
The Democratic party is not q novelty
in the United States. It has been
around for some time in one shape and
another, and ought TO be pretty well
understood by this time. It has played
the farmers under all circumstances,
posing as their champion as against
most everybody else. Why then did the
farmers feel called upon to go and set
up a craven image Of the Democracy
when they had the genuine article to
embrace and espouse any time in all
these days since the war; Do the
sheep not discern the shepherd when he
is around2
The leading Democratic organ oil the
State might as we'll understand that II
there is TO be wreck Of matter and q
crash Of worlds" in the next campaign,
in consequence OF movement which, II
says, "is "a vide as our country, and the
most important and significant that has
taken place in q generation" the Dem.
ocracy will probably participate in the
earthquake. After having had both
houses of Congress in its posses
sion at one and the same time,
and having done nothing Of all
that tho Alliance people now de.
manl, it is pretty late in the day to come
in and plead a close blood relationship
with their principles. And this, too, in
the face OF tho imminent probability
that Grover Cleveland will be the Dem.
ocratic nominee, than whom, financially,
there is no man in the country more OBJ.
jectionable to the Alliance.
The Register should not forget what &C.
CURED recently in South Carolina. The
Alliance did not recognize any particular
blood relationship between itself and
the Democracy in that State. 1t went
for the special idol OF tho Democracy and
dethroned him. It may Just as readily
do the same thing in West Virginia.
This Is not one sided phenomenon by
any means, and pattipGit on the back
won't make itso.