Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1891-08-07
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dp0 COMMANDING View VI thss WuOAc
field, and can see many of the ma
ncuvers of the enemy that are not gen.
orally visible. Its warning cry will al
ways be given to save the people; some
will heed it, others will not Il was al
ways thus, and always will be; the
hope of the present is that the majority
will be wise enough to hear.
Recent events have done much
to develop clear understanding
of the alliance fight with the
old political parties, and it should
once for all be understood and
known that the alliance has no fight to
make on either Of the political par
ties; its mem bership is drawn from all.
There is fight on hand, and bitter
one. and it will be waged to the death.
This fight is waged by the party machine
of both parties against the Farmers
Alliance. Eight millions of dollars is q
very large sum Of money, but each of
the party machines uses that sum or
more in each national campaign 1t is
well known that they use it largely for
corrupt purposes, but the most signifi-
cant fact in regard to the whole mat
ter is. where they get it! The facts are
that they sell the coming administers
ton for the money to carry ON the cleo
ton. Both parties do it, and there Is
no hope for an administration in the
interest of the people and reform while
the machine reigns. Many of the old
line politicians have always committed
their chances Of reelection entirely to
the party machine, and they have
simply done its bidding; they have so
far been successful and cannot con-
ceive of failure; they will fight till they
find themselves in the condition in
which Mr.. ingalls, describes himself -
now being, "a statesman out Of job
The machine is in the saddle and Is
pushing the battle. It is well armed
and equipped, and has plenty of the
'sinews of war; money for the UNI
equal contest. Unequal because the
alliance is not well armed or equipped.
and has nothing but wind for the
''sinews of war;" For weeks the ma
chimes have been sending out tons Of
literature daily; they have hundreds Of
papers to do their bidding and circulate
every lie they choose to start about the
alliance or its officers; they are sub.
sidizing papers and starting new ones
every day; when they can find an alli-
ance man SO base and corrupt rs to sell
his principles to them for Wall street
gold and come into the public prints of
the country in opposition to the de-
mands of the order, they lionize him
through all the corrupt subsidized press
of the country as hero.
The machines have chosen their bat
tie ground in the southern states. Their
plans are now fully known, and are
here laid bare to the gaze of the honest
alliancemen that they may know what
to expect as the machine plan of hOstil-
tiles.
l. They will Islander alliance officers,
national, state, county and primary,
supporting their slanderous lies by the
poor contemplate wretches that are
willing to be traitors to the cause of
God and posterity, because for lack of
merit they could not rule there, and
drawing inspiration from the stencil of
their own corruption seek to blacken
and deface everything they know to be
pure. They are well described in the |
second chapter of Second Peter, verses
Is to %.
2. They have given orders that every |
political primary convention must pass
a resoi.;..on condemning the alliance
financial demands, and in the event
that a majority of the convention is un-
willing to do so, then the minority must |
bolt and hold a separate convention |
which will be recognized and seated by |
the county and state machine conven. |
tons
The object of these two lines Il to |
prosecute the officers and abuse the |
people until they are driven into third |
party. If the machine can possibly |
bring about this result, then it will be |
done.
the press and agitation orators. as well |
as private scandals. and every other |
means known to corrupt and unscrupu-
lous politicians to cripple the new move
for fear of black supremacy. And II
by means of all that they can beat the |
third party in the south they will
4. Herald all through the north that |
the alliance in the south has NO notion |
of leaving the democratic party; that |
they and their officers have been false |
to the alliance of the north and never |
intend to quit the old party.
OF course the object of all this is d.
vision and discord. If the alliance re-
mains unit it must soon be supreme.
Therefore they first try to array the
sections against each other.
1t is reported in Washington that Mr..
Oates recently said that the attacks ON
alliance officers had scarcely yet COM
menced, by which it may fairly be in
ferred that the machine has found men
willing to tell even greater lies
if possible than those already
published Some men who lack abil-
ity and merit will commit any
crime for the sake of notoriety; to get
their names in the papers, they will
even jump from Brooklyn bridge or
over Niagara falls to instant death. It
is a kind of insanity, and when the
machines use such material to further
their wicked purposes it shows the des-
peration and determination of their
cause. They will not stop with the
effort to blacken few fair names Az
their case becomes more desperate they
may be expected to resort to more des-
perate methods. even to murder and
arson. Why? Because the exploiters
of Wall street that furnish the cam
paign funds to run the machines would
be DESTROYED By the sub-treasury plan,
because it would do seven things:
1. 1t would supercede national banks
as means of distribution for govern
ment issues of money.
{. It would destroy interest
). 1t would destroy the power to cor.
ner the products of labor.
4. 1t would stop the regular annual
fuctuation in prices that make forty
per cent discrimination against agri-
culture and in favor of said exploitera
s. 1t would scatter factories through
out the farming districts, instead of
crowtiing them into the large cities
6. 1t would be great impetus to the
growth. prosperity and Importance Of
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