The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-02-05
WHOM WILL We ssRvEq
Kansas Farmers AdmonIshed to Make q
Choice of Parties.

Kansas Farmers AdmonIshed to Make a
Choice OF Parties
For the benefit of Kansas alliance
men who will not find it in their alli-
ance organs we republish a few ex-
tracts from a letter by T. l. Cant, OF
Georgia, editor of the Southern ALI
ance Farmer, the official organ of the
Georgia alliance, published in the At
lanta Constitution Of January 10. Mr..
CAN'T is an allianceman from away
back and, as he claims, to all eternity.
He says OF the sentiment of the order
in Georgia:
'At this time / know that the third
party has not ghost of show in this
section, and if the democratic majority
in the house will give to the country
financial relief, and show their willing
ness to lift the burden from the backs
of the people, do not believe that the
new party will command a corpOral's
guard in any county in Georgia You
never hear it even discussed at our alli-
ance gatherings, while the course of
Col Livingston and those of our al
lance congressman who went in
to the democratic caucus is uni
versally commended. The cleo
ton of Crisp as speaker is most
properly looked upon as repudition of
anti-alliance leaders, and step toward
the restoration of the democratic party
to the principles as handed down by
Thomas Jefferson. This one election
has done more to draw back wavering
alliancemen into the democratic fold,
aud Strengthening their hope for secur-
ing relief from the grand old party of
the people, than all the editorials that
have ever appeared, or will ever ap-
pear, in the daily press"
Speaking of the connection between
the alliance and the democratic party,
Mr.. CAN'T says:
" have always contended that man
cannot be a good democrat unless he is
In sympathy with the alliance demands,
and neither can a man be a good al
lianceman and repudiate the funda-
mental principles of democracy. Both
organizations are designed for the same
noble purpose-the protection of the
people against class legislation and the
oppressive power of capital"
Kansas alliance organs which deny
that the alliance is side-show to the
great democratic circus evidently do
not agree with Bro. CAN'T of Georgia
In Georgia slliancemen are democrats
first and anything else. provided it be
in the interest of that party, after
wards We quote from Mr.. CAN'T upon
this point:
''Our Georgia alliancenen were born
democrats, raised democrats and never
voted aught but q democratic ticket
As democrats, they are in the house of
their fathers. They know that their
platform was modelled after the princi-
Piles as enunciated by Jefferson, Cal
houn and Benton II they can fight
their battles within the party ranks
and secure through this agency that
relief they so sorely need, it will be
their pleasure, their pride and their
am bition so to do"
Alliancemen in Kansas may continue
to scan the southern horizon in the
hope of recruits for their new party,
but according to Mr.. CAN'T, who as cd
itor of the official organ of Georgia,
ought 20 know:
Let the overwhelming democratic
majority in the house but continue the
great work of reform that they in
augurated in the election of their
speaker, and the third partyites may
yell themselves hoarse, but they will
not hear the faintest echo from the al
liancemen of Georgia"
The Capitals private advice to the
farmers of Kansas who without due
consideration walked into this southern
political trap is to get back into their
old party stronghold By as much as
the north is greater than the south and
as young Kansas is greater than old
Georgia, the republican party is greater
than the democratic party. Kansas
alliancemen must choose between these
two for there will not be another.-To-
peka Capital