The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1892-03-10

being inland fastened, as was
supposed-comes the reply !:
'sWhy, of course the Alliance is
III politics and politics is in it: it
is as full of politics as an ega: is
of meat. We thought you knew
that all the time. But it is not
partisan politi''s-it's just poll
tics without any rartisanship,
and we are going with the par
ty that does as we say"
"But," they are told. we I'M
derstood that under it's consti-
tuition the Alliance could not dis
cuss matters of a political char
ac,er.'
Its members can, though, but
not as Alliancemen. They can
change from one party to an
other, or stand all together in
one party-as Northumberland
as Alliancemen, of course"
This suggests a question we
saw in a paper the other day
which runs about his way: Sup
pose a prince becomes Il bishop,
and the prince then gets drunk
and falls down and breaks his
neck and goes to hell-what Le-
comes of the bishop?
But let that pass. The leaders
are making progress. A good
many people see that the order
is drifting from it's moorings but
numbers stick anyhow and ap-
plaud the Alliance speakers when
they come around and blow in
their good money on the Gre
form" papers, and wait. Some
suggest that it sorter looks like
they are getting away from
home, but the leaders say, ooh!
no; we haven't gone anywhere
and we are not going anywhere
if the old parties respond to our
demands. We are determined to
uake them go our way and if
they do, all will be we'll"
We submit to any honest and
honest and candid man if the
above is not Il true history, in
brief, of the Alliance as a politi-
cal force, to date.
Now then: A conference of all
the labor organizations was held
in ST. Louis last week. The Far
mers' Alliance was the largest
and most respectable order rep
resented. Col. l.. L.. Polk was
president of tn. convention. Ben
Terrell one of the vice preside It's,
DR.. Macune general manager and
Jerry Simpson chief speaker. A
platform which no Democrat
and not many r. publicans can
swallow was adopted, new
political panty was organized
and convention called 70 meet
at Omaha, Neb., on the 4th of
July to nominate candidates for
President and Vice President.
That is the sequel to the story.
Forming a new party and nomi-
mating candidates and "whoop-
it up' for them may not be go
ing into partisan politics" but
it looks a good deal that way.
These leaders of the Alliance
whose names are mentioned
above have lied to their people
right straight through; they
have lied in the abstract and in
the concrete; they have lied in
the bulk and in detail; they have
lied first and last and all the
time. They haye had no other
idea for three years than to or
ganize another party and they
were so eager to get it done that
t they could not wait to see wheth-
err the Democratic House was GO
ing to accede to their demands
or not. They had made lie par
ty in hall a dozen Southern States
eat dirt and continued to abuse
it, and they were so much afraid |
that the party in Congress would |
eat dirt also and thus deprive |
them ot any excuse for forming
4 new one, that they forestalled |
It and organized their party be-
iore The House could get to
vote on the fee silver bill even.
The Landmark has not hesita-
ed in the past to apply t e seal
BEL to the rascally leaders of he
Farmers Alliance who were try
n 10 hoodwink our people--as
20 I'd and aS honest a people as
he sun ever shone on. Some of
5hese people thought we were at
lines unnecessarily severe There
las not been a day that we have
lot been astonished at our mod
ration. We invite a review of
he past actions and utterancesl
If these boss "reformers' and
of their present sit
lation as head organizers of this
lew party, and ask if everything
We have ever said of them is not
low. in the lioht of last wpek's |