The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1892-10-28
THE ARIsTOCRACY's POLITICAL
HENCHMEN.


pendent ranging through the south,
and in letter dated at Raleigh, North
Carolina, October 7, he makes the
subj remarks:
The revolution now in its first stages
in the southern states is more social
than political. There is revolt of the
poorer whites against their more
fortunate fellows, of the scrubs against
the aristocrats. In South Carolina, for
instance, where there has been a split
in the democratic party, the contest has
been known as one of the country
against the town. Brother has been
arrayed against brother-the thrifty
one against the ne'er.do. well. Success
drives one toward the aristocracy i'll
luck predisposes the other in favor Of
the hoi polloi. Tillman and Irby are
products of this uprising of the scrub
white against the gentry.
In one form or another this same
thing is going on all through the south.
The third party movement is largely of
this nature, aggravated by hard times
among the agriculturists, poor crops
and low prices in market. In a gen
eral way it may be said that the poor
and lily educated classes have concluded
that they know more about successful
management Of local government than
the aristocrats who so long have held
the reins Of power.
Led and encouraged by the brightest
and strongest of their own class, or by
renegades from the other, they have
virtually set up warfare of caste. II
is the people Of intelligence, of char
acter, of wealth and social position who
remain true TO the democratic faith. Il
is the other sort that join the third
party or become republicans. In the
cities and towns of Georgia and
Alabama the vote is almost solidly
democratic. There are good schools
prosperity, newspapers, all the educat
ing and civilizing influence known to
modern life anywhere. 1t is in the
country that isms and schisms flourish
the country where hard times Cypress
where schoolhouses are mere window
less huts many miles apart, where the
arduous task of wrestling livelihood
from an impoverished soil almost pre-
cludes the possibility of spending
either time or money in the pursuit OF
education.
These sentiments are significant by
reason of their appearance in one Of
the foremost democratic journals of the
country. The correspondents letter
began in the first column Of the first
page of the paper, and the editorial
page showed no words of qualification
of or dissent from his sweeping state
ments. And yet his main propositions
are distinctly aristocratic. They set
forth the doctrines of Hamiltonian
Federalism and strongly negative the
afirmations of Jeffersonian Democracy.
Ex-senator Ingalls, in a recent
Topeka (Kansas) interview fervently
declared that he would thousand
tine sooner see the electoral vote
of Kansas 60 to Cleveland than to
General Weaver, and the democratic
Chicago Heralds duly accredited
correspondent, in sentences that are
almost artlessly candid, shows forth
his hostility to the present move
ment of the great, plain people for a
righteous prosperity that of justice
belongs to them under a democratic
order of society, which is false to it's
theory unless it Loyalty strives to
give the greatest good to the greatest
number of its citizens. The members
of the peoples party of America
have long known and now boldly
declare that the republican and
democratic party machines of
county, state and the nation at large
are the exclusive property of the
Triumphant Plutocracy, who use
them for the subjugation and spolia-
ton of the producing masses of the
republic.
At the present time the gangs of
office holders and Office seekers who
run the mechanism of these two old
parties are rivals only as to which
crowd of self seekers shall handle
the spells that come to them as
the servants of plutocracy, the
real power in the land.
Both Of these venal cliques OF
political bandits are the willing
lackeys of the rich aristocracy which
has established a practical usurpa
ton in Washington's republic, and
both of them will scheme and fight
to the death to keep the producing
millions of this nation from ruling
it on democratic lines.
The expressions of republican
ingalls, and the democratic Herald
hired man are one in essence, SO far
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