South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1892-09-30

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would indicate that they hare xban-
doned the Alliance with its non.
partisan features and taken to par
tisan politics without reserves
Their mission Is as absolutely parti-
san as il they were stnmpinr the
State for the Republican or the De-
mocratic ticket, for the SO called
Peoples party is az purely political
as any other. The theory that it
isan uprising Of the people is The
usual myth which accompanies tho
birth of all short lived political or
CARNATIONS. The Know Nothing
party wss an uprising OF the people,
tho Greenback party was an upris-
ing of the people, and so on through
the long list OF now extinct polite
cal organizations.
There arc few things more decep-
tive than the prospect of q new par
I, ty. 1t always has an attractive list
OF the burdens it proposes to relieve
the people OF, the injuries that have
been imposed on the people in thu
past, and the utterly useless, inca
pab'e and corrupt character OF the
already existing parties. Every
new party that we have seen start
IN forty years has had these charac-
teristics in its prospectus. In the
matter OF promises and prophesies
it is profuse, and those who can re-
collect how many Of them have been
born aud buried in this prolific
country have good reason to know
how few Of the promises ever come
to anything, or indeed, were inten-
ded to serve any more serious pur-
Pose than clap trap for catching
votes. But new party in Ameri-
ca is safe in promising anything.
AS it never gets into pow r, IL can
never DO held to accountability in
the matter of redeeming it's pledg-
es. u congressman here and theras
a Senator or two, and it has rea6h-
ed its high water mark. Then come
fusions and combinations with the
old parties for the advancement Of
individuals, and that is soon follow
ed by falling back into the ranE KS Of
the old parties again. That is the
history of new political parties la
this country, as those who will take
the trouble to read may know.
The great and real objection to
new parties is that they waste enef-
gy, talent, and work that might be
expended with success in good
cause. The present attitude of
those who have abandoned the Alli-
ance to waste their energies ia
Third party is good illustration
of this. The farmers of this coun-
try are now the chief sufferers from
. system of taxation that ought TO
be reformed. The man that says
or thinks they are not upjustly aud
cruelty handicapped in their strug-
gle for prosperity aud comfort, sim
ply shows his ignorance. Other
men besides the farmer suffer, but
he suffers most because he consti-
tutes the bulk Of the population
and does the bulk of the work of
the country. He is selling his crop
of 500 in the Mckinley home mar
ket for 78 cents and in any market
in the world be can find sale for it,
and yet be il compelled by law TO
buy everything he uses IN one mar
ket, and is shut in from buying
whers it ia cheapest. This, what
ever other name you may choose for
it, is slavery and that condition ac-
counts for every i'll humanity can
be affected by. With this condl-
zion of affairs changed, the farmer
would be as we'll to DO as any other
citizen Of the country. There has
been one party and but one party
the Democracy-fightiug TO make
this change in the farmers situa<
ton. IL has been steadily fighting
for it, and two years sgo It. event
the country with an unparalleled
victory on this very issue. This
year on the same issue it is fighting
for the control Of the government
In this fight what are AlIispcs men
asked TO do BY those VINO have LETT
it for the Peoples party? They
are asked though al are farmers,
though they represent almost the
entire farming interest Of the cOun-
tFy--they are asked 10 stop this
tide Of victory that Is sweeping on
TO take taxation from their backs
to take their votes from 4 party
that is seeking to free them FROM
the hand Of the Federal tax gath
erer, and throw them away BY cast
ing them for the Peoples Party
and to thereby elect the
Presidential ticket Of the Republi.
can party which will never give
them relief and which has been
fighting steadily for thirty years
against giving that relief.
re think the VIEDiCATon can
talk frankly and plainly 70 ALI
ance men in Virginia. Its columns
hare always beon open 70 them,
their aspirations have always found
IN IL q respectful hearing, their
leading reforms in this State, 81 n
ss the Kent railroad bill aid 9th
BIS, have found in II an active, and
friend, aud their mem
0ers have found 10 it an earnest ad-
vocate for election to prominent
places ira tho law making h01v AZ