South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1892-06-03

dams. Y
The letter below was sent to this
tfllce last week ; but could not DC
published on account Of the finan-
cial tate mcnt occupying so much
Of our space. On Saturday DR..
Shull called to ask for it to be put
in this week Gas great many in
the county would not see it unleAs
it was in the INTELLIGRNCER."
EDITOR INTELLIGBNcER IF you
will allow me the space in your col
umns | will endea or to reply to an
article in your issue OF May 20,
headed Communicated, "and sign
cd Y. with an appendix signed *++
If this great big monitor of the
democracy is so dcsirous OF peaac
In the ranks, opine no would stick
a little nearer the facts in the lsc ;
he starts out by Invoking hrs gods,
Of which he sc. ms 10 have a multi
plicitY; among them / presume is
the 'goldcn god" which he seems
to love to worshlp) to witness that
the lion and the lamb have lain
down together. / would suggest
that as far back as memory goes
tho l. NIB has preferred to lie aith
the lion rather than to fall into tho
tolls OF the,wolfin sleeps clothing.
lie says IT'S not tho Alliance he
would sit in judgment upon 4"
Wonder il he isn't the same gentle
man who i, ycar or two hack
wrote to u party III Baltimore City
"that nothing but tho low class of
people composed the Alliance. J."
Yes sir, q thousand times would
the Alliance rather confront the
lion who fought it boldly than to
receive into its fold the man who
seeks at every opportunity to play
the "bushwhacker" and to stab it
while hiding behind the mask of a
"non do plume" and whose sole
object in writing tho article under
consideration was an effort to cause
dissention and il possible disruption
in the Alliance and not for the sake
OF peace as he 80 righteously cx-
claims or for the good OF the DOM
ocratIc party as he would fain have
us believe. Our loyal democrat
(whom | suspect of having a whig
origin) asks, what is to be done
with the band of democrats (iarm-
ers too) who do not belong to the
Alliance Have they been asked
down and out? These questions
show conclusively that our friend
sits to Judge the AL lance In spite OF
his protestations to the contrary.
No sir, they have not been asked
down and out, and the insinuation
which your questions carry, that
the Alliance has sought to do 80 is
as mean aud false as the spirit
which prompted it.
While it is true that individual
members OF the Alliance took part
in the recent mass meetings (which
any and every democrat had a right
to and whose duty it was TO do SOY
il is also true that the Alliance as
an organization took no part in
them whatever, and the statement
which is being so freely banded
about, that it was worked up in tho
Sub Alliances" is false in every
particular and is without the shad-
ow of foundation. Our sore-hcad-
cd friend seems to think it a terri
bic calamity that the delegates from
Sherman 6istrict are all Alliance
men but forgets to tell you that
the opposite is tho case in Ca
pom DISTRICT, and yet it is still more
culpable that "DOc Shull in his Sc
lection Of his subcommittee APP
pointed none other than Alliance
men," Permit me to say that this
statement is ungenerOus, unkind
and untrue.
The truth is that / did not even
name all OF this subcommittee,
part were named by other members
of the Executive Committee and
part by myself, and when the Sc
lection was made / honestly do not
believe that any member Of the COM
mittee had a thought either for or
against Alliance men, for the rea-
son that every member Of the Ex-
ccutivc Committee present voted
for these gentlemen and I feel quito
sure ] will DO sustained in this
statement by Messrs, John Monroe,