The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1892-04-14

A farmer correspondent OF the
Western Rxral says:
"As there seems TO b consider
able opposition TO forming . rev
political party In opposition to the
two-lesdiDg old parties, and % II p
next 10 IN impossibility 70 get such
reform measures enacted By the OLD
parties, ~ they nov exist, ~ will
give the disired relief 10 the people,
north, south, east and west. how do
you think IL would do to organise Q
reform In both the old parties by In
viting the conservative element Of
each to reform their parties and
unite their efforts under the title Of
Democratic Republican party? For
ours IL q Democratic Republican gov.
ernmept And I think this would
be Q proper name to give IN organ
ization OF the people. In thus unit.
ing, the Individuality Of their par
ties would not be lost, but confirmed
and re-estabiish. ~ was the Demo-
cratic Republican party. In the days
Of Jefferson, against the Federaiists.
/ believe this 10 the only sure plan
to beat the moDopolies, trusts, etc.
/ talked with eighty.five voters, all
I saw in the neightorLood Q few
days before the last presidential
election, who favored the scheme,
and promised to vote the Peoples
ticket. But when they found the
Alliance and Labor Union opposing
the Peoples party, they went back
to their parties again. You can do
nothing in the primaries for they
will not let you In unless you are
pledged to the party"
To this, the Rural makes reply a.
follows:
1.-THE plan 10 an excellent one. By
this means the people could attack
the politicians and narrow partisan
ship i'm their own strong citadels and
drive out corruption and the money
power which are ssppipg the sub
stance out of productive labor and
making slaves OF the masses. 1t
would be q great relief to the cour-
try to force into coalition Of frater.
nifty and nationalism the two par
ties and thus eliminate sectional
ism.n
The above indicates that the
farmers and others who have gone
off half-cocked in this political erup-
ton are coming to their senses. 1t
also proves an assertion repeatedly
made in these columns to the effect
that the farmers have themselves
largely to blame il they have any
fault to find with the conduct Of
1.-THE old parties" More often than
otherwise the farmers have been in
the habit Uf allowing elections to 60
by default. that is to say that they
have failed to attend the primary
elections wherein lice the power Of
the ballot. A trial Of two years has
demonstrated that separate political
action is q colossal failure. A few
officers have thereby been cleo
ted but they have done nothing else
but to bring reproach upoI the peo-
pie who elevated them.
Reduced to the bare elements Of
meaning the above quoted remarks
would say: "By the exercise Of
common sense all things can be ac-
opmplished." No honest or sensi-
BILE man will contend against that
which he knows or thinks to be right.
Politicians and demsgogues may
rant and rave about equal rights to
all men, but observation proves that
II is seldom they reduce the senti-
ment TO practice. Whenever the
farmers wish to suppress the unde-
sirsble element in politics, or ac-
complish that which Is Just and
right they will find plenty Of help to
do 1t, when they go at the work In .
correct aid legitimate manner. In
regions like Kansas there is no ne
cessity for the farmers who are In
the large majority, to leave their
political utilization for q life time in
order to correct evils Most men
are honest and are willing to grant
every man his just rights, no matter
what is his position in society.