Nevada County picayune., 1892-03-10
M'RAE AND THE ALLIANCE.
SuB-ALLIANCE. No. 1913,

SUB-ALLIANCE, No. 1913,
PREscorT, ARK, Feb. %, 1892. !
Hon + C McRae, Washington, d. G.:
Dear Sir.-We note with pleasure
that you have introduced three i'm
portant bills into Congress in line
with the demands of the National f.
A. & l. T., and if you can succeed
in getting them enacted into law
would, we believe, give early relief
to an oppressed and outraged poo
pie. We are especially pleased to
see you now advocating that grand
old Democratic doctrine, and our
chief demand upon Congress, viz:
Government issue Of all money with
out the Intervention of banks, and in
sufficient volume to save the people
from the hard conditions imposed up
on them by the money power. This
carried to its legitimate consequence
would meet another one OF our de-
mands, viz: The abolition of banks
of issue. This is gratifying to your
Alliance constituents, as we feel that
you have reached footing upon
these planks Of our platform by earn
est, honest investigation, and broad,
liberal and enlightened view of the
situation as it is. The three meas
ures alluded to, viz: Free coinage OF
gold and silver on equal terms, and
issue by government of full legal ten
der Treasury notes, graduated IN
come tax, and the election OF u. ).
Senators by direct vote of the peo-
pie, is certainly long stride away
from the line of legislation for the
past twenty-five years, and gives new
hope to Alliance people that their
just demands will yet be met by
Congress in spirit of fairness, and
that relief measures so long and 50
often asked for by crushed, debt
ridden and mortgage-cursed people
will yet receive that consideration so
clearly merited.
Now, we do not question your sin
cerity, or impugn your motive, but
in these days of corruption in high
places, where trimmers, time-servers
boodlers and heelers have SO long
held high carnival, you must not
think us ungenerous or unreasonabiy
suspicious for applying to you a mild
and we think a reasonable test.
The lower House of Congress
where your relief measures must
first be passed upon, is overwhelm-
ingly Democratic. Now, if Congress
should treat these three important
measures of yours with contempt,
and refuse to even consider them,
would you still have confidence in
the party as relief party, and
would you still urge your fellow-citl'
zens to stand by the party with their
influence and their ballots! Again,
should the coming National Demo
cratic Convention refuse to embody
in the National platform, principles
looking to carrying into effect the
relief measures intended to be affec-
ted by your three bills, and should
they adopt platform that was silent
upon these questions, or directly an
tagonistic to them, would you stand
for the party and support an out
spoken candidate against these meas
ures? OR would you stand for the
people and their interests regardless
of party ties and party dictation!
An answer to the above questions
will enable the people to determine
whether you stand for the people re-
CARELESS of the party, or whether You
stand for the party regardless of the
people.
We respectfully submit the above
for your consideration, fully persuad'
ed that present conditions warrant
the people in scrutinizing closely the
acts of their servants in Congress,
and of making demands upon them
for relief from the unjust burdens
under which they suffer. We fee
that party machinery and party name
ought no longer to be held up as
fetch over crushed and bleeding hui
manty. Manhood must be exalted
and mammon dethrOned, regardless
of party prestige and party success
L. w. HAYES,
OLIVER S. JONES, Com.