People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1892-10-07
Our Most Dangerous Foes.

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advice to vote for men just because
they belong to our party, who are
opposed to every Alliance principle.
Among those most damaging to our
cause are partizan plutocratic jour
nails. They come like the midnight
assassin and with their secret poison
puncture the bladder they have set as
a decoy to deceive the unWary. They
play the part of confidence men, such
as we find in New York and other
large cities. Notable among those
journals who have damaged the re-
form movement the most is the State
Chronicle and the Atlanta Constitu-
on. These journals were once in
tifavor of the free coinage; now
hey are willing to add more silver
the silver dollar at the behests of
our alien creditors and home money
mongers. There is not a prInci pie
or policy even in their own party.
They are not willing to forfeit for
success, which means place and
plumber, and how can an Alliance
man expect them to adhere to ALI
ance principles? A partisan, either
as a journalist or candidate for Of
flee, or as a mere voter, is a time
server ready to sell principle, honor,
justice, right and his country for par
ty success. Then all journalists, can
didates for office or voters who are
partisan will betray every confidence
imposed in them by an honest, I'M
suspecting people. So when you see
journal processing the principles of
the Alliance as the State Chronicle,
the News and Observer and the At
lanta Constitution once did, and the
North Carolinian now does, they al
ways do it with a proviso to help my
self to subscriptions or to switch off
some of the Alliance vote into old
ranks. We say always, but they may
be honest and sincere at first, bat
when the party slogan of battle is
sounded every position is deserted
at once which may hinder Individual
or party success. To such a foul
depth has party journalism descend
ed that no man can conduct such
paper without resting under the
shadow of being a dishonest hypo-
critic.
Beside the party press who are
ready to betray, there are partisan
Alliancemen in public position. They,
too, become party servers and time
servers. They would advise you to
vote for Cleveland or Harrison, the
most antagonistic enemies of the AL
lance in the nation, to vote for any
man, black or white, Democrat or
Republican, so he is a nominee Of
the party, regardless of all principle.
These parties profess to have a prin-
ciple away back in the vaults of the
past, but what account are they
when they hold no principle of the
present sacred? The honest man
and the honest party will stand to
his principles, either in victory or
defeat, but the man or the party who
measures his principles by the rule
Of success is a moral skunk and a
slavish, venal coward.
We were much rejoiced to see
such able and influential journals as
the State Chronicle and the Atlanta
Constitution admit the justice of the
grievances complained Of by the
plain people Of America, and espe-
cially the people of our own section,
and still would rejoice if they would
not repudiate these wellmeant decla-
rations and advocate men for office
hostile enemies thereunto. But they
strip their backs to the party lash
and bow cringing at the feet of king
gold.
Will S. B, Alexander, Elias Carr,
r. j. Powell, J. J. Young, J. B.
Holman, N. NJ. Culbreth, A. III. A.
Williams, B. F. Grady, w. A.
Branch and others tell US why they
advocate the election of Grover
Cleveland and others hostile to
every essential demand Of the ALI
ance, if not on partisan grounds? A
man is a man who follows his prin-
ciples and endorses them wherever
found. An Allianceman is true
Allianceman who endorses his prin-
ciples wherever found. The ALI
ance did not come to bring office. It
come to bring right and justice.
Right and Justice is often found in
the woeful minority. Shall the AL
lance desert its principles because it
is too weak sometimes to elect? God
forbid! ''The battle is not ALWAYS
to the strong. There is a just God
who presides over the destinies of
men,"
1t certainly pains us to see so many
makeshift arguments made as an
excuse to wave certain rights to the
people. 1t shows to what a low
depth Of moral degradation partisan
politics has brought this country at
last. 1t also shows what a righte-
Gus cause has the non partisan ALI
ance, and what a black host of moral
enemies stand ready to do battle
against it. Like the protestants in
the Lutheran reformation, institu-
tons crusted with age and seething
with crime are fighting against it to
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