The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1892-10-27
STICK TO THE DEMOCRACY.
Sensible Words From sn Old Alliance Man
TO His Fellow Farmers.
My Dear Brethren of the Alliance;

to His Fellow Farmers
Ny Dear Brethren Of the Alliance:
Permit me to give my reasons for the
stand / have taken in opposition to the
New or Peoples party, 1 am old and full
OF years and have no axe to grind nor
individual favor 10 ask. Under our Ameri-
can system OF Government all men are
free 10 think for themselves, and free to
act as far as consistent with constitu-
tional liberty. This privilege you claim
and so do l. No one can controvert this
paramount and self-evident truth.
Now this Government as handed down
10 us by the blood of our noble and VEN
Grated forefathers should be maintained
and perpetUated down to the latest
posterity and in order TO do this, hasty
and sudden innovations should be avoided,
for such experiments are often danger
Gus in free Government like ours, and
further. / believe that the People,
party, as It's called. will fail in its ostcnsi-
BILE object OF promoting the farmers best
interest and why? Because II IS not
strong enough TO control the Federal leg
islation of the great country and con
seduently will avail us nothing. Parties
may be equally divided and no laws
passed 10 suit either one, so wrangling
and confusion Will enter into the coun-
sells of this once strong and glorious
Government
In this case we know that failure
will occur and that peace and happiness
and prosperity will not come until the
down trodden millions shall become
strong enough to dictate terms OF re-
Cancellation TO the millions not Within
the pale Of safety or Alliance fortified
lions
We are all seeking a betterment OF our
condition not only in this South land
but throughout the States. We all need
more money we need better legislation
for the farmers, who by toll and dint
of industry feed the world. We need
protection against all mOnopolies and
trusts. which are formidable foes. Let
Mother Government take care Of us and
pet us and dandle us on her knees and
give us some Of the large crumbs that
fall from her luxuriant table. Republi-
cans with the exception of four years
have ruled this country for nearly
quarter OF century. They promised us
good things, but gave us the shmmings
Now we are tired of this and she did not
and would not give us a panacea for the
ills which beset us. You say seek deliV-
erance under a new name, the Peoples
party, which is upheld by the same old
party which brought Pandora's box OF
evils upon you. Assistance given 10 the
Third party means HarrisOn's election;
Il means a Force BILL a complete politi-
cal victory.
This is plain TO every intelligent man.
who keeps himself posted. With three
parties in counsel, what can you do?
The ship capszed and all at sea, your
power for good gone, gone. And what
evils must flow from a failure OF the
Third party. Let not the siren song Of
the Republican party deceive you in re-
gard TO the Force BILL for once upon us
Bedlam would be let loose upon this fair
Southland. Like the fabulous Cyclops,
hideous, gigantic, sightless, reeking In
the blood of innocent human beings, more
to be dreaded than the whirlpool OF
Scylla and Charybdis for once in those
waters you sink TO rise no more.
We all know that the passions and pre-
judices OF our enemies are like the
leech. never satisfied without blood, blood,
blood.
Old men, do your duty. I call upon
you. young men, by the sweet gift OF
heaven, your sweethearts, to exert all
your powers 10 keep them from becoming
not maids OF honor, but vassal slaves
to lordly mistresses. Who so wise as 10
tell us the modus operandi by which the
monster evils can be surmounted? Moses
led the children Of Isreal out of bondage,
and IL may be, IL we are true to the prin-
ciples and purposes Of that noble order.
the Alliance, and true TO ourselves and
our God, kind Providence may send
us a Moses to lead us out OF our present
troubles 90,
He who rules the affairs Of nations will
not help US II we are false 10 our obllga-
lions. Remember the big ship with all
on board without rudder or compass
will be capsIzed and all Of us will go
down. not into the whale to be vomlted
ND again. What then is SEEM Confusion
lamentation, elimination and recrimlna-
ton. Could l WELD the pencil OF Apelles'
or had l the tongue Of Tully ! could not
tell where we are drifting. Give US
solid South give us a complete Demo
cratic boom for Grover Cleveland lhe
tried statesman whose peer Is seldom
found NY friends, my countrymen, pro-
foundly impressed as I am that the new
movement, the Peoples party, Is unWlse'
unproftable ill-timed and premature
I do from my inmost soul ask all VINO
may be favorably impressed with It's tas-
cinations and hallucinatiOns, as l believe
TO desist and think before you battle
yourselves in it's fatal and bitter waters.