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said in substance that 1t would De
better for newspapers TO discuss the /
st. Louis demands than to he deal- I
ing in simple abuse of the Alliance.
This is unquestionably so. Some 6
of our Democratic contemporaries
have. in our judgment, done great (
harm to the cause they were espous'
ing by ill-timed articles denouncing
the Alliance and calculated only 10
stir up the angry feelings OF men ana
render them unfit to pass calmly on
the questions before them In TINS
canvas. Mr.. Terrell himself In the
letter to which we refer wrote WIN
much i'll nature and called US hard
names, but we thought it better 10
reply temporarily, because our pur'
pose was not to have quarrel WIN
MIR. Terrell, but to show our people
that Mr.. Terrell was leading them
dangerously astray, and that tney
should think good while before
they followed him. All abuse OF
the farmers and the Alliance Is not
only, we think, out OF place, pu'
does much harm TO the cause OF true
Democracy and it is the cause OF De'
mocracy we are trying to heip.
We desire now to call the attention
OF prudent mel in the Alliance 70
the fact that the Democratic party Is
making no wal on them, but that
thew. following their leaders, are
making war on the Democratic par
ty. There was time when the
Alliance, 80 called, was SIM
ply an organization OF lar
mers gotten up for the oehe'
fit of the agricultural interests
The Democratic party is emphatl-
cally the friend Of the farmer, ana
the Alliance was then necessarily IN
principle Democratic organic itlon
and had the sympathy OF any
Democrats outside Of tue order. But
that day is past. The Alliance does
not claim to be now farmers ORDER
1t has amalgamatCd with all sorts OF
secret societies existing principally ID
cities and at the North, and the ola
Farmers Alliance is but the tail to
the kite that certain wild politicians
are now trying to fly in the political
heavens. The last great convention
at st. Louis had twenty one dliferen'
secret orders represented in 1t, ano
the impossible demands OF all thes'
secret orders have been incorporated
in one platform, and it is this plat
form which some of our Farmers arr
now urging the Democratic party L
adopt. The Democratic party can
not do this, and knowing 1t canho
do this the leaders of all these com
bined societies have called conven
ton to meet at Omaha, Nebraska
which will put out third party nom'
nees favoring their demands.
So powerful have these secret OF
ders grown that in E,st Tennesse
last year they rose mot iarmt
among them) and trampled the LAY
under foot and turned 400 cor
yicts and did all this openly an
without fear apparently because the
knew the governor belonged to n
same secret order with themselVe
They thought the governor WI
powerless and it seems the goVern'
was powerless because while we ma
assume he wished to enforce the la
there was a powerful secret order
which he belonged pulling him
ways the other way. so strong
the hold of this secret order on u
governor that he declined to say Il
other day in published intervie
whether he would accept the non
nation of Democratic convention
the demands of his order were
iected. ,
How long, then, can the IL
mers of Montgomery county
main in close communion WI
the secret and often COT
munistic orders of the cities al
with the so-caled labor leagues
the country? How long will o
farmers at the dictate of these ord'
and labor leagues insist on pressl
preposterous demands on the Den
cratic party? How long can O
conservative farmers afford to oc'
by this position? They are M
pressing on us their leader, McDowt
for United States Senator. They
pressing their Governor, Buchan'
who admits his inability to exec'
the law, for second term. Th
are pressing members of their sec
order everywhere for office W
this they are pressing the sub-'re
ury scheme; they are demanding
government ownership of railroa
telegraphs and telephones; they
vocating female suffrage; u
actually demand more pensions
Yankee soldiers.
Can farmers who belong to the
lance expect that they can press ST
aomands as these and not be I