The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1892-10-15

That great sou thern tidal ve-soap
bubble has been pricked.
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"l am fifty years in advance of the
present generation. "--Walter Price, in
the Onida school house.
"The abiding curse Of all reform
movements is the advance thinker.''-
O'eiza Journal. See!
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1t has been assumed by the monopo-
listic and money king papers that the
movement was not intended to affect
the democratic States of the South.
This assumption can no longer operate
as club with which to beat the heads
of the Alliance in the Northwestern
States.- Oaaid0 Journal. July II, '92.
The Republican papers did say it
would not affect the Democratic South
and they say so yet, and the Journal
can no longer deceive it's readers as it
has been doing.
Speaking Of money the Onida Jour-
nal of July 81, 1891, says: "No mat
ter what material is used.' Well sup
pose you use wind.
Just recently it quoted Weaver as
saying 81 have reason to believe that
we are nearing a serious crisis" 1t
came while he was in Georgia, and the
"crisls" exposed the Journals false
hoods about the immensity Of the
movement. At another time while
speaking Of the party's principles it
said: "The sober second thought of the
farmers will make an end to the whole
scheme You bet they will.
In an article to the Onida Journal
by D. f. s. "To my Republican
friends" the writer says: "Statistics
show that since 1973.-the year Of de-
monetlzation Of silver-there has been
no production of gold for the money
basis business, the whole output beng
absorbed in the arts and IN wear and
loss hence we have the supply Of
gold remaining stationary.'
The above statement is notoriOusly
false and D. L. S. ought to know it.
We believe he does. In 1860 the to-
tai of specie in the country was $685.
100000 and the population was 81
100000. On the first day Of Septem-
Der, 1892, the amount of gold alone
was $653,000,000 and the population
was 65,OO0,OOO, or a gold per capita in
1892 Of $40 against $3.50 in 1860, so
that our money is cheaper and not
dearer as d. F. s. Is trying to make the
people believe. ~
The Atlanta Constitution says:
"If Gen. Weaver is wise he will re-
serve his anger for the men who in
vlted HIM to make campaign in
quarters where the third party is non
existent A little more than two
years ago the Southern Alliance was
sent into the northwestern states as the
foundation of the Peoples party.
This same Alliance had been in a
flourishing condition in the south for
several years and no attempt ever
made to use it politically in opposition
to the Democratic party, yet it had no
sooner become established in the north
than 1t assumed political form and di-
rected it's efforts at the DESTRUCTION of
the Republican party. Able speakers
came from the south and assured the
people that they were with them in the
fight for industrial emancipation, but
the Peoples party had no existence in
the south. In some three or four
southern states the Alliance and old
bourbon factions contended for the
control Of the party just as warning
factions sometimes contend for the
mastery in the Republican party, but
with one exception all the Alllancemen
elected to office bowed the knee to
Democracy.
The one exception was Watson of
Georgia who could not have been elect
ed had 1T been known that he would
violate his pledge. From time to time
able Peoples party men from the
north would demand of the southern
agitators actions consistent with their
professions, but the Alliance under the
direction Of it's Southern President
Polk refused to throw off its Demo
cratic yoke. Finally however by the
effort of Loucks, who succeeded to the
place Of the dead president the Alliance
within the last few weeks appears tc
have cut loose from the Democracy and
to have brought forth helpless Peo.
ple's party gnat and the Weaver-Lease
combine was sent down to nurse into
visible proportions.
The rotten-egg incident, Weavers
letter and retreat is indisputable evi-
dence of the total collapse Of the move
ment to the intelligent public and il
will not avail the Onida Journal to
Withhold the facts from it's readers
The Atlanta Constitution is right
when speaking Of the South it says
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