The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1894-04-20

ON the editorial page, in other
words, as a statement made by the
Inter Ocean
"The greenback party has offered
through its managers to sell out to
the democrats and hereafter to work
in the democratic harness if a few
of their leaders can be provided
for. This shows how much depend
ence there is to be placed ON the
leaders of the lunatics who clamor
for money based on nothing.n
For the democrats they had the
following which was sent to the
New York Sun. Two lies exactly
opposite to each other yet how
effective.
'"The prospect is that in six
months there will not be a green
back leader in all the land. Over
lures have been made by leaders of
the greenback movement to Presi-
dent Hayes to abandon the green
back as lost cause, provided he
will give good official positions to
about twenty of the most blatant of
the clamOrous for money that is
based on nothing"
Both of these papers exposed the
trick at the time yet now nine
tenths of all the republican and
democratic papers print similar
matter and are paid for it. How
often do the Kansas republican
papers say that the Alliance is a
scheme to break up the republican
party, and how many times did you
see in the democratic papers and
hear from the democratic speakers
in Maryland last year that the
peoples party was only a part of
the republican opposition. The
same lies with the variations apply
equally to all times and sections.
In one respect the farmer must
adopt the tactics of the banker.
''He must SUSTAIN such papers as
work in his interest and if he con-
tinues to put guns in the hands and
bread in the mouths of his enemies
he must not complain at the result.
1t would cost less to run a first
class local paper than the average
paper on the Eastern Shore receives
for country printing.
We would send to every tax pay
er in Dorchester county free of
charge and weekly all official
county matter and do this at less
then three -fourths what the county
now pays.
Receiving such subsidies as these
from the counties is it any wonder
these local papers dread the light /?
Is is any wonder they stand ready
to oppose anything which comes in
the name of reform?
When the peoples party comes in
power they will know that these
abuses will be remedied and they
will fight us to the bitter end. Yet
many of us are still taking papers
opposed to our interests and are not
taking any that favor us. The
Waterman gives good advice when
it says be sure you do your duty by
your reform papers before you take
any others.
When the Alliance started in the
South it was of course non partisan.
Its members were expected to study
the principles of government and
the result was the Alliance demands
or the Omaha platform. The dem
ocracts saw that these principles
were the principles of Jefferson and
Jackson and rallied to their sup
port, while the republicans were
equally certain that they were the
principles held by Lincoln and the
founders of the republican party so
it was not strange that at this
"non-partisan" meeting at st.
Louis this declaration became a
part of their platform
WE ASSERT OUR PURPOSE TO
SUPPORT THE POLITICAL ORGANIZA-
TION WHICH REPRESENTS OUR
PRINCIPLES.
Over million did support the
political party that was true to AL,
lance principles, and in every
state we now have a party-The
Peoples Party-whose principles
are the same as the Old gFeenback
party of 1876, of the Alliance, Of
Jeffersonian democracy and OF
everything good of republioanism.
The organization has changed its
form and name but its principles
stand today the same and in spite