People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 April 1893 — BETWEEN TWO STOOLS. [ARTICLE]

BETWEEN TWO STOOLS.

The Western Democracy Hates to Be Swallowed Up, but Realises That Clevelandism Is Not Pure Democracy. The following “deadly parallel” clearly illustrates the perplexing and varying states of mind experienced by a western democrat who, while desiring to espouse and champion the cause of the people, hates to give up the name “democrat.” There will be no fu- Later. slon in Kansas here- We observe with a .after between the pop- great deal of surprise uilsts and democrats. that the Topeka AdvoThey will be united In cate.*recent!r made tbo the party of the people, official state paper, is fighting for Kansas and counseling Its readers home. No tariff qnes- against a continuation tlons or bloody shirt of a friendly comblnuracket can divide us. tlon with the demoelther. Those who per- crats. Has the editor sist In keeping up a gone insane or it he sedemocratlc party will cretly in sympathy with do so at the expense of the republicans and being called republican "stalwarts" to divide abettors, Republican- the opposition and hand ism, us practiced by the the stato over to re- * machine in control ot publtcanlsm again? TTjo that party, means dos- Press will be excused potisin, the overthrow if it follows the caustio of law and order, and advice of Judge Foster corporations and all last fall and "sits must, now take the down," If It has to fight choice of being on the the official state paper side of rule by the peo- as well as the republlople or corporation rule, an press of the state— There is no middle Topeka Press, ground.—Topeka Press. The worthy editor of the Topeka Advocate, Dr. McLallin, is right, as indeed he usually is. The people's party haa no syiqpathies in common with modern, or Cleveland, democracy, and after an experience of two years with the policy of the administration headed by Goldwurap Clevelamband his cabinet of corporation attorneys and syndicate stockholders, there will be no democratic party in the west or south. The Kansas City Times is an average representative of the present goldolatrous corporation loving and Nhylock worshiping administration, and yet the St. Louis Republic speaks thus’ ’unkindly of the Times and Its idol:

"The Kunsas City Times Is now owned by a syndicate of money lenders with headquarters in New Kngland, and, naturally enough, it is displeased with the distinctively western speech made 1/y Gov. Htone in New York the other day. Its proprietors will find by longer experience that the money they invest in buying up newspapers to be used in attacking the representatives of the people is worse than wasted. It is easy to see that the articles intended for this purpose would not appear in any newspaper not owned by money lenders or subsidized by them. Instead of convincing anyone they simply spend their money to increase the prejudice against their business and against the methods they use to put their own above the public interest. "In his New York speech Gov. Htone represented the people of the Mississippi valley. They are an honest and conservative people, but they do not propose to submit forever to the dictation of the few thousand people in New England and New York who own or hold mortgages on a great part of the wealth of the valley. The curse of a non-resident nobility holding the land on its own terms has kept Ireland in poverty and degradation, but the nonresident plutocracy that seeks permanent control of the valley is more rapacious than the landlords of Ireland.

“Gov. Stone told these people that the valley means to be self-governing, and that it is capable of casting its votes in congress and in the electoral college to defend its own rights and interests. “There seems to be nothing peculiarly alarming about this, but there are people who regard it as little if any better than the rant of Johann Most. Such people cry out ‘crank’ and ‘anarchist’ when the people of the valley show any disposition to interfere with policies that are approved by Wall street and Boston money lenders. “The states of the valley will make no distinctively sectional movement, but they will have their rights, and if issues are forced against them they will meet the issues in the best and most temperate spirit possible. But they will not back an inch. They are going forward, not backward. “Attempts to check this movement by buying up newspapers ip the leading cities of the valley and in New York will simply result in producing greater antagonism towards professional usurers as a class. Their open interference in politics and their attempts to muzzle the press will be hotly resented by the masses of the people on whom they are unwisely thrusting issues that for the welfare of the country were better left to adjust themselves by natural processes.” • Thus does the Republic throw down the gauntlet to the plutocratic wing of the democracy, clearly recognizing that the democratic party is split in twain and the battle henceforth is between the people and the plutocrats. The Press and the Republic must give up their party name or offer their principles as a sacrifice upon the altar of Shylock. Which will they do? Geobge C. Ward.