Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 August 1891 — MUST NOT DESERT DEMOCRACY. [ARTICLE]

MUST NOT DESERT DEMOCRACY.

Senator Gordon Says Georgia Farmers Must Kem.ilu True to The <>t«tl*arty, Atlanta. Ga., Aug. 11.—Senator Gordon, who is now at Cranston's- ; li-the-lludson, has written the - foVi lowing letter to. Gen. C. A. Evans, ; )l this city: "T-he reports in circulation, just' as 1 was leaving homo, to the effect I that 1 was in very ba I health, were somewhat exaggerated. It is true that T had lost about twenty-five poundsm weight- and —that- rny-j strength and vitality were very j much depleted It only required j rest, however, and a change of air to j restore me to normal health and ! v i L r o rriToyrl'shall be-at-hema. soon I trust, ready to do all in my power to demonstrate the unwisdom of any political utterances or movements tending to weaken the faith of om* people in the national Democratic party, or to break their allegiance to its fortunes. It, is easy to make manifest, I think, the serious consequences involved in such a movement. As to the Alliance, I have never doubted their fidelity to the Democratic: party. No more patriotic. honorable or truth-loving men live than the great body of Alliance men in Georgia, and they will not, only embrace and stand by the truth, but will sustain those who sustain the truth. /'I. realize fully that the conditions diround us are unprecedented, but It cannot be true that Georgia Democrats, who for a quarter of a century have stood unshaken in their devotion to this great party of people are about to abandon it in the hour of its greatest victory won in the cause of public popular rights. It cannot bg true that we are about to commit the most consummate of political blunders by striking down tho most powerful arm raised or that can be raised for our defence. If such blunder should be made by the South it would render absolutely worthless the most splendid victory won since the war In Uj? interest of economic reforms. It would postpone for a long period the posibility of securing the relief we seek, and which wise, just and conservative Democratic legislation will bringtothe agricultural interests and to the masses of the American people. It cannot bo true that our patriotic p«oplc are going to invite these delays and the political woes which a disruption of the Democratic party wouF assurdly entail. Of course Vou and „he people generally will understand that, circumstanced ts I os. »4 piesent, even if I ware

capable of seeking selfish ends at the sacrifice of my country’s welfare,' I could not now have any political ambition to be gratified or personal interests to be subserved by going again to our people for the purpose of discussing these grave issues. I shall go to them, therefore, without the slightest apprehension of being misunderstood and with profound conviction that neither they nor the great body of American farmers can be seduced into hostility to the Democratic party, which is their natural, most staeere and powerful ally. They will not abanon the vantage ground gained in the cause of reform bv the unprecedented political victories of last fall in the va>n and delusive hope of finding greater safety and surer success ire a new political party. »Faithfully your friend." John B. Gordon.