Show THE DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE In spite of itself the Farmers alliance is becoming Democratic organization The latest action of the national organization at the Omaha meeting shows plainly the drift toward Democratic principles Among the purely Democratic principles and aims to which the alliance has pledged itself are the Australian ballot law the election of the President and VicePresi dent by popular vote the passage of laws to reform the government civil service reform re-form and the election of Senators by the popular vote The resolutions against railroad favors and banking privileges are also at bottom Democratic as opposed to the Republican policy of special favors to these institutions institu-tions Free coinage of silver and expansion of the currency if not distinctly a Democratic issue is one to wh ich the majority of Democratic Demo-cratic Senators are already committed The expansion of the currency which will help the farmers to pay off the debts with which the tariff has burdened them will not meet with great objection from the Democratic party as the latter has claimed for years that the chief burdens of the tariff fall upon the agricultural industry Nor is there any good reason why poor people peo-ple should not borrow money from the government gov-ernment at the same rates at which the rich bankers can get it Extension of suffrage to women is in harmony with the general principles of Democracy The solitary plank for liberal pensions affords the only ray of hope for Republicans in the whole platform and even On that the Democrats will contest for the honors |