Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-01-24
THE THREE PARTIES.
3ne Of the Important Results of the Re-
cent Campaign of Intellect.

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| cent Campaign of Intellect.
There are three parties now in the
field, the Republican, the Ca,hounite
and the Randallite. The first has a
majority of all the States in sympathy
with it, aud upon fair count a large
majority of the people also; the second
claims majority of the white vote in
the Southern tier, and fraudulently
counts such majority of the colored
vote as to make it appear that it has
a majority of the popular vote in the
United States; the third has MAORI
ty in some of the States South. and a
decisive majority of the Democratic
vote in Pennsylvania, Ohio and New
York. The Republican party will en-
dure for many years. Whether the
Democratic will endure depends upon
whether Vandalism can leaven
Calhounism or Calhounism absorb
Vandalism. Without the accomplish
ment of one of these events the Demo
cratic party must give way to new
organization.
The solidity of the South has come to
an end, for the Democrats of the South
have begun to argue, and argum ent is
fatal to the supremacy of any oil
garchy, and most certainly to an oil
garchy which has no policy of govern
ment beyond the procurement of cheap
goods and cheap food wherewith to
nourish and clothe cheap laborers.
Quoting MIR. Randall's after-election
utterances the Augusta (Ga-) Chroni-
Gle says:
On beng asked by Georgian what is the
best thing TO be done nowT' he is reported to
have replied that the only thing to be done is
for the leaders of advanced thought and prac
teal ideas to buckle on their armor and make
an aggressive fight in Georgia inside the
party lines for the adoption OF a protective
policy that would invite capital and develop
the resources Of the State, and not TO per-
NIT the tari1-for-revenue-only men to check
the progress OF the South and handicap the
Democrats.
And makes this approving comment:
There are no wiser heads among the
leaders of the Democratic party than
Hon. Samuel j. Randall. Advice
from him is wholesome. 1t is the ad-
vice of statesman seasoned by years
of experience and sound Judgment
In the campaign of 1892 Mr.. Ran
dall's services and wisdom will be ap-
preciated.
And the Birmingham (Ala.) Age
Herald speaks in like terms of devo-
ton to the leader of the protectionist
wing of the Democracy.
But the Columbus (Ga-) Enquirer
Sun thus rallies the Calhounites
against Mr.. Randall and his hosts:
ut is we'll enough for Republican
newspapers and the hired organs of
monopoly to try to work up a boom
for Randall, but the Democratic
masses, inseparably welded to tariff
reform, will frown down all such at
tempts and silly schemes to divert the
unwary into the open trap set for
them by the Republican party and
their high-tariff assistants. The Dem
ocratic party is as solid for tariff re-
form as it is possible for political
party to be on any issue. The late
election developed the fact that a ma
jority of nearly one hundred thousand
voters cast their ballots for Mr.. Cleve-
land on this issue. The cry of close
up the ranksr has been sounded all
along the Democratic lines, and the
battle of 1892 will be waged more
fiercely, more Systematically and with
fewer dissenters than that of 1888"
1t is plain that there is irreconcilable
war between the Randallites and the
Calhounites. The latter may be at
present numerically the stronger in
the Southern tier, but the Randallites
are most likely to succeed. They hold
Atlanta, Birmingham, Chattanooga,
the energetic regions of West Virginia,
Virginia, Tennessee and Northern
Alabama. They are strong and con-
centrated where population and wealth
are increasing most rapidly. The Cal
hounists are scattered among the
farms and plantations. Theirs is the
passive force, the active agencies are
with the Randallites. Every farmer
who finds a new market for his sur
plus in a newly created center of min
ing or manufacturing industry
deserts from the Calhounite to the
Raudallite camp, or. passing by that,
enlists with the Republicans Every
mile of new railway in the South is
hostile invasion of Calhounite terri
tory, every movement toward organ
lied labor threatens the army, every
new want of a progressive civilization
is destructive missile exploding in
its ranks 1t is doubtful if the victory
of either force will be complete in the
Southern tier before the next Pres
idential election. A continuance of
the strife will result in Republican
success and the strife will continue I'M
til Vandalism absorbs Calhounism, or
Calhounism absorbs Vandalism, or I'M
til new organization absorbs the
greater part of both.-Chicago Inter-
Ocean.
THE civil SERVICE