The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-12-14
THIRD PARTY
ASSERTIONS.
Alleged Plot to Capture the
National Alliance.
Efforts 10 Break the Solid South-ReiOrm
Press ASsociatlon-PrOposed 0rganlza-
tiOn Of Legislative Board.
Special to THE MORNING CALL.

JACKSONVILLE Fla). Dec. 13-The
Times-Union will publish tomorrow a
lengthy article concerning the recent Farm
ers' Alliance Convention. 1t says in part:
Since the final adjournment at Ocala in
testible proof has been brought out to
show the existence of gigantic plot to use
the national organization as a means of
promoting a third party scheme. A signiii-
cant fact is the vote Of the Northwestern
Alliancemen, who are mostly Republicans
and who came to Ocala with the purpose of
forcing the alliance to indorse their pet
scheme for third party. 1t soon became
apparent. however. that the. Endorsement
could not be secured, and. when the Sub
Treasury scheme came up the North
western men were found solid in their
support of 1t, although their political afilia-
tons and the sentiment of the people they
are supposed to represent would naturally
have led to an open opposition to this
measure. The leaders in the third-party
movement from that section are McGrath of
Kansas. Loucks of North Dakota, Wardell
of South Dakota and Wiletts of Kansas,
and they are warmly supported by delegates
from Wisconsin and other nearby States.
During the tour of the State which has been
IN progress the past four or five days" says
the Times Union. these third-party plot
tiers have unbOsomed themselves to q
certain extent in conversation and their
admissions have laid bare the politi-
cal scheme which has prompted their
every act. Their statements are to
the effect that they are really opposed to the
Sub-1reasury Bill; they regard it wrong
In principle and as a legislative device
which can end only in financial ruin to the
farmers and every other industrial class ;
that the people of their section are opposed
to 1t and that they, as delegates, were par
ticularly charged with mission to defeat
the measure when they left their homes.
They say also that upon their return they
will explain their action this way: That
the Sub Treasury demand is of such ma
ture that it can never obtain the sup
port OF the Democracy Of the Southern
States, and that the attempt to secure such
Democratic support can only end in split
IN the Democratic ranks in the South, and
this, they say, will break mp the solid South,
and this is the end they had in view. In
support of this general policy" says the
article, several of these plotters have been
placed upon record. President McGrath of
Kansas is quoted as saying: We saw that
by making the Sub-Treasury Bill an issue
in the South we should break up the Demo-
cratic party Wiletts of Kansas is quoted
as saying: We supported the Sub Treasury
Bill to divide the South and break up Bour.
bon Democracy"
The Reform Press Association is also
dealt with at great length. The article states
that meeting of third party men was held
Yesterday on the steamer going to Titus
VILE, when it was resolved to shut out all
newspapers who do not advocate the Sub
Treasury Bill and providing for the
organization of a Legislative Board to
designate from time to time measures
and demands to be advocated by the reform
press. The article goes on to say that the
conservative alliance men were excluded
from this meeting and that the reform press
omblnatiOn is the only one Of many means
by which the third party issue is to be forced
upon the alliance with the hope of dividing
the Democratic party of the South. The
Times Union says the determination is
strengthening among the Southern Democrats
in the alliance that a desperate effort will be
madt TO pull the Farmers Alliance away
from the Sub-Treasury folly before the next
annual meeting. A long interview is pub
ished with one of the CONSERVATIVES" who
was excluded from the association, in which
he states that the Reform Press Association
is made up of third-party men.