The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-11-26
HIGH HOPEFOR 'e2.
The Alliance will Probably Make a
Strashtout Fight Two Years Hence.

StTaGhtout Fight Two Years Hence.
WAsHINGToN, Nov. 19.-The spectre
of the Farmers Alliance oyershadowS
all other political considerations here
Clever politicians estimate the vote
pollea by that organization in the re
cent election at not less than 100000
The Alliance people themselves are say
ing nothing that can be construed as al
indication of their future purposes
The expectation is that their party vii
increase so rapidly during the next two
years that their voting strength in 1S9:
will not fall much, if any, short of 5000,
600. In that event they will undoubted
ly place a Presidential ticket in the field
with moral certainty of carrying hall
a dozen Southern and Western States
Already they are claiming all the agri
cultural States in '92.
This is, of course, an exaggerated and
over sanguine view of the situation
growing out of their recent success, but
they have reasonable probability Of
carrying North and South Carolina
South Dakota, Kansas, Nebraska anC
Minnesota. l am told by their leaders
here that not only will they continue tc
develope strength in the States where
they have already shown unexpected
power, but that Ohio, Pennsylvania
New York, New Jersey and MaSsachu
setts offer them an equally promising
field. The work of organizing will &C
on rapidly in these States from this
time, with the possibility of bringing
one or more of them also under theil
dominion.
1t is obvious to any student of politi
cal affairs that the Alliance people are
feeling their OATS, as they flguratively
put it. They organized originally fol
mutual benefit, but they have drifted
into politics almost imperceptibly from
the start, and their manifest purpose
now is to secure control Of the country
or at least develop such strength as will
enable them to hold the balance of pow.
er between the two great parties. 1t is
not their intention to consolidate with
either. Their leading men tell me they
will welcome any man or set of men
who may choose to enter their ranks, but
they can only be admitted by renounc-
ing forever their former political af1ilia-
tions. 1t is only as distinct organiza,
ton with aims and purposes that they
can hope to win, and from this course
they will not swervea hairsbreadth.
The Alliance people are claiming fifty
five votes in the next House. Of this
number forty are straightout Alliance
Representatives and fifteen others have
committed themselves in writing to the
measures advocated by them. The
more important of these measures are
the free silver coinage and sub treasury
bills. They will not stop, they say, un-
til they accomplish the passage of both.
Judging from their conversation they
expect to do this before the close Of the
sd Congress.
There is one tenet of their political
faith which fair minded men without re-
gard to other considerations will cheer
fully endorse. They are opposed to Sec
tionalism and to the statesmen who sup
port such doctrines. They tell me seri-
ouly that their principal opposition to
Senator ingalls, arises from his malevo-
lent and repeated efforts to widen the
breach between the North and South.
His other sins they could forgive, but
this they regard as unpardonable. l
ask them what in that case they pur-
pose doing with Senators Hoar and
Chandler. They replied that as soon as
the organization became stronger in
Massachusetts and New Hampshire,
these gentlemen should be Immediately
turned down, unless their "brigadier
scalping' tactics: as they term them, are
abandoned.
The General Council of the Alliance
will hold its annual meeting at Ocala
Fla, December next About fifty del
egates and fifteen hundred other lead
ing members Of the Alliance will be in
attendance. The Conference will be an
important one, and before its close the
aims and purposes of the Alliance for
the future will no doubt be better un-
Il