St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-12-14
THIRD PARTY SCARE.
Republican Leaders Up In
Arms Against Alleged
Political Plots.
Northwestern Alliance Men
Said to Be Solid in It's
Favor.
The Subtreasury Plan Said
to Be Unpopular in the
South.
Tho KonCoC piVyo1 aP Ca,notnA
The Kansas Rival Of Senator
Ingalls, Gives 1t a Black
Eye.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla, Dec. 13.-In It's
issue of tomorrow the Times Union
will publish the following:
st. Augustine, Fla, Dec. 13.-Since
the final adjournment of the National
Farmers Alliance at Ocala, Monday
last, incontestible proof has been
brought out to show the existence of a
gigantic plot to use this national organi-
Zation as means for promoting the
third party scheme which came to the
surface in two or three differ
ent forms during the recent gathering.
A significant fact in this connection is
the vote of the Northwestern Alliance
men, who are almost without exception
Republicans, and who came to Ocala
with the avowed purpose of forcing the
National Alliance to indorse their pet
schemes for third party. 1t soon be-
came apparent, however, that this
Endorsement could not be Sc
cured, although vigorous work
in this direction was put in
during the first three or four DAYS of
the session. When the subtreasury
scheme came up for Endorsement on
Monday last, the final vote. on the pas
sage of this demand was surprise in
many respects. The Northwesterner
were found to be solid in their support
of the measure. although their political
affiliations in the past and the senii-
ment of the people whom they are sup
posed to represent would naturally have
led to open opposition to this measure.
The leaders in
The Third Party
NOV ement from that section are Nc
Grath, of Kansas; Loucks, of South Da-
kota; Wardell, of South Dakota, and
Willis, of Kansas. and they are warmly
supported by delegates from Wisconsi n
and other near by states. During the
tour of the state, which has been in
progress for the past four or five days,
these third party plotters have un-
bosomed themselves to certain extent
in their conversation with their fellow
excursionists and newspaper men, and
their admissions have laid bare the po-
litical scheme which has prompted their
every act. In general their statements
are to this effect:
Subtreas ury Scheme.
That they are really opposed to the
subtreasury bill; that they regard it as
wrong IN principle and as legislative
device which can end only in financial
ruin to the farmer and to every other
Industrial class; that the people of their
section are opposed to it, and that they,
as delegates, were particularly charged
with the mission to defeat the measure
when they left their homes. They say,
also, that upon their return they will
be asked to make explanation of their
strange conduct in giving their support
to this demand of the National Alliance,
and the explanation which they will be
forced to make is this: That the sub
treasury demand is of such nature
that it can never gain the support of the
Democracy of
The Southern States
and that an attempt to secure such
Democratic support can end only in
split in the Democratic ranks in the
South. This, they say, will break up
the ''Solid South" and this is the end
which they have had in view. They
profess to believe that their people viii
applaud them for having entered into
an arrangement by which that can be
accomplished, and that they feel that
the sacrifice of their principles in con-
nection with the Subtreasury scheme
has not been too great, if, thereby, the
Democratic party can be hopelessly di-
vided. In support of this general policy
as outlined, several Of these plOtters
have been placed upon record. For in
stance, President McGrath, of the
Kansas Alliance, said in the presence of
several witnesses yesterday;
I'VE did not vote for the subtreasury bill
because we believed in it. The fact is, we are
opposed TO it; but we saw that by making it
an issue in the South we could break up the
Democratic party. This is the explanation
we Will give our constituents when we return
home''
j. S. Willis, of Kansas, who Is the
most prominent candidate for the United
States senatorship in opposition to
ingalls,. said:
wenever did like the subtreasury bill and
we have no confidence in it now, but we
supported 1t at Ocala so as to divide the
South and break up the bourbon Democracy.
1t appears also that these sentiments
have entrapped other delegates than
those from the ultra-Republican North
west. Hon. F. K. Carskadon, an infiu-
ential banker of West Virginia, has
been heard to say:
We Northerners were opposed to the sub
treasury bill until we found that by making
it an issue the Southern Democracy could be
DIVIDED and make room for new party.
1t is needless to add that Mr.. Car
skaoon is Republican and an uncom-
promising third party man. In this
connection it is learned also that the
recently organized Reform Press asso-
citation is body whose purpose it is to
mould opinion among Alliance men in
every state toward the promotion of
the third party movement. The facts
surrounding its organization and SUBJ
sequent reorganization, its action
and its evident policy prove
this beyond shadow of doubt The
third party men at Ocala, who have con-
nection with the reform press in the
Alliance, in the Farmers Mutual Bene-
fis association, in the Knights of Labor
and in other kindred organizations, de-
cided that their aims could be accom-
plished in large measure through
newspaper influence, but when they saw
that their project would not secure an
out and out Endorsement from the Or
ganized body of delegates, they set
about to carry their schemes through in
another way.
They, therefore, determined to push the
thing through their own channels. Not
all the reform press" representatives
could be relied upon to advocate third
party, SO the press promoters of this
scheme awaited an opportunity for Or
ganiZlng when the more liberal among
them could be eluded. This oppor-
tunity came on Monday last, during
The Alliance Excursion
to Silver Springs. About a dozen of
them met in an old shed near the
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