, 1890-12-14
THIRD PARTY SCHEME.
A Plot to Use the Farmers
Alliance
To Promote the Idea and Dis
rupt the Solid South.
The Sub Treasury Bill Also
Used as a Blind

JACKSONVILLE. Fla, Dec lathe
Times Union will publish tomorrow a
lengthy article concerning the recent
Farmers's Alliance convention. 1t says,
in part: Since the final adjournment
at 0cala, incostestible proof has been
brought out to show the existence of a
giganti: plot 10 use the national ~organiza.
ton as a means of promoting a third
party scheme. \ significant fact is the
vote ofthe Northwestern Alliancemen IN, who
are mostly Republicans and who came to
Oeala with the purpose Of forcing the Al
lance to endorse their pet scheme for a
third party. 1t soon became apparent,
however, that an Endorsement could not
be secured, and when the s~ub-treasury
scheme was up, the Northwestern men
were found solid in their support of it,
although their political affiliations and
the sentiment of the people they are sup
posed TO represent would naturally have
led to open opposition to this measure.
The leaders in the third party move
ment from that section are McGrath OF
Kansas, Loucks of North Dakota, War
dell Of South Dakota. and Willetts of
Kansas. and they are warmly supported
by the delegates from Wisconsin and
other near by states. During a tour of
the state, which has been in progress for
the past four or five days, says the Times
Unton, these third party plotters have
unbosomed themselves to a certain extent
-. oo.ua.a.a.nn Ill tka,. Gill; -
sionists and their admissions have laid
bare a political scheme which has
prompted their every act. Their state
ments are to this effect. They are really
opposed to the sub-treasury bill; regard 1t
as wrong in principle and as a legislative
device, which can end only in financial
ruin to the farmer and every other
industrial class; that the people of their
section are opposed to it and that
they as delegates we're particularly
charged with the mission to defeat the
measure when they LETT their homes.
They say, also, that upon their return they
will explain their action this way: That
the sub.treasury demand is OF such a ma
ture that it can never gain the support of
the Democracy Of the Southern states
and that n attempt to secure such Dem.
ocratic support can end only in a split in
| the Democratic ranks in the south. This,
they say, will break up the solid South
and this is the end they have in view.
10 support OF this general policy, says
the article. several Of these ~plotters have
been placed upon record. President Nc
grath of Kansas is quoted as saying:
we saw that by making the sub treas
ury bill an issue in the South we could
break up the Democratic party"
W.i,N,.oE Koz.., .
we supported the sub-treasury bill to
divide the south and break up the bour-
hon democracy"
The Reform Press Association is also
dealt with at great length. The article
states that a meeting of third party men
was held yesterday on a steamer going to
Louisville. when it was resolved that all
newspapers which do not advocate the
sub treasury bill, aud providing for the
organization OF q legislative board to
designate from time to time the measures
and demands to be advocated by the Re-
form Press. The article goes on 10 say
that all conservative Alliance men were
excluded from this meeting and that the
Reform Press combination is only one
OF the many means by which the third
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 strengtheuinQ
~among.the Southern Democrats in the
Alliance that a desperate effort must be
made to pull the Farmers Alliance away
from Sub-treasury folly before the next
annual meeting. A long interview is
published 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.