The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-12-14
Western Farmers Alliance Republi-
cans Planning to Break up
the Solid South.
They Expected to Split the Dom.
ocracy on the Sub-Treasury
Scheme.
STARTLING Discoveries Made by . jackson.
willie Newspaper Since the Close Of
the Convention.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla, Dec. 13.-The Times
Union will publish tomorrow a long arti-
Gle concerning the recent farmers Alli-
ance convention. It says in part: Since
the final adjournment at Ocala inoontesti-
BILE proof has been brought out to show the
existence of gigantic plot to use the ma
tional organization as means Of promot
ing third party scheme. A significant
fact is the vote Of the northwestern alliance
men who are mostly republicans and who
came to Ocals with the purpose of forcing
the alliance to endorse their pet scheme
for third party. It soon became appar-
ent. however, that the Endorsement could
not be secured, and when the sub-treasury
scheme came upss the northwestern men were
found solid in their support of it, although
their political affiliations and the sentiment
of the people they are supposed to repre-
sent would naturally have led to open op-
position 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 Willets, of Kansas, and::they are warmly
supported by the delegates from Wisconsin
and other nearby states. During tour Of
the state, which has been in progress the
past four or five days. says the Times
Union, these third party leaders have un-
bosomed themselves to a certain extent in
conversation with their fellow excursionists,
and their admissions laid bare the political
scheme which has prompted their every act.
Their statements are to this effect: They
are really opposed to the sub tresury bill;
regard it as wrong in principle, and as a
legislative device which can end only
in financial ruin to the farmers,
and every other industrial GLASS: that peo-
pie 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 left their homes. They
say, also, that upon their return they will
explain their action in this way: The sub
treasury demand is of such nature that il
can never gain the support of the democracy
of the southern states, and that an attempt
to secure such democrstio sup
in the democratic ranks in the
south. This. they say, will break up the
solid south, and this is the end they had in
says the article. several Of these plottert
have been placed upon record. President
MoGrath. of Kansas, is quoted as saying
1--WE saw that by making the sub-treasury
bill an issue in the south we could break up
the democratic party" Willets, of Kansas,
is quoted as saying: "We supported the
the sub-treasury bill to divide the south
and break up the bourbon 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 Louis
vile, when it was resolved to shut out all
the newspapers which do not advocate the
treasury bill, and providing for the or
ganization of a legislative board to desig-
nate from time to time measures and de-
mands to be advocated by the reform press.
The article goes on to say that conservative
alliance men we're excluded from this
meeting and that the reform press
combination is 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 tho deter
mination 10 Strengthening among southern
democrats in the alliance that desperate
effort must be made to pull the Farmers
alliance away from the sub-treasury plan
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.