The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-12-14
THE SOLID SOUTH.
A Farmers Alliance Plan to
Break it Up,
BY MEANS OF A THIRD PARTY
The Conservative Members are Against it
Federation Of Labor Convention Finishes
its Business and Adjourns.

JACKSONVILLE. Fla, Dec. 13.-The Times
Union will publish tomorrow lengthy ar
ticle concerning the recent Farmers ALI
ance convention. 1t says in part: "Since
the final adjournment at Ocala incontesti-
Bile proof has been Brought out to show the
existence of gigantic plot to use the
national organization as means of pro
noting third party scheme. The signif-
cant fact is the vote of the northwestern
alliance men who are mostly Republicans
and who came to Ocala with the purpose of
forcing the alliance to endorse 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 northwestern
men were found solid in their support oft,
although their political affiliations and the
sentiments of The people they are supposed
to represent would naturally have led to
open opposition 10 the measure. The lead
ers in the third party movement from that
section are McGrath, of Kansas; Loucks, of
North Dakota, Wardell, of South Dakota,
and Willetts, of Kansas, and they are
warmly supported by the delegates from
| Wisconsin and other near by states"
During tour of the state, which has
been progress the past four or five days"
says the Times Union, these third party
! plotters have unbosomed themselves to a
certain extent in conversation with their
fellow eXcurs. onists and their admissions
laid bare the political scheme
which has prompted their statements,
which are to this effect; They are really
opposed TO the sub treasury bill, regard it
as wrong in principle and as a legislative
devise which can bring only financial ruin
TO the farmers and every other industrial
class; that the people of their section are
opposed to it, and that they, as delegates,
were particularly charged with mission
to defeat the measure when they left
their homes. They say also that upon their
return home they viii explain their action
III this way; that the sub-treasury demand
Is of such nature that il can never gain
the support OF the Democracy OF
the southern states, ana that an
attempt to secure such Democratic
support can end only in split in the Dem
ocratic ranks in the south. This, they say,
will break up the solid south, and this is
the end they had in view.'
I'm support of this general policy" says
the article, several of these plotters have
been placed upon record"
President McCrath, of Kansas, is quoted
as saying: I'VE saw that by making the
SUI treasury DiIl Tue issue III tue SOuVu. we
could break up the Democratic party
Willetts, OF Kansas, is quoted as saying:
1--WE supported the sub-treasury bill &c
divide the south aud break up the bourbon
democracy
1 The Reform Press association is also
dealt with at great length. The article
states the third party men held
q meeting yesterday on the steamer going
to Louisville, when it was resolved
TO SMUT out newspapers which dc
not advocate the sub-treasury bill
and providing for the organization
OF a legislative committee to designate
from time to time measures and demands
to be advocated by the Reform Press. The
article goes on to say that conservative al
lance men were excluded from this meet
ing and that the reform press combination
is only one of many means by which tn,
third party issue is TO be forced upon The
alliance with the nope Of dividing thu
Democratic party of the south.
The Times Union says the determination il
, strengthening among southern Democrat
in the alliance that desperate effort mus
| be made to pull the Farmers alliance ava.
from the sub treasury folly before tn
next annual meeting. long interview
published with one of the 'conservativ5 s.
who was excluded from the association, i
which be states the Reform Press associa
ton is made up Of third party men.