St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-12-05
THIRD PARTY HINTS.
Signs Of an Alliance Combi-
nation With Other Labor
Elements,
Under the Name Of National
Union Party Of Amer
lea.
The Alliance DenounceS the
Money Power Of the
Whole World.
Call Circulated for Another
National Meeting Next
February.

OCALA. Fla, Dec. 4.-Glimpses of
third party movement appear in the
convention to-day. 1t is chiefly agitated
by the Kansas delegation. Gen. John
H. Rice, candidate for the Kansas sem
atorship, assisted by Capt. Powers, of
Indiana, Is drawing up call to be is
sued TO the Farmers Alliance and all
Industrial unions of America which
favor the principles Of the ST. Louis
platform, to meet in cOnven-
ton in Cincinnati, the 23rd
of next February, to consider
the third party, or peoples movement.
The name of this new party will be the
National Union Party of America"
This call is not expected to be issued
before the close of the Ocala conven-
tion. The efforts seem to be to keep
the National Farmers Alliance from
inaugurating the new party, and yet to
make it the main basis of this new ma
tional party. The mornings session of
the Alliance convention was devoted to
the reading of
Reports of Officers.
The cOlOred delegates were received in
the convention at noon and greeted with
fraternal expressions of hope and good
feeling. A. P. Gallaher, fraternal dele
gate of the Workingman's Reform
League of New York, and w. H. Carey,
of Washington, delegates of the Anti
Monopoly league, addressed the con-
Vention. The latter advocated close
union of their organizations with the
Alliance. at the afternoon ses-
sion of the National Farmers
Alliance, Messrs. Holden. Will
Jams and Rice, of Kansas, representing
the Citizens Alliance of that state, were
the Georgia Alliance. and all three made
addresses which in the main followed
the same line of thought and argument.
They said that their organization was as
deeply interested in the success of the
farmers movement as was the AIi-
ance itself: that both bodies
were practically working OH
the same line and in the
same direction. They saw no reason
why merchants. traders, druggists, etc,
should not unite in promoting this move
ment, and they asked for committee of
conference to arrange for closer rela-
tons between the Citizens Alliance and
the National Alliance. The request was
granted and committee appointed:
MeSSrS. Gallagher anu Carey, from the
New York WOrkingmen'S Reform league
and
Anti-Monopoiy League,
respectively. Both addressed the con-
ventiOn, and among other things, said
the mechanics and laborers in cities
were as much dependent upon the in
duStral condition of the country as
farmers were. and should be eligible to
membership in the Alliance. They rec
ommend that Alliance organizers be
sent to New York state at once to inSti-
tute sub-Alliances in all the cities of
Georgia, said in reply, that he
did not regard it as fitting
for polite that all classes of men. even
if imbued with the same general ideas
should belong to the same organization.
They would do best to keep their own
separate organizations as at present,
but should fraterniZe more closely and
confer together more frequently upon
measures of public policy. The Farm
ers' Alliance, he said, deserved no par
tlcu!ar credit for having discovered that
these reforms were necessary, nor for
taking the lead in the matter. The
masses or the country are practically in
the same boat and all should work to-
gether.
''The money power of this country he
continued, packed up by the money power
of Europe, and aided and encouraged by
railroads and corporations, is our common
enemy. To meet this enemy. and to cope
with it successfully. cooperation is abso-
Eutelv necessary, and it must soon come
about. l therefore recommend cooperation
and fraternity with other national bodies
but not consolidation
John Davis, congressman-elect from
Kansas on the Peoples ticket, in an IN
terview this afternoon, with reference
to call for delegates to national con-
ference, with a view of forming new
party, said that the date for the meeting
would be set for February %, not the
18th. as previously announced by those
in the movement.
"This can.'' he said, twas drawn up by
Prof. G. Vincent and his two brothers. Ii.
and l.. Vincent all of Winfield, Kan. the
two latter being editors and publishers of the
Nonconformist. They were aided in the
work by c. a. Power, of Indiana, and Gen.
rough draft of the call to me, and. after max
ing some few changes and sugges-
tons. 1 returned 1t to them for
signatures. 1t indorses the al
liance platform adopted at st. Louis and in
vites all organizations in sympathy with that
declaration 20 send delegates to Cincinnati
1t has been extensively signed by Alliance
members and by delegates of other organiza-
tions.'
Four Propositions.
When asked if the call touched upon
other measures of public policy than
the st. Louis platform, Mr.. Davis said:
Eyes, il lays down four propositions with
reference to national reforms, viz, finance,
transportation. land and labor. Further than
this, the contents of the call are not for pub
/ lie announcement as yet. The call will not
be presented to the National Alliance for
its Endorsement as body, but will be circu-
lated for signatures in thirty-six Alliance
states, perhaps in all the states or the Union
There was disposition to take the
I call before the National Alliance. but and
| others discouraged 1t as a step which would
doubtless result in giving the movement a
| distinctively Alliance character, and we do
not wish to so construe it. The convention
will undoubtedly be largely attended, and
| will result in placing presidential ticket in
the field in 1892. After securing several
lish the call and thus start the movement"
The Press Excited.
New York members of the Alliance
| went on All excursion to River springs
to-day, and the afternoon session had
only small attendance. The members
| of the Alliance press committee could
| not be found till late in the afternoon,
and then they were utterly ignorant of
| the transactions of the convention. The
greatest Indignation has been expressed
among press representatives here to-
day at the secretive policy of
the Alliance, and the utmost lack
| of comprehension of its duties
T. by the Alliance press committee. Mr..
Stokes, delegate from South Carolina
and chairman Of the press committee,