Arizona republican., 1891-05-30
THE SOUTH AND THE NEW PARTY

THE SOUTH AND THE NEW PARTY
 The unanimity with which the press of the Southern States warns the farm CTS and artisans who dwell below Mason and Dixon's line of the danger of all third parties, and especially of the dan gerous character of that thing which was born in Cincinnati and christened by its sponsors "the Peoples party" is eQualed by the unanimity with which it commends the thing to the farmers and artisans of the Northern States. For ourselves, says the Atlanta Constitu- lion, we will have nothing to do with it, but, Gin the confusion attendant upon such movement the Republicans will be demoralized, for this third party will have its center in States that heretofore have been overwhelmingly Republican," So that the Georgian opinion of the new "People's party" is that it is Democratic Hessian.
 The Augusta Chronicle affords an amusing instance of zeal without discre- tion. Pleading with the farmers of Georgia it says: "There can be no political alliance between farmers of the South and the Knights of La Dor, or any other trade organiza- tion. For the laborers want an eight-hour day and ten hours pay, and they want cheap food and cloth ing" And then it proceeds to tell the Georgia farmers that they want the op- posite of all this, cheap labor, long hours, and high prices for cotton, food and grain. Though, we suppose, even the Georgia farmers would rather have cheap clothing than dear clothing. Of course it is true in the South, as in the North. that the only method by which the farmer can obtain proper prices for cotton, food, and grain is by increasing the demand for them, and equally of course it is true that the only method of increasing the demand is by enlarging the American market for them, and so preventing Liverpool from having controlling influence upon the prices of American staples, and equally of course this method will require an increase of the number of American artisans, who must be well paid in order that they may be able to purchase largely of cot ton goods and farm produce. But this process of reasoning is not prevalent in Georgia, whose political economy is of an Archaic type.
 The New Orleans Daily States rejoices that Alabama. Mississippi, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia were not represented in the Cincinnati conference, but hopes and believes that "the new party will carry Kansas, Iowa, Nebraska, Minnesota and Illinois," and thus elect Democratic President. The Richmond Times char acterizes it as an attempt to "roll seven parties into one," says that the move- ment is controlled by linen who were rampant Republicans in the last cleo tion," and who want to be to the West what Malone was to the South, and adds: "But the South is not in it" Certainly it is not. And because it has no foothold in the South the new "Peo- ple's party" is a sectional body.
 The Peoples party of the Cincinnati conference ceased to exist as soon as the conference adjourned. The political at- mosphere is not suited to the condition of new party life. For many years to come this republic will be under the guidance of Democratic or Republi- can administration, and so long as the Southern States keep aloof from all pro- gressive influences whatever temporary excitement weakens the Republican party must strengthen the Democratic party, which is the Southern party, and the Southern party, as we have seen from the utterances of its press, is bit terly at war with every idea and senti- ment propounded in the platform of the Cincinnati conference.