The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-05-28
Third Party Missionary Work.

The men who composed the Cincinnati
conference are committed to a third party,
and they will exert themselves to the
utmost between now and Feb. % to create
dissatisfaction with the old parties and to
make recruits for the new party. They
know very well that unless they are able TO
show on Feb. % that they have gained
ground the new organization will not have
place in the campaign Of 1892.
The conference was composed ALMOST
wholly of western men. Two-thirds OF its
members were from three states, viz,
Kansas, Ohio aud Indiana, and nearly one
third were from Kansas. Kansas alliance
men are really the backbone of the third
party movement. and they do not intend
that the movement shall fail If they can
help it.
Between now and Feb. % the great effort
will be to get the alliance of the south to
join it. They have not yet decided upon
any plan for accomplishing their object.
1t is quite certain they will do so, however.
If the alliance leaders of the south were
committed to the third party they would
doubtless depend wholly upon them, but as
the leaders are not yet ready to advise any
course of action they may send missionaries
to the alliances to work up a third party
sentiment among them.
The southern alliance press and leaders
are not certain that if they should favor
the third party allIancemen would follow
them out of the Democratic party. They,
therefore, say that it will be wise to wait
and see whether the Democratic party in
congress will favor the alliance demands.
But when they say this they know that it
will be impossible by Feb. % to know what
the Democratic party will favor. The House
will hardly have had time to consider
any important measure The COM
mittees will not be announced until some
time in January. even If a speaker should
be elected without delay. The southern al
lance leaders will be no better informed on
Feb. % as to what the Democratic party
will do with respect to alliance demands
than they were on May 10, and they will be
in no better position to advise alliancemen.
The third party leaders understand that
this is the situation, and they also know
that the third party movement will amount
to nothing unless the alliancemen of the
south commit themselves to it before Feb.
%. 1t is reasonable to expect. therefore,
that southern alliancemen will have their
attention directed to it strongly during the
next six or seven months.
1t is doubtful If any considerable number
of southern alliancemen could be induced
to leave the Democratic party for the new
party. even if the alliance press and leaders
should favor the new party. They
have no grievances which they
cannot have redressed sooner in the Demo-
cratic party than out of it. No such a state
of things as exists in soIne parts Of Kansas
exists in the south, and the great majority
of southern alliancemen know that the chief
alliance demand, the sub-treasury plan. is
impracticable. And, besides, southern ALI
ancemen are not willing that the white vote
in the south should be divided. 1t seems
safe to predict, therefore, that on Feb. %
southern alliancemen will be no nearer the
third party than they are now. The mis-
sionary work which the leaders of the new
party may do in the south will not be pro-
ductive of results.