Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-01
LEAVING THE PARTY.
The Farmers Alliance Swallowing
the Democracy of Kansas.
DEMOCRATIC LEADERS CAST DOWN,
While the Republicans Feel Extremely joy
full Over the Prospect.
THEY ARE IN GOOD FIGHTING SHAPE
ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE p1srArcH.l


TOPEKA, May 31.-The Democratic
leaders in this State who will look for
favors in the event of the election of a Dem
ocratic President in 1892 are discouraged
and nonplussed. 1t was with difficulty that
Democratic organization was preserved in
the Alliance landslide last fall, but with the
organization of National Peoples party,
the Democratic masses are falling into the
Alliance camp singly and by delegations.
Within the past ten days more than 20 DEM
ocratic papers in the Alliance strongholds
have left their party and announced them
selves as converts to the new movement.
The ex-ofice holders under Cleveland who
have charge of the Democratic machinery
have done everything in their power to
stem the tide, and the Republicans who
had their experience with the farmers last
fall are enjoying the fun immensely.
BY far the most influential Democratic
paper in the State, the Salina Herald, edited
by DR.. N. D. Toby, Democratic candidate
for Congress in the Fifth district two years
ago, announces this week that in the future
it will battle for the success of the Peoples
party. The Clay County Democrat, edited by
W. j. A Montgomery, Democratic candi-
date for State Auditor four years ago, has
changed its name to the Critic and the Ne,cs-
Beacon, of Wichita, which, with the Salina
Herald, was the strength, from newspaper
standpoint, of the Dumocratic party, is
clamoring for fusion. The only encourage
ment which these papers receive is from the
Republican party.
Regarded with Suspicion.
The Peoples party leaders do not like it,
because it places club in the hands of the
Republicans, and the old Alliance organs
are advising their followers to go slow in
receiving the new converts to fellowship.
The most potent argument used by the Re-
publican orators and papers last fall was
the very proposition that the third party
idea was Democratic scheme.
The Democratic leaders who encouraged
the third party idea until there was not
enough following left them to effect an
organization are now engaged in desperate
attempt to get their forces together. Gov
ernor Click, Senator Carroll, Sam Riggs, of
Lawrence, and W. G. Jones, Chairman Of
the Democratic Central Committee, have
taken the initiative, and are attempting to
show that those who remain by the
party until 1892 will reap the re-
ward for their fidelity. In the
Fifth Congressional district there
is not Democratic paper of standing left.
The same is true of the Sixth, and with but
one exception, and that is in the city of
Wichita, the Seventh district Democracy is
represented by papers which advocate
fusion. The Republican farmers who voted
with the Peoples party last fall have been
given the excuse which they have desired
since the adjournment of the Legislature.
Nothing Left of Democracy.
The refusal of the South to send delegates
to Cincinnati, and the immediate desertion
of the Democratic papers to the Alliance
after the new party had been born, has had
a most telling effect. 1t is now certain that
there will be only two tickets in the field
in this State in 1892. What, there is left Of
the Democratic party now is confined to the
cities, and rs per cent of that will vote the
ticket.
is in splendid shape The hangers-on, who
caused all the trouble, have drifted to the
Peoples party through the Citizens ALL
ance, and are now engaged in stirring up
there. The knights of Reel
procity, the secret political organization,
made necessity by the secret work of the
Alliance, now has a membership of more
than 1000. And the young Republicans
all over the State are organizing. When
the Grand Lodge of the Knights Of Reci-
procity meets in this city Tuesday next
steps will be taken to establish lodge in
every town of Importance in the State.
A meeting of the Republican League
will be held next month, and the organiza-
ton known as the Young Republicans has
also been called together. The effect of
these organizations in drawing the old Re
publicans from the Alliance has been sur
prise to the old Republican leaders, who
were slow to adapt themselves to the new
secret political tactics.