The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1891-11-13
LELAND STANFORD'S WISH.
His WeII-Iaid Plans to be the Can
didate of the Farmers Alliance.

A repgtt comes all the way from
San Francisco to the effect that the
Farmers Alliance candidate for
President will not be a farmer at
all, but a lawyer. In addition to
being lawyer he is a railroad pres
ident, railroad jobber, and a multi
millionaire. His name is Iceland
Stanford, and he is'an amiable old
fellow, who sits in the Senate from
the State Of California and nurses
asaelusion that he is statesman.
In his fertile brain some of the
widest financial schemes of the
century have been pfopagated.
The San Francisco Dispatch says:
1t is learned from sources wholly
reliable that Senator Leland Stan
ford is the power back Of the ALI
ance movement. Bill Stow, anoted
lobbyist and wife-puller from the
Southern Pacific Railroad, is engi-
neering hescheme to have Stanford
nominated for President by the
National Farmers Alliance. Pres
ident L. L. Polk, of the Alliance
party, who arrived on the Pacific
coast a few weeks ago and addressed
the farmers Of +Southern California,
came to the State upon invitation of
Senator Stanford, who was anxious
to increase, if possible, the Alliance
movement in Southern California,
a section of the%tate where Stan
ford is rather unpopular.
"phe Senator has his plans for
the Alliance nomination we'll laid.
The ticket will be Stanford and
Polk, or Stanford and Morgan.
The Senator is determined to get
the nomination, and money viii be
used lavishly among the leaders Of
the new party to this end. He has
already IN his interestsome of Che
best political managers and manip.
ulators in America. These will be
backed with millions, if it is founG
necessary.
: "The plan of the managers tc
nominate Stanford is urged on &C
count of his 2 per cent. Government
landloan bill. The new party il
without funds, and to give it any
show of success in the election i
must have a candidate who cal
furnish the sinews ofwar. This il
. where Stanford comesin. If press
: ed upon the attention of the gran
r ger delegates, Stanford will likel,
2 prove a winning card.
eff Stanford's managers 'coulC
{ have exacted their own way abou
: matters they would frst secure TO
= him the Alliance nomination an,
e then urge his claims upon the Re
t publican national convention as
e sure road to Republican victory
This is not idle talk but embrace
a scheme that is in active working
4 order throughoutthe UnitedStates
There are able and skillftl politi
clans who are only too anxious :
= serve the Senator as long as he cor
tinues to foot the bills. Senate
Stanford will not pose as a seeke
afterthe nomination. He is too as
tute for that, and has toemuch prid
S to wish to appear beforethe countr
: in the attitude of a rejected candi
I, date. He will cause his boom t
: be worked up from the other en-
IS He wants the thing to come to hi
/ in the guise of migSty uprisin
{ Of the farmers Of America in hi
behalf. If they fail to come shou
: ing, the Senator will then say h
IS was never a candidate NOT indulge
e IN the dream of being one. But 4
il is dreaming of 1t beth by day an
n by night all the same. 1t will /
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