The Louisiana Democrat., 1891-10-14
THE THIRD PARTY.

Caucasian, upon its assestl"n that the
Ocala demands we're not an issne in
the campaign in Louisiana. Subse.
quent events have proved that we
we're correct in our views, aud that the
Third Party is settled fact, and the
Ocala demands will prove an issue
made by many in the next campaign
in this State. At the meeting of the
Peoples Party at Alexandria, in which
seventeen parishes were represented,
after letter from Mr.. Il. j. Gnice
being read, in which he wonnd up by
urging the convention to make the
Oeala demands the mark aronnd
which yon are to rally Your every
support. God ard humanity is to TIE
served Heaven will bless y"u in
this effort to break the sbackles that
bind von to system OF industrial
slavery"
The following resolution was Of
fered:
Resolved. That it is the sense of this
conference that the best course to he pur-
sued by those who favor the Ocala de
mands is to organize the Peoples Party in
this State on the basis Of the Cincinnati
platform.
On this there was general debate
participated in bv delegates from
Rapldes, Sabine, Winn, Caldwell,
Grant and Orleans, the tenor of whose
speeches was advocating the Third
party and the Ocala demands, after
which the resolution was unanimously
adopted. Now it may be said that
all this amounts to nothing, that the
meeting was u farce, and that there
will he no Third party movement to
amount to anything in Louisiana that
the Alliance mean to keep faith with
the Lafayette pact; that tue antis
> will do the same; that the Third party,
and Ocala demaud question only ex.
listed in the imagination of the pro
press, and that as our contemporary
said, the Ocala demands were not an
issue in the Louisiana campaign. We
would be glad to believe that this was
: the case, but does the above joint that
way7 Wonldseventy-eig ght delegates,
representing seventeen parishes 60 ia
the trouble and expense of travelling a
considerable distance and meeting in
convention if there was no intention
on the part of a number of the Alliance
. in the State of making State tigh,
on the Ocala demands7
Did the following remarks Of a del
egote from Winn, as reported in tht
I, Alexandra Times, mean nothing
when he said:
He brought good news concerning tht
recent mass meeting held at Winfield
last week. He said there was no ont
there to oppose the formation of a thlrt
{, party. They had stepped out of th'
u Democratic ranks and had declared il
favor of the Peoples party. So very jub
e liant, he said, were they that they tiret
three guns; $50 voters formed in line ant
. marched through the streets. The dele
n gates from VIM to the convention wOult
be afraid to go back and report that n,
third party had been formed. His peopl
t believed that the farmers who took par
in the Lafayette dicker or combine ha,
sacrificed their every principle in tn
O deal The gentleman said that thos
who were in the minority and who kick
> ed against the combine had the assurane
}. of President Polk, of the National ALI
ance, as also Editor Macune, of the Ma
tional Economist, that they were right il
i. opposing such measure. The gentle
y man closed by stating that Winn wa
2 solid for the new movement. He ftlrthe
! added that "we"have struck our last bio,
!" for the Democratic party"
:, In addition to this Mr.. John Pick
EFT, a member of the Alliance in BnS
sier, IN a letter to the Plain Deale,
ls says:
ls The Lafayette compact is nothing NOR
4 nor less than an agreement between tw
" political parties to form IL fusion to unit
IF their voting strength to destroy a con
mon enemy, and when this result is cor
u summatcd the compact is at all end, an
le the farmers are not bound to respect non
:, except their own principles fin any ele'
!! tions held afterwards"
II In plain English this means that b
r. holds that the Alliance is a polite,
10 perty, and that if the combination
CT the Lafayette poet mite in votin
N against the revenue amendment tn,
g the combine is a. an end, and that ii
IL Ocala men of the Alliance will the
IN proceed to vote for parties who fave
'.' those principles for all the offlc,
n available.
es We have always considered that ii
is majority of the Alliance in Louisia,
of were Democrats; first, hecause the
is have always heretofore been So; Sc
!. ona, because it is to their hest inte
re ests to he SO, and to seek their r
:" " forms within that party. We sti
believe majority will hold steadfa
TO their old faith, hnt in the face