Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-05-21

What 10 Said About n by Statesmen and
Others In This City.

Others In This City.
sEcnrrAsr FOSTER THINKS THERE N NO
RON FoR IT AND THAT rrs LIFE WILL m
sHoRr-sESAroR CHANDLER. COL WHITFIELD
AND LABOR LEADERS EXPRESS THEIR vIkwA
THE broad and generous public policy OF
the republican party is such" said Secretary
of the Treasury Foster to a STAR reporter.
that there is no room for a third psrty;s new
political organization could not do anything
necessary to our national comfort or prosperity
without stealing republican thunder. The
wild schemes Of these third party advocates,
such as the loaping Of government funds on
real estate or personal property. cannot have
Judgment in the minds Of sensible people. and
movements based on these eccentricities are
necessarily short-lived and ephemeral. I am
therefore not surprised at the news
which comes from Cincinnati Of great dissen-
sions. marked differences of opinion as TO
policies to be adopted and much variableness
as to the time when this new third party
should be formed. There is disagree
ment enough in the aggregation at Cincin-
natl to make half dozen parties. IL
seems to me that the organizers will find
IL quite difficult feat 70 unite saloon keepers
and prohibitionists and woman suffragists and
those who oppose them with the advocates of
the myriad schemes recently proposed for the
alleged relief of what the schemers are pleased
TO term the distresses of the people.
Il have much more faith in good crops and
good prices-produced by honest labor-than
L have in any Of the so-called means of relief
espoused by the ladies and gentlemen
now IN session at Cincinnati. Providence
| Is giving US good crops and the Mckinley bill
will give us good prices; this means that Presi-
dent Harrison viii be renUminated and that
the republican party will be triumphant at
the next election. And the third party
That viii be all right. BY that time
the prosperity OF It's membership-in common
| with all other inhabitants Of this country
Will be such that doubt not that thousands of
them Will visit Washington on the occasion OF
President Harrison's reinauguration. They
| will be heartily welcomed"
WHAT SENATOR CHANDLER THINKS.
81 do not look unkindly on this third party
movement" said Senator William E. Chandler
this afternoon. 1T is movement Of reason.
There is no money to back it up and therefore
there's nothing threatening in the forces which
| Its followers have put in operation. They appeal
to the intelligence of the people from the plat
| form and through the press, and are. therefore.
entitled to all respect Their platform. which I
glanced at rather hastily, struck me being
dangerous, with the possible exception Of
/ the plank relating to the government
control Of railroads. and the first part
| OF that resolution has n good deal
Of sound sense in 1T. Taking out this railroad
plank there is nothing lett 10 which any con-
siderable portion OF the American people will
| subscribe"
COL wHrTFIELDs VIEWS.
Col. Whitfield, the first assistant postmaster
general, in speaking of the new party said that
there was an advantage to all concerned in or
BE to know what such an element
| wanted and their numbers. He did not know
from which Of the two old parties they would
| draw their strength, but it had always been the
| rule in the past that the adherents of a new
party came most largely from the republican
party.
This might not be the case with the present
movement At any rate he thought that both
| parties would go into the fight under more
| favorable auspices than the case last fall
when it was not known actually what the
Farmers Alliance men were what they
| wanted.
IT WILL HELP THE DEMOCRATS.
"Yes, am aware of the fact that there is n
third party" said Representative Grain Of
Texas this afternoon. 1T will help the demo-
| Gratis and hurt the republicans"
Only that and nothing more.
THE MOVEMENT Is GREAT THING.
| Mr.. Lawrence Gronlund, the nationalist
leader, said to a STAR reporter, THE move
| ment that crystallized at the Cincinnati con-
| vention is a great thing and must necessarily
| result in good l am glad to see any
| movement in the direction of socialism and
| the present condition of affairs shows con-
| clusively that the socialist idea has entered
| into the heads of the farmers OF the south.
heard Senator PETER speak when he was in
| Washington.
Il disagree entirely with almost everything he
| said and yet cannot but recognize the merits
| that underlie the movement. The fact that
| the clausa in the ninffQrm aGoptad N I'm
cinnati nationalizing commerce and industries
| was side tracked means but little. IL was no
more than had expected. The people are
| not far enough advanced for that idea vet but
they are coming to it steadily and rapidly"
SEEMS FORMIDABLE, But Is ONLY SPORADIC.
This movement Of the people," said Mr..
Simon Wolf, ''seems to be formidable, but I
really believe it is only sporadic. The people of
this country are too settled and conservative
| for the new party to attain much importance.
Yet the feeling that has given rise to the forma-
ton Of the third party Is a warning TO the two
already existing to listen to the will Of the
people. / do not wish to underrate
| the importance of the discomfort throughout
the land, but / do not think this movement
SO serious as to affect either party to
any extent TO bring the election into
| the House of Representatives. The plat
| form adopted has many good points
in it, points that would be good IL we could
| nave an Ideal state OF thlnge, put as matters
are nowadays it is all decidedly Utopian. 1t
seems to me that the farmers are dis
satisfied and want something, they do not
know just what, and they are being used as
| tools by men who have nothing to lose and
everything to gain through discomfort and dis
indignation"
no NEED FOR ALARM.
Mr.. A. K. Browne said: Il have been SO
immersed in professional business that feel
incompetent to give an opinion that would be
Of value. In glancing over the proceedings in
this mornings papers l cannot see anything
formidable in it, nor anything for which the
Republican party (Which is increasing in favor
with the intelligent people daily need be
alarmed. 1 recognize among its (the third
party leaders but few prominent men or
men who can make any pretensions to states
manship, and neither party have any reason
to fear any opposition from it. In saving this
have the highest respect and sympathy for the
| laboring man and farmer, my father having
| been both before me, and nm satisfied that all
| these supposed wrongs can be righted in, by
and through our republican, party"
BIRTH OF POLITICAL GIANT.
Mr. Edwin Sutherland said: The press of the
country this morning proclaims the birth of a
political giant. II is only needed to examine
the platform Of the new party to discover that
the newborn giant is another seeker after
political pap, and in danger of becoming a
pigmy. and the advent OF time is the only
requisite to hasten the passage Of the new
H.. -...l.