The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-03-08
The Two Parties Of the Future.

The Two Parties OF the Future.
In his address before the c.tizens>Alliance
in Washington, D. c.. last Tuesday night
/ representative Simpson. Of Kansas, an
allisnceman, SAID that the Republican
party was dead. he gave it as his opinion
that in future the two great parties would
be the Democratic and the Alliance parties.
! The conservatives, be declared, would be in
the Democratic party and those who enter
tanned radical or advanced ideas would join
the Alliance party. The south and the west
would join hands against the east.
There is some truth, doubtless, in what
| Representative Simpson says. He certainly
represents the sentiment of the majority in
Kansas, which state has heretofore been
one Of the strongest Of the republican states
The alliancemen of Kansas are extremely
bitter against the Republican party. They
have severed their connection with it for
ever. And it is noticeable that all through
the west. particularly in the very strong
republican states, the alliance, which is
| largely composed of men who were re-
publicans, has nothing good to say of the
Republican party.
Representative Simpson says that the
Republican party has no ideas, that for a
dozen years or more it has been living on
! sectional hate, and that it wrung the bloody
shirt until it was dry. 1t will be remem-
bered that Senator Hoar, of Massachusetts,
said, when the force bill was defeated, that
the defeat of that bill meant the death of
the Republican party. What did he mean?
He meant, of course. to express just the
thought that Congressman Simpson uttered
in his speech last Tuesday night, viz. that
there was nothing to keep the Republican
party alive-that the force bill would have
done so for awhile longer, but that the de-
feat of that bill made the death of the party
certain.
And Senator PETER, of Kansas, agrees
with Representative Simpson. he. too, was
a republican, and. while hs may act with
the Republican party in the Senate as long
as there is no alliance party. he certainly
thinks the time Is not distant when that
party will be regarded as one of the great
parties of the country.
The republican leaders are aware that the
policy Of protection is no longer popular.
They are about satisfied that the verdict
which the people rendered against that
policy last fall will never be reversed, and
now that the alliance has made it impossi-
BILE to conduct another successful bloody
shirt campaign they see that their party is
nearing the end of its career.
But Simpson, PETER and other alliance
leaders are mistaken in supposing that the
alliancemen Of the south will desert the
Democratic party in any considerable num-
bers. That party satisfies them 1t has
stood between them and the partisan hate
OF the Republican party, and they are not
going to abandon it without good and suffi-
cient reasons. Such reasons have not been
presented yet, and there is not a promising
prospect that there will be.
Not until all danger to be apprehended
from the race issue is past will any consid-
cradle number of the democrats of the
south think Of leaving their party for new
party, and they will not leave it even then
if its policy is shaped with the view of pro-
tecting and promoting their interests.
Representative Simpson may talk about
| filling up the sectional chasm, which has
divided the north and south. by throwing
into it such men as Ingalls, and Hampton,
but he will not lead southern democrats
away from their party. The death of the
republican party may make room for new
party, but it will not have the effect of
seriously impairing the strength of the
democracy Of the south yet awhile, if ever.