Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1891-08-22

the West end South will think you are sin
cere friends of silver and that we are not.
We had a sound silver plank in our last
presidential platform, and yet Gen. Harri-
son allowed Mr.. Window 10 ignore 1t. The
republican party has not Kept faith with The
WeRt on that sui ec', ard has been too much
under the il flaeuce o. English and Germsn
theories OF finance. has carried two faces
urde: one hat. Your party. on the other
hand, since the retirement ofMr. Cleveland.
hes everywhere supported the hi-metalic
policy OF tho constitution. Its strength is
In the West aud South, the stronghold Of
silVer, Il ls 10 sympathy With the great ag.
ricul'nfel end labcring GLASSES fthe country
on that snhjecf.
Who will be your candidate?
My imp ession is that General Harrison will be
nominated without serious opposition The rub
will be in electing him. He will have to choose
between silver and probable SUCCESS on one hsnd
and Wall street and certain defeat on the other.
think be will see the necessity OF dropping his
Windcmism and taking a straightforward course
In favor of constitutional money and OF the finan
cial autonomy Of his own country.
How about the third party
Well, that party is the in our political ag6
bra. What it will do cannot yet be determined.
regard it as provisional organization. intended
to watch the two old parties AMI to act in aid of
either as policy may suggt st. The third party Is
q protest OF tho producers of the country in both
parties against the subsection of the government
TO the control of money snd bonded capital. The
republican party has heretofore carried the ms
tioDal elections with Western votes, only to turn
over the government, when in power, to Eastern
control. The democratic party secured tho gov
eminent in 1884 by an alliance between the
South and the East, only to turn it over, when So
cured to be conducted in the interest and on I he
IDEAS of the East The third party is popular
protest against thi, course of things. If
the republican party dominates Western man
who is safe and sound on silver and its cog
nate policy and if the democratic party plsnts
is chances on an alliance between the South and
Vest, and makes nominations on the basis of such
au slliance, think the third party will not be
apt to clme into the field nstional organizs-
ton. 1t will probably be in tho fold in quasi
manner, but mainly for the purpose OF giving
casting vote in different States or localities for
one or other OF the old parties whose candidates
and sympathies in favor of the producing classes
can bo depended uron The West and South is
stronger alliance, in respect to electoral votes,
rhsn the West and East. If the democrats NOM
mate on that basis they will be more formids b!e
in the election OF 1892 than they have been for
Twenty-Five years Their policy OF allying South
with East during that period has been IS unsuo-
cessful ss iuconsruouF. SO far from there being
al affinity between the South and East, there has
been positive repusion. The national alliance
is between West and South. and if that be the
democratic plan OF campaign it will co ciIis;e the
support of the third party, which is West South
organic tion.
Do you think the republicans can win on their
West. East plan o: campaign?
Mg fosr is that it will psy too much count to the
money power Of thH Est to suit tho third party
snd will drive 1t TO tho support OF the democrats.
But as old mr Ri,chio used to say, nous uerronS.