The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1891-05-22
The Granger-Labor Convention
at Cincinnati.
PRELIMINARY MEETINGS. WORK.
The Question Of Organization of q Third
Party the Main Point-Kansans De-
eide to Support the Movement Through
Thick and Thin-various Views.

CINCINNATI, May 19.-Whether the
representatives, of the granger and
labor organizations that IRE gathered
here are to bring into existence third
political party, or whether definite ac-
tion is to be epostponed until next spring,
when the politics of the two old parties
shall have been more fully developed,
are issues that will have to be fought
out on the floor Of the convention.
There is no question that the third
party men are running things to suit
themselves. The Illinois, Iowa, Ne
braska, Minnesota and several other
delegations are counted ON to support
the third-party movement. The advo-
Gates of the latter, however, are averse
to counting their chickens before they
are hatched. "As goes Kansas SO will
so the convention" has been a popular
expression ever since the first contin-
gent of delegates put in an appearance,
and the representative of the Grass
hopper state, after caucus which last
ed several hours, decided to support the
organization of third party through
thick and thin. The caucus was marked
by several decidedly
Lively Expressions OF fOpinion,
and especially when Simpson and Clover
endeavored to convince the assemblage
that discretion was the better part Of
valor, and that it would be better to
adopt a platform containing few es-
genital doctrines, appoint committee
on propaganda and adjourn until next
spring, then to determine whether there
was bone and sinew and stamina enough
in the Granger-Labcr element to war
rant the formal baptism of third party
and the placing of an Independent pres
idential ticket i'll the field. The enun-
citation Of these views was received with
q howl of disapprobation that had the
effect of putting an effectual quietus on
the two newly y-fedged representatives,
and the third party resolution went
through without a dissenting voice.
The decided stand that has been taken
by the representatives of industrial
movements i'll contradistinction to the
Granger element-was largely RESPONSE
BILE for this result
At the General Caucus
of representatives of the most Of the or
ganizations that will have delegates in
the convention some pretty plain talk
was indulged in by President WASH
burn Of the Northeastern Industrial
Alliance, and who voiced the ideas of
the labor elements of the cities as apart
from the agriculturalists. He told the
caucus that the industrial elements did
not propose to be used as catspaws to
aid Democratic success in the next
election. If a third party was to be
formed the south and southwestern del
egates would have to come in as we'll as
the northern ones. The industrial ele-
ments of the east. west and northwest
were neither willing or desirous to
while at the same time the sspseudo- Alli-
ance men of the south We're sticking to
their Democratic allegiance and helping
to make the solid south more solid than
ever.
Other speakers laid stress upon the
fact that the eastern peoples movement
differs from that of the Grangers, mas
much US its organization was moulded
after those of the old political parties
and recognized neither secret ritual,
grips or passwords.
All This Flummery
1t was contended would have to lie abol-
ishcd if oil parties coalesced on a gen.
eral platform. Mason Green Of Bos-
ton, the personal representative of Ed
ward Bellarly and his theories; Brown
E. Gerry, the national leader of the
Christian Socialists, Rev. w. d.
Bliss also argued on the same line, and
Kansas men who had done all the listen
ing then went into caucus and placed
! themselves on record.
There has been no conference of the
strictly southern delegates, but in con-
versation they express the opinion that
it woald be unwise to endorse inde-
pendent political action 80 long as there
was u possibility that they would be
able to get relief on the most important
economic questions through the older
parties.
Over Five Thousand People
convention but just how many of these
are regular delegates cannot be determ-
incd until until the committee on Gre
dentials gets to work. Last nights ar
rivals include Senator PETER of Kansas,
Robert Schilling of Milwaukee, the
Wisconsin Socialist leader, Hon. "A. J..
Streeter of Illinois, and 1gnatius Dom
nelly. The latter, referring to the an
nouncement that the delegation of his
own appointment is to be contested by
delegation named by the state COM
mittee of the Minnesota Farmers Alli-
ance, says the state committee had no
power in the premises and that he has
no fear that the convention will expel
either himself or his followers. There
Is general sentiment that the
Convention Will He Too Large
and decidedly unwieldly, and that if ell
! the various shades of opinion and radi-
cal notions are afforded an opportunity
of being aired the affair is likely to
break up in an uproar. Charles Cum
ninghaln, for many years chairman Of
the Democratic state central committee
of Arkansas, and candidate for vice
president on the Union Labor ticket in
1883, will be the temporary chairman,
Speaker Elder of Kansas having de-
clined the honor. The selection Of per-
manent chairman will he left to the
o'clock. Over one hundred notices of
resolutions that as many delegates pro-
pose to submit have been filed with
Rev. E. p. Foster, who will be the prin-
cipal secretary.
One of the Important Meetings
connected with tho conference is what
citation, composed Of the papers which
advocate and promulgate the doctrines
taught in the platforms of the Alliance,
knights of Labor and N ationalists. There
are about one hundred of these editors
here from all parts of the country, and
they had two interesting sessions.
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