The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1891-08-22
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A Non-Politicai Party.
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i The so-called Peoples party re-
presented by delegates from the
surrounding district, met in con-
vention at Springfield, Ohio, . week
ago, and laid down the law to all
that part of the world they expect
to dominate. This, of course, COM
prises the whole of the United
States and as mach more as can he
brought under this new party SO
fruitful of words and so sterile ~
yet of results. There was quite .
row over the admission of . woman,
who finally carried her point.
While this meeting was not in
tended to be in the least q bur-
lesque, some of the proceedings are
likely to provoke smiles from old
stagers, experts in swsying minds
of simple persons such as compos-
ed the Springfield convention.
Letters of regret were read from
a number of persons in sympathy
with the movement, including one
George F. Gather, chairman of the
Alabama State Committee, promis-
ing to carry his State for the ALI
ance in 1891 This word of cheer
from the South elected loud APP
plause. Senator PETERS, which
contained nothing of q striking
character. was also received with
noisy plaudits. Chairman Hugh
Cavanaugh explained the objects
of the meeting, and declared the
purposes of the Peoples party to
be to serve notice on the two old
parties that they have outlived
their usefulness. He declared:
TOO long have the farmers OBJ
served the injunction: You till
the soil and we will manage public
affairs They are tired Of it, and
that is the reason of the meeting
to-day"
The English of these DECLARE
tons, If there be any to them, lie
that the farmers intend to set aside
the rest of the people because they
are tired of politicians, and set up
q non-political, close corporation,
60 into the business of governing
because they are tired of farming.
But farming must be done. If
these tired people drop the pillow
handles, the hoe, the scythe, and
the rake, others will have to take
them up. The original farmers
having all gone out Of the business
of farming will be immediately
denounced by their successors in
rural employment and ousted -
sure as shooting.
What will become of the old
farmers who shall have abandoned
their homes and been turned out
of their public employment on &C.
count of inability to lend everybody
5000, lis q knotty proposition. Hav-
ing abandoned their ancient and
honorable occupation to engage in
what their lecturers taught them to
believe is the cesspool Of political
rascality, they will be no longer
permitted to pose as virtuous
"horny-handed SONS of toll" and
the people having become politi-
clans, they will no longer be tile
people, }, will in turn become ss
tired of them as they themselves
are tired of farming,
If they set the fashion of antago-
nizing the farmers and politicians,
they must be prepared to maintain
the fight from the inside when they
shall succeed in breaking into the
public Offices. It takes a good deal
more ability, tact and intelligence
to be a successful politician than it
does to be very good farmer, and
the man who has failed at the SIM
pier and easier is not likely to be
successful at the more difficult
We believe the farmers of the
United States as class to be very
worthy people, and many Of them
are of good ability, who would sue
coed everywhere. These know that
a Republican government cannot
be run without politicians, and that
there win always be farmers to
complain and speak evil Of the
rulers of the people. The delegates
to the Springfield Alliance meet
ing seem to get out of the vlrtuous
and complaining class and them
selves become the object of inevi-
table buoclic censuse.
The colored Central Baptist A0uci-
alton No. 2 will meet at Eerenxi,o on 1hufa-
dav Anursf 9th RRrIx Roxn