Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-06-22
TWO CENTS.
NOW AFTER SHERMAN.
The Alliance Forces at Work In Ohio "a
Defeat the senator.

Defeat the senator.
AN UNKNOWN FORCE TO FIGHT IN ALL THE LEO
lsLArIvE pIsrRIcrs-wHAr An ALLIANCE
LEADER HERE SAYS ABOUT rr-How THE FIGHT
MAY AFFECT M'KNLEr-FosrEB PRrfERRED TO
SHERMAN BIZ THE ALLIANCE.
The politicians Of both the old parties are
In the dark as to the doings Of the Farmers
Alliance and kindred organizations which sre
making common cause of their opposition to
the present state Of things The work Of these
organizations is done secretly and not accord
ing TO usual political methods and the average
old-line politician has not got on" TO it,
Neither Mckinley nor Campbell knows what
the independent vote in Ohio this year is going
to amount TO, and both look in vain for the or
ganlzatlon which is going to throw this un-
certain element into the campaign.
The fountainhead of information on alliance
subjects is In Washington. where the alliance
mas the headquarters of its national organize
tlon The alliance started out with the idea of
whipping its opponents in detail Taking them
one ata time, their purpose is TO whip and get
rid of all the old-line political leaders who are
particularly Objectionable to them and. having
thus weakened the opposition, to start of
boldly with party OF their own.
NOW AFTER SHERMAN.
Sherman and they declare that thev are going
to hang his hide in the wind along with that Of
John j. Ingalls,. STAR reporter has talked
with some of the best informed of the manipu-
lators of the independent movement. I. is evil
dent that they are doing much more work than
appears on the surface and that they are
perfectly confident that they are going TO
create surprise in Ohio this fall They do
not expect to get control Of the state as they
did In Kansas. for Ohio people are different
from those common in Kansas. What they do
expect is to get the balance of power in the
legislature, kill Sherman off and secure the
election OF some man who is not objectionable
to them-either democrat or republican, they
do not care much which.
WHAT An ALLIANCE LEADER SAYS
One of the most active of the alliance leaders
said yesterday:
"While there is undoubtedly going to be third
party candidate in the field in '92, and we are
going to be in it, the alliance proper is occupy
ing middle ground at present. not committing
a tight is being made against Sherman in Ohio
and his defeat Is as sure of coming is the
election day. The peoples party and not the
alliance itself, is making the fight. There will
be people party candidate for governor and
for every other Office that is voted on in the
state this fall. In every legislative district
there will be a third party candidate for the
legislature. Every ward and precinct Is now
being worked. If politicians are ignorant of
what is being done, that is what we want.
Their surprise viii be the greater when the re-
suit is known. While, as have said. the al
lance is not leading the movement, every
member Of the alliance in the state will vote
with it and will do all in his power to drive
John Sherman out of the Senate. 1t is the
legislature We are particularly interested in,
and we are certain of enough strength there to
prevent the election of any man to the Senate
Aa nlar No
kinley may be in the state, 1 have no
doubt of his defeat. There is q princi-
pie involved in this contest which the
various farmer and labor organizations thor
oughly understand, and though both the old
parties may do their best to keep the tariff to
the front as the main issue. the thing the in
dependents are going to vote on is the money
question. Campbell is not unpopular among
the farmers, and if he is benefited by their
fight on Sherman they will not regret it par
ticularly. The platform on which Mckinley is
to be run could hardly be made more objec-
tionable to the independents than it is, and
whatever the feeling Of any Of them may be
toward Mckinley himself they are determined
to show the country that no man can run on
such platform and hold their votes. No one
need bother himself about our not having any
Oh organization; We will take care Of that We
know more about it. If the democrats adopt
the same method of platform making that the
republicans have it will strengthen the third
party candidates that much more. as We will
then get our full vote from both parties. IL
Campbell is nominated and a free-coinage
plank is put In the democratic platform our
vote will not be as heavy, and the day that the
convention does this Mckinley will be beaten.
III the democrats come out for free coinage
there will be absolutely no hope for Mckinley.
Sherman is serving his last term in the Senate"
AN UNKNOWN FORCE
They are undoubtedly making subtle fight,
and whether or not they succeed further than
that, they appear to stand good chance of
making it very uncomfortable for Sherman. One
great advantage to them lies in the fact that
the men against whom they are directing their
opposition do not appreciate the extent of the
movement and are liable to be taken by sur
prise.
Sherman occupies a curious position. Both
publican legislature, but they will antagonize
each other in an effort to elect each his own
partisans. The independents will get all they
can for themselves out Of this rivalry, and the
personal opposition TO Sherman will come from
the Farmers Alliance, the Citizens Alliance and
the other agricultural and labor organizations,
and also from the earnest advocates of the Blair
educational bill. This educational element is q
thing that has not been taken into considera-
ton. Mr.. Blair openly charged Sherman with
treachery in the vote on the educational bill in
the Senate last Congress- and has never since
ceased to denounce him for his action on that
occasion. The followers of Blair in this matter
are fanatics, are the people who are in the
third party movement, and as many Of them as
there may be in Ohio will be opposed to Sher-
man. Shermans friends well organized,
and it is claimed have command Of consider
able amount Of money for campaign purposes
THEY FREEZER FOSTER TO SHERMAN.
The idea of the Independents is, first, TO beat
and, second, to elect some one else as
friendly as possible to their cause. II they can
get an out and out alliance man. il is Just what
they want but they propose to take just what
they can get If they should not be success
full as they expect to be, and they were obliged
to choose between the several republican lead
ers who might aspire to Sherman's seat, it in
probable that they would take Foster, but that
would be only as between republicans Of that
school They hope for much better things ac-
cording to their way Of thinking. The position
Foster has taken with regard to the continue
ton Of the coinage of silver has made him less
unpopular among the silver men than are the
other republican leaders. and il is believed that
it will be of benefit to his party in the campaign.
1t ia only question of degree, however. as the
are fighting all the old leaders.
They probably like Campbell better than any
other democratic leader and Foster better than
they do either Sherman, Foraker or Mckinley
on the other side.
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