The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-06-19


1865
PEOPLES PARTY PROGRESS.
Ratifying and Interpreting the Action Of
the Cincinnati Conference.
Ratification meetings are already be-
held in western states to indorse the
actionof the Cincinnati conference. The
platform is everywhere received with
enthusiasm by Alliance men and mem
bers Of other reform organizations The
south is also satisfied. because the refer
ence Of nominations and other detailed
work to the conference Of February, |
1892, allows the Democratic party, to
which they have in the past been allied,
one more opportunity in congress next
winter to manifest disposition to &c
cede to Alliance demands. There is no
doubt whatever that the Cincinnati con-
ference intended then and there by its
action. to create a new party, and that
the delegates went home filed with the
idea that they had launched a full
aedged party. The National Economist
and some Of the southern Alliance pa
pers construe the acceptance Of the re-
port Of the committee on resolutions by
the conference to mean the reference to
the February conference of the whole
question of forming a new party, with a
recommendation in its favor. The Econ
omist says:
"The partisan press Of the country has
advertised with big black headlines and
numerous sub-heads the action of the
meeting as the birth of the new party,
but it is not. 1t simply provided for
education on the Ocala platform, for CO
operation with the conference to be held
in February, 1892, and if necessary to
call a convention to- institute the party
in June, 1892. It is necessary that this
fact be recognized and emphasized, be-
cause the partisan press of the south,
where the conflict is now very bitter,
will TEEN with f%alsehoods about the
capture of the Alliance by a lot of sore
head politicians.
"They will say that q parcel of men
afflicted with Office itch, who had rode
every reform movement to death for the
last twenty years, called the meeting for
the purpose of lacking the Alliance tail on
the kite of their aspirations, and that all
Alliance men who advocate the Alliance
platform of Ocala belong to a new polit.
ical party instituted in deposition to the
Democratic party by disgruntled Repub.
licans of the north for the purpose of Sc
curing negro supremacy in the south.
But the point to disarm the partisan
attack to be made in the south is that
the Ocala platform still belongs to the
Alliance, and the Peoples party will not
appropriate it for political purposes unit
the farmers shall fail to do SO in Febru
airy, 1892. Now, therefore, if the Demo
cratic or the Republican party, or both
shall take an equally just position on
these questions, then the Peoples party
will have to find a new reason for launch.
ing on the political sea. Otherwise those
parties can have no claim upon theil
members who believe in the new dis
pensation.' They have plenty of time
and ample opportunity to forestall it."
The Southern Alliance Farmer, Of
Georgia, represents Alliance sentimen,
in the south. It says of the work of the
conference:
elm the Cincinnati convention, heli
last week, the southern Alliance men die
all and everything in their power to pre-
vent or postpone the organization of a new
political party. This action gives the Ii,
to the statements of partisan papers tina
: the Alliance leaders are trying to wrecl
the Democratic party in order to furthe
their own ends. Now, had these south
ern officers given the least countenanc
t to the new movement you would toda
see the third party fairly launched o.
the political sea. AS it is, final and def
mite action has been postponed unit
> February, 1892, so that the Democrat
congress may have u fair opportunity t
:, show its interests in the welfare of til
q people.
"This action was right and prope
The southern Alliance men are the bacl
bone of the Democratic party, aud hav
battled for its success in days that trie
mems souls. If they can secure relief i
the old party they greatly prefer doin
d SO, and will prove as loyal in the futu1
as in the past. But let the Democrat
leaders bear in mind that the eyes {
brave and determined men are turne
) upon them, and they are expected t
right the wrongs of the toiling masses {
the land, and not only reform our il
y iquitous tariff laws, but give the countr
financial relief. The people understan
!. the power Of the Republican presiden
= but they want to see what the owe.
: whelming Democratic majority in tt
t house will do.
g "If that body passes bills in ACCORD
ance with the Alliance demands, an
y thus proves its sincerity, and the nation
D al campaign is fought On this same lin
the third party movement will d
a-borning, but if these congressme
waste their time in idle wrangling, an
:, adjourn without accomplishing any m;
terial good, and this is followed by tt
n nomination of such a man as Grov,
'e Cleveland for president, you are goir
y to see the laboring people of our count
l. unite on a ticket that means victor
They are in no humor to be longer tt
le Uses too long already. The Alliance mt
al of the south constitute an overwhelmi,
rs majority of the Democratic party, al
propose to fight their battles with bs
- lots. Let the Democrats refuse the pc
a pie the relief they ask and you will E
n the farmers of every southern state We
ne ing for principles, and not for party"
Why Are They Disconcertcd7
Did you ever notice the conduct
a mar who is forced by %circumstanC