The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1891-11-17
TILE KANSAS ELECTION.
THE THIRD PARTY MEETS A WATER
LOO ON CHOSEN GROUND.

Luz ON CHOSEN GROUND.
Tho Old Parties Combine and Clean it up
in Kansas--Resentipg tho Arrogance of
tho New Party Leaders, Pre- sieient Polk
SAYS It 10 all Right.
LEAvENwoRTH, KAN, Nov. g.
The combining of the republicans with
the democrats against the peoples party
In many parts of Kansas Tuesday really
began in the last legislature, where the
two older parties, in order to accomplls /,
anything, were forced to combine. Be-
fore the election last fall it was tacitly
agreed between the leaders OF the demo.
cratic party and the alliance leaders that
Ii the democrats should nominate the
old war governor, Charles Robinson, of
Lawrence, for governor, the alliance
convention would indorse the nomina-
ton and in return the democrats were to
accept the man the alliance selected for
lieutenant governor on the democratic
ticket. The alliance convention and the
democratic convention were held the
same day in Wichita, but the alliance,
Instead of nominating aud indorsing Rob-
insOn for governor, named j. Il. Willets,
comparatively unknown man. The
alliance leaders may have intended to
keep faith, but an enthusiastic delegate
proposed Willet's name and that settled
it.
l.. w. Humphreys was reelected gov.
ernor by the republicans, and Willets
came in second In the race. The demo-
Gratis were incensed aud in the alliance,
which had cut their $4,000 majority
down nearly half, the republicans saw q
"lusty foe." The third party then be-
came the common enemy of republicans
and democrats alike, and the battle IN
the legislature, which was almost over
whelmingly alliance, resulted. Follow
ing this came Ingalls's defeat by Piciler,
whose election has done more to hurt
the third party than anything it has done
before or since.
=. Before the campaign this year sections
of the republican and democratic party
in this State coquetted with the alliance
and talked fusion but the third party,
proud of Its strength, refused to listen TO
these proposals and general meeting OF
the democratic editors in Topeka in June
resented these proposals, as far as the
democracy was concerned, and declared
bitterly against the alliance. The defeat
Of the alliance Tuesday last was the
result.
In al interview today, j. Ralph Bur-
paigner, said: 1.-THE only elections OF
Kansas and there the republicans carried
everything. In Kansas it was perfect
avalanche. The Issue was whether the
vagaries of set OF visionaries were
to be fastened on the state and the vote
OF the people said they were not.
''Then you regard the result of the
election in Kansas as n total defeat for
the alliance?'
utter. But 1t was not defeat, 1T was
humiliation. They are swept from the
lace OF the earth. Hardly vestige re-
mains. There is not enough left of the
alliance in Kansas to reform a respecta-
bic greenback party. Last year out of
424 principal county offices in the State,
the alliance got three hundred and some-
thing; this year only 1876.
G.. *. Holiday, of the Topeka Demo.
crat, a successful editor and shrewd
politician, said: "From a democratic
standpoint it's glorious victory. We
beat the alliaCce body. soul and breeches,
and that it enough to make any one feel
good in Kansas.
while Kansas has not as many dem
oCrats as some States, yet we have had
considerable degree of success in the
past, and there is no reason why we may
not have in the future. But if Kansas
democrats accomplish anything in the
future they will have to quit dividing up
to fight men and all go in together with
grand pull tor the principles of democ-
racy."
You are not in full accord with some
other Kansas democrats as TO the policy
OF the party, are you?''
~ am not in accord with the members
of the State central C mmittee by big
majority. They want to fuse with the
alliance. Why, in Reno county the
straight democrats got together and put
out a democratic ticket but the commit
tee would't recognize them and insisted
on fusion with The alliance. The result
is that county went overwhelmingly
republican. This ls teaching the fusion
democrats lesson, and they are all get
ting mighty sick Of ftision.'
Nuil.t NoNs Os-lu tlllS,
COwley county, the peoples party VAS
borD. In 1889 the republican defeat was
overwhelming, owing to local matters.
Out of this victory few men con.
nected with the Farmers Alliance con-
ceived the idea of peoples party for
the county and then for the State. Ii.
II. Chaver, who was afterwards elected
to congress by the alliance party, was at
that time president of the Statei alliance,
and he succeeded in getting State Or
ganization Of new party. The result
was that the democrats joined the ali-
ance movement and elected a legislature
that downed John j. ingalls,.
This done the alliance parry boldly
announced its antagonism to republican,
ism and democracy alike. and openly in
suited democrats who dared ask for q
share OF the honors won in fusion cam
paign.
In the present campaign in this coun-
ty, as in majority Of counties in his
state, the alliance boldly asserted its in.
dependence and the democrats in the
towns, finding that the brethren in the
country were liable to Join the Calamity
howl" joined the republican forces and
administered whipping the alliance
will not soon forget.
Hon. John A. Eaton, who was elected
as democrat fro n this city to the leg.
islature, and who was the democratic
candidate for congress in 1888, said to.