Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-16
SOUR ON HIS PARTY.
Gen. Rice Shows Farmers Alliance
Folk Where They're Wrong.
ALL THEIR POLICY CRITICISED.
Degeneration Of the Organization Into
Crowd of Cranks
RED-H0r TALK FROM A'WAY-UP LEADER

| ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DIsPATcH.l
TOPEKA, Nov. 15.-General John Fl.
Rice, prominent Peoples party candidate
| for United States Senator last winter-the
man who wrote the call for the Cincinnati
| conference which resulted in the formation
| of the National Peoples party-to-day pub
fishes an open letter, criticising the policy
of the new party, addressed to the Presi-
dent of the Kansas Farmers Alliance, the
Chairman of the Peoples party State Cen
tral Committee, and President of the Ma
tional Citizens Alliance.
In his introduction he states that he
espoused the principles OF the st. Louis
| platform in good faith, and asserts that
upon that platform the Peoples party of
Kansas was organized and attained its vic
tory last year. He still avows his allegiance
to those principles. Then he reviews the
motives which prompted him to write the
call for the Cincinnati conference, saying
that his sole purpose was to have consulta-
tion upon the propriety of forming in the
future new party based upon the platform
adopted by the St. Louis convention of the
Farmers Alliance.
Only Want to Reign in Heaven.
This conference, General Rice says, had
more delegates from Kansas than from all
other States in the Union combined, and it
promised to organize third national
political party. He then announces that
the controlling officials of the National
Farmers Alliance were "willing to reign
in heaven" and nothing else; they must
control this new movement or squelch it.
DR.. .Macune, editor of the national organ
of the Alliance, is severely criticised, and
accused Of attempting to wreck the order.
The Kansas delegation to the conference is
termed, aside from a few honest, copscien-
tious men, "cranks, shystcrs, demagogues,
Socialists, Anarchists and repudiators.
These men controlled that body and are re-
sponsible for the formation of the new
party.
The Kansas statesmen of the Peoples
party are denounced by General Rice for
their calamity speeches in the East, which,
he declares, have ruined the credit of Kan
sas by falsifying the condition Of her peo-
pie. He demands that Simpson, PETER,
Mrs. Lease, and others, be called home, and
that the ''Mercenary merchandise campaign
be closed" In conclusion, he says:
Able to Live for ITSELF
''The Farmers Alliance can survive on the
basis Of its original organization, but among
outsiders it can and will have no aiders and
abettors in politics, only from the old green
hackers, Socialists, Anarchists and cranks,
unless new departure be speedily taken.
Preachers of calamity must be silenced.
Those who cannot live in our State
without slandering her and trying
to ruin her people should, for decency's
sake, leave it. Travelling mercenary mis-
sionaries must be called off Our Congress
men must learn that they should be ad-
vocates of our cardinal principles, as pre-
scribed by the party, and not the originators
of new-fangled nonsense. The foolish and
impracticabie scheme of the sub-treasury
and the Wall street mercantile monopoly
must be repudiated and the Alliance and
PEOPLES party come back to the original
st. Louis agreement, as made in 1889, and
conduct their campaigns under the direc-
tion of committees from the rank and file of
the party, in the spirit of American ideas,
or our party will not be 'in it, If this
be done let us disband. If not done
all our most ardent hopes will turn to ashes
upon our lips"