The Louisiana Democrat., 1891-05-27
THE BIRTH OF THE NEW
PARTY.

The new third party according to
the prediction of the leading members
of the Farmers Alliance was born
yesterday at Cincinnati amid a per-
feet storm of enthusiasm which moth
ing could check and which continued
until the delegates were silenced by
physical exhaustion. Members of the
national central committee were elec-
ted and platform was adopted before
the adjournment of the immense meet
ing, and June 1st, 1892, was the date
fixed for holding the national conven
ton of the peoples party for the pur-
pose of nominating presidential
ticket, and giving battle to the older
paaties.
The platform on which the new
party intends to stand in the next
Presidential campaign is made Of
come very good planks, and others
that the conservative people of the
country will regard as very bad. For
instance, the sub.treasury plan, which
will turn the government into pawn
shop; universal suffrage; the govern
ment control and supervision of rail-
ways and telegraphs, and the aboli-
ton of national banks will not meet
with much favor outside of the Far
mers' Alliance, but the demand for
the free coinage Of silver; that taxa
ton shall be just and equal, and not
in the interest of one class; that the
revenues shall be limited to the nec-
essary expenses Of the government
economically administered, the elec-
ton of President and Vice President
and United States Senators by a d.
rect vote of the people, and the de-
mand that the government shall pro-
hibit the alien ownership of lands are
planks in the platform which are de-
cidedly Democratic in their character
and no objections can be urged against
them. With the exceptions of the fl
nancial plank and those providing for
the government control ofrailroads and
telegraph lines and universal suffrage,
all the reforms demanded in the plat
form of the Peoples Party can be OBJ
tained by supporting the principles of
the Democracy.
The telegraphic accounts Of the pro.
ceedings of the Cincinnati convention
show that it was governed by spirit
that amounted almost to fanaticism,
and for this reason we are inclined to
believe that the leaders of the two
older parties make a mistake when
they say that the new party will not
WELD much influence in the next cam
paign. The life given to the Alli-
ance movement by the action of the
Cincinnati meeting, convention, con.
ference or whatever it may be called
will cause it to assume large proper
tions between now and the next presi-
Dental election, especially in the West
where the farmers are uniting for inde-
pendent political action and we would
not be surprised if the new party car
ried Kansas, Iowa, Nebraska, Mime
sofa and Illinois.
In the South, however, the farmers
are not ready to abandon the Demo
cratic party and endanger white supre.
macy by taking part in new iude-
pendent political movement and this
fact was made quite clear by the pau
city Of Southern delegates at Cincin-
natl. The fact of the matter ia Ala.
bama, Mississippi, Maryland, North
and South Carolina and Virginia, six
Southern States, were not represented
at the convention, which shows that
very little interest was manifested in
the third party movement in this Sec
ton of the country.-[New Orleans
Times Democrat.
Happy H0osiers.