The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1891-11-18
TIE kaNSA> ELECTION.
is THIRD PARTY MEETS A WATER
4 1000 CHOSEN GROUND.

is THIRD PARTY .izETs AWATER-
M LOO ON cHosGN GROUND.
o,d par.ica CoIna:ae and Clean it up
sn Kan>as-Ke..nti,.,: the Arrogance OF
- tie New Party Leaders President Polk
"a Saws it is all EizA;
q LEAvENwoaTH, IAN, Nov. g.
#The combining Of TIE republicans with
j the democrats agsin.t The peoples party
in many parts OF Kansas Tuesday really
began in the lsst legislature, where the
two older parties, in ocder to accomplish
ANYTHING, were forced 70 combine. Be
fore the election last fall It was tacitly
agreed between the leaders Of the demo-
cratic party and the alliance leaders that
if the democrats should nominate the
old war governor. Charles Robinson, OF
Lawrence, for governor, the alllaoce
convention would indorse the Aonlna-
ton and IN retarn the democrats were to
accept the man the alliance selected iof
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 and lndorslng ROB
inson for governor, named J. T. Wlltets,
a 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 Wlllets
cane 10 second in the race. The demo-
Gratis were iucensed and in the alliance.
which had cut their $4,000 majority
down nearly half, the republicans saw
'lu,lY Toe" The third party then be-
came the common enemy Of republicans
and democrats alike, and the battle II
the legislature, which was almost over
whslminsly alliance, resulted. Follow
ING this came Ingalls's defeat by Pteffer,
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 coquelted with the alliance
and talked fusion but the third party,
proud ot It's strength, refused to listen to
these proposals and a general meeting OF
the democratic editors in Topeka IN June
resented these proposals, as tar as the
democracy was concerned, and declared
bitterly against the alliance. The defeat
Of the alliance Tuesday last was the
result.
In a. interview today, J. Ralph Bur-
ton, of Abilene, a noted republican cam
paigner, said: The only elections OF
national Importance were in Ohio and
Kansas and there the republicans carried
everything. In Kansas 1t was perfect
avalanche. The issue was whether the
vagsries Of a set Of Missionaries were
to be fastened on the state and the vote
OF the people said they were not.
election in Kansas as total defeat for
the a.liance?''
Utter. But 1t Was not defeat, 1t was
arnihilation. 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 respecta-
bic greenback party. Last year out Of
424 principal county offices in the State,
the alliance 60. three hundred and some
thing; this year only l25.
c. K. Holiday, Of the Topeka Demo
crat, successful editor and shrewd
politician, said: ''From a democratic
standpoint it's glorious victory. We
beat the alliance 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
a 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 90 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 Committee by a big
majority. They want to fuse with the
alliance. Why, in Reno county the
straight democrats got together and put
out q democratic ticket but the commit
tee would't recognize them and inslsted
on fusion with the alliance. The result
is that county went Overwhelmingly
republican. This is teaching the fusion
democrats lessen, and they are all get
ting mighty sick Of fusion"
W1NIFRED, Kan, Nov. SIN this,
Covley county. the peoples party vas
boro. 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. B.
II. Chayer, who WAS afterwards elected
TO congress BY she alliance party, was at
that time president Of the Ssatesalliance,
and he succeeded in getting State Or
sanization Of new party. The result
was that the democrats joined the alli-
ance movement and elected q legislature
that dowreG John J. IRgalls.
This done the alliance parry boldly
announced its antaSonisn to republican
ism and democracy alike, and openly IN
suited democrats who dared ask for
share of the honors wen in a fusion cam
paisn.
In the present campaign in this coun-
ty, as in a majority Of counties in his
State. the alliance boldly asserted its in
dependence and the democrats in the
nwns, finding that the brethren in .he
cosntry were liable 80 Join the calamity
howl" Joined the republican forces and
administered whipping the alliance
will not soon forget
Hon. John a. Eaten, who vas elected
as democrat fro this city to the leg