The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-15
THE THIRD PARTY.
Southern Alliance Leaders Warned Of
Danger in the North.

| TOPEKA, Kan, April 1.-two or three
weeks ago prominent Alliance official in
| this state wrote to several Alliance papers
| in the south, declaring that if the south
ern Alliance leaders did not stand firm
against the Democracy, the northern AL
| lance would be compelled to return to
the Republicans, and that Kansas
for the Republican party. He requested
that his letters be published, but no at
tention was paid to him, and he has de-
manded their return. The executive com
mittee held a meeting at the presidents
office, and, as a result of their delibera-
tions. circular, signed by President Nc
Grath, will be issued. 1t is intended that
this circular shall be guarded in its tone
and only give mild expression to the feel
ings of the party in this state. After call
ing attention TO the meeting in Cincinnati
in May, the circular says:
while we commend the following
words of wisdom by President Polk,
which we quote with great pleasure, we
must hold our conference on May 10 to de-
termine whether he voices the true senti-
ment of the south or not:
1--WE do not hesitate to say, and say it
most earnestly that we want our fellow
citizens of the south to learn the lesson
that this great mans Qngalls) fall teaches
We want them to learn. this lesson with
OUT disaster, IL GHey Will, DuG learn III uneV
must and shall-that passions and preiu-
dices begotten of the war shall not domi-
nate our political and social life any
longer
While we hope the words quoted voice
the true sentiment of the industrial masses
of the south, we are undecided when the
Southern Alliance Farmer, of Atlanta, Ga
in its issue of April z, editorially says:
''If the Democrats are wise they will do
likewise in 1892 Adopt the platform as
the Democratic platform, select AS your
standard bearers dyed in-the-wool, free
coinage and tariff-reform candidates, and
victory is assured Then there will be no
third party The southern Alliance men
don't want new party If the Democrats
will give them assurances OF relief; but if
they fail to do this the party lash may
crack in the air, but Alliance men may be
as stubborn as mules The farmers will
not vote for any ticket unless it favors free
coinage and a tariff for revenue only. This
is plain language but the country had just
as we'll hear il now or later, Our Georgia
Alliance are Democrats, but they want the
genuine, pure Democracy, and not a
decoction mixed upon a platform with a
contracted currency and high tax plank
therein
1T is to determine the true position of
the south that we place such confidence in
the conference of May 10, 1891. l ask ali
members of the Farmers Alliance and
Industrial union to meet for a Farmers
Alliance conference in Music hall, Cincin-
natl, Ohio, May l9, 1891, that we may de-
eide on the course the Farmers Alliance
will pursue before the conference meets.
! believe ] voice the sentiment OF the
northwest when say the Farmers Alliance
in the northwestern states will either be
in union with the south. in the middle of
the road, in 1892, or the northwestern
kas- IL
tiles for the old party, and the union OF
tbs west and south for the protection of
their homogeneous interests will be defer
red another generation.
Believing that the true men of both
sections will unite and allay all the sec
tional animosities of the years past at Gin
Cnnati, May -, 1891. am, frsternally,
yours. FRANK MCGRATH,
state president OF F. a and / a of
Kansas -