The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-03-21
Getting in Line with the Alliance.

oeIeateQ IOr re-electlon by the alliance,
seems to be DESTROYS Of getting on good
terms with that order. Some Of his re-
Gently expressed views strongly indicate
such desire. and, besides. they are very
much like those of the great alliance
leader of California, Mr.. Cannon. In a
recent speech, Mr.. Cannon said: 1.-THE
farmers alliance is q gigantic wave of a
worldwide movement Of the hu-
man race. It holds in its hands not
only the possibilities of a higher
life for this generation; it holds
the hopes Of unnumbered generations yet
unborn. Our organization is superb. 1t is
the strongest social and political machine
ever devised by man. We are determined
to lift Cp The toiling hosts aud make their
life worth living. We have many crude
ideas es yet ABOUT law and finance, but We
will learn as we 20 along Absurd demands
will take reasonable shape in the red-hot
tsrge OF public debate and education. DEM
ayogues will try to mislead it for a time.
but 70 vii kill two demagogues where we
will nourish one. Our greatest danger lies
in the possibility of selfish intrigues in
politics in which our lofty principles will be
forgotten in a mad struggle for immediate
power"
In an interview in Baltimore last Wednes-
day ex-senator Ingalls,, speaking of the
alliance, said: "Of course the blatant
demagogues, whose claims are unreasona-
BILE and untenable, will not be the ones to
carry this movement to the success look
for 1t to reach. You will find, however,
that with the force behind it, and with even
partial success, these agitators will be
forced to give way to the more conserva-
tive element, and the leadership will be
assumed by men impelled alone by philan-
thropic or patriotic feelings, and whose
counsel can safely be followed with the
assurance that it will lead to tangible re-
suits The adjustment of the tariff,
the expansion Of the circulating medium,
and other measures, the absence of which
thinking farmers believe underlie the stag
nation that now affficts them will be advo-
Gated by the best minds in the movement in
such a way as to carry with them a strong
popular feeling"
Mr.. Cannon, the president of the Califor
mia alliance, says that the blatant dema-
gogues who are trying to use the alliance to
advance their own political fortunes will
have to stand aside. Alliancemen will give
them the cold shoulder as soon as they be-
come thoroughly satisfied of their character
and their purposes, and MIR. Ingalls,, in
effect, says the same thing. They are no
doubt right. The farmers are in earnest.
and it will be impossible for demagogues to
deceive them very long. Honest, earnest
and able men win displace the demagogues.
1t is safe to say that there are men now
conspicuous in the alliance who will have
disappeared from public view before three
years have passed.
But does Mr.. Ingalls, hope to become one
of the leaders of the alliancel Is be shap-
ing his course and his public utterances
with that purpose in view? Is he going
back to Kansas with the hope that the alli-
ance of that state will eventually open its
arms to receive him and give MIN high
place of honorl It is not improbable. And
stranger things have happened than that he
should become a popular leader in the order
which pulled him from his pedestal in the
Republican party.
no SPEAKS Wlpn prOIOund respect OF tne
power of the alliance, and declares that if
alliance men Of the west and south could
find common ground upon which to stand
they would arouse a feeling as strong, prob
ably, as that which was aroused by republi-
canism between 1856 and 1860. The only
thing that holds the west and south apart,
he thinks, is the fear in the south that local
government by the white element may be
endangered. The west is ready for coali-
ton. In that locality appeals to sectional
feeling have ceased to have any force, and
Mr.. Ingalls, expects that alliancemen of
the west and south will be found acting in
perfect harmony in the near future, notwlth-
standing the things which now keep them
apart, unless the old parties should make
concessions which would satisfy alliance
men and hold republicans and democrats in
their respective parties. Clearly Mr.. In
gals entertains views of the alliance differ
emit from those to which he gave expression
when he thought the Republican party was
strong enough to return him to the Senate