The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-11-11
BAD ON THE JAYHAWKERS.
WATERLOO FOR THE ALLIANCE.

The Old Parties Combine and Clear
up the Kitchen I'm Kansns-.-Re
sentIng the Arrogance of the New
Party Leaders ..- President POlk
Says 1t Is All Right.
LEAvESwoRTH. KAN. Nov. 5.-The com
binipg of the republicans with the democrat
against the peoples party In many parts o
Kansas Tuesday really began In the last legis
ature, where the two older parties, in orde
t. accomplish anything, were forced to com
bine.
The session was remarkable for the liitlt
real work that was done The democrats and
republicans for the most part acted as Oh
lstructionists and By means Of stirring up the
three cornered row In the alliance ITSELF eff
fectnaly downed much wild harum-scarum
legislation advocated by third party enthusl
aSis.
Before The election last fall 1t was tacly
agreed between the leaders of the democratic
party and the alliance leaders that II the
democrats shoul nominate the old war gov
ernor, Charles Robinson, OF Lawrence. foI
governor, the alliance convention would In.
dorse the nomination and In return the dem.
ocrats were 10 accept the man the alliance
ocratic ticket. The alliance convention and
the democratic convention were held the
same day In Wichita, but the allinnce instead
OF nominating and ind0rsiDg Robinson for
lively unknown man. The alliance leaders
may have intended to keep faith, but an en-
thusiaslic deegatc proposed Willet's hume
by the republicans. and W illets came In sec.
ond In the race. The democrats were In.
censed and in the alliance, which had cui
their So,OUO majority down nearly half, the
republicans saw Il "lusty foe." The third
purity then became the common enemy OF
republicans and democrats alike, and the
battle in the legislature, which was almost
overwhelmingly alliance. resulted.
| En11nwinp
PfefIer, whose election has done more 10 hurt
the third party than anything 1t has done be-
fore or since.
Before the campaign this year sections OF
the republican and democratic party in this
State coquetted with the alliance and talked
fusion, but the third party, proud of IT.
strength, refused to listen to these proposals
and general meeting of the democratic edi-
tors In Topeka In June resented these propo'
sails, as far rs the democracy was concerned
and declared bitterly against the alliance
The defeat Of the alliance Tuesday last was
| the result"
THE ALLIANCE SWEPT FROM THE FACE OF
KANSAS.
In an interview to-day, ]. Ralph Burton, o
| Abelencc, noted republican campaigner
said: 1.-THE only elections OF nntionol I'm.
portance were in Ohio and Kansas and there
sas 1t Was perfect avalanche. The issue
was whether The vagaries OF q set Of visiona.
l les were 10 10 be fastened on the State and
he vote Of the people said they were not
Then you regard the result OF the election
in Kansas as n total defeat for the alliance?'
utter. But 1t was not defeat, 1t was ami
hilation. They are swept from the lace OF tne
earth. Hardly q yestlge remains. There Is
reform respectable greenback party. Last
year out Of 424 principal county offices In the
State, the alliance got three hundred and
something; this year only l26.
TAKING OFF THE BODY, SOUL AND BREEcHEs
OF THE KANSAS ALLIANCE.
OK. Holiday, OF the Topeka Democrat. a
| successful editor and shrowd politician, said :
l"From q democratic standpoint It's glorious
victory. We beat the alliance body, soul and
one feel good In Kansas.
| while Kansas has not MS many democrats
| as some States, yet we have had consider
able degree OF success In tie past, and there
no reason why we may not have In the fu-
ture. But II Kansas democrats accomplish
lanythiDg in the future they Will have to quit
div iding up to fight men and all go In to-
gether with a grand pull for the principles of
democracy"
DEMOCRATS AND ALLIANCEMEN BEATEN.
"You are not In full accord with some 9TH
er Kansas democrats as 10 the policy OF the
party, are your
II ain not In accord with the members OF
| the State central committee by big major
ity. They want to fuse with the alliance.
Why, In Rome county the straight democrats
got together and put out a democratic ticket
but tile committee wouldn't recognize them
and insisted on fusion with the alliance. The
result Is that county went Overwhelmingly
| republican. This Is teaching the fusion dem
ocrats q lesson, and they are oil getting
mighty sick OF fusion.
WHIPPED AT THE PLACE OF ITS BIRTH.
W1N1FRED. KAN, Nov. Sin this, Cowley
county, the peoples party was born. In lsSS
the republican defeat was overwhelming
owing to local matters.
Out OF this victory few men connected
with the Farmers Alliance conceived the
idea of n peoples party for the county and
then for State. b. f. Chaver, who was after.
wards elected 10 congress by the alliance
party, was at that time president OF the State
Alliance, and he succeeded In getting State
that the democrats Joined the alliance move:
ment and elected legislature that doWned
John ]. Ingalls,.
This done the alliance party boldly an
and democracy alike, and openly lnsnlted
democrats who dared ask for share OF the
honors won in fusion campaign:
In the present campaign In this county, as
| In Il majority OF counties In this State, the al.
lance boldly asserted lis Independence and
the democrats in the towns, finding that the
brethren In the country were liable 10 JOIN
the "calamity howl" Joined the republican
NJ "
ance will not soon forget.
ARROGANCE AND INTOLERANCE GETS A SET
| BACK.
Hon. John a. Eaton, who was elected as 6
democrat from this city TO the legislature
and who was the democratic candidate fol
treasury government loaning OF money and
govern ment. ownership of railroads was
thought by democrats TO be dangerous. The
leaders OF the alliance, which advocated
those measures, made 1t Il point TO go further
and mIsrepresent the condition OF Kansas
one Of the mos: capable and grandest agrl
cnltural States In the Union.
i "lt became necessary, in the minds OF lead
InG, democrats, to give this alliance party q
least. The democrats have taught the ALI
ance party that arrogance and intolerance
should not and must not be taught In reform
politics."
CRANKIsM TOOK TIE PLACE OF GOOD SENSE
Captain Gary, late democratic candidate fol
sheriff, says: II did not expect large vote
CrankiSm and In tolerance has gone to such
extremes that good sense Is no longer eXhlb'
lted by the leaders Of the Farmers Alliance
That organization needed drubbing; 20
the democratic farmers went to ths<Polls
with republican farmers, shoulder to should
er, and settled the hash of u party not call
ed for BY any issue"
NO TWO PLANS ALIKE.
John II. Sumpter, chairman OF the repubit
can central committee, says he was sure the
democrats would vote the republican ticket
on account of the wild theories advanced by
the alliance speakers, each Of which "had u
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