The daily state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 188?-1891, 1891-05-26
AFTER THE CONVENTION.
II IT A MOVEMENT THAT WILL
OVERCOME THE OLD
PARTIES,

aud Some RcneCtIOns About the Flu.
tnrc of Politics.
MR W. G. COOPER, favorite corres-
pon3ent Of the Atlanta Constitution, at |
tended the Convention at Cincinnati
that organized the Peoples Party, and
wired daily letters to the Constitution
which were tull of interest The fol-
lowing letter written by him on the train
after the Convention will prove interest
ing.
IL is evident that the movement start
cd by the Cincinnati Convention is one
Of much greater Importance than men
of the two older parties are willing to ad
NIT.
Since the noise has subsidized, every one
can see that 1t was a western convention
but that does not make it conclusive that
the contagion will not spread. The truth
is that the leaven of discomfort is abroad
IN all parts of the land Beginning
with the great strike of 1877 and the
mob that burned the Pittsburg Jail, the
agitation Of the dissatified elements of
society has continued until now, start
ias with the workingmen, who were the
first TO organize, it at last reached and
ptrmeated the great agricultural masses
They were the last to move With them
there was greater inertia to be overcome,
t1r they were anchored to the soil, that
c)n,eryator OF the peace; but when at
last they did move the momentum was
overwhelming They saw in the increas-
ing load of debt aud mortgages the pos
siOllity 1t not the probability of losing
the land by which they had so long pa
tiently ablded, and when that frightful
apparition appeared, conservatism was
thrown TO the winds, and every man be-
came a revoutionist, ready to strike out
on a new line. Men die by their homes,
and the prospect Of losing the home made
the mdsses desperate.
STARTING of the Movement.
Seeing this, the sulleu, dissatisfied la
boring men seized this opportunity. At
st. Louis two years ago they formed a
confederation with the farmers We
have thought that this upheaval was
only a manifestation of the restessness
OF one class; that it was tue country
against the town simply, and that by
lhe operation Of those laws of mutua
dependence on which society is organized
out THIS is not the true diagnosis
Discomfort reigns in town aud country
Tue masses, urban and rural, are in mo
ton; we hear hoarse mutterings as wher
deep calleth INTO deep. Astute poll
ticians have scented it from afar aud
seek to take the lead, as vultures fl
upon high and stormy gale
The cry is no longer that of the coun
- hat NE
sity shallow and short lived issue; iC i
q deeper and more omiaous sound tina
We now hear, 'the plain people agains
the aristocracy." The fact that aristoc
racy is now interpreted as the plutocra
cy, makes the situation all the more st
uous The old feeling against the aris
toCracy pure and simple, was not s
strong, yet it produced the French rev
olution. There is something respectabl
in an aristocracy founded on heritage c
great deeds and public service, and thu
50 long as it holds patrio ism, the ma:
ses will suffer, but when aristocracy
based on wealth, too Often I'll gotten, an
on the vulgar show Of great establish
ments the masses are first sCkeued an
then enra eel This is the condition {
Affairs 10 d.y, not only in America. bl
al over tha civllizs "a world The creates
statesmen see it and are trying 80 ru
the storm Mr. Gladstone, in the ne
platform which he puts forth this yea
advances far into socialism. The Eu
peror of Germany is trying to ste
The thunder Of the socialists as B smar(
did before him Australia is progressir
rapidly in the same direction, and whe
ever you see public men of great saga
ily, they are trying to appeaSe tt
masses with measures which would ha
been secuted few years ago. 1t is SO
our our own country. The Democrat
congress- which will assemble ne
winter, will force measures which &
Republicans will hardly dare to defes
On the silver question some, who do Il
favor free coinage, will vote for II,
Senator Carlisle processes to do, not
cause he flvogS it, but because he /
heves 1t TO be "a political necessity
We have got to take it,, said he, ''al
tue sooner the better The bill will
passed before the holidays, and In t
senate il will not even be referred to t
haance committee. The best thing
cla do Is TO try it, and if the resu
prove as bad as some think, everybo
VIII see the propriety Of repeating
hw"
Republicans See Danger.
At Cincinnati the Republicans sous
every opportunity TO SOW seeds OF d
stnslon among the third party m'
lneir principal point was that the so L
ein alllauc men were encouraging tb
western brethren to split off from I
republicans, but as for themselves til
remained good Democrats To thi
shrewd Kansan made this significant
the southern pw a,eemen {
ss1 Is Vsats, if they %snt %.
good " m,s same with US; {
- pftemocratic party
5gs, which the southern I'; 'o :
leem to realize, that the ANA II ..
practically reconstructed toe ~ sl
Iatic party in the south. The s ma'
tho control the party give their nrs'
lance to the O;ala platform
In the coming presiden ial campo
,ba spectacle will be presented
- Tho aOuth ana