San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-05-25
STILL BORN.
The Third Party is Doomed.

The Third Party is Doomed.
To the San Antonio LIGHT.
The effort now being made at Gin
cinnati to bring about a fusion and
amalgamation of heterogeneous and
discordant elemen ts as ever existed,
may perhaps, be crowned with appar-
emit success in the Matching out of q
third party with a high sounding
name. The country has witnessed
the birth of many third parties, but,
somehow, they all fall to pieces and
sneakedoff the stage in the most pitia-
BILE shame facedness, with bedraggled
skirts and smashed bonnets. When
President Monroe ran for q second
term, he had no real opposition, as
practically there was but one party,
but parcel of trimmers got
up a third party which
the wits dubbed the tertium
Guilds. In spite of good nursing and
plentiful dosing with baby medicine,
it petered out before the election. In
1882, the anti. Masons organized q
third party, and nominated VIM.
Writ for president, who accepted,
whereupon the newborn party sick
ened and died from lack of Tactical
nourishment. Since the war we have
had the Greenback party with it's
presidential ticket out in the field, in
1880, b its collapse preceded the
The new third party will be
killed by the multitude of its
nurses and doctors, before weaving
time arrives. DR.. Powderly starts
out with the idea, that the baby is of
premature birth and of weakly con-
stitution, while DIR. Pfeuffer thinks it
strapping, healthy baby, which re.
quires neither hot teas, nor Mrs.
Winslow's Soothing Syrup. All the
sou thern doctors and nurses wished
for an abortion, rather than q birth,
and will, on the sly, endeavOr to
smother it. Every sane person knows
that southern democrats will never
vote with a third party of any sort.
They will pretend to be holly in favor
of it; TALK, gush, brag and
buster in favor of it, and swear
roundly it will sweep the
south just as q fire sweeps q
prairie, when a stiff wind eggs it on.
They will even send speakers to the
west and north to talk 1t up and &C.
duce men into joining it, But when
the election comes, southern demo-
Gratis will chuckle over how they
roped in and honey fuggled the west.
ern republicans, and plump in their
votes for the democratic candidate
with vim. They are merely pre-
tending to be for third party in Or
der to divide the republicans in the
west, so that democrats can break
into the pantry and gorge themselves
while the row is going on. The pam
try is the objective point with all
genuine democrats.
But the third party is wanting in
cohesive power. Even glue cannot
hold it together. There is no good
feeling between the labor organiza
tions and the alliance, and these is no
political sympathy between them.
The farmer does not fancy having
the wages of farm hands raised upon
him and eight hours counted as a
days labor. He distrusts and fears
all the labor organizations. He re-
CARDS them as inimical to his in ter.
ests and as restless agitators, with
heads filled with dangerous doctrines.
Farmers are profoundly conservative
in all their feelings. They hate social.
from a conviction that they are the
sworn enemies of property, order and
peace, and the patrons of agitation,
disorder, strikes and mobs.
The labor organizations regard the
farmer as q very "slow coach" as full
of narrowness, prejudice and igno-
rance, and withal, amazingly self.
conceited. They laugh at his demand
that congress shall commit q rape on
the constitution, in order to pay off
the mortgages under which the
farmers have buried their farms, and
they ask why the government should
loan money to farmers, and not to
laboring men also. The labor or
CARNATIONS feel no sympa by for
the land owners, since they
deny their right of individual owner
ship of the soil, which they assert
belongs to mankind.
There is then no essential question
on which the alliance and the labor
organizations agree cordially. Each
seeks to use the other as a tool for
the time being. Such a coalition
must be very short-lived. The seeds
of contention will soon sprout. Polit-
ical coalitions have seldom been last
ing, or borne valuable fruit, in any
age, or nation, and the chances are
that the baby of the new coalition
will die out, without any help from
the outside.
My impression is, it would essen
TALLY benefit both the democratic
and republican parties if they could
GROWERS &c, who handicapped them
and are to parties, what camp follow