The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-10-23
ATTITUDE OF THE SOUTH.
The Part 1t Will Take In the Political
Revolution.

Revolution.
Every reader of both Republican and
Democratic papers, north and south. has
not failed to observe the tremendous
effort everywhere put forth to inculcate
the idea that the people of the south
have no sympathy with the Peoples
party-that they are Democrats and will
remain so. If they feel perfectly sure
upon this point it is difficult to see why
they should devote so much space to the
effort to prove it. When it comes to be
known that there is a perfect under
standing between the Alliance people Of
the north and south upon this. as upon
many other questions, they may readily
see what consummate asses they are
showing themselves to be.
When the question of organizing a
new party was considered at Ocala it
was decided after many consultations,
that a convention should be called at
some time in the future for the special
purpose Of considering its feasibility.
The date was at one time fixed, but
afterward reconsidered, and Feb. %.
1892, finally agreed upon. The Cincin-
natl conference had nothing whatever to
do with that convention. 1t was called
by an industrial organization that was
not in existence at the time the conven-
ton of Feb. %, 1892, was agreed upon
It very wisely shaped it's policy so az
to cooperate with the February conven-
ton; but the great mass of those organ.
izations which had fixed upon that date
as the time for considering the organiza-
ton OF a new party regarded the Gin.
cinnati meeting as premature, and die
not therefore choose to participate in it
Nobody in the north has at any time ex
pected the southern states, that were
not represented at Cincinnati, to ratif5
the Peoples party this year. There is
in fact, no particular necessity for it.
We care nothing for the name in
which the southern states conduct thei1
local elections. This is a matter. in
which we are in no way concerned. Il
the Alliance brethren of the south choose
to capture the Democratic primaries and
conventions and elect their men through
these means, it in no way concerns US
The only point in which we are interest.
ed in these local elections is that they
shall elect Alliance men, and this they
are doing with remarkable unanimity.
When it comes to a national election
the case will be quite different. Success,
in a national contest requires a union o.
the west and south, and this can only b.
brought about by a total abandonment
of the old parties. This the people O
the south understand as we'll as the PEG
pie of the north, and on Feb. %, 1892
they will speak upon this subject i,
language not to be misunderstood. Be
fore that time Alliance men of the nortl
are not expecting them to officially de
clare for the Peoples party, though
whenever the subject is mentioned i,
southern Alliance meetings the enthusi
asm with which such reference is greeted
clearly shows that the masses of the PEG
pie are ripe for it.
In fact, they cannot be kept out of it
1t is as impossible as to turn Niagara VI
stream. The current of public senti
ment is as irresistible as that of tn,
great cataract. It should be understood
however, that when the Alliance move
it moves in a body, and it will not d,
this until the time appointed, nor do W,
expect it to. All this tremendous efor
of the plutocratic press to prove that tn
south is not ''in it" is, therefore, labo
lost. 1t is a useless expenditure of wind
Topeka Advocate.