Los Angeles herald., 1891-05-22
THE TREND OF POLITICS-TWO IMPoR-
TANT CONVENTIONS.

party movement asSuiue InaI JHey arc |
about to pour cornucopia of blessings
on the people of the United States. In the
breezy sweep of their assumptions there
is much that is suggestive OF
the Three Tailors of Tooley street, who
undertook to speak in the name OF the
people OF England. Disguised with the
hypocritical pretensions of the Republi-
can party, the amiable and not at all mod
est gentlemen who assembled at Cincin-
natl, have undertaken to ignore the con-
sistent and admirable record OF the
Democratic party, which has been as
true to the real interests OF the masses
as the needle to the pole. On every
popular issue the Democratic party has
taken the right stand. 1t has
been noticed by the Associated
Press agents and the correspondents
generally that the representation from
the south at this Cincinnati gathering
has been exceptionally small. The only
reference to the south has been in the
case of the taking up of a subscription to
pay the expenses home of lot of colored
gentlemen from South Carolina, who
seem to be unable to cover the distance
without this eleemosynary assistance.
The meaning OF this phase of the con-
vention is that the south is self-poised
and invulnerable. That section will
stand by the Democratic party now as
in the past. Constitutional and eco
nomical and responsible government is
90 dear to that people to permit them
to indulge in any extravagant vagaries
at this late day. The ''solid SOUTH is a
reassuring fact for the Democracy in the
next presidential campaign, at least.
This is not truer than that the real
center of the strength OF this new move
ment is in the western and northwest
ern states. The farmer has been awak-
ened to the injustice done to him and
to the nation by the fantastic tariff ex-
cesses OF. the Republican party. He
finds himself ground as between the
upper and the neither milestone. The
Republican farmer realizes with great
bitterness of heart that all his affiic
tions are due to those with whom he
has affiliated in the past. To employ
strong comparison, he feels thar he has
been slain in the house of his friends.
He has to endure double agony-to
know that he has been wronged and re-
alize that he has been hoodwinked as
well. AS he contemplates the stead
lily accumulating mass of his indebted
ness-a mortgage liability absolutely
overwhelming is enraged by ae
counts of the rapidly augmenting wealth
of the monocrats of the east. He has
at last opened his eyes to the truth, and
he finds that he has been cozzened and
betrayed.
As a consequence, the western and
northwestern farmer OF Republican pro-
clivities is going to have nothing more
to do with his old time party. In Iowa,
Wisconsin, Kansas, Minnesota, Indiana,
Illinois and even Ohio. he is through
with that organization. He will join
the new party in sufficient numbers to
paralyze the Republican party. The
Mckinley bill has decreed this memoir
able political divorce.
On the other hand, the Democratic
farmer of that section occupies an en-
tirely different position. His party has
steadily and staunchly stood in with the
masses, both on the tariff, the coinage
and the labor questions. During Mr..
Cleveland's administration every civic
virtue was illustrated. A rigid and
honest conduct of the government
Tod 1,,a te,
deprecated, but which could not
be avoided unless the war and
post war-tariffs were reduced. They
tried, on just and moderate lines, to re-
duce these tariffs, but were prevented
by Republican marplots. They did all
they could, however, and they refrained
from stealing the surplus. Nearly all
the votes which the measures for exclud-
ing the Chinese and for the free coinage
of silver received in the house of repre-
sentatives came from Democrats. The
party has in every instance shown it's
unequivocai and loyal devotion to every
distinctive aspiration of the masses to-
day, yesterday and the day beforehand
back to day whereof the memory of
man runneth not to the contrary.
AS a result, the Democratic farmer of
the west and northwest will stay by his
party, while large proportion of the Re-
publican farmers will leave theirs and
cleave unto the Peoples party. AS an
inevitable corollary, the Democratic
party, in 1892, with the south then, as
heretofore, a Democratic unit, will come
near achieving such monumental VIC
tory as that which seated Franklin
Pierce in the White House in 1852.
At the same time that the Farmers
Alliance, the Knights of Labor and
kindred organizations were assembled
at Cincinnati, a Mississippi COM
mercial convention was being held in
Denver, in which the southern states of
the Gulf were splendidly represented,
not only in numbers but character.
Mayor Shakespeare, of New Orleans,
was conspicuous in that body. Our
readers are familiar with the principles
it formulated. The Democratic party is
enthusiastic in it's Identification with
the demands of that body. 1t wants free