The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-10-23
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Every reader 81 both Republican
and Democratic papers says Ssthe To-.
peka Advocate, north and south, has
not failed TO Observe the tremendous,
effort everywhere put forth incul-
cate the idea that the people 81 the
south have no sympathy with the Peo-
PIES party-thatt they are Democrats
and will remain so. II they feel per-
fectly I'LL upon this point IT. Il difa-
cult to . why they shouldadevote 30
much space to the effort Il prove it
When 1t comes to be known that there
ts q perfect understanding between the
Alliance people OF the north and south
upon this, as upon many other qnes-
tons they may readily see what con-
summate asses they are showing them-
selves to be. When the question Of
organizing q new party was consider
ed at Ocala. it was decided, after
many consultations, that a convention
should be called some time in the
future for the special purpose Of
considering its feasibility. The date
was at one time fixed, but afterwards
reconsidered, and February %, 1892,
finally agreed Upon. The Cincinnati
conference had nothing whatever to
do with that convention. It was call.
ed by an industrial organization that
was not in existence at the time the
convention of February %, 1892, was
agreed upon. 1t very wisely shaped
its policy SO Is to cooperate with the
February conventions; but the great
mass of those organizations which had
fixed upon that date as the time for
considering the organization of q new
party regarded the Cincinnati meeting
as premature, and did not therefore
choose to participate in it. Nobody
in the north has at any time expected
the southern states, that were not re-
presented at Cincinnati, to ratifys the
Peoples party this year. There is, in
fact no particular necessity for it. We
care nothing for the manner in which
the southern states conduct their local
elections This is a matter in which
we are In no way concerned. If 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 con-
Germs us. The only point in which
we are interested in these local cleo
tions is that they shall elect Alliance
men, and this they are doing with re.
markable unanimity.
When 1t ome to a national cleo
ton the case will be quite different
Success in a national conquest requires
a union Of the west and south, and
this can only be brought about by a
total abandonment of the old parties.
This the people of the south UNDER
stand as we'll as the people of the
north; and on February %, 1892, they
will speak upon this subject in lam
guage not to be misunderstood. Be-
fore that time Alliance men of the
north are not expecting them to Of
hcially declare for the Peoples party,
though whenever the subject is men
toned in southern Alliance meetings
the enthusiasm with which such refer
ence lis greeted clearly shows that the
masses of the people are ripe for it.
In fact they cannot be kept out of it.
1t is as impossible as to turn Niagara
up stream. The current of public
sentiment is as irresistible as that Of
the great cataract 1t should be un-
derstood. however, that when the Al
lance moves it moves in a body; and
1t will not do this until the time ap-
pointed, nor do we expect it to. All
this tremendous effort of the %plutocra-
tic press to prove the south is not sin
it" Is therefore labor lost. It is q
useless expenditure of wind.