The Globe-republican., 1891-08-12
Mrs. Lease Shows Her Hand.

A journey south seems to have stim-
ulating effect upon the latent democrat
ic sympathies of the Third party calam-
ity chorus. When John Willis began
to breathe the rigorous democratic air of
South Carolina he threw off all pretense
of political independence, told the
Charleston World that neither he nor
the Alliance favored the Third party, but
the effect of the alliance movement
would be to through the election into
the house and elect Cleveland. He has
never denied this interview.
Now the squalling Mrs. Lease has ar
rived in Georgia, and she also says the
third party movement means democra-
cy and Il democratic president next year.
In a signed interview with a correspond
ent of the Atlanta :1omr~al of August 9Th,
Mrs, Lease endorses what the cOwardly
Willis said. A copy of this issue of the
Journal will gladly be shown to any one
who may desire to assure himself of the
truth of our statement. AS to the effect
of the third party scheme so successfully
carried out in Kansas aud Nebraska and
50 notably failure in Kentucky and
other democratic states, Mrs. Lease says:
''Well, the third party candidate for
president will so confuse things that the
election will be thrown into the house of
representatives. This will make dem
Ocratic president.
Then, she says, the democrats will
enact some needed law, (the democrats
having always been noted for making
good laws Dand
''This done. there will be no longer
third party-fOr there will be no need of
one. We want relief and if it comes
through the democracy, we are all will
ing to be democrats
The correspondent having asked what
Mrs. Lease objected to in the democratic
party, though the interview contains no
evidence that she had hinted at any OBJ
jections, Mrs. Lease said:
Il consider principles of Jeffersonian
democracy tiawIess. If you will carry
out those principles. l grant you that
there will be no need of new party.
If you democrats will unite with us and
help us to down the republicans our
common enemy-we will receive you
with open arms
This ought to please Colonel Polk and
and Colonel Livingston, who came up to
organize the democratic sideshOw in
Kansas.
AS to carrying out the principles Of
Jeffersonian democracy, the south will
never succeed in doing that. They tried
it once and the principles of Jefferson as
in the celebrated Kentucky
resolutions drafted by his own hand in
1898 perished forever. Calhoun in the
early thirties wOald have anticipated the
great attempt of 1860 had it not been for
Old Hickory's threat. if he tried it, to
''hang him as high as Haman.'' There
is no 'Jeffersonian democracy that the
world knows of except the principle
that the state is sovereign and can violate
at pleasure any federal statute or with
draw at will from the union. Andrew
Jackson was never tinged with the virus
of JeffersOnianism. Calhoun and Jeff
erson Davis were its advocates and eX-
emplars.
Two things are CONSPICUOUS in Mrs.
Leases talk to the Atlanta 7onrnd. The
first is that she knows nothing whatever
about .JeffersJnian democracy. and the
second is that she will do what he can to
reassure the democrats of the south and
encourage them in downing our COM
mon enemy, the republican party"
That is what she is there for. That is
what Polk and Livingston came TO Kan
>as for. That is what John F. Willis,
who was supported SO faithfully by the
of the Kansas alliance as third
party candidate last fall. receives $1,000
and expenses for. That is what Jerry
Simpson and PETER are in Ohio for. That
is the reason the regular democratic ticket
in Kentucky was not mOlested by the al
lance the other day.
Does it not strike the average ex-re-
publican allianceman of Kansas that the
office of cats-paw to the solid south is
getting a trifle irksome:-Tafeka Catital.
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