The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-06-26
PEOPLES PARTY PROGRESS.

PEOPLES PARTY PROGRESS.
Ratifyins and Interpreting the Action OF
the Cincinnati Conference.
Ratification meetings are already be-
ing held in western states to indorse the
action of the Cincinnati conference. The
platform is everywhere received with
enthusiasm by Alliance men and men,
bers Of other reform organizations. The
south is also satisfied, because the refer
ence of nominations and other detailed
work to the conference of February,
1892, allows the Democratic party, to
which they have in the past been allied,
one more opportunity in congress next
winter to manifest a disposition to &C
cede to Alliance demands. There is no
doubt whatever that the Cincinnati con-
ference intended then and there by it's
action to create new party, and that
the delegates went home filed with the
idea that they had launched full
fledged party. The National Economist
and some of the southern Alliance pa
pers construe the acceptance Of the re-
port Of the committee on resolutions by
the conference to mean the reference to
the February conference of the whole
question of forming new party, with a
recommendation in it's favor. The Econ
omist says:
''The partisan press of the country has
advertised with big black headlines and
numerous sub-heads the action of the
meeting as the birth Of the new party,
but it is not. It simply provided for
education on the Ocala platform, for CO.
operation with the conference to be held
in February, 1892, and if necessary to
call convention to institute the party
in June, 1892. It is necessary that this
fact be recognized and emphasized, be-
cause the partisan press of the south,
where the conflict is now very bitter,
will TEEN with falsehoods about the
capture of the Alliance by a lot of sore
head politicians.
"They will say that parcel of men
afflicted with Office itch, who had rode
every reform movement to death for the
last twenty years, called the meeting for
the purpose of lacking the Alliance tail on
the kite of their aspirations, and that all
Alliance men who advocate the Alliance
platform of Ocala belong to new polit-
ical party instituted in opposition to the
Democratic party by disgruntled Repub-
licans of the north for the purpose of Sc
curing negro supremacy in the south.
But the point to disarm the partisan
attack to be made in the south is that
the Ocala platform still belongs to the
Alliance, and the Peoples party will not
appropriate it for political purposes until
the farmers shall fail to do so in Febru-
airy, 1892 Now, therefore, if the Demo-
cratic or the Republican party, or both,
shall take an equally just position on
these questions, then the Peoples party
will have to find a new reason for launch
ing on the political sea. Otherwise those
parties can have no claim upon their
members who believe in the new dis
pensation.' They have plenty of time
and ample opportunity to forestall it"
The Southern Alliance Farmer, of
Georgia, represents Alliance sentiment
in the south. It says Of the work of the
conferences:
''In the Cincinnati convention, held
last week, the southern Alliance men did
all and everything in their power to pre-
vent orpostpone the organization of new
political party. This action gives the lie
to the statements of partisan papers that
the Alliance leaders are trying to wreck
the Democratic party in order to further
their own ends. Now, had these south
ern officers given the least countenance
to the new movement you would today
see the third party fairly launched on
the political sea. AS it is, final and def
mite action has been postponed until
February, 1892, so that the Democratic
congress may have fair opportunity to
show its interests in the welfare of the
people.
''This action was right and proper.
The southern Alliance men are the back
bone Of the Democratic party, and have
battled for its success in days that tried
mems souls. If they can secure relief in
the old party they greatly prefer doing
SO, and will prove as loyal in the future
as in the past. But let the Democratic
leaders bear in mind that the eyes of
brave and determined men are turned
upon them, and they are expected to
right the wrongs of the toiling masses of
the land, and not only reform our in
iquitous tariff laws, but give the country
financial relief. The people understand
the power of the Republican president,
but they want to see what the over
whelming Democratic majority in the
house will do.
eff that body passes bills in accord
ance with the Alliance demands, and
thus proves its sincerity, and the nation
al campaign is fought on this same line,
the third party movement will die
a-borning, but if these congressman
waste their time in idle wrangling, and
adjourn without accomplishing any ma
terial good, and this is followed by the
nomination Of such a man as Grover
Cleveland for president, you are going
to see the laboring people of our country
unite on a ticket that means victory.
They are in no humor to be longer tri-
fled with. They have been fed on prom
Uses too long already. The Alliance men
Of the south cOnStitnta an Overvhe1mino