The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-10-16
THE ATTITUDE OF THE SOUTH.
A Point at Which tho Demo-Reps Tried
to Insert . Wedge.


and Democratic papers, says the To-
peka Advocate, north and south. has
not failed to observe the tremendous
effort everywhere put forth to incul-
cate the idea that the people of the
south have no sympathy with the Peo-
pies party-that they are Democrats
and will remain so. If they feel per-
fectly sure upon this point it is diff
cult 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 understanding between the
Alliance people OF the north and south
upon this. as upon many other ques-
lions. they may readily see what con-
summate asses they are showing them
selves to be. When the question OF
organizing new party was consider
ed at Ocala. it was decided, after
many consultations, that 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. 1t was call
ed by an industrial organization that
was not in existence at the time the
convention of February %, 1892, was
agreed upon. It very wisely shaped
its policy so as to cooperate with the
February convention; but the great
mass of those organizations which had
| fixed upon that date as the time for
considering the organization of 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 ratify 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 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 it comes to a national cleo
ton the case will be quite different
Success in a national conquest requires
o 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 well as the people of the
north: and on February %, 1892, they
guage not to be misunderstood. Be-
fore that time Alliance men of the
north are not expecting them to Of
ficially 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.
It 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 I'M
derstood however that when the AL
lance moves it moves in body; and
it will not do this until the time APP
pointed, nor do we expect it to. All
this tremendous effort of the plutocra-
tic press to prove the south is not lin
it, is therefore labor lost. 1t is a
useless expenditure OF wind.
A Pathetic Letter.
Dear Aunt Charitie: | hear that
your paper-the Vidette-is published
to tell people how to save their homes.
and do wish you would tell us how
| to get ours back. 1t was such pretty
home, and we all loved it so much,
and mamma grieves about it all the
time, and often cries because we had
to give it up and live in this old rent
ed house.
Papa is a farmer and worked hard
to pay his debts, but could not SO he
mortgaged our home, and thought he
could make money enough to pay it
up, and we all staid at home and
worked hard, and did not even go to
church on Sundays. was kept home
from school to help work. but still he
could not pay up. So one day papa
came home looking pale like he was
ever so sick and told mamma that
the man who had the mortgage on the
place was going to take it from us,
and we would have to move. OH!
Aunt Charlie. if you had seen us that
day you would have thought some of
our family were dead, we were all so
grieved at the thought of losing all
our work on our pretty home. We
moved and papa is hired to a man and
works away from home, and mamma
is sick nearly all the time and says
she has no heart to work. We still do
not attend church or school because
we have no good clothes to wear out
in company.
Mama used to play on the piano, but
she is not able to own one now, and
all of her music books are piled up in
one corner of the room, and are right
dusty, she does not even sing now. l
wish you could see her and say a few
cheering words to her, for she needs
comforting. am only little girl.
but do all can to cheer her in heart.