The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-08-20
Col. Polka Views

II all the interviews with Col. l. L. Polk
president of the national farmers alliance.
which appear in the newspapers are genu-
inc he is doing great deal Of talking.
However, he says that some of the inter-
views are not genuine, and that be does not
approve of much in them that is attributed
| to him. For instance, he says that the in
terview recently published in nearly all
parts of the country, in which he IS made
to say that the purpose Of the ALLIANCES Is to
drive out of the United States Senate all
senators who are not in harmony with it is
bogus.
On Tuesday, however, at Richmond, Va,
where there was great alliance gathering,
he submitted to an interview which is
vouched for as being correct. He did not
say much that is of interest TO the public,
bu5 there are two things in the interview
which are worth more than a passing no
tice. One is that he does not think this
congress will pass bill authorizing the free
coinage of silver. He says that if the
House should pass such bill it would do so
because it believed it would be defeated
in the Senate or vetoed by the President.
The other thing is that Col Polk thinks
Mr.. Cleveland will be the democratic NOM
inee for President. Col. Polk is of the opin-
ion that Mr. Cleveland's friends believe that
there will be no election at the polls, and
that the election will be thrown into the
House. But Col. Polk desires to be clearly
understood as saying that be does not believe
Mr.. Cleveland will be elected.
From the interview 1t is rather difficult
to understand what Col Polk means to say
Mr.. Cleveland will be the Democratic
nominee, and he thinks there will be no
election at the polls, but that the House will
elect President. He also thinks that Mr..
Cleveland will not be the choice of the
House.
The House has an overwhelming demo-
cratic majority, and a majority Of the
states arc represented by democrats. If the
House should have the election Of a Presi.
dent it would, of course, elect O democrat,
and if Mr.. Cleveland were the nominee of
the Democratic party it would be rather
remarkable if the House should not elect
him.
Col Polk may mean one Of two things.
He may mean that majority Of the demo-
cratic congressman are opposed TO Mr..
Cleveland or that the candidate of the
Peoples party would be chosen In prefer
ence to Mr.. Cleveland. He virtually says
that the Peoples party will have presi-
Dental ticket in the field when he expresses
the opinion that there will be no election at
the polls, because without a third party
ticket there would be an election at the
polls
Col. Polk has never been very frank in
his talk about the Peoples party. Perhaps
he thinks it would not be safe to be so at
this time, because he does not know what
course the Peoples party will pursue nor
what kind of platform it will adopt. Be-
cause it adopted the Ocala platform at its
organization in Cincinnati. it doesn't follow
that it will do SO at its national convention.
The fact that the Peoples party in Ohio
failed TO make the sub-treasury plan plank
in it's platform is an indication that the SUBJ
treasury plan has not the united support of
the Peoples party.