The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1891-06-10
-rns south ana the New psrty.

From. the Chicago Inter Ocean
The unanimity " ith which the press OF the
southern States warns the farmers and arn-
ssns who dwell below Mason q Dixon's line
of the danger of all third parties, and es-
peciallv Of the dangerous character Of that
thing which was born in CiDcinn IA and
christened by its sponsors the People par
ty. is equaled by the ananimity with
which IL commends the thing to the farmers
and artisans of the Northern States, For
ourselves. says the Atlanta Consultation, we
will have nothing TO do with it, but, in the
confusion sttendant upon such movement
the Republicans will be demoralized, for
this third party viii have its centerin States
that heretofore have been Overwhelmingly
Republican. So that the Georgian opin-
ion Of the new Peoples party " IS that It
Is Democratic Hessian.
The Augusta Chronicle affords an amusing
instance of zeal without discretion. Plead
ing with the farmers of Georgia il says
There can be no political alliance between
farmers Of the South and the knights OF
Labor, or any other trade organization For
the laborers want an eight-hour day and ten
hours pay, and they want cheap food and
clothing" And then it proceeds to tell the
Georgia farmers that they want the opposite
of all this. cheap labor, long hours and high
prices for cotton, food and grain. Though,
we suppose, even the Georgia farmers would
rather have cheap clothing than dear cloth
ing. OF course IL is true in the South, as IN
the North, that the only method by which
the farmer can obtain proper prices for cot
ton. food and grain is by increasing the de
mand for them, and equally of course it is
true that the only method Of increasing the
demand is by enlarging the American mar
ket for them, and so preventing Liverpool
rom having a controlling influence upon
the prices Of American staples, and equally
Of course this method will require an in
crease Of the number Of American artisans,
who must be well paid in order that they
may be able to purchase largely of cotton
goods and farm produce. But this process
Of reasoning is ~ prevalent in Georgia
whose political economy j. Of an Archaic
type.
The New Orleans Daily States rejoices that
Alabama, Mississippi, Maryland, North Caro-
lima, South Carolina, and Virginia were not
represented in the Cincinnati conference, but
hopes and believes that 'the new party will
carry Kansas, lows. Nebraska, Minnesota,
and Illinois" and thus elect a Democratic
President. The Richmond Times character
izes it as an attempt to roll seven parties
into one says that the movement is con-
trolled by "men who were rampant Repub'
licans in the last elections" and who want
10 b. 10 the West what Malone was to the
South, "But the South is not in IT," CerIain-
lv it is not. And because it has no fooihold
in the South the new Peoples part" is q
sectional body And sectionalism is an evil
which The Inter OCEAN never can cease to de-
plore.
The Peoples party Of the Cincinnati con
ference ceased TO exist as soon as the confer
ence adjourned. The political atmosphere
is not suited 10 the condition Of a new party
life. For many years 10 come the hepubh'
will be under the guidance of Democratic
or Republican administration, and so long
as the Southern States keep aloof from al
progressive influences, whatever temporar,
excitement weakens the Republican part.
must strengthen the Democratic party
which is the Southern party, and the South
ern party, as We have seen from the utter
ances Of is press, is bitterly at war wit
every idea and sentiment propounded in th
platform Of the Cincinnati conference.