The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1892-05-16
POLK AS A DICTATOR.

aTail to tn Hill Boom.
Although there is pretense here in
Kansas of paying very little attention
to the fact that the southern alliance
has called meeting and has omitted
the alliance of the northern states from
its call, the fact remains that this call
has caused considerable uneasiness here,
Nothing can be obtained from the Off
GERS in alliance headquarters, and DR..
McLallin, editor of the Advocate, has
written to President Polk, of the ma
tional alliance, to know the inwardness
of the call. He has theory as to the
matter, but does not care to air it till
the facts are known. He is good pol
itician, is the old doctor.) He says,
however:
II am certain that the move is not
one of political significance. 1t very
frequently happens that local questions
demand local action. There are thirty
five states in the union in which the al
lance is organized. If half dozen OF
them see fit to get together to act in
harmony, they should have an opportu-
nifty to do so.''
There is feeling of uneas:ness Just
the same. It will be noticed that in the
Carolinas, in Georgia, in Tennessee, and
in each of the other states enumerated
in the call, there is great danger of the
alliance getting beyond the control of
the democracy. There is ugly talk
about third parties down there, and
Colonel Polk is alarmed. A prominent
alliance man, who has asked to have his
name withheld, says: Colonel Polk
is opposed to Mr.. Cleveland. He has
been using the alliance in the south
as an adjunct Of the anti Cleveland
forces and has attached it to the Hill
boom. He has called this meeting at
this time that he may get his men in the
field, show his strength. and prove him
self the great car of the south. He is
master of the situation. He now wants
to show himself as such. He proposes
to be in position to say to the national
democracy. Appoint me dictator of the
south; let me be distributor of patron
age, and 1 will see that those states are
not represented in the Omaha conven-
ton. There will be no third party
This is why he has ignored republican
states in his call, and those wherein the
third party movement does not threaten
democracy.
This meeting is for the purpose Of
consolidating the third party strength
in the south, and making showing to
scare the southern democracy into sub
mission. The alliance in the south is
composed of the newer element in the
old party. 1t is opposed to the colonel
ocracy which has prevailed in the south
for thirty years. 1t is opposed to the
old crowd, as you Kansas fellows put it.
Cleveland only recognized the old crowd.
Hill and German have made promises to
the alliance. This meeting is to show
the south that democracy must abandon
old methods and old men, or yield to de-
feat. Kansas has nothing in common
with this meeting. nor has any northern
state. Hence these states are ignored,
This theory is one side of the affair.
There is also an idea that the meeting
is called to celebrate the marriage cere-
mony Of the national union and the alli-
ance. 1t is thought that the cordage
trust and the jute bagging people have
captured the alliances all through the
south. and that the meeting is simply
one to leCalize the liaisOn.