Los Angeles herald., 1892-05-17
WHAT JERRY SIMPSON EXPECTS.

Prospects and His Reasons Therefor.
Congressman Simpson was recently
interviewed by a Washington cor
respondent concerning the programme
and prospects of the third party while,
OF course, Mr.. Simpson was giving his
own views Yet what he said is in the
main part indorsed by all the active men
In the movement. Asked by the cor
respondent when the nominating con-
Vention would meet, Mr.. Simpson said:
in Omaha, July a. BY that time
both the Republican and Democratic
parties will have held their conventiovs
and promulgated their declaration of
principles. This will make it more easy
for us to act.'
'Do you expect to carry any states
this autumn"
I'VE do, indeed" said Mr.. Simpson
earnestly. "We expect to secure the
electoral vote of four northern and four
southern states. There is probability
of our carrying five northern states. 10
l mind telling you what they are? Not
at all. They are Kansas, Nebraska,
Minnesota, North and South Dakota.
The southern states are Georgia, Ala
bama, Arkansas and North Carolina.
We feel certain of carrying all of these
with the exception Of North Dakota"
"That will not enable you to elect
your president. On the contrary, yea
simply make certain the election of a
Democratic president by throwing the
election into the house"
THAT is all right" said Mr.. Simpson
calmly. "It is not the presidency we are
after. Our underlying purpose is either
to obtain control of the house and the
senate or else to hold the balance Of
power in both bodies. But a presidential
ticket carries with it certain prestige.
A full ticket, with presidential electors
and everybody else, down to the hum
blest candidate, will give us a great many
votes we would not otherwise get. That
is our principal purpose in putting a
presidential ticket in the field-that and
a desire to control our national organi-
zatiop. What we want is the control of
the legislative branch of the govern
ment. We never can accomplish our
purposes IN any other way"
sis it your purpose to make combina-
tions with the two old parties in certain
of the northern and southern states? In
other words, it has been suggested that
in states where the Republicans are in
the majority you should combine with
the Democrats, and in the states where
the Democrats are in the majority you
should combine with the Republicans.
mo-" said Mr.. Simpson refectively.
II don't think there is anything in that,
we prefer to make our fight indepen-
IDENTIFY of the two old parties"
"Shall you extend your campaign east
of the Allegheny mountains-intot the
middle and New England states"
mo" laughingly replied Mr.. Simpson,
"It would be useless. Those states are
beyond redemption. The west and south
is our country. In addition to the states
have said we also expect to elect repre-
sentatives in congress and state assem-
blymen in such other grange communi-
ties as Illinois and Iowa and Missouri"
"Don't you believe that when the real
test comes Cat the white Alliance men
in the south will vote the Democratic
ticket? Won't they be afraid, if your
people get the power, that you may COM
'bine with the blacks and thus give the
latter political prominence they don't
now enjoy? Didn't Livingston, of Geor.
gia, who is one of your Alliance apostles,
recently enunciate the principle that he
was Democrat first and an Alliance man
afterward? and don't you think that he
voices the sentiment of the white south
ern Democrats generally"
''No, ! don't, was the reply. "Iknow
that Livingston said that, and he has lost
caste by it. 1t has hurt him with our
people everywhere. It has hurt him in
his own home. We have in the south a
membership of 100000 colored people.
! They have their own lodges and work in
dependently, although on the same lines
as we do. We believe that we can di-
vide the colored vote there. As our
strength with it increases both the old
parties will make frantic endeavor to
get the rest of them. We will thus di-
vide the colored vote, and this being
done, the negro question as Question
will disappear. The negro will then be
q factor and not an issue in future cam
paigns, and we will then hear the last
Of the necessity of distinctively white
mans partv in the SOUTH"
Pleasing Customer.