Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1892-04-28
MISSISSIPPI ALLIANCE LEADERS.
ommittc,I tn = Policy That will Surrender
the Alliance Demands tn Wall street
nlutorrafs.

10 say nothing OF sentiment, III MIS-
sippians we're to GO off on third party
lines on the eve of the most momentous
contest pending with the old enemy,
they would forfeit their we'll establish
ed reputation for sagacity. This truth
is well conveyed in the following eN-
pressions of Hon. Frank Burkitt, State
Alliance lecturer, to the Appeal-Ava-
lanche correspondent here. The same
conviction he expresses has been pro
nounced with equal emphasis by the
Hon. f. Barksdale in the Ledger ALI
ance columns:
Commenting on the Democratic Executive
Committee call, Hon. Frank Burkitt. says IN
my Judgment the sensible and concrNatNc
course taken Ivy the committee In calling the con
ycntion gives every man who Is einhucd win
Democratic ideas, fair showing and leaves no
room for third party movement in MISSISSIPPI.
| N those Of us who are demanding certain re-
forms. cannot get them inside the Democratic or
ganiZation, see no hope Of doing 50 by separate
action for Il is not probable that stronger fol.
lowing could he obtained outside Of the party Of
| our fathers II our brethren inShlc the party OF
jefferson will not make such concessions rs we
ask, It is impossible to obtain them by division oil
Hon. u. G. Casey. chairman Of the state All
ance executive committee, was shown that ah"Lc
utterance Of Mr.. Burkitt He said that he
| Heartily Endorsed and concurred In the views
| therein set forth" There Is no Alliance leader
| OF note IN this state VINO Is NOT u
and it Is believed that the effort Mt a third party
here will prove abortive.
The above is copied from the last is
sue of the Weekly Clarion. The LEAD
Err has no criticism to offer here on
what is said by that paper. 1t is par
tisan Democratic journal, avowedly
opposed to the chief demands of the
Ocala platform, and it is to be expect
ed that while occupying that position,
it should at the same time desire to
secure all the Alliance support it can
for its own party and candidates. What
is said will be directed chiefly to the
position of the eminent Alliance lead
ers which it quotes.
It is natural that men who have long
been leading lights in the Democratic
organization and devoted to its princi-
pies like Major Barksdale, Capt.
Burkitt and Mr.. Casey, should be
loath to sever old party ties and asso-
Citations, and accept the true logic of
their position. The Mississippian, the
Memphis Commercial, the Vicksburg
Herald and other extreme anti-Sub-
Treasury papers were right last year
when they said the Alliance leaders
would soon have to choose between al
legience to the Democratic party and
the Alliance demands. The fork in
the political road was then only a
year ahead, and now it has been nearly
reached and the choice, if they are
consistent and loyal to the Alliance
principles. will have to be made.
AS the LEADER pointed out in for
mer issue, the difficulty of the situa-
ton does not consist so much in the
opposition here in Mississippi to the
Alliance demands, though that is not
to be ignored, as it does in the fact that
the Democratic party of Mississippi,
whether controlled by what is known
as the party machine or by Alliance
men headed by Major Barksdale, Capt.
Burkitt and others, will have practi-
cally no voice in choosing the nominee
of the National Democratic party, or in
shaping its platform on any of the vital
issues for which the Alliance and other
In the National Democratic organiza-
ton, New York is the mistress of the
situation, and it is the thralldom of
New York plutocrats which finds
both old parties, from which the people
are struggling to free themselves No
calculation of Democratic success is
made that does not take New York into
the account. On this point, the Wick
burg Commercial Herald, the leading
Anti-Sub- Treasury paper of MISSISSIPPI
pi, says:
THE Southern Delegates should CO.
operate with the New York Delegates.
We have claimed all along, that no
Democrat ought to be nominated. or
can be nominated, who is not accept
able to the New York Delegates"
The State Ledger, Major Barksdale's
chosen forum, says editorially in it's
Anti-Sub- Treasury department
NC DeulOCTdUS cdllnOU VIII SlCC6SS
without New York, and even with the
electoral votes of that State it will re-
quire hard fight to win victory"
These are both ardent Hill papers,
but the Cleveland papers everywhere
are all equally pronounced in their
declarations that New York holds the
key to the Democratic situation.
The Natchez Banner, an ardent
Cleveland paper and an uncOmpro-
missing opponent of the Ocala platform,
declares, with apparent satisfaction
that with Alliancemen sit is a choice
between Democracy, without Ocalaism
and Republicanism without Ocalaism;
and then it naively asks, (which horn,
of the dilemma will they take ?"
This, in brief, is the sum and sub
stance of the whole matter New York's
vote is claimed to be indispensable to
Democratic success. The only way to
secure that vote is to placate her money
lords, National bankers and monopolists
by letting them dictate who the party
candidate shall be and formulate the
financial plank in the platform, they
consulting in the premises Tam