The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1892-10-28
THIRD PARTY MOVEMENTS.
1t is the Same Old Republican Game, but
Played Little too Often.

It is the Same Old Republican Game, but
Played Little too Often.
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John McDowel's confession that he has
made bargain with the Republican COM
mittee is in accord with everything we
have said on this subject from the begin
ning-that the third party movement is
nothing more nor less than Republican
movement; that it is scheme to divide
the Democratic vote to the advantage of
the Republican party; that it was CON
ceived and put on foot by the Republican
managers, and that the third party Lead
ers, from Weaver down to Mcdowell, are
merely the corrupt tools, the hired in
struments of Republicans, and are doing
their dirty work for Republican Doodle.
No man can read the recent history Of
the third party movement without being
convinced that the men who framed its
platform and who are managing its cam
paign are working for no other end than
TO keep the Republican party in power.
No man can have watched the move
ments OF its leaders, can have seen the
marked change of program and policy,
without knowing that the whole move
ment been boughtup with Republican
money so far as the purchase of the lead
ers could buy the movement.
A marked and significant fact is the
tenderness shown in the Omaha platform
for the Republican party, the caution dis
played inno treadingo on Republican toes.
In the campaign of 1890 the present lead
ers OF the third party movement made the
air ring with their bitter denunciation of
the Mckinley bill. When the 0cala con-
vention was held a resolution was passed
denouncing the force bill. Yet when the
Omaha convention met and adopted its
platform it was as silent as the grave with
respect to these two of the gravest crimes
ever committed by the Republican party.
Why2 Why this marked and sudden
change? There is no other explanation
than that the platform was carefully con-
structed with view to not raising any
issue that would hurt the Republican par
ty The subsequent course of the leaders
has been confrmatory of this view.
They have concentrated nearly all their
efforts upon the Democratic South, and
used all their exertions to pull Southern
Democrats away from their party. They
have made bargains with Republicans,
both in Tennessee and Alabama, and the
so-called third party movement is being
directed and controlled by the Republican
party managers.
Mrs. Lease, after a tour through the
South begging Democrats to forsake theil
party, hurries home on the eve of the
election to urge the third party people tc
go back to the Republican party.
And the game now being played is the
same old third party game, Ben Butler
in 1884 was the third party candidate fol
President. His platform was almost
identical with that Of the populites. Il
denounced both the old political parties
and prolessed a desire to destroy both OF
them and build up aRother that would bC
pure and free fromNll the evils that cor
rupted the old. He concentrated all hi.
efforts upon the Democratic stronghold O
New York city, as Weaver concentrates
his to-day upon the South. And in Tia,
book he has lately published he shame
lessly confesses that his campaign was
fraud, his platform allie, and that the soil
object Of his race was to elect James G
Blaine, and to fix the party Of force bill
and monopoly more firmly in power.
In18S0 Weaver was the Greenback can
didate for President OF the United States
There were many Greenbackers in tn
Democratic party, especially in Indiana
The whole purpose of Viewers move
ment that year was to get the Greenback
ers out of the Democratic party and thu
, give the State TO the Republicans. Fo
the part he played in that he was pull
licly congratulated by a Republican lead
er on the floor of the House of Represer
tatives and publicly denounced as scour
d drel by Democratic member.
J. 1t is the same old Republican game
: but it has been played little too oite
by the same men,
e Ex-Governor Campbell has resume
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