The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-05-20
A SHAM.
The Prets1ses OF the Southern Alliance
That 1t Il In Favor of Third Party Is All
Delusion and a Snare.

The Prety1ses OF the Southern Alliance
That 1t Il In Favor of n Third Party Is All
a Delusion and a Snare.
When the late call was issued by Col.
L. L. Polk and the executive committee
of the National Alliance for meeting
of the state presidents of the order at
Birmingham on business declared in the
call 20 be of the utmost Importance, the
Capital and others commented with sur
prise on the fact that Kansas was not
included in the call, and though the
executive committee did not describe
the proposed meeting as one of the
southern managers alone, only southern
managers were invited. It had gen.
orally been understood that Kansas
alliancemen had some claim TO be con-
sidered loyal to the order. but Kansas
was not Gin it, when this important
call went out.
The proceedings of the convention
disclose the reason for ignoring Kansas
and all other northern states. The con-
vention was called for the purpose of
heading off the third party movement
in the south before it got any Roadway.
and so far as its ability to do so went it
carried out its orders. OF course the
southern bulldozers had no use for Kan
sas. The alliance farmers of the Sum
flower state were applauded and in
dorsed when they organized against
their old party; southern alliance lead
ers came up here, in fact, and gladly
availed themselves of the patriotic priv
ilege of egging them on. Col. Polk
blubbered and "brothahed" the farm
ers of Kansas until the stomachs of
strong men revolted at his sentimental
twaddle. Col Livingston travelled
through the state on the. same racket
and our farmers paid the bills. But
when the alliance men of Kansas, hav-
ing accepted the assurances of these
southern ''brothahs" and having led off
for a new party, looked to the south for
achievements, brothah Polk and
brothah Livingston were still in the
democratic port and had their southern
alliance democratic tug safely anchored
there.
The convention of southern presidents
killed the third party scheme before it
was fairly born. They were called for
that purpose and behind them was not
only Livingston, who no longer makes
any profession of being anything but a
dyed-in-the-wool democrat, but Presi-
dent L. L. Polk, who still pretends to
be reformer. We have seen reports
in alliance papers to the effect that
Folks paper, the Progressive Farmer,
published at Raleigh, n. c., had come
out for the third party, but if there is a
stauncher democratic paper in North
Carolina than this same organ of the
alliance farmers it is not on our eX-
change list While pretending to favor
reform in politics and promising, if 1t
becomes necessary, at some vague
future time to support an independent
organization, the Progressive Farmer
is bending every effort to hold the farm
ers of North Carolina within the old
party lines, and it will succeed. In its
issue of Tuesday, May 5, it urges al
liancemen to stay in the old party and
control it In the course of its argu-
ment it says that 'the alliancemen and
farmers generally are determined to
capture IHc
it further adds:
ave have no more confidence in
many of the democratic leaders in
North Carolina than we have in the re-
publican leaders in Maine. But it is a
condition, not mere sentiment, that con-
fronts us here in North Carolina We
cannot afford to risk negro supremacy
here. We must do the best we can
choose the lesser of two evils-as it
were. If our people will rely on the
primaries we will get all we want Re-
member that nothing more will be said
about your favoring the Ocala or st.
Louis platforms. The politicians are
sick of that Go and insist on getting
what you want. 1t is your patriotic
duty. You owe it to your country and
your family"
AS lash with which to whip demo-
Gratis into line the negro supremacy"
scare has not yet lost its mysterious
power.-Capital.