Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-01-30
COALITION IN KANSAS.
to He Confronted by . Combined
Opposition.

| Opposition.
DEMOCRATS, IT Is SAID. WILL SUPPORT rus STAT,
TICKET OF THE PEOPLES PARTY IN RETURN o,
THE OTHERS SUPPORT OF THE pEuocRAr1,
| Prudential rIcKEr-yfEws OF T. O. woop
| Special Correspondents Of The Evening Star.
TOPEKA. KAN, Jan. %, 1892
There IL no longer any doubt that the re pub
licans will be confronted by o combined oppo
sition in Kansas this year Orders have beer
issued from headquarters Senators German
Hill and Brice conceived the idea and it will be
carried out. They have accomplished more
than this. They have caused the leaders Of the
two democratic factions in Kansas to compro
mise their differences aud "get together" on
the fusion proposition. The peoples party il
to have the support Of democrats for its state
ticket, while the democrats are to be given the
electoral and congressional ticket with two ex-
ceptions-Jerry Simpson and John Davis, pres
ent representatives from the seventh and fifth
districts. In the event the combine carries the
next legislature the peoples party is to have
the U. S. Senator to succeed Senator Perkins
| for the unexpired term of two years
This information comes from unquestioned
authority. In fact the scheme has the ap-
proval Of L. L. Polk, president Of the Farmers
Alliance, and Congressman Livingston Of
Georgia, and comes in the shape of direct
| order from Chairman Brico of The national
| democratic committee. with the unqualified in
dorsement of Senators Hill and German.
OF course, such o combine is regarded as
| dangerous by many republicans who fear that
1t will deliver the ten electoral votes OF Kansas
over to the democracy. Others believe that
there is a large per cent Of the voters of Kan
sas who will not be delivered bodily by Polk
and his democratic conferees. Among this
| class is Hon. j. q. Wood of Topeka. Mr.. Wood
ia r,laIo fhaa 1,1a in
He devoted two months to the campaign in
1880, and again in 1891, speaking in nearly one
hundred of the one hundred and six counties
in the state. His opinions are therefore based
OF his personal knowledge OF the situation.
REPUBLICAN PROSPECTS.
In an interview today he said: THE pros
poets for republican success in 1892 we're never
better. The peoples party is disintegrating
! rapidly since the announcement by one OF their
moguls, Leonidas Polk, that the south could
not and would not be beguiled into the meshes
| OF any third party nets. The further fact that
the alliance Congressman from the south are
seated, working and voting with, and are to all
intents and purposes democrats, will supple
msnt and serve to impress an editorial state
ment OF the Adrocdte a few weeks since, peo-
pies party sheet of this city, that unless the
south declares itself, which it must do, only
failure and defeat await u.s.. Even now, in my
judgment, we have the anomaly Of having five
men in the House and one in the Senate no
| more representing the people Of Kansas than
they do the subjects of the khedive.
The repertOry OF socialism and anarchy has
| been exhausted in formulating the demands
OF the peoples party. So there are no more
demands to make in that direction, and when
ever they have modified demand or stricken
one out the resultant il an Endorsement Of re-
publican principle and practice or a strong
leaning thereuntC. One of the strongest EVIL
dences that republicanism in spirit and prac-
tce is about right is the political clap trap and
trash that is written and spoken against it.
The demands of the peoples party have
been dissected and argued threadbare and
their leaders know it. Even now they are
making the most abiect overtures to the demo-
Gratis. The latter gave them their victory in
1880, but when the time came to divide up the
democrats were not in it. The worshipers OF
Jefferson and jackson think it will be their
fault if they are deceived o second time But
the leaders of the peoples party do not delay
offering the democrats in advance q PROPOSE
ton which will forestall ingratitude on the
part OF the former. The plan contemplates a
| division in advance. For instance, the democrats
and people party meet in separate state con-
ventlons, and each for itself will adopt
platform. then each will nominate alternate
candidates-the democrats the governor and
| the peoples party the lieutenant governor,
and SO on to the end. The friend who related
the above overture to me said: some demo-
Gratis rub their hands and shout when made
acquainted with the scheme. They have no
political principles. but are anything to get
there Others there are, said he, who
shake their heads in ominous silence and pre-
dict ali kinds OF misfortune from any such
| coalition. In that event will not say what
| should do
II said to him to let her go at that. and, in
my judgment, the republicans will sweep the
state. Such proposition from the leaders of
the peoples party logically comedies they have
nothing left except q last effort for spoils. and
II accepted by the democrats the same logic
condemns and puts them in the same box. Re-
combination, and really that is all they can do
that promises glimmer of hope
HOPES OF THE PEOPLES PARTY.
"The peoples party has no hope Of any de
mand' without the aid of the south, and SO
lcng as negro dominancy is the sole cause of
nightmare in that region il will be democratic:
at best until it wakes up to find industrial and
commercial interests clamoring for men in
Congress who shall represent them. They need
and must have protection; they will need and
must have reciprocity; they need and must
have an honest dollar; they need and must
have a secure banking system-all cardinal
doctrines Of ropublicanism. The negro vote
naturally belongs to the labor side-the white
laborer imported there may zee 1t to his in
terest to demand that the negro be allowed to
vote and then that it be counted as cast
The republicans who went with them in
hope OF correcting some real or fancied wrong,
finding that the whole party is confined to a
few hare-bralned yawpers in Kansas. and that
the spOils hunters and place seekers have yir-
tually abandoned principle (for in such an
event platforms are mere traps to deceive the
unwary), will come back into the fold. The
democrats who have investments in Kansas will
see to it that their earthly possessions are no
longer jeopardized by falsehoo and misrepre-
sensations Of men whose demands at no point
have anything in common with democracy