The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-04-01
POLITICS IN GREENE.
The Usefulness of the Alliance Killed
by the Third Party.

The Usefulness of the Alliance Killed
by the Third Party.
GREENSBORO, GA. March 31.-Political
matters in Greene are warming I'D, and
a hot contest will uuquessionably be the
outcome.
The third party leaders have been work
ing for some months in a secret way en-
deavoring to gain converts to their cause.
but their strength has not been materially
increased. Their eudeavor to use the alli-
snce as a political machine has had the eff
feet of killing the usefulness of the order
and driving from the ranks some of the
very best men they bad. Prior to the
st. Louis convention it must be adj
rnitted that a great number inclined to
the disruption idea. but their eyes
were opened to the true purposes of the dis
atRectiontsts. The plank in the platform
relative to the back pay of union soldiers
was crusher. There are very few men
who do not clearly see what the passage of
such measure. If such measure could ever
muster strength enough to pass, would re-
suit in. The pension swindle has been one
of the greatest factors in impoverishing the
south. 1t has drawn millions from this
section and brought back hundreds. The
people are not fools and nothing could have
aided the democracy more thar this same
pension measure
1t is amusing to see the antics of the third
party leaders in their endeavors to explain
the pension part of the st. Louis conven-
ton. They see that the people whom they
expected to rush into a new organization
under the exciting cry of corruption and
oppression. of high taxes and class legisla-
tiop, have lost confidence in the purity of
their intentions and are believing that the
leaders are in the third party only for 1.-THE
hash" they will get out of it. The leaders
advance the lame excuse that the pension
action was nothing more than a resolution,
and crept into the regular platform "unbe-
knownst." As If resolution did not as
truly and strongly represent the sentiment
and intention of the convention as 500 plat
forms piled one on the other. The same
members voted upon the one as the other,
and the new alleged reformers stand as
strongly committed to work for the back
pension measure as for the government
ownership of railroads and telegraph
lines. The excuse is q miserable subter-
fuge and it won't go down, and it is not
going down the throats of the farmers of
taxpayers of Greene county, though creased
and sugared with all the secret taffy OF the
alliance oath!
But while the third party has no appreci-
able following, and not ghost of a show
ing to elect their men, a great danger con-
fronts us in the local elections. The
negroes are in the majority and it
has only been by consolidated &C
ton o. the whites that the democ-
racy has held the county. With any con-
siderable discussion in the white ranks the
negroes will be emboldened to put out negro
| candidates, and should they properly organ
ize there will be great danger of their sue
cess. 1t may be, and We believe it will,
that in the campaign ahead assertions from
the third party ranks will be so numerous
that the division of the whites will not be
sufficient to embolden the negroes, and the
contest will narrow to the democracy and
the malconUents. In that event the democ-
racy will force the third partyites to the
wall.
The disruptionists have had things their
| own way for some months, and like the calf
with surplus amount of hemp, they have
about hanged themselves. One by one the
ranks are thinning. The takers have mar
rowed down to those who want office. The
democracy is getting ready now for the
| Eight. 1t is fresh and vigorous, with en-
thusiasm growing every day. The cam
paign will be vigorous. The third partyites
will be brought square to the fight and the
| democrats will conduct an aggressive battle
on them and the platform on which they
| stand.
The third party has called mass meeting
| for Saturday next The democracy meets
next Tuesday to formulate plan of CAM
| paign. In a month more the wool will be~
| gin to fly"