The state chronicle., 1892-05-18


government, and the great body of our
people, usually called the common peo-
pie, the laboring people and the honest
masses, have as rule or by large ma
jOrity belonged to the democratic party.
That party is the one to which the class
OF our population above mentioned has
to look for protection and support
When | first took an interest in politics
the two dominating parties were the
wing and democratic parties. There was
an abolition party, free soil party, a
temperance party, and an American or
know nothing party ; but none of them
ever succeeded permanently in forming
a new party or displacing one of the old |
parties until the commencement of the
late unfortunate war, when the whig
party was absorbed by the free soil party,
afterwards known as the republican
party.
Since that time the great controlling
parties of the country have been the
republican party and the democratic
party and | have no doubt such
will remain the case for several de-
cades to come, and that the great
effort now being made to form a new
party to be known as the peoples party
will fail after one or two. elections for
want of sufficient strength and numbers,
and those who may now compose that
party will fall back into one or the other
or both the old parties.
AS family quarrel is usually the bit
tereSt of any other and it is the hardest
to restore peace and friendship it is but a
reasonable expectation that during the
present contest the republican and dem
ocratic parties will stand firm, and the
third or peoples party will rally some
| STRENGTH to ntoi
great national party, and the result will
be that within two or three years they
will fall back mostly with the republican
party. For the present the republicans
: will not undertake to absorb them, but
as they will be more unfriendly to the
democratic than to the republican party
t they can more readily be induced to
f unite with the republicans, and we may
: expect, if the third party is successful
! this fall, or if it polls a strong vote, to
t see 1t unite with the republican party a
h. year or two hence, and then by the union
$ Of the white and colored republicans and
t the peoples party democrats who are all
t fused together in one party, they NAV
: have strength enough to take control of
!, our affairs in the south, and the result
o may be the almost indefinite retention of
i national power by the republican party
h 1t seems to me, therefore, that nothing
e is more to be deprecated than the third
J. party movement. which has resulted OF
) which may result in division of the
l. democratic party and division of the
II white race in the south.
y We cannot blame the colored men who
l. belong to the republican party from
h making the best arrangements they car
n after the disruption and reorganization
takes place; but of course the colOreC
men will make arrangements when tn,
1t fusion has taken place for portion O
:, the offices and part of the patronage. Ii
y other words, the result would be to di
g vide the white people of the south anc
ID place the colored people in connection
+, with the white republicans and the thir(
10 party men, making the republican part,
it of the future in power for many year
to come
~ l need not comment upon the state O
r things that would ensue. | need no
ell warn our brethren of our own race O
to the danger of such a situation. Their owl
lie sense of self preservation and protection
e. will surely be strong enough to caus
t. them to throw their influence their &C
O. ton and their energy all into the seal
Us with the democratic party to retain mat
r. ters in the South as they have existed fo
,h number of years past.
al In other words, it is indispensable t
H. the future prosperity and happiness c
to the white race of the South that w
'rt should maintain as we have done fC
w MANY years in the past solid South, an
n to remain solid it is necessary that th
to whole white race vote the Democrat
ke ticket together. In doing this, how
,h ever, we should see to it diligently an
as carefully that no injustice is done tn