The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1892-03-18
THE, CRITICS OF THE CON
FERENCE.

cratic press Ll an any OF L4ic llttLlOudl
reform conventions that have been
held since tlie farmers alliance WAS
organized, and their remarks are
charged with an acid bitterness born
OF disappointment and eiargin, caused
by tile unexpected un nimity and
enthusiasm. Of the conference in favor
of the organization OF 4 third party,
and by the harmonious union Of re-
form forces upon few fundamental
principles, leaving untouched minor
questions upnu which a division of
opinion exists in the ranks Of the
reform element.
It was hoped and expected by the
politicians Of tie old parties, that, Oh
account OIL. the number uf organizations
represented in the convention, the di-
yersIty of opinion existing upon many
questions which it was expected would
be forced upon the conference, aHG the
opposition of certain alliance leaders ia
the south, who were delegates to the
convention, that the conference would
be torn into discordant factions, and
would burst zap in disorder, without amy
decisive notion having been taken upon
the main questions of political reform,
that form the basis of the demands OF
| the farmers M lance aHd kindred
organizations.
| But contrary to the hopes OF the old
party politicians, the unauimity of the
conference on the basal principles of
1 tile new political dispensation, and the
universal sentiment manifested from
the beginning Of the conference, to
unite Oh a few fundamental prOpO-
sitiuns upon the most pressing issues
Of the day, emitting reference to ques-
lions of secondary importance upon
which the reform forces are not agreed,
exceeded the expectations of the most
sanguine friends of progress. While
reliable news from all parts of the
country show that the ''new declar-
alton of independence" has touched Il
responsive chord in the breasts of the
tOiiing millions in every section of the
country, and is receiving the approval
Of conservative business men who have
not heretofore separated from their
former political associations, the
vieiOusness displayed by some of the
great metropolitan duilies in their
criticisms of the action of the confer
ence, shows they appreciate with fear
and trembling the full Significance OF
! the political movement organized and
launched by the conference which they
fippantly and foolishly characterize
as an aggregation of cranks. With few
, exceptions the democratic papers rec
A., Ognize the Importance of the confer
. eIice and the business and sOuudue5s Of
some of the plBnks of the platform
while OH the other hand the tone o.
S the republican press is cOntemptOui
i and sardonic without a shadow o.
l. legitimate argument. II seems to bt
e agreed uPo.l by the politicians who ar
II now manipulating the republican
It machinery, that the proper policy T.
II pursue towards the third party, is no
ID to enter tile arena of logical debat
IA upon the propositions advocated, bu
ID to attempt to distract tile attention q
the people from the merits OF the ST
=, Louis platform by general denunci
alton of the leaders AS cr.lnks au
!. howlers, and their demands Il
absurdities that could only be matches
- By the Inmates of a luuatie asylum.
The following from the Chicago I'r
- Jlsle is Il specimen Of the character Z
the comments made by the grea
republican dailies:
If 1t were possible to carry out thl
> mad scheme of the nc wlers and crank
IL
or plight. 1t would make so much part
IN patronage as to cOnveTt the admins
tFatiOn into a national Tammauy ha
II. and establish in power a centralizv
= corrupt rObber despOtism that cOui
: not be depOssd at the ballot box, bt
. only got rid of by bloody civil wa
In short. the entire scheme OF these IL
!, lows could only he matched by the II
- mates of IL lunatic asylum for vagaE
- =, and folly, and by those of penitei
T., tiaFy for dishonesty and rascali,y c
~ purpose"
- An intelligent man cOnversant wit
al the enlightened thought of the age apo
the questions of political economy il
lg volved ia the platform adopted by tt
ne st. Louis conference, and familiI
rs with the results OF the application {
s. those principles that have been mad
tn in other countries, en- come to bu
I'd one conclusion its to the character q
ic the writer's who penssuch stuff rs Il
Re above extract, and that is, that the
II are either INSCRIPTIONS seoul
O. dreIs, who are employed by corpo
O. atoms and trusts or politicians, to T
he tlrd reform by wilfully deeeiving IA
he misleading the people, or they are sill
ut simpIetOns who are utterly ignorant
the elementary principles of govern
ment or political economy, and knO
ia as little as an Apache Indian of Il
is operation of public utilities umd,
'g government ownership in the cOul
Il tries that have adopted such system
I'd One Of the propositions these penn
lg a-liners denOuuce as absurd, is that il
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