Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1892-02-03
THE SOUTH AND THIRD PARTY
There is a Misconception Abroad Concer
ing the st Innis Cnnferenca

There is a MiscOnception Abroad Concern
ing the st Louis Conference.
The servile press is laying particular
stress on the fact that Congressman
Livingston, of Georgia, will head a
delegation from that state in the St
Louis conference that is opposed to the
formation of a third party, and thus
taking 1t for granted that the south is
opposed to third party. 1t is little
surprising, but some of our alliance
people and peoples party folks have
had a wrong conception of the objects
OF the st. Louis conference, too
AS we understand il, it is not and
never has been the intention to form a
third party at that conference. 1t will
be meeting of the delegates of the
great industrial organizations to unite
upon platform embodying in its de-
mands finance, land. transportation
and other reforms, as now advocated
by these organizations, and bringing
together these orders that have been
travelling toward the same point, but
upon parallel lines.
Having agreed upon series of de-
mands the delegates will pledge them
selves and their organizations to stand
by them.
The organizations that will be repre-
scented in this conference are non-par-
tisan. The St Louis conference will be
non-partisan but not non-political. The
delegates who will attend that conven-
ton are not going down there on dress
parade before the country, nor will
they indulge in empty phrases and
glittering generalities
Having enunciated a platform of
principles, they will not only stand by
them but they will also declare their
opposition to any and all parties and
men that do not favor them.
The demands of this great industrial
conference will go before the country.
Will the republican party indorse the
demands and nominate men in SYM
patty with them? VIII the democratic
party indorse the demands and place
candidates in the field pledged to their
support? 1T both parties fail or refuse
TO lndorse the platform in unequivocal
terms. and nominate candidates unre-
servedly committed to it's principles,
what Will the members of these in
dustrial organizations do? Will they
go back on their pledges to stand by
their demands?
In the meantime the third party-the
peoples party, that is already formed
will continue the work of perfectino
its organization and enter the list fully
committed to the demands of the St.
Louis conference. If the old parties
reject or ignore these demands, what
will be left for the members of
the great industrial organizations to
do but to unite with the only party or
ganization in the country that promises
to carry forward these demands? Can
they, as honest men earnestly con.
tending for principles they have PRO
claimed as necessary for the welfare of
the country. and the protection of their
rights and liberties, go with any party
that ignores or rejects their demand S?
Where will the alliance people of the
south then stand? Where will the
northern men in the order stande
Where will the F. NJ b A, the K. OF
l. and ali other industrial organiza.
tions stand? With the old parties that
ignore or reject their de hands? or,
viii they stand as one mau for indie.
pendent political actlon2 We shall see.
Topeka (Kan.) Alliance Tribune.