The state chronicle., 1892-05-18

OOAOAON
times the full measure of their legal
rights.
This insures a solid organization, and
the protection of our rights in the South
against the aggression of the Republican
party in the North. Any other course on
our part will put the Republican party
permanently into power, and will fasten |
upon us of the South force laws, pro-
scriptiOn and colored domination.
The picture is horrible to contemplate:
but it is no less certain that it will be
faithfully carried out if the Republican
party can succeed in dividing the white
race of the Southern States. This has
been cherished object on their part for
twenty years past, and they were never
SO hopeful as they are in the present
movement for third party organization
AS an old man-On the retired list and
without any political aspirations-who
has for long time enjoyed your conf
dence and support, and who has tried
to make the study of your interests and
welfare prominent feature OF his life
warn you against the first step leading
to division of the white race of the
South and the Democratic party, as the
fatal step which will bring untold misery
to our people if it is successful.
The question whether one or another
leading man shall hold this, that or the
other Office sinks into insignificance
when compared with the importance of
maintaining the Democratic party and
the solid South.
l know that certain classes of our pop
ulation feel that their interests and rights
have not been properly protected by the
government, and they feel that they have
a grievance on that account, and as the
first step for the correction of that griev-
ance they formed an alliance Of Southern
farmers, which, as the public understood
and believed, was non-political organi-
Zation.
That organization is now being made
the basis of political party to be known
as the Third or Peoples party, and the
people are advised to look to that Third
party organization as the surest safe
guard OF their rights in future, and to
expect the protection of their rights from
| no other quarter.
| Now, if the Democratic party, which
has not in thirty years had the control of
the government in all of it's branches, has
been unable for lack of power to pass
such laws as were necessary for the pro
lection Of the Southern farmer, planter
and other Southern laborers, how can the
people expect that a new party, com.
: posed of fragments of different parties
1 out of which the new party is Just now
I oelng formed, can acquire within a rea
2 sonable length of time the strength tt
e dictate laws to our people and to place
upon the statute books such enactments
0 as may be necessary to protect the inter
4 eSts which the Democratic party ha.
\ never had the power to protect?
\ Now what is the best plan to reach thi
4 object?
e When the Democratic party has KEEP
+ up constant struggle for thity years t.
o try and acquire the power to enact legis
l. lation beneficial to the people, and ha
d made decided progress is it better to sticl
n to that party when it has almost reache,
q the power necessary for the accomplish
y ment OF these objects, or is it safer t.
S throw it aside, and out of it's divide,
numbers and one or two other parties
IT attempt to form an organization of suffi
IT cient strength to control Congress an,
II the President, to enact laws which tn
n Democrats, after struggling for thirt
n years, have not been able to reach?
'e | must think that it would take tn
3 new party much longer time to over
lie throw the Democratic and Republica
t. parties than it has taken the Democrat
'r party to reach almost the very goal of it
am mbitiOn.
20 But | have no abuse and no unkin
IF words of any character for the farmer
7e and laborers united with the Farmer
or Alliance who are seeking, in what seem
id to me to be an unsuccessful manner, t
he reach the protection of their rights.
ic Being born of humble parentage, an
v having passed all the period of my lif
I'd up to manhood laboring on a farm, an
le having been associated with farmers i