The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-10-21
THE ELEPHANT AND TIGER.

THE ELEPHANT AND TIGER.
an Texas They Lie Down Together. But
the Populists Will Smother Them with
the Bedclothes.
''The two old parties will pursue their
own course and the Farmers Alliance
will pursue its path until enough of its
members recover from their mid-sum-
mer madness, when the organization
will crnmble to pieces, as the old oath
bound 'cret know nothing party did.
If it sh ,uld appear that there was real
danger OF the peoples party holding
together long enough to do great mis-
chief, the democrats would unite with
the republicans, from whom they differ
chiefly on the tariff and offices, and the
two would fight against a common enc
my When that job was ended the two
part IS would separate and resume their
dispute on the tariff as of old."-Chi-
'cago T'ibune, July %. 1891.
desire through the columns of your
paper to call the attention of the popu-
lists OF Texas to few thoughts in con-
nection with the recent republican con-
vention held in Fort Worth.
Since this campaign opened the demo-
Gratis have been industriously charg-
ing all over Texas that the peoples
party was organized in the interest of
the republican party. Now that Judge
Clark, who is the national administra-
ton candidate of the democrats for gov
"ernor, has been formally, openly and
VIGOROUSLY adopted by the representa-
tlves of the national administration re-
publicans of Texas, it will no longer be
in order for the followers of Judge
Clark or of Gov. Hogg, for that matter,
to repeat this stale old charge. Does it
not rather look as if, supposing there
has been conspiracy at all, the
cOnSplratOrs were national demo-
Gratis on the one hand and ma
tlonal republicans on the other, to
crush out the movement of the people
to overthrow forever the ring power in
this state? In strong republican states
the charge is made that our party is
working in the interest of the demo-
Gratis. But there, as here, there is no
difficulty in effecting practical fusion
OF the plutocratic element in both of
the old parties to resist the peoples
party.
In the second place, we have been
predicting for years that whenever we
developed sufficient strength in any
state to seriously endanger the safety
of either of the two old parties, they
would, on the principle that "birds of
feather will flock together" come to-
gether and seek by a union of forces to
crush out our party. Democrats of
h
striking verifcation of the prophetic
character of our predictions Judge
Clark is the Cleveland candidate for
governor of Texas. This is the plain
logic of the situation. Mr.. Quincy is
distinctively and prominently the rep
resentative in Texas of the republican
Harrison administration. AS long as
the peoples party was weak in numbers
and was not supposed to be really
dangerous factor in Texas politics,
these two nominally opposing parties
could consistently fight each other in
open battle, while really not fighting
each other at all. The republican
crowd have been satisfied with federal
patronage in Texas, while the other
crowd has been partaking of state
patronage in large doses. Until re-
Gently each has been content to enjoy
its own preserves in it's own way, prac-
tically undisturbed by the other. But
now that the peoples party has secured
a strong following and threatens to
take possession of both the national
and state governments, it must be de-
strOyed, and the democrats and repub-
licans unite, as we have all along pre-
dicted they would, to accomplish their
purpose.
Again, the combination of Clark,
Quincy & Co., or rather Quincy, Clark &
Co. (Mr Quincy being the controlling
partner in the frm) has forever put
quietus on the democratic cry of ''force
bill"
The fight is now on and we have the
vantage ground. We have more than
$50, 600 voters in line, as shown by our
official returns, and we are making
gains every day from all of the oppos-
ing parties Judge Clark, even with
the assistance of the Cuneyites, cannot
poll in Texas 1850 votes And we
may confidently expect daily accessions
to our ranks from among those hereto
fore known as Clark democrats. Men
who will not be made parties to such
an unnatural combine. Hogg could not
hope to poll 10000 at best, since more
than $50, 900 of our people voted for him
in 1890, to say nothing of the $4,000 or
$4,000 Clark democrats who have also
left him. And now that the fight ap-
pears to be between Nugent and Quincy,
Clark & Co., thousands Of Hogg demo-
Gratis will inevitably come to Judge Nu-
gent to defeat the democratic-republic
an or epublican-democratic ticket.
Speculations are being literally in
dulged in by all of the opposition, that
we are not going to stand together.
The wish in this case, however, is father
to the thought. Those who are in our
clubs, or are Sin the middle of the road"
though not in the clubs, are in no more
danger of getting back on the fence or
getting over on the other side of the
fence than the Baptists of Texas are
iu danger of going bodily over to the
Methodists, or vice versa. Our people
are populists from principle just as our
Christian friends and brothers are Bap-
lists or Methodists from principle. We
all see our opportunity, and we are go
ing to be wise enough to take advan-
tage of it. Possibly weakened, half
converted creature, who, under the in
A,,ance IF neiphbOrhOOd enthusiasm