The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1892-03-04
THE MASK OF SECRECY OFF.
THE ALLIANCE FOR A THIRD PARTY.
The Clam Policy Can Not be Resorted TO
in Tennessee This Year.
Memphis Commercially


ance has been for a long time a
third party organization masquer-
aiding in clumsy disguise has been
evident to all who cared to know the
truth. At Ocala it adopted a reso-
luton advising its members to vote
for no man and with no party which
refused to endorse it's demands, and
atIndianapolisi requestedall Con-
gressmen who were members of the
Alliance to secede from the Demo-
cratic party and cast their lot with
the third party members. These
declarations themselves, it would
seem, are sufficient to show that the
organization is thoroughly commit
ted to the third party movement.
When the committee Of the Peo-
pies party met and secretly confer
red with the Alliance convention at
indianapolis, and then issued their
address declaring that they had ac-
complished their object, they knew
whereof they spoke, as the result of
the st. Louis conference has dem
onstrated. The Indianapolis con-
vention deferred an open declara-
ton for the Peoples party for no
other reason than to have it made
jointly with all the crank organiza-
tions in the country. 1t called this
st. Louis concern into being, and
then in union with the Knights Of
Labor, the single takers, the wom-
an suffragists and other orders, it
threw off its mask. The Alliance
was the dominant power and infu-
ence IN that convention and it led
the way. Polk, Macune, and Ter
rell there stripped themselves Of
their gauzy DISCUSSES and cast aside
all their pretensions Of Democracy,
These gentlemen have been every
where proclaiming their loyalty to
the Democratic party. Mr.. Terrell
has stumped the State Of Tennes-
see, and from every stump he shout
ed, " | am Democrat" We knew
then that he was a pretender, just
as we have known that Polk anC
Macune were pretenders. But Mr.
Terrell had an end in view by call
ing himself a Democrat. He was
brought here to serve the cause o.
Alliance politicians in Tennessee
who dared not yet cast off their dis
guises because they believed, as they
boosted, that they could "contro
the Democratic party We arc
glad, therefore, to see Mr.. Terrell
name signed to the address calm!
upon the people to organize anC
send delegates to a third party con
vention We are glad to see Polk
the president of the order, and Ma
cune, the editor Of Its national or
gan, showing themselves as the,
are. We are glad to see our nobl
order itself at last flying its owl
piratical flag instead Of the stolel
flag Of the Democratic party.
What will our Alliance leaders il
Tennessee do? Openly and hon
estly renounce the Democratic par
tv as the Alliance has done, or vii
they play out their fraud to the end
? No one who knows them will as
) the question. They know too we
that their chance to get and hol
Office depends upon their keepin
t up the sham until after the cleo
!. ton. Whatever they may do, O
: may have already done in the Sc
e cretmeetings, they will openly pre-
: tend loyalty to the Democratic pan
' ty. But the people viii bear i
: mind'the little sentiment declare
by the organ Of the Tennessee A