The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1893-06-02
NEW ALIGNMENTS.
OLD ISSUES WILL NO LONGER
SIEVE TO RALLY THE
PEOPLE.
Now Issues, New Mon and New Party
Must Come to the Front-The People
Won't Be Fooled All the Time.


see that there must be new align
ment of parties in this country. The
people will no longer respond to the
old rallying cries. The issues upon
which the old parties have fought their
battles are dead. This was quite ap-
parent months before the campaign Of
last year came to a close, in the very
apparent apathy and Indifference mani
tested by the people. Nothing in that
campaign was so conspicuous by it's
absence as the torch bearer, so promi-
No 1T as the absence of the general en-
thusiasm that characterized former
campaigns
New issues, new men and new
party are coming to the front, and in
this, history will simply repeat itself.
The time is ripe for new party align
ments-ever recurring period in the
worlds progress, and without which
nations would stagnate and die. And
here let US say what foolish idea it is
to suppose that the life of an old
party can be prolonged for any great
length of time beyond the acceptance
OF the principles upon which it was
founded. Such a theory is conserva-
tism gone to seed.
There are two elements to the govern
ment-radicalism, ever the vanguard
and blazing the way for advancement
and higher civilizations; conserva-
tism, necessary function of gov
eminent, slow and cons,derate,
acting as the governor to the engine,
holding in check the ideas of advance
thinkers until the people are educated,
and then camps on the ground vacated
from t'vo 90 four years before by the
radicals.
For yesrs both of the old parties
have fought shy Of the financial issues,
and have avaded these questions as far
as it was possible for them to do, and
INDUCED in a sham fight on the tariff
Issues, in which there was neither sim
oerity Of purpose or honesty Of
principles.
Those issues are practically ell
minated from the contests of the
future. They served their purpose in
two national campaigns in deceivine
the people. In 1888. protection won.
In 1892 tariff reform was successful,
and under both the people lost, as they
find the. country in a worse condition
than ever before, without any hope Of
relief.
The details of this sham fighting
were prearranged and managed by
the money power that controls the
leadership of both of the old parties.
The little cloud that appeared no
bigger than a mans hand" that arose
above the political horizon in the early
'70s,. has assumed the proportions of q
furious storm, and the old political
hulks are being driven before the
storm as they never were before. They
have hauled in their projections, re.
ciprocity, tariff reforms and tariff for
revenue only sails, and are scudding
under bare poles for any haven of
safety and uncertain of any.
1t is not within the power of tho
politicians to deceive the great COM
mon people much longer. The logic
of events is doing it's work. The con-
tinued pressure of hard times, scarcity
of money, dull trade, constantly in
creasing failures, and Industrial and
commercial stagnation, all som bine to
cause the people to think as they never
have before. Careful and considerate
thought has aroused the people, and
they are in rebellion against the
wrongs inflicted upon them, and they
are getting together and the great
new party is forming that shall free
the people.
1t is quite apparent that the old
party leaders realize the futility of at
tempting to rally their followers upon
the old issues, and are also uncertain
as to what is best for them to do. But
one thing is sure, and that is that they
realize that they can no longer evade
the financial issues, but they must be
met and that squarely. too.
It is probable that the old lines will
be maintained during the Congress
sional campaign next year, but after
that the new aligments will begin
preparatory to the campaign of 1895.
The signs Of the times are such that
predictions are freely made as to the
future of the two old parties A split
IN the Democratic party on the silver
question seems to be inevitable. Tho
South and West will never go with
Cleveland and the Eastern gold bugs.
AS to the Republican party it is evil
IDENTIFY in the throes of dissolution and
will probably never be heard of as
party after the Congressional elections
next year. The Bourbon element in
that party will likely join what il
now known - the Cleveland Demoo-
racy," backed by Wall Street, and viii
rally under the banner of plutocracy.
The Peoples party, together with
the Jefferson-Jackson Democrats and
Lincoln Republicans will form the