The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-09-21
THE ALLTED PARTY.

The new national party mas at last Deen
launched It is the Allied party which
the country will have to deal with in
the future, instead of the Populists, So
cialists, public-ownership and other like
organizations. All are now allied, or will
be when the political machinery chosen
is put in effective operation.
Is the Allied party likely to include
Democrats who have fought the battle
of free silver for the past five years? 1t
must of course include the two wings OF
the Populist party, since it embraces all
that the Populists have been demanding.
1t is based, in a sense, on the Omaha
platform, about which the late Ignatius
Donnelly in his day used to have so
much to say 1t will bring within it's
fold all of the Socialists except the ex-
trenlists, since it embodies purely So
cialistic programme. Indeed it is difficult
to understand why the new organization
should not embrace in it's membership
all of the so-called reform parties, unless
it be the Silver Republicans alone.
The programme of the new party, as
outlined in the work of the committee on
resolutions of the Kansas City gathering,
includes everything which can be found
in the Chicago platform of 1896 and that
of Kansas City in 1900, to which Demo-
Gratis took exception. Of course it omits
all pretense of being Democratic; and
therefore much of what is embodied IN.
the last so-caIled national Democratic
platforms is necessarily omitted from it.
But in it's scope and purpose it does not
differ materially from what was declared
at Chicago to be sound Democratic doc
trine
The one great divergence from the Chi
cago document lies in the demand of
Allies for a scientific" money, to be is.
sued by the government. The financial
preferences of the new party are so
original in their way that nothing, in the
way of a statement of them, short of the
text of the resolutions themselves, will
do justice to them Here is that text:
Fourth-We favor scientific money,
based upon the entire wealth of the peo-
pie of the nation, and not redeema bic in
any specific commodity, but to be full
legal tender for all debts, private or pub
lie. to be issued by the government only,
and without the intervention of banks,
sufficient in quantity to meet the re-
quirementS Of commerce.
Will this meet the requirements of the
free silver apostles? 1t certainly ought
to do so. 1t does away at one fell swoop
with the national banks, and is good
enough to meet the requirements of the
greebackers of old Under it, we will be
provided with money which can be is
sued without substantial limit, and which
in its tangible form may be represented
celluloid or shale, including silver In
deed there is no reason why this declar-
alton or something like it should not be
adopted as embodying the requirements
of the free silverites. 1t simply fails to
specify the material of which the ''scien-
tific" money shall be composed.
The only other feature of the new
party programme against which the free
silverites might raise objections is the
Initiative and referendum with the i'm
perative mandate, especially the impera-
tive mandate. A good many of the fol-
lowers of the free silver cause had not
been educated at the close of the last
campaign up to any such standard of
scientific" political knowledge as to
fully comprehend the initiative and ref
erendum and the imperative mandate.
That, however, is circumstance which
should not discourage any real student
of reform politics.
The most immediate result of the for
nation of the new party looks to us to
be the serious interference which it must
necessarily work with the union of Dem
ocrats and fusion Populists which has
just been organized for state campaign
purposes in Nebraska.