The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-11-13
A PARTY COASTER.

Carthage Mo, has an enthusiastic member of the Allied Third Party brand of politics who is getting much satisfaction out of the late elections. He is rejoiced at the death of fusion. which he thinks has occurred, and equally re- joiced wherever either the Democrats or Republicans have been worsted. In fact, this Mir Cook wants to see all the old parties and all the new parties except his condemnation. He says:
 The people will never again turn to the Democratic Party for relief. The new Party Is the only salvation for the honest voters of the Populist and Democratic Parties. Everywhere that the old Demo- cratic Party is in power it shows its in- competency and lack of honesty and sin cerity.
 According to this prognosticator. the two old Parties may as well don all the habiliments of woe and go away back. etc. They are not to be in 1t any more whatever, howsoever or forever. Their final end has arrived, for he declares that
 both the old Parties are doomed by the coming of the new Allied Third Party"
 If he is a true prophet. therell be big
 rummage sale of political b-ic-a-brac in
 the near future.
 | But we seem to have heard something
 like this before, almost half-a-century
 ago. When the Know Nothing Party
 was taking the country by storm in the early sos, the enthusiastic converts to that political doctrine shouted their belief that both the Whig and Democratic Par ties were gone. world without end, and l that the new star which had risen above the horizon would blot them out of exist ence. It was the death of the Whig Party, practically, but the Democratic Party continued to do business and elect ed the next President. And 1t buried the new American Party too deep for politi- cal resurrection. True. it has had some pretty hard jolts since that time, and has on more than one occasion seemed about ready for the undertaken, but it possesses wonderful rejuvenescent powers, and al
 ways manages to come up to the ropes In time for another bout.
 What this Allied Third Party can hope | tions have done is hard to see. It will gather a following of unattached politi- cal malcontents, just as summer whirl-
 wind gathers up straws. dried leaves and
 other trash, and will carry them in its | folds for a time and then it will fall to | pieces and it's component parts will be
 scattered over the earth. The truth is, | for whatever disasters have fallen to it's lot. When it has fought its campaigns
 honestly and fearlessly on Democratic principles, it has in the main been suc-
 cessful but when it wanders off after
 strange gods, abandoning principle and l trying to achieve success by taking up
 new and untried theories and experi-
 ments, it meets with disaster, as 1t de-
 serves. l This new venture in the way of Party building may achieve some success in some portions of the country, but we pre- dict that it's life will be a brief one. Two or three rings on its horns and two or three buttons on it's tail will make up the period of its existence. Dissatisfied or disappointed members of the two old Parties may attach themselves to it, and for brief period 1t may cut some figure in the politics of the day, but the most it can do is to get in the way and make a nuisance of itself. Republicans and Democrats will wander away from
 the fold, but they will get tired of the
 husks and come back to their old feeding
 grounds. We have little fear that the
 Allied Third Party will break up the old Parties-not immediately.