Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 July 1891 — THE NEW DEMOCRATIC ALLY. [ARTICLE]

THE NEW DEMOCRATIC ALLY.

Indisputable Evidence that the People’s Party is Assisting the Free-Trade Party. New York Press. The course of the Farmers’ Alliance leaders in the South has been often cited in these columns as demonstrating the fact that the Alliance is being nourished as an ally of the Democratic party for the purpose of dividing the Republican vote in the Northern and Western states, and so Bringing about Democratic victory. The Southern Alliance men have invariably declared opposition to the third-party movement, and insist that while they are determined toput Alliance men into office they will do it by nominating Alliance men for office on the Democratic tickets in their States. In other words though Alliance men they are democrats still. At the same time, encouragement has been given to the Alliance leaders in Republican states to stand out for a third-party movement. The scheme is so transparent that the veriest tyro in politics can discern its purpose. There is evidence fresh from Ohio that the Alliance and the Democratic party are working together for Republican defeat The witness is the man who is most entitled to know the situation, Governor Campbell, the

Democratic, nominee for re-elec-ion. In an interview telegraphed from Pittsburg to a New York Democratic journal he is quoted as sayiDg: “Governor Hill will also take a hand in our campaign, as will also 'Congressman Jerry Simpson, of. Kansas, and Senator PeffeSjf Messrs. Cleveland and Hill will lx? invited by the Democratic party; the. other two wjll be brought into the slate by the Farmers’ A 1 banco. The Alliance is very strong with us now, and is hand in hand with the df mocrats. It will nominate no ticket this year.” When. Governor Campbell can speak so confidently of the Alliance plans in Ohio, and so emphatically claim that the Alliance is working “hand in hand” with the Democratic party in that State, it is time that the Republicans who may have been deluded into affiliation with the Alliance movement should get their eyes opened. In every Southern State the Alliance members are avowedly DemocratS-Jmr politics, and rei fuse to leave that party. Now, er one of the principal Northren States, where an election is pending, they are avowed to be operating with Democracy for Republican defeat.