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Show A DEMOCRATIC SCHEME, lb Tarty It l iing E-ry :.T.rt to Win )Tr tlm VVfiluM AllUnr. Washington, April 15. If anything was needed to positively conlirm the belief that tho political' wing of the farmers' alliance is being, and is to ho controlled fn the north and west by democratic ageuts, it came today in the statement of tho president of' the alliance in tho published prediction hero that Grover Cleveland will be the democratic nominee, and also the disconnected announcement announce-ment that Representative Wilson of West Virginia, chairman of the executive committee of the national association as-sociation of democratic clubs, had started upon a trip to the Pacific const and the northwest for the ostensible puriio.se of organizing campaign clubs and raisin? orimnl'ation fmuL 11 u ill , go as a free democratic, agent, representing repre-senting the national organization, to designate agents to work among the farmers with a view to controlling con-trolling their organization and having it put a candidate in the field for the presidency next year. Tho consuming fear of the democratic, national committee commit-tee and the leading tneti in the parly is that the alliance, in recognition cf the services the last congrefi rendered the farnffrs ar.d that which the present pres-ent administration is performing, will not put an independent presidential candidate in the lield. Mr. Cleveland is moving everything in sight to prod up the farmers in tho weslern states, especially Nebraska, Kansas, Hwa, the Dnkotas and Minnesota, to demand an alliance presidential nominee. nom-inee. The democrats are sending Mr. West to manipulate tho alliance the same as they controlled tho prohibition party last year, in the interests of democratic dem-ocratic candidates for congress and state offices. |