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Show TALKING THRO' HIS HAT. . President Polk of the Farmers' Alliance Al-liance of the United States talks as though the people's party had not retired re-tired from politics. He says that the southern alliance men are opposed to Cleveland and that if nominated he cannot carry more than three southern states. President Polk talks like a man up a tree, and more than that he knows that what he says is not true. The Times does not believe that Cleveland Cleve-land can be elected if renominated, but the Stuffed Prophet's weakness does not lie in the direction pointed out by Mr. Polk, and no one knows it better than the alliance president himself. As the nominee of the democratic party, Mr. Cleveland would carry a solid south and there would be no opposition from the alliance. The alliance is not now a factor in politics. When Mr. Polk calls up the great combination of "Stanford and Polk" he excites laughter. The California financier has no more chance of heading a national ticket than has Mr. Polk himself, and Mr. Polk's chances are not to be mentioned men-tioned in the same breath with those of Jebry Simpson of Kansas. |