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Show Ipj 0, GRESHAM 1$ tlfc Name of the Choice of the People's Party Leaders for 1 President. Colonel L. L. Polk Will be the Man for JBecond Place if all Bsports Ik Are True. Ft'E CLOSES JAY GOULD And That Where the Illinois Jurist Gjts HiMStrength, Says aL-ad-v Al!ianc3 Maa. IT WILLI BE UNANIMOUS. IT the Id iul(aiiK dominate Itlaine iu That FahVin ! Alliance Can Ho" u Similnr Act. Chicago, May 25. If some of the leaders have their way Judge 'Walter Q. Crcham will be the nominee for president if the people's party and farmers' alliance c onvention onven-tion that assembles in Omaha on July 2d and makes its nominations on July 4th, and he will have as a running mate Colonel L. L. Polk, president of the National Farmers' Alliance Al-liance and Industrial union. According to the present programme it is proposed to take a leaf out of the book of republican suggestions and dse it for all it is worth. inic of the republican forces are talking about nominating James (J. Blaine with a hurrah willy nilly, whether he wants it, or will take it, or whatever else. The people's party and alliance men aforesaid, propose to nominate Gresham ou the same lines. They know that he would not accept the nomination nomina-tion and lead the party; and they know, moreover, that even if he did it would have no chance of success, but bring out a full vote of those who desire to protest against the present order of things, and that consequently conse-quently in the event of his being made the nominee his declination would not make the slightest difference as lon as an opportunity opportu-nity was afforded to the followers of the third party to vote for a man whom they know to be in hearty accord with their prin-eipies. prin-eipies. Moreover, it is argued that Judge Cresham's name would draw the suffrages of the immense floating clement which does not vote for either the republican or democratic demo-cratic ticket, and would not vote for a peo- I pie's !arty ticket ex .-ept as a way of recording record-ing their admiration of Gresham as a man, statesman and jurist. One of the leaders of the people's party, a man who is known to the labor aud agricultural agri-cultural movement throughout the country, and whose writings on finance have been translated into a half dozen tongues, has just returned from a tour of nearly two-third:- of the states of the union, and which was inaugurated soon after the St. Louis conference of February. Ou this tour he Bias been in communication with third party man holding all the virions ideas embodied ' in that platform, and his views, therefore, 'arc oi jffcat weight in the present juncture, iuis is what lie says: "The American people will undoubtedly be treated to the biggest political surprise party this fall that ever occurred in the history his-tory of the country unless all signs are at fault. While the generals of the republican and democratic parties are undoubtedly familiar fam-iliar with the growth of the people's party, it would be exceedingly bad policy on their part to communicate the information to their well drilled aud disciplined rank and ri.e. The fact is that the people's party has had an an precede at ed growth during the past year. Especially is this the case all over the southern states. The homogeneous character of the southern people is largely responsible for this ranid development, be- down upon them. Their suggestions of re-! re-! form were often impracticable and chitnerl- eal, but the popular movement grew, and j the political and economic education of the members of the party progressed and their reforms became more wise and reasonable. reason-able. In fact tile experience of the party-was party-was evolution carried into polities. In the years gone by the middle class voters of the towns and cities turned their backs upon this growing movement of the producers because there was soine color to the assertion asser-tion that it was led l3- cranks and dreamers, j but everj- month during the past year the I principles and methods of the people's party j have advanced nearer and nearer to a point j where the average well-to-do American citizen citi-zen of our tow ns and cities can give them j assent, and aid in giving them ex- pression in the law of the land. Many people's party organs have already put up the names of Gresham and i Polk as their favorite pre-i.lential nominees. nomi-nees. It is noticeable that the Knights of Labor, at their recent meeting in Philadelphia, Phila-delphia, did the same thing, .fudge (ires-ham's (ires-ham's attitude toward Jay Gould and the corporations is well known. Hence, no party whose nominating convention is control con-trol c.l by corporations will ever put Walter Q. (iresham in nomination for president, hence, the republican party at its Minneapolis Minne-apolis convention is not at all liable to select se-lect him for its standard-bearer. On tb Fourth day of July, 18M3, the people's parly will make its nominations. "It has been suggested that Judge Gresham Gres-ham would be an acceptable candidate upon the main issue, that the great, plain people shall rule it instead of the corporations. Suppose a majority of the delegates to that people's party convention are willing to accept ac-cept Judge Graham on that main issue without making him pledge. himse f to a Specific reform; supppse, under un-der those circumstances, Judge (ires-i (ires-i am accepts the nomination at the hands of the people's party. What follows? In the first place, the disaffected republican vote that is suspicious that the republican party is now being run !3- corporations and plutocratic money, and not by the sentiments senti-ments of the hunest rank and file of the party, are exceedingly liable to break away from their old political affiliations and vote for a patriot like Judge (iresham on the main issue. Many patriotic democrats would doubtless do the same, because conscientious conscien-tious citizens, who have hitherto been members mem-bers of that party, an' beginning to doubt its sufficiency for the needs of the times. "Observant philosophers affirm that we are now in an epoch of political transition greater than that of 18.V, when the young republican party was rising to prominence and domination, w hile the old whig organization organi-zation vanished in the tomb. This circumstance cir-cumstance would give Judge Gresham's candidacy can-didacy great possibilities in tl e matter of votes. Col. Polk, as president of the national nat-ional farmer's alliance and industrial union is at the head of millions of farmers with whom he is immensely popular, and whenever when-ever he has appeared in a northern state he has captured the hearts ond confidence of the people. This fact makes him a mnt available candidate for vice-president. The way to the nomination of (iresham by the people's party delegates will lie much smoothed because local leaders in the party who aspire to legislative or congressional positions in their respective states will know-that know-that the nomination of Gresham would mean the birth of a new boom that would c.irry them triumphantly into office, when with any other candidate they might he defeated. The time has now arrived in this people's party movement when its mmagers are becoming be-coming politic. They des.ie to win victories victor-ies and not to score defeats as has been the case in their political struggles in the past. "It is ominous for both of the Aid parties that the peopled party has come to recognize recog-nize that. hotL policy and .wisdjjm rers ui.ru the nomination of a presidential canuidate who can command the suffrages and confidence confi-dence of the great middle class of America, without whose aid no political victory can be scored. Judge Gresham is looked upon a a patriot statesman of the Lincoln type. There is an impression abroad among the great common people that he w ould give the Country a lofty administration along the old democratic lines of the fathers. This conviction on the part of the masses is an element of strength, and has potentialities that cannot, be over-estimated. It may be said in this connection that the solid democratic demo-cratic south has as truly vanished from that section as human slavery. It wiil have no oxistenee in the future, and it is now declared de-clared by millions of alliance farmers that if any question comes up as tothe votes of the negro people' part- members being counted, that their right of free suffrage will be enforced en-forced by the shotgun if necessary, which will be a striking trans-position of use on the part of that weapon which has hitherto been a formidable factor in southern polities." poli-ties." . , . cause the population there, especially the rural population, is almost exclusively American. Am-erican. In live southern states not one per cent, of the people is of foreign birth. Then there U the additional circum-tance that all the farmers and planters of the south have a positive kinship of interest in all sections. The small farmer who raises two bales of cotton a year, and the great planter who raies twenty thousand bales are precisely of one opinion as to the reforms which have a bearing upon their interests. The farmers' farm-ers' alliance in the south now numbers nearly near-ly three million w hite men. 'There are also over a million colored men in the colored farmer's alliance. Since the St. Louis conference of February 22, 1SSJ, it has been made manifest to those who have the means of knowing that -his great bos', is squarely Committed to the peop e's party. So much so is this the case that alliance congressmen of the south, who had been hitherto strict ly democratic, and desired lo keep the alliance movement strictly within the lines of the democratic party, have been compelled to commtt themselves unreservedly un-reservedly to the people'.-, party movement, because to do otherwise would be to commit political suicide. "It is a noticeable fact that in this people's party movement its membership is purely American. This is universally the ca-e in the southern states, and in Kansas, where it made such a marvelous manifestation of itself in the fall elections of last year. Ninety-five per cent of the population of Kansas is American born. While this is the ease, however, the people's party has nothing noth-ing in common with the know-kuothing pafty of thirty-rive years ago, because it is almost fanatically devoted to the great cardinal principles upon which the republic was founded, that welcomes to equality of right and privileges the good of all lands. This preponderance of native-born Americans Ameri-cans in the movement is probably destined to have a potent influence upon the growth of the peop e's party. The middle c!as Americans in our towns and cities, who arc-now arc-now thinking upon political and industrial questions as they never thought before, are certain to be inoculated with the people's party ideas by contact with the American element with which they arc one in kin and essential belief. It is a well recognized fact cmong those familiar with the situation that the average middle class American voter of intelligence in our towns and cities is now more lax in his allegiance to his dar old party than ever before be-fore in the history of the country. There is obviously- a breaking up of old political convictions, con-victions, beliefs and fa ths among this class. This is shown in large cities by the birth of citizens and independent movements, and the growth in number of rest pocket voters. These middle class voters, while they are thinking intensely, do not say much to indicate indi-cate that there has been any- lapse in loyalty to their old parties, and about the only way in which their falling off from their old political affiliations can be marked is after the election returns are in. From these incontrovertible in-controvertible facts it is evident that a new party, having a sublime constructive mission, mis-sion, is as truly with us today as in lStJO, when Abraham Lincoln's election scored the first victory of moral ideas in American politics. It is growing with unexampled rapidity along the main latuc that this republic re-public should in the futuAlic a government of the people, by the people, and for the people, and not a government of, by aud for corporations, trut and millionaires. That this sentiment is rapidly taking possession of the minds of the middle class Americans, who do not make money out of politics, is obvious to anyone who makes even a cursory cur-sory investigatim of the BUbject. "It is a striving fact in conjunction with the developmnt of the people's party movement, move-ment, that this new organization at every one ot4ts. conferences and conventions becomes be-comes 'dore articulate in the enunciation of fundamental principles. At first their utterances ut-terances were confined to wrathful protests against existing conditions which the producers pro-ducers of the country declared bore heavily -V: " .:'"fa - |