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Show ALLIANCE HEADQUARTERS. They are Opened in St. Louis A Vigorous Campaign Coming. St. Louis, July 22. The managers of the people's party have established national headquarters in the Richlieu hotel in this city, and preparing for a vigorous campaign during the next tfiree months. Mr. E. E. Taubeneck, chairman of the national committee, says that the outlook is brighter today than ever before. He says that the appeal for funds which was sent out to friends of the movement and 'to friendly organizations a few weeks ago, has met with a hearty response, and that the efforts of the new party will be in no wise handicapped by a lack of ready money. When asked :f he thought that Weaver could command as large a following as Gresham could have done, he said that the general opinion among third party people was that Weaver was the stronger man of the two, and that, notwithstanding notwith-standing that he had supported Gresham at Omaha, he was thoroughly satisfied with the result. It is thought that, had Gresham been put at the top of the ticket, thousands of democrats demo-crats who will vote for Weaver, would have fallen back into the old party rather than vote for a man who has affiliated with the republicans all his life. Thelickof harmony between the democrats demo-crats and third party in Minnesota causes some uneasiness among the people's party icautiB, uul Lucjr arc uuuoueai mat an UQ standing will eventually be arrived at by which the democratie vote will b"5 cast for Weaver. The disaffected alliance element in that state is thought to be too small to cut any figure in the campaign. Besides claiming claim-ing a lighting show in Minnesota, the independents in-dependents claim that the electoral votes of Nevada, Kansas, Colorado,Nebraska,Iowft, North and South Dakota and Montana are snre to cast for Weaver, and that without these states neither the republicans nor the democrats can, by any possibility, get a majority in the electoral college, in w hich case the election will be thrown into the house of representatives. They realize that thia would mean Cleveland's election, but say that if they can only demonstrate that the third party holds the balance of power they will be abie to bring the old parties to terms, and compel them to legislate along the lines of the Omaha convention, and against the encroachments of corporations, trusts and monopolies. |