Texas Farm and Industrial News (Sugar Land, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 20, Ed. 1 Friday, March 5, 1920 Page: 3 of 8
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TlilnD PAKTlES WE HAyfi .. N ; izcvl; most ot'tiu> states bii'e I otm com- Populist is the only. third party tlr&t
SOiViE RACY POLIXKJAL hlSlOKY ‘ (h IUM'Tirrsokitr the- voters at the qmll.....has won an electoral vote swum* the Givil If
| injkf plneos to prevent universal intimi-' Wai.
CC'onthiurtf from Page Two) lotion n:n! 1 • ri 11yla:. The newspapers The Pr -gressive party oos not o third
inovenient/ehe I, i hero I Kepublics ns of are largely subsidized or silenced, lmsi party, either statistically or 'pbilosoph-
1872 tgfirrsented merely a crystallized ness proxtrated, our homes covered with icolly. It was none ot on insurgent
lUafufl-aitce in the Republican partv. mortgages, lalmr impoverished, and the than a genuine party movement, though
That movement may lie likened to the kinds concentrated in- the hands of the in faie election of H'12 it. proved bigger
sound m - in - v si and of the Democrats * -1 'i l■ - i ;. . Imported pa u peri zed la h than tin1 parent against \\ hieh it in- ;
who,ran Palmer and luickner in 1 ''Uti. or beats Mown wages of urban work surged.
Yet, with Horace Oroehp. a it* camlj ' ' a hir ling 'standing army, un It was thy Progressive party that a<-
date and with the iiplo'-si nient of the recognised h\ our 1 i v • is . staldislied counted perhaps for the victory of the
Democrats, it cut quite u figure itT op- to shmd them down. ' ’ Democrats in 1.1112. It is notable that
posing the reflection of (Irani, though That’s a fair sample of thc.griev- the goil of politics seams to have de
its final failure was almost irngic! am-es voiced in almost every presideii-; creed that the immediate effect ut
It is singular t|iat the first third'-pijr-, '>ul campaign sifice Jackson's time b\ third party movements shall be gou-
ty formed after the Civil War is tl'ie one syure third party group. So intensified ' tiary to What -the majority of the peo-
that can lav claim to the longest period political radicalism is far from being pie partaking in them would 'have- wish-
ot' continuous life., And if we .judge now - ed had tlo y Vlioseii outside of the move-
. such movements by the measure ill HaiW. has an isolated group of exinept. ' S
which their prime idea- come to prevail t -«-ine radicals had tin ........i t that was *' TJfe Abolitionists would have pro-
it shares with the old abolition partv- givtJi to lie I’opujists. ’With -lames II. I-of red < ’lay to l’olk in 184(1, .just as most
the Claim of being the most successful.1 •" *’a\ ei, thi.-b- candidate for president,1 of the Republicans who voted with the j1
And, like the Abolition party, it never Hoy polled in 1892, 1,041,02-S popular I’rogressives would have preferred the
polled many votes for its candidates, votes, carrying the states of Colorado,1 ticket of their old party in 1912. It is
That was the'-TYohibition party which Nevada, North Dakota and Oregon with- probable that the prohibitionists would
was first organized in I MW/That didn't twenty two electoral votes. At differ have'preferred Plnine to Cleveland in .
mark the beginning of the prohibition 'lit times they partly or wholly con 1SS*. Vet they weaned away enough
movement, however, for the abolition of trolled - other states, notably Kansas; Republican votes in New York State
intoxicant's was. urged by leaders of the' P was aj...... the Populist moveim ut to mil1 e- the -latter the victor. Many j
great temperance movement that began that William Allen White wrote ■ the ; political experts of- the time believed I
in the late twenties of the last'Century. most faiimiis of modern day editorials, that tin* Prohibition party, rather than
Indeed, as early as INTI Maine voted ■ “ Wlmt'« t In- Matter with Kansas." Pur hard.'was the real cause et lllaiae’s
dry. Then for several years what' was Populists. Original Jfuc' rakers. defeat.
known as the
party -issue in
The. Populists brought the frep-silver.1
“Maine law” was a
nlost: 11' the states.
Rhode Island;, Massachusetts, Vermont,
Michigan, Iowa, and Connecticut all ot- ispj;. |i„tt as js IH)( generally ad
K veryone must decide
for oneself
independence
question to the fore and caused it to be "*llP|,r 1'
- , . , . . partv of a dozen years 'ago possessed
the piece de resistance in the campaign 1
,1 i' 4 I.... I , . n i>4 t > IX . . \ - , 1 111 nil t
followed the Maine precedent, but in a
year or two about-faced and let the
the essence of a third-party movement
Likewise its career is su recent that
;:nvaiie may analyse for oneself its et-
feet. The same may be said of the
Socialist, party, or parties,' for there
Jttittod, free silver was to the Populists
i up to t'o per capita. It is l.ipw more
saloons come back, The New York log-! panoiaI situation of file country.. They
isTatu'ro also enacted a dry law that was • preferred'- greenbacks to silver dollars ,
voided by the courts. Maine alone | of . full legal tender. The solution for . h*v“ '’7" two °r ,,',orP tlH'-UU,VC'
held out. I “hard tini.es,” as pressed by them, m( 11 *' '"V'"' , ...
The strict systematist would hardly was mol„,y, theicheaper and more' ?h* ,mtor-v .th,,rd. l’u.rtn‘8 “,ad,°8
class the Prolribition party as a third ,.nsjiv produced, the better. In t|1(,;r 'I'^e Nearly the tobeu "ig.
party. It would be classed scientific- j first platform the demand was made
ally, though by no moans in principle, j that the money in circulation lie brought. )><> 1 iti> <■ 1 liloim.'.
With the Socialist party. I'n’ikc others, j llp $:il itll. ft is ,„ore than '* a.uwmval. tor the ten
with the exception, perhaps, of the J than that.
Abolition party, its aim was to agitate j The p(lpu]jHts were the original muck
the views ot its adherents rather than rakers. They began the agitation
•what it contributed toward bringing against big corporations, and especially
aoout national prohibition is a ques-
tion for the sophist. Political exports
agree that greater credit is due the
IP Anti-Saloon League, which worked
within the (del parties.
to the accusation of having grown out
of the disappointed ambitions of its
leaders. Its adherents were never rat-
ed as disgruntled, which has always
the railroads, which .became the basis
of so called - Progressive muiniuurta
both old parties,
that.
IVryaus nomination in 18!)(> brought
an end, though it continued to flare up
on a smallTfeale in several succeeding
campaigns. John Marshall said that
Jefferson killed the Federalist party by
been a telling word t for use against j adopting its principles; the Democratic
third parties. That word was used most
and perhaps with greatest effect
against the Oreenbackers, who devel-
oped in 1874. Their several V isms,"
in addition to the advocacy of paper
money, caused them to be the lmtt of
many humorists.
Enter: The Populists.
Pew third-party movements are root-
ed more firmly in the accepted politics
of today than that which liegan with
the Greenbaekers and elided with their
descendants, the Populists. The his-
tory of the Greenback movement isn't
lacking in names of tine repute. Peter
party, and to some extent the Republi-
can party, destroyed Populism in the
same way. "Much of the political re-
form of this century is rooted in the
tenets of the Populist party.
Populist Headers were caricatured as
bewhiskered and taunted as cranks, but
j many men of distinction were among
them, though none of them rank quite
so high in political respectibility ns did
Willium H. Reward, John Quincy Ad-
ams, Martin Van Huron, Millard Fill-
more, and David Davis, whose names
are linked with other third party move-
ments. There wore Thomas K. Watson
1. Sometimes it is a good woy to
is
rnHt< h popular approval, for the tenets
i put forth; the old parties will-appro-.
1 priate them and carry them into effect
if the agitation is kept up.
2. Sometimes it is a good way to get
! revenge on some old party, tor they
work most harm for the old party that
"tenipoTiriiy 'supplies' most adherents to
the new party.
II. It is a quick, but not a safe, Way
for the novb-c with skill nr tlie man who
is held in the background by old party
leaders to get himself or bis ideas to
the front. It is unsafe for the reason
that, while the old parties won't li»si-
tate to steal the thunder of thir^l par-
ties, they rarely, if ever, take into full
fellowship those who led in first mak-
ing that thunder popular.
4. They never of themselves alone'de-
velop into one of the two big parties, or
dominate a new party when it does come
to lie a top-notcher.
Now, with the facts in hand, go
ahead with your third party—and good
luck to you,, and to it I
they were erratic.
Unless we class the Hull Moose or
the Progressive party as tertium, the
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MANUFACTURING COMPANY
Cooper was the party s first candidati , tlie historian; Ignatius Donnelly, the
for president, but dolled, in 187(5,^ ft \m r . n}lt,011j()„ cryptogrammatist; “Sockless
than 100,000 votes. Benjamin F. I!utjj Jerry “ Simpson, perhaps among the ab-
ler was its third candidate, and lie had j ,j(.|,.ltorH known to Congress, and
the support of those high priests ot maMV „tli,>|S who were as brilliant as
solidity, Charles A. Dana and the New
York Sun.
Labor party ventures Lvvre under-
taken not long after the Civil War.
The first one ran Wendell Phillips for
Governor of Massachusetts in 1870.
There was a national convention ot the
Labor party in 1872, when Judge David
Davis of the Pnited States Supreme
Court, was its choice for president.
The Justice gave the nomination very
serious thought for it took him four
months to decline it. Charles O’Con-
nor of New York, who was substituted,
received only a negligible number of
votes. Then in 1880 the laborites join-
ed hands with the Green backers in
supporting James H. Weaver, who re-
, h od more than JRMVW0 popular, but,
i ,i electoral votes.
Then the labor-party’ movement split
into two branches, one that was incliii |
ed toward extreme socialism tnk n - i
the name of the Lnitcd Labor paitx.j
It also was identified with a great
name, for as the candidate of that par-1
ttonrv George, but tor sudden in.....,
probably would have been elected M y-
or of New York City. There were two
Labor party candidates for presi I :.t
in 1888, neither being of consequence
in the final result.
The loose ends ol nil political **-* |
tremism that stopped short of rndi :1 i
socialism were gathered together in
1891 and knitted into what became-the j
Populist party.
The party was first bofkV "fis the •■-Peo-
ple’s party, though popularly called the |
Third party until. it took on the name |
of Populist. It "comprised the sur': v j
Ing remonstrating reinnunts of Grer
backlsm, the non Kocialist lalior groups,
and such part of the Farmers’ Alliance
aa would break association with the old
parties. It voiced the discontent of the
time, as will be seen iu the fallowin ',
from its platform:
meet in the midst of a nation
Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Glasgow spent
Sunday in Houston.
Wanted—Three white girls to wait
ontables. Imperial Inn. tf
DEATHERAGE & GREENWOOD
Physicians and Surgeons
Sugar Land, Texas.
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We are offering these ball bearing mowers
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the 16 inch knives at $17.50. Other makes as cheap
as $8.25.
Let us us convince you by showing you the
merits of the KEEN KUTTER.
Our Prices On Auto Tires And Supplies
Are in line with those of other houses hand-
ling standard makes and best quality supplies. We
also carry a complete line of Ford Repair Parts.
IMPERIAL MERCANTILE CO.
Hardware Department
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derful machine.
Hir siojk of Tables, Chairs, Rugs and other
furniture has just been replenished and now is a
good opperfuni y to make your choice.
IMPERIAL MERCANTILE CO.
Furniture Department
—
Inquiries Solicited From the Trade
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To Our Customers—
In order that we may extend patrons the
best possible service, we ask city customers
to do most of their trading during the week.
This will enable us to give our attention on
Saturday to the Country Trade, which has
but one day in the week for trading.
For the benefit of those not familiar with
our Delivery System we again announce that
all orders received in the morning will be de-
livered in the afternoon; all orders received
in the afternoon will be delivered the follow-
ing morning except on Saturdays. No or-
ders will be received for afternoon delivery
after 11 a. m. on Saturday.
Thanking you for your patronage in the past
and asking you your good will in the future.
Imperial Mercantile Co.
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