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TIMELY TOPICS. 
The Projected Third Party. —The 
convention to be held at Cincinnati, Ohio, 
on May 19, for the purpose of starting a 
new political party, promises to be the 
largest thing of the kind ever held in this 
country. According to a moderate esti¬ 
mate, over 2,000 delegates will be present. 
The call for it was of the most general 
character so as to include the National, 
Northwestern and Colored Farmers’ Alli¬ 
ances, the Grange, the Farmers’ Mutual 
Benefit Association, the Patrons of Indus¬ 
try and all minor agricultural organizations 
as well as the Knights and Federation of 
Labor, the Nationalists, the Socialistic 
Labor Party, and all other industrial or¬ 
ganizations as well as the Citizens’ Alli¬ 
ance, in a word, all associations dissatisfied 
with the present great parties and desirous 
of a change. Among the well-known 
leaders who will be present the following 
names are given: Senator Peffer, Con¬ 
gressman Ben Clover, John Davis and J. J. 
Otis, of Kansas; State Senator Ignatius 
Donnelly, of Minnesota; Edward Bellamy, 
the author of “Looking Backward;” Na¬ 
tional Lecturer J. F. Willits, of the Farm¬ 
ers’ Alliance; Alson J. Streeter and H. E. 
Taubeneck, of Illinois; R. A. Humphrey, 
Superintendent of the Colored Farmerb’ 
Alliance, with a number of representative 
Colored Alliance men; Senator Kyle, of 
South Dakota; ex-Congressman J. P. 
Weaver and Congressman Anderson, of 
Iowa; Congressman Kern, of Nebraska; 
George L. Snow and B. H. Ridley, of 
Maine; O. A. Cobb, of Massachusetts; John 
H. Powers, president of the Northwestern 
Farmers’ Alliance; ex-Congressman Feath- 
erstone and Messrs. Cunningham and Mor¬ 
gan, of Arkansas; Joel I. Hoyt, of New 
York; S. W. Chase, P. P. Elder, C. and H, 
Vincent, of Kansas; T. P. Rynder and H. 
C. Deming, of Pennsylvania; J. H. Allen, 
of Indiana; Robert Schilling, of Wiscon¬ 
sin, and many more. At first the Farmerb’ 
Alliance and its Illinois annex, the Farm¬ 
ers’ Mutual Benefit Association, were op¬ 
posed to the movement, but so strong has 
become the sentiment in its favor, especially 
in the West, and particularly in Kansas, 
Nebraska and the Dakotas, that the leaders 
have to a great extent been forced to take a 
more favorable view of it. While these 
organizations as bodies will not be repre¬ 
sented, a large number of delegates belong¬ 
ing to sub-Alliances and local branches, 
will take a prominent part in the affair. 
The Grange to a very large extent dis¬ 
countenances the movement, deeming it 
more likely that the desired reforms may 
be secured by bringing pressure to bear on 
the old parties. The Alliance leaders for the 
most part counsel delay. They maintain 
that the movement should be inaugurated 
by the people, and not by the leaders. They 
declare that the people, especially in the 
South and New England, are not yet ready 
for a new party, but that the work of or¬ 
ganization and education is rapidly pro¬ 
gressing, and that by next February the 
masses will be prepared to join the move¬ 
ment heart and soul. Accordingly they 
counsel the calling of a monster convention 
for that date, and that the approaching 
gathering should confine its labors mainly 
to preparation for such a meeting and the 
sending out of a ringing address to the 
people. The radical element, however, 
will insist on the immediate formation of a 
new party, and very lively times are ahead 
to secure control of the unwieldy conven¬ 
tion. 
The New York Farmers’ Alliance 
was organized at Hornellsville on April 23, 
without friction and on a broader basis than 
was anticipated. Conservative counsels 
prevailed, and no attempts were made to 
incorporate disputed planks in the plat¬ 
form. Politics was left severely alone in 
the convention, although it was uppermost 
among the delegates on the outside. The 
Ocala platform, including the abolition of 
national banks, Sub-Treasury scheme, Gov¬ 
ernment loans on lands, free coinage of 
silver, Government control or ownership 
of railroads and telegraphs, increase of cur¬ 
rency to $50 per capita circulation, was 
adopted without debate. When it came to 
the framing of State issues a good deal of 
conservatism was manifested. It was urged 
that nothing should be done which might 
limit the growth of the order, and that the 
framing of a complete platform should be 
deferred until the whole State had been 
organized. It was finally decided unani¬ 
mously to demand: 
First, that mortgages for purposes of 
taxation shall be treated as part of the 
real estate on which they lie, and that they 
be taxed where the real estate Is located, 
t Second, Government ownership and 
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