What Depew Says

In an interview Chauncey M. Depew 8aid: "If the Knights of Labor should unite and form a political party they would only represent one idea, and it is the sanie with the farmers. The minute anything like that is done there will naturally arise sharp and active and tonguey men, who will at once begin to dicker with one party or the other for power in behalf of themselves. So whüe the Farmers' Alliance, as a united body of men and thinkers all over the country, conld, by remaining non-partisan, elect members of congress or representatives of the people anywhere to carry out their ideas by throwing their strength either to the one side or the other as occasion demands, the moment they enter the field as a third party they become only one corner of the triangular fight, and each one of the other parties striving with it for supremacy. So there is little doubt that the farmer, as ha examines into this thing more closely, will hitch his team to many of the different planks of the platform one by one and draw them out."