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LABOR CONFERENCE.
CALLED TO MEET IN BIRMINGHAM
ON MAY 30.
The St. Louis Platform to lie Consid
ered for the Purpose of Adop
tion.
Rev. S. M. Adams, president of
the State Alliance has issued the
following call:
Office of President, )
Alabama State Alliance. j
In pursuance to a call made by the
industrial conference of all the labor
organizations in the United States of
America, held in the city of St. Lou
is, Mo., February 22, 23, and 24,
1892, and with the view of consider
ing, for the purpose of adoption, the
following platform, which was adopt
ed at St. Louis by the above named
conference, I hereby call upon all la
bor organizations in the State of Al
abama to meet at some suitable time
and place between this and Monday,
the 30 day of May next, and discuss
the platform of principles adopted as
St. Louis, and also to elect delegates
to the first fabor conference of all
the labor organizations in the State
of Alabama to be held in the city of
Biamingham, May 30, 1892. Place
of meeting, Ers well’s hall.
I recommend the following basis
of representation : Let er.ch county
Alliance elect one delegate, and each
labor organization that was entitled
to representation in the St. Louis
conference elect one delegate for the
county in which the organization is
located. The platform to be con
sidered is that which was adopted at
SL Louis. S. M. Adams,
Randolph, Ala.
KANSAS.
people’s party convention.
A delegate convention of the Peo
ple’s Party of the State of Kansas,
hereby called to meet in the city of
Wichita, Kan., on Wednesday, June
15, 1892, Bt 10 o’clock a. m., to elect
twelve delegates at large to the na
tional convention to be held in the
city of Omaha, Neb., on July 4, 1892,
and also to nominate ten electors
and the following State oflicers and
one Congressman at large :
Associate Justice,
Governor,
I lieutenant Governor,
Secretary of State,
Attorney-General,
State Auditor,
State Treasurer,
Superintendent Public Instruction.
Also to reoeganize the State cen
tral committee and take such other
action as may oome before the con
uention.
The basis of representation is one
•delegate for every 500 votes or ma
jor fraction cast for the combined
vote of J. N. Ives for Attorney-Gen
eral, and J. F. Willits for Governor
in 1890.
A Nefarious Scheme.
The plan of the next pres ; dential
campaign is being developed. The
two old parties will carry on tne
light of prejudice and bad feeling
they have carried on so long. Their
base of operations will be in the
west and south. New York has been
districted for the electoral ticket, so
there is no longer any chance for a
litrht there. The democrats will
carry twenty-three electors in that
state, the republicans thirteen, so
that there is no more need of the old
parties spending time and money
there. They have fixed that.
They can now go west and south to
make their fight. The republicans
will come west, the democrats will
go south. The democrats will use
•bulldozing, “nigger” rule, and preju
dice against the north to beat their
people back into line. The repub
licans will use organization, money
and the “bloody shirt” to beat their
people into line. God grant that
they may meet with the defeat which
they deserve. We have stood enough
of this thing.
Let the people beware of every
scheme of the enemy. Let them
stand together shoulder to shoulder
as they have in the past. Let no
demagogue dr hireling in the party
or out lead them astray. We are
going to win in the end—win grand
ly and gloriously for justice, hu
manity and right. Let every man
stand to his post. —Nebraska Stand
ard.
Kansas Marching Forward.
Medicine Lodge, Kan., )
April 29, 1892. j
Mr. Editor : We of Kansas are
still in the middle of the road and
marching forward. Nothing gives
us more encouragement than good
news from our brethren in the south.
That is why your paper is acquiring
so large a circulation here.
Our remaining democrats here are
rapidly realizing their situation. One
of them, a friend of mine, puts it
this way:
“Some of my friends have pro
tested with me for leaving the good
old democratic party. But I want
to ask, what is the democratic party ?
Is it a name ? Is it a Tammany
machine ? Or is it a set of self-con
stituted, would-be political leaders?
I wish to say that I have never wor
shipped any name ; I was never tied
to any machine, and never sold my
self to any clique of leaders. If by
democracy you mean certain undy
ing principles, then I am a democrat
as sincerely as I ever was before.
“I believe in the democracy of
Jefferson, when he said, ‘The right
to land is in usufruct,’ or when he
said, ‘Bank paper must be sup
pressed and the circulation restored
to the government —to the people to
whom it belongs: paper money pos
sesses many advantages over gold
and silver.’
“I believe in the democracy of
Jackson, when he said, ‘But if con
gress have other power to regulate
the currency, it was conferred to be
exercised by themselves and not to
be transferred to a corporations. If
the bank be chartered for that pur
pose, with a charter unalterable
without its consent, congress have
parted with their power for a term
of years, during which the constitu
tion is a dead letter. It is neither
necessary nor proper to transfer its
legislative powers to such a bank,
and therefore unconstitutional.’
“I believe in the democracy of
Calhoun, when he said, ‘No doubt
but the credid of the government is
better than that of any bank—more
stable and safe. I now undertake to
aflirm, and without the least fear
that I can be answered, that the pa
per money issued by the govern
ment, with the simple promise of the
government to receive it for all dues,
would form a perfect circulation
which would not be abused by the
government, that it would be uni
form with the metals themselves.’
“I believe in the democracy of
Thomas Benton, when he said, ‘The
bank is in the field, enlisted for the
war, a battering-ram, not to beat
down the walls of hostilities, but to
beat down the citadel of American
liberty; to command the elections
and elect a bank president by direct
use of bank power. The bank is in the
field, a combatant, and a fearful and
tremendous one in the presidential
election. If she succeeds, there is
an end of American liberty—an end
of the republic. The president of
the bank and the president of the
United States will be cousins in the
royal sense of the word ; they will
elect each other; they will transmit
their thrones to their descendents.’
“I believe in the democratic plat
form of ’56, which stood opposed to
tariff, oposed to national banks, and
in favor of paper circulation.
“I believe in the democracy of
Reagan, when he says, ‘History will
write.it down that the policy of the
government from 1869 to now, so far
as the executive is concerned, and so
far as the laws were concerned, up
to 1878 has been distinctly a policy
in the interest of the money lords of
this country and of Europe; a policy
distictively at war with the best in
terests of the country. I know that
the present administration has taken
up and maintained the policy of its
republican predecessors.’ Or when
he says, ‘No set of institutions that
have such power to expand or con
tract the volume of currency, and
that have displayed such a purpose
as they have shown here at Wash
ington and in their annual regular
meetings to promote their selfish in
terests, ought to be sustained or en
couraged by the government.’ ”
But, how does such democracy
compare with the democracy of
Cleveland, Hill, Brice, Gorman,
Springer, Palmer, Crisp, and the
like ?
Is not the name democrat applied
to such men like the cloak of re
ligion on the devil’s shoulders?
Do we owe allegiance to them
merely because of a name they
usurp ?
Is our allegiance due to a demo
cratic name, a democratic machine,
a democratic leader, or to the eternal
principles of true democracy?
If the name is wrongfully applied,
if the machine is manipulated by pluto
crats, if the leaders have gone astray,
is it not our duty as democrats to
relinquish them all and cling to our
eternal principles ?
Principles are above names, ma
chines, or leaders.
We are not pledged to a name, a
machine, or a leader, but we are
pledged to the principles of our
fathers when they opposed our pres
ent banking system, favored the
issue of money by the government
itself, favored the ‘free coinage of
silver and treasury notes, favored
equal taxation and opposed special
privileges ; and we are bound to-day
as simon pure democrats to work
and strive for that party that ad
vances these principles in good
faith. ~ .
That party to-day has changed its
name.
The People’s party is the party of
Jefferson, the party of Jackson, the
party of Benton and Calhoun. So
come with me, my dear comrade and*
old-time democrat, and let us en
courage and support that party that
alone champions our principles to
day—the party of liberty and the
people! Leon Beal.
ALABAMA.
Beating the Alliance Cnndidate With
the Nigger.
When Jay Gould -was asked what
he thought of the farmers’ move
ment he shrugged his shoulders in
contempt and said that he could hire
one-half the farmers to shoot down
the other half. There was a direct,
pointed and unequivocal estimate he
put upon the agriculturists of the
country.
When Mrs. Frank Leslie said, with
a disdainful pucker of her lips, that
certain working men, who had gone
out on a strike for higher wages,
“should be shot down like dogs,”
there was a precision about the state
ment and emphasis given her con
tempt for laborers that was clear,
succinct and unmistakable.
When the Age-Herald intimates, in
its last Saturday’s issue, that the far
mers who might oppose what it styles
organized democracy, should “get no
more consideration than the worm
which comes to eat the substance of
the lands” it utters a sentiment and
makes a staement less bold, less
open and less emphatic, but equally
as obnoxious as the one made by
either Jay Gould or Mrs. Frank Les
lie. It is of the same import, of the
same meaning, and embodies as
clearly and precisely its contempt
for the rights of the farmers.
The people of Alabama have been
laboring under the impression that
when republicanism was dethroned
that white supremacy was assured,
and that the rule of the white peo
ple would be the result. From what
the Age-Herald says, it was not the
assurance of white supremacy, but of
the organized democrary. What
does it mean by organized demo
cracy? It means that the black belt
counties, by fictitious strength ac
quired by manipulation of the negru
vote, has become supreme in the
control of the state, and that it is
not white supremacy, but the or
ganized democracy, that controls. Is
this claim true ? Recall a little re
cent history, and see : Kolb carried
the popular vote of Autauga, Bar
bour, Hale, Jackson, Lowndes, Madi
son, Marengo and Perry; yet he
loses all, or a part of the vote of
several, on account of the beat rep
resentation fixed upon fictitious votes.
White supremacy would have given
him each of these counties. Organ
ized democracy succeeded, by the
methods employed in the respective
counties, to rob him of his strength
and give it to his opponent.—Alliance
Herald (State Organ).
Wishing to locate in Georgia, I would
like to correspond with any brother lo
cated in a good, live town where a car
penter could find employment. Prefer
middle Georgia. Address, P. P. 5
Central Hotel, High Point, N. C.
IN TEXAS.
Perfectly United on the St. Louis Plat
form and Organizing Rapidly.
The political horizon in Texas
presages a struggle in this year of
grace, 1892, that for intense bitter
ness, and determination, on all sides,
to win, will lay all past campaigns
completely in the shade.
Already organization in evefy nook
and corner of the state is the order
of the day.
Reformers are perfectly united,
and are organizing rapidly. They
are determined to win at all hazzards
on thfc St. Louis and Dallas demands.
Their ranks are filling up with re
cruits from the old “machine” par
ties with such earnestness and speed
as to demoralize the old time time
bosses. ’Tis true they are applying
the party lash right lustily, but it
only excelerates the depletion of
their own ranks, and results in driv
ing their old time followers into the
reform army.
The cowardly duplicity practiced
so long by partisan manipulators has
at last borne its legitimate fruit—in
dignation and rebellion.
Turn where you may,, and you see
rebellion against “machine methods.”
The tyrany of the northeast over
the south and northwest has at last
driven these sections into a union
complete in every detail and strong
as bands of steel.
Texas .was loth to leave the demo
cratic ranks. They held back a long
time, hoping and believing that the
large democratic majority in the
lower house of the 52d congress
would pass some substantial financial
reform measures.
The defeat of the silver coinage
bill has destroyed the last hope in
that direction, and at the same time
cut the last cord of fealty to the old
parties and compelled the oppressed
people to look elsewhere for relief.
Seeing no relief, nor even hope of
relief, outside of a political union
with the great and growing north
west, Texas reformers of every shade
and type have snatched the old party
colors they have so long and meekly
worn from their necks and placed it
under their heels. They have planted
themselves upon the St. Louis and
Dallas demands ■with both feet, de
clared for independent political ac
tion, and are filing into the great
opening political battle with the
same determination they did into
the battles of Shiloh, Gettysburg and
Malvern Hill.
The great reform army now mar
shaling for the battle that is to de
cide which shall rule America, the
“citizen” or the “dollar,” may rest
assured that Texas “is in it,” solid as
adamant, as determined as fate, and
will be heard from next Novern
ber.--Southern Mercury.
-Worse Than Ireland.
England has mortgages on Irish
lands to the amount of $800,000,-
000. At an average interest of five
per cent, this would make an annual
tribute of $40,000,000 a year from
the little island to the English capi
talists. As the population of Ireland
is 5,000,000, this would make an
annual interest charge of $8 per
head or S4O per family. No won
der the people are poor.—National
Tribune.
That is nothing. Kansas can
double discount Ireland. According
to the last United States census,
Shylock has mortgages on Kansas
lands to the amount of $243,146,826.
The population is but 1,428,096. At
an average interest of 10 per cent.,
this would make an annual tribute of
$24,314,681.60 a year from the peo
ple of Kansas Shylock, or an an
nual interest charge of sl7 per head
or SBS per family, and yet we are
told by the old parties that w r e are
the most prosperous people in the
world. —People’s Voice.
Congressman Swanson is the title
of the latest book from the prolific
pen of the great reform novelist, C.
C, Post. The plot of the story is
sufficient to keep one’s interest in
the book, while the political disserta
tions are well worth the attention of
the most careful reader.—People’s
Sentinel.
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