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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. Drop us a postal card and we will send you a number of Sample Copies of The People s Party Paper to distribute among your neighbors. CAMPAIGN LITERATURE. 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