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Official Organ of Crawford County.
^GEORGIA 7 ~
K NOXVILLE,
Entered at the postoffice at Knoxville,
Ga., as second-class matter.
Judge Allen Fort, of Americus, is a
candidate for railroad commissioner.
The Macon and Birmingham rail road
is now running trains through to Wood¬
bury
The new congressional apportionment
bill will give Georgia an additional
member.
Mr. John P. Ross has been appoint¬
ed Judge of the city court of Macon. A
wise selection.
i he colored Alliance has pissed reso-
lulions condemning the white Alliance
and endorsing the Force hill.
Joiin T. Boifeullet, of Bibb, seems
to be rapidly becoming the leading and
most useful member of the legislature.
President Polk, of the Alliance, aud
Boss McCune are at war with one an¬
other. So far Polk has the best of it.
Senator Ingalls, of Kansas, spends
his time cursing Reed, Lodge and the
force bill, and says they caused his de¬
feat.
At the primary in Bibb last week, G.
S. Wcstcot was nominated for sheriff;
K. A. Nisbet, clerk, and D. J). Craig,
tax collector.
Tf Luther A. Hull had given Judge
Speer a $125,00 hat rack, he might have
been a receiver in some case instead of a
prisoner at the bar.
'f he National Alliance have been mak¬
ing things hot for Livingston aud Mc¬
Cune, and resolutions of censure have
been passed on account of their conduct
in frying to defeat Gordon for the Sen-
ate.
Tiie members of the Alliance from the
Western States are trying to get up a new
party. They favor joining the negroes
to control the government. Southern
members can’t see it that way.
If Emory Speer had his just deserts
he would be. at the bar himself answer-
mg a charge of malpractice and corrup¬
tion in office iustcafl of presiding in a
case invalidating the life and liberty of
others in which he appears as both pros¬
ecutor and judge.
A monument ought to be erected over
the crave of Benjamin Hawkins, at the
old agency. He was an aid to Washing¬
ton, senator from North Carolina, and
the most eminent citizen Carwford county
ever had. When the celebrated French
general, Moreau, visited America, he
came to ( rawford county, and afterward
stated that Col. Hawkins was the most
remarkable man he met while in Amer -
iea.
What Macon Needs.
More banks with larger capital are
needed in Macon. Her trade amounts to
over $45,000,000. and the capital of all
her banks at present amounts to scarcely
$1,500,000. To carry on the trade the
banks borrow money irom Wall street,
N. Y., and elsewhere and rediscount
here, which makes a double interest paid.
The deposit account of the merchants is
large, which is a considerable assistance
to the banks. The eyes of the people are
opening, and more banks, with more
local capital, have been chartered and
the stock for one has in one month all
been taken.
With more banking capital iu Macon
be'ter accommodations will be afforded
the planter and Macon will receive much
of the cotton which in former times she
received, but now goes to distint mar-
kets.
Another x great advantage that Macon
will soon enjoy is the reopening of the
navigation of the Ocmulg< e river to
Brunswick and Da ien. This will 45 sire
M * con ,bc • 4 ’***« of , w*t« rales.
which are 37 percent, less than those by
rail. This will give Macon a great boom j
in trade. These facts a<e alluded to
because Cra.ford aud other eouath,
tributary .o the trade of M icon, are in-
terested, and it is proper that the Her-
Aim should keep its readers advised of
m __ c r avora . i i e prospects . for
in store
them. These subjecte will be refered to
agdn.
the alliance convention.
WHICH IS NOW IN SESSION
AT OCALA, FLORDA.
IMPORTANT MEASURES LOOKING TO Tills
ADVANCEMENT OK THIS GREAT ORDER.
THE PROCEEDINGS BRIEFED.
The important development of Thurs¬
day was ilie formulation of a call lor a
meeting in Cincinnati on the 23d of Feb¬
ruary, to organize the national union par¬
ty. It is evident that the Farmers’ Alli¬
ance, as a body, will not endorse the
third party idea. The southern members
and the Missouri delegation have their
axes firmly set against a move which
would be so damaging to the order in the
sou It, and as they constitute an over¬
whelming majority of the membership
and the representatives here, no such ac¬
tion could be hoped for by the third western
delegates who are pushing the party
idea.
Realizing that an attempt to secure the
endorsement of the convention would be
deatu to their project, they have shrewd¬
ly concluded to make an individ¬
ual crusade, capturing an Alliancemau
here and there in the South, and raking
:n the most of them in the West. M itli
this added to the 750.000 colored voters,
who await them, they will have a party
over 1,000.000 strong to start on. The
seheme is one of immense political im-
portance. Thursday ni.Tit the Alliance had an
open meeting, addressed by speakers
from the colored Alliance and of the
Knights of Labor. There was a full at¬
tendance of Alliaueemen, who seemed to
enjoy the meeting intensely. made
A negro from South Carolina a
speech in which he rejoiced in the elec¬
tion of 1 iilman and overthrow of the
aristocracy. L. D. Miller, of Lou¬
Another negro, wanted
isiana. said the colored people
the Australian ballot, which the Farmers’
Alliance was going to giv e white them and
Harry Tracy, of Texas, a man
a veteran allianceman, said the farmers
were going to solve the of negro the problem. whom
They were the friends negro
they had been separated from by the
chicanery of politicians Pointing to the
negro alliancemeu, he said: “We must
not leave here until we have formed a
federation with this organization, which
wijl bear fruit in the wars to mum”
There is a strong effort being made
to have the action by the Natioual A11 i -
snee against the elections bill expunged
from the records, and may amount to
something before the session closes.
At a meeting of the National Colored
Alliance, during the. afternoon, a resolu-
mentof Farmers’ the iChfanceifer/‘Vftfcg&SjStS® condition of the
dustrially, morally and r, socnnij, ner4 iu-
and regretting criticism and
condemning the action of the
white alliance in passing the resolution
Wednesday in oppositi n to the federal
elections bill, because such action has no
reference whatever to the aims and pur¬
poses of the organization, and was calcu¬
lated to check the growth and influence
of the alii mee. The resolution will prob¬
ably pass.
The alliance press committee requests
the publication of the following: i i U.
8. Hall, president of the State Alliance of
Missouri, made a strong speech in favor
of the resolution condemning the Lodge
bill, After the resolution was
duly carried, and without
a single person expressing himself
moved personally reconsider opposed to it. Mr. which Hall
to the resolution,
motion being seconded, he then moved to
table the motion t > reconsider, and this
resolution was carried never to be recon¬
sidered, and the order **as thus inaltera-
blv committed against the bill.”
Friday was a busy d >y in the Alliance
convention. The investigation committee
reported; the St. Louis platform was re¬
affirmed, and the officers were elected.
All of importance that remains is the
disposition of the financial question, and
the third party question. There may be
considerable discussion on the financial
question, for it involves botn the sub¬
treasury plan and the land loan idea, but
the disposition of the third party ques¬
tion seems to be in sight, and it’s a com¬
promise.
C >1< ne L. F. Livingston, of G orgia,
from the committee on organization made
the r< port which is to furnish the basis
for an ultimate union between the Na¬
tional Farmers’ Affiance and Industrial
Union and the Farmers’ Mutual Benefit
Association, which is an organization
w ith a large membership in the western
states. The report was explained at
length bf Chairman Livingston. The
report 1 his wai adopted without dissent.
at tion undoubtedly means the ab¬
solute cons Jidation of these two orgmi-
za: ons in the near future. ColonefLiv-
ingston also offend a resolution provid-
i for the adoption of the St Louis
alliance platform of 1889, inasmuch as
there has been a question .aised as to the
unanimous endorsement of the de-
mand ti er in contained by all the
0 ^legations one year ago.
An amendment was offered bv Mr
the Liucltt, of North Dakota, providing “de¬ fol
ownership of all lailroads and
by the natioual government,
• Livingston < pposed tins, and off-red
eratc all such lines shall vest in the gov- “this
cra »near, and if, after a fair trial of
R P tcm ! k is found that h ,Joes not afford
the relief demanded, or effect reforms in
the management of them, government
ownership shall be complete. This was
adopted, Wade, after some discussion. Mr.
of Tennessee, offered an additional
amendment that every Alliance lecturer,
State anu Natiuwl, and all newspaper
organa of the Affiance shall support (amended toe
St. Louis and Ocala platforms fr>m the
platf. i me), or suffer suspension candidate for
Older ; and further, that no
national political office shall be sup¬
an y raemt unless he
ported by Alliance rs sub-Al-
endorses this platform, an any
liance not complying with these restric¬
tions be su-pended at pleasure of
may This was also ad pted,
the president. whole platform as amended was
and the call ot ttie
adopted unan mously upon a
roll by states. chairman of the
Dr. tV Macune, submitted
national executive committee,
his annual report of the work accom¬
plished by that body during the past
It referred at length to the work
year, committee in having the sub¬
of the and presented to
treasury bill drawn that the
congress. The chairman said
committee’s mission in this particular
virtually ended, because the Alliance
was who
had elected forty congressmen, bill through
would look after pushing the
the national legislature. The report
recommended the reduction of the sdl-
aries of all national Alliance officers and
j removal from Washington city of the
! national Alliance president’s office, inas-
i much as the retention of it there entails
an expense not commensurate with its
usefulness. question he
Regarding the third party compromise
sas P “I recommended the as end a sought to
; ' that would carry out if it
be achieved l.y the west ami nort i,
{ met the approbation of the south, that a
j convention he called to meet in Fe ruary,
1 1892; that the convention be composed
of delegates from all the associations of
producers, and that the next annual ses¬
sion of the supreme council elect dele¬
gates to represent this order in that eou-
veution. I sustained this by saying it
didn’t commit the people, but provided
a means whereby they could express
themselves on this great question and
through their subordinate county
state organizations duringthe coming year. ad
When the great couvetion meets, s
delegates will come there with t utbority
and instructions from their people. If
their people decide in favor of independ¬
ent party action, it will prevail. If not,
the cause will still be beuefitted by the
conference, and there v\i 1 be abetter un¬
derstanding of the objects which the
labor organizations are seeking to
achieve. This is the basis of all I cr-
commended, but it has taken a wonderful
hold upon them, and will satisiy both
sides.” should be
“If the convention of 1892
called as it doubtless will be, the ques¬
tion will come up, not before the Farm¬
ers’ Alliance. indepeMjBFa witi^W,assured ion, but majority before
against of delegates
a composite i>. > Knights of
from the t ofIeic d
Labor, BE t .jit Associa-
apm. Tm uM \Lii^HEyyg. i Science it: ax aud all
4.1 reWft rs. l nib
0 ^ 0,1 .stituency
rnmy somethingWM^ mode member¬
of ^^^L „Yw#W?ce, in
ship of the ca if the
colored AllianoHBPntu 75b,000 go in, as they
are likely to do. Their votes,
the 90b,000 votes of the Trades Unions
and the Knights of Labor, and the 800,-
00b votis of the other farmers’ organiza¬
tions. will make more than a major ty of
the whole producers’ organizations rep¬
resented in the convention.
T. V. Powderly, with A. W. Wright
and John W. Hayes, were present Knights as of a
fraternal committee from the
Labor, and addressed the Alliance. 'I heir
business at the convention is to confer
with the Alliance on the formation of a
third party composed of all the indus¬
trial organi .atioas of the country, and
they will ask the farmers to appoint fra¬ a
committee of conference. V\ Idle
ternal greetings are bei g exchanged be
tween the knights and the farmers, the
white and colored brethren of the Alli¬
ance have a joint conference committee
at work on the subject ot amalgamation
under the same rub s. Despite the diverse
section of the force bill, the white and
colored Alliaueemen appear to be on the
best of terms.
INVESTIGATION REPORT.
At the afternoon session the committee
appointed Polk, to investigate the charges
against Liviugston and Macune,
made the following r port:
1. That we have been unable to ascer¬
tain a single fact, iinplicacatiug, in any
way, standing, shape or and form, the high and character
and personal official
reputation of our worthy president, L. L.
Polk, but we regret his writing of the
Norwood letter.
2. As to Brother Livington, president
of the Georgia State Alliance, we do not
find offii4.il anything derogatary of his person 1
or high standing, but your coin-
mitte is not quite Georgia prepared senatorial to endorse his
course in the contest
8. That in the case of Dr. C. W. Ma¬
cune, nothing has been found to lessen
our confidence in his personal integrity
and loyalty to th * order. However, we
regie: his official connection with the
Georgia senatorial contest.
Tue verdict, though not exhonorating
in its entirety, served to restore harmony.
protest against the c>noer hill.
The Negro Alliance, on Friday, wired
their protest against the Conger com¬
pound iard bill to Senator Paddock.
At the forenoon meeting of the Na¬
tional Colored Alliance, Friday, the
following amended resolution was unan¬
imously a lopted: delegates attend¬
“Resolved, that «c,
ing the National Colored Farmers’ Alli¬
ance, do hereby, in m eting assembled at
Ocala, urge upon congress to pass the
Lodge election bill, and let it apply to
all sections of these United States.”
The principal change from Thursday’s
resolution is the cumulation of the para¬
graph criticising Alliance and denouncing the
white national for its action.
Saturday was a day of developments.
Tiie Natioual Citizens’ Allia* ce was or-
gauized, its constitution has been adopted
and the officers elected; thi business
agents have organized an association
and appointed committees to look after
cotton, giain, tobac o aud oth;r crops.
The colored alliance has finished its
labors and adjourned sine die, and its
delegates, with one exception, have
signed Rice’s third paity call.
The membership of ta.* Citizens’ Alli-
ant e is limited to citizens of incorporated
villages, cities and towns, who are in
sympathy with the Far mere’ AUi-
a nee. The purpose is to promote the
principles of the platform adopte 1 at St.
Louis m 1889, and affi mid at Ocala this
year by the National Farmers’ Alliance
and Knights of Labor.
The importance of the co-operative
phase of alliance was shown in the fact
brought out at the meeting of the state
businc.-s agents when they organized the
co-operative association. It was shown
that seventeen state exchanges do a busi-
n< ss of about $10,000,009, and since they
have been at Ocala they closed contracts
with the manufacturers’ agents attending
the convention which will make a busi¬
ness of $17,00 1,000 for the com ng year,
l'lie association was organized following by
the election of the
officers: J. B. Dines, president, Polk,
St. Louis, Mo.; W. L.
vice-president, Atlanta; Oswald Wilson,
secretary, New York; J. K. House, treas¬
urer, Kansas City, Kan.; and the follow¬
ing State business agents: W.K. Cessna,
Jacksonville, Fla. ; J C. Wynn,Atlanta,
Ga.; W. L. Don ffdson, Greenville, S.
C.; W. II. Worth, Ra'eigh, N. C.; A. R.
Venable, Jr., Richmond, Va ; J. J.
Rogers, Nashville, Tenn.; G. F. Gaither,
Birmingham, Ala.; T. A. Clayton, New
Orleans, Jja.; T. 1). A*. Duncan,
Dal as, Texas; J. S. Moore, San Fran. is-
co, Cal.; S. S. Harvey, manager, Pensa¬
cola, Fla.; A. K. Frair, manager, St.
Paul, Minn.; W. W r . Ilol'aud, Louisville,
Ivy.; 1L M. Humphreys, Houston, T- xas.
The work of the association was divid d
into sections, each of which is in charge
of a committee. Of th- cotton com¬
mittee, T. A. Clayton, of New
Orleans, is chairman. He will go to Eu¬
rope and visit the cotton cxch mge of
Liverpool, Havre, Bremen and all the
cotton ports, where arrangements will be
made for the shipment of cotton direct
from the Alliance warehouses to the cot¬
ton exchanges of European ports. The
committee will also insist on selling cot¬
ton by net weight, deducting only There the
actual tare from the gross weights.
is a bagging committee with M. D. Cof¬
fin, of Homer, Ill., as chairman; and a
tobacco committee, presided over by W.
W rtf T vaM«wil]n
Micro was quite a Drceze over trie
cultural statistics resolutions, which in¬
cluded a proposition to make a roster of
all sub-alliance secretaries iu
with a committeeof five alliance c ngress-
iiumfto help collect apd dis seminate sla-
At the morning session of the negro
Alliance Mr. Powderly and A. VV.
Wright, of Toronto,* a member of
ueneral executive board, made a
nal visit and extended them an invita¬
tion to send fraternal delegates to the
general assembly of Kni.htsof Labor.
Powderly made a short speech, and was
followed by Wright, who made a shrewd
argument on the single tax idea.
An important item in the business
the afternoon session was adoption
President Po k's suggestion that the
national legislative legislative board council, be
by a natioual
ed of the national president a id the pres¬
idents of the State Alliance. This leaves
the national executive board intact.
The N itional Reform Press Association
has been organized by the election of Dr.
Macune as president; J. B. Sti ll, of Mon¬
tana, vice-president, and W. S. Morgan,
of Missouri, secretary and treasurer. The
association numbers twenty-tiva papers,
and will have forty. The last thing be¬
fore adjournment was the adoption of the
following resolution:
Resob ed, That we endorse the Na¬
tional Economist, and the manly action
of Brother Macune and his associates in
said paper, and will do all we can to urge
them onward in the good work of edu¬
cation.
The Alliance men are happy over the
restored harmony in the order, and will
adjourn in high spirits.
THE PLATFORM ADOPTED.
Thegreat interest of Monday’s proceed¬
ings was iu the discussion on the sub¬
treasury bill. After a hot debate the fol¬
low ing list of demands was adopted:
“b We demand the abolition or na¬
tional banks; we demand that the gov¬
ernment shall establish sub-treasuries or
depositories in ti e several states, which
shall loan money direct to the people at a
low rate of interest, not to exceed 2 per
products, cent per annum aud also on non-perishable farm
upon real estate, with
t e proper limitation upon the quantity
of land and the amount of money; we
demand that the amount of circulating
medium be speedily increased to not les^
than $80 per capita.
“2. We demand that congress shall
pass such laws as shall effectually pre¬
vent dealing in futures on all agricultur¬
al and mechanical productions, preserv¬
ing a stringent system of procedure in
trials, such as shall secure the prompt
conviction aud imposition of such penal¬
ties as shall secure the most perfect com¬
pliance with law.
“3. We condemn the silver bill recent¬
ly passed by congress, and demand in
lieu thereof the free and unlimited coin¬
age of silver.
“4. We demand the passage of laws
prohibiting the alien owuershiji of l tnd
and that c ngross take prompt action to
devise some plan to obtain all lands now
owned by aliens and foreigu syndicates
and that all lands now held by railroads
and other corjKirations, iu excess of such
as is actually used and needed by them
lie reclaimed by the government and held
for actual settlers oulj.
V 3 ’ in the doctrin i
rights . to all and ;7'
demand special ' w ‘4
none, we that <» Ir
relation shall be , !
not to build so framed fo
as up one indu^
of another. r „ *S
pense W,. existing,! 1
the removal of the
tax from the necessaries 0 f\. •
demand poor of our just land and must equit^i. have ‘ J* s
a
graduated tax on income; V
chat the money of the
of be kept the as people, much as possible J
and hence*]
that all national and state r-i>
be limited to the necesssarr
of the government. econojY
honestly administered.
“6. We demand the most rijiii
, just . state , and
anci and i ationul
control supervision of the ...j
public iion; and communication if this and' 7 ,,
control and
do not remove abuses now eiis
demand the government OM
of sueh means of communy
transportation- 1 ?
TRADE REVIEW
DUN & company’s REPORT for
WEEK.
The weekly circular of ft, d
Co. issued Friday, says: 7hed J
n commercial loans, noticed
;he chief cause of the present
mce, is now almost the EurJ only ■
cause. The influence of
bles has passed. Foreign J
heavily in favor of this couotd
Imports at New York for wereuJ Ned
jeed last year’s, which jj
by 12 per cent, the increase
nere has been per cent,
year’s the were of remarkably heavy] aj
excess exports for the
probably over $30,000,000. W
affairs there has been a (listing
ment in the disposition necessJ of iJ
money lenders to give
to legitimate business, curtavi J
lative advances as far as p (
volume of trade in still J
heavy.
Reports from other lines L
cheapness of cotton at the s»i
delay of winter weffheratl
have somewhat reduced trass
caused more tardiness in colled
heretofore, but colder weaita
approach of the holiday seas* efied
begin to have a favorable
points. Business failures ot
number 282, against 271 for a )
oonding week last year.
NORTH CAROLINA Ml
THE STATE BOARD OF AOKICtT
AN IMPORTANT MEETtJ
Tile Not til Carolina tUtl
agriculture ing Raleigh, held a most Thursdiy. impoij
at on
ered the recommendation fa
sioner of agriculture. One f
that the board memoraliw tk
to appropriate $25,000 for lb)
presenting at the Columbians
Chicago a complete exhibit of
olina’s resources and that tliej
surne the responsibility of tan
exhibit with the means suggestioj pw
board adopted this id
executive committee was
place the matter before the
asking for an appropriation exhibit.] t
secure missioner a complete recommended j
also impod
of 20 cents per ton he
commercial olina. The fertilizers board decided: sold in]
to the legislature a tax of S
ton for next year, aud 2b cd
thereafter. made the A legislatures: recommend,!"]
that plantb'j
kinds as arbor day for the enact]
of trees; also to
protection of sheep hu ; M
increase the means for hold
institutes. It is crculated 1
tax on fertilizers will raise
is barely sufficient to carry d
cultural department, not id
! mt,migration department. J
PARNELL DEFI*
AN ATTEMPT TO RETIRE
LEADERSHIP OF THE 1R> S
A London dispatch of ' s!
At a meeting of the Irish td
house of commons, Barry. ]]
Healy made a determine settled 1
bring about a final tin
question. They insisted
immediate division
tiers on the main
the meeting, namely-I ‘’1
of Parnell from the b a
ultimatum party. Finally the Sexton effect g that! l ' ; j
to *^
on this question was dek v
man Parnell, a majority o'1
tatives of the party would
i ig ot their own and |
the office. A scene of S rt>
followed this announcement I
ham moved that Mr. P arne I
chairmanship of the patty I
refused to allow Mr. the McCarifttl moti | ’ a |
whereupon members, J
forty-four other
REMARKAB LE P (, |
ONE HUNDRED AND FIFU ,
TIIE STOCK HOlt™
The board of directors
L : ve S:ook Commissi® 0 J
Chicago, after a lengthy ( J
Tuesday night, voted to
(lend of 150 per rent, to
o' the tollmanv, payable •
utile! bu.'-im--. it w;t-
'jrar.viete.l except v ' ' "®
dividend ■