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TDeCFawMCciii FHerali PUBLISHED WEEKLY. r —BY— CT.. J 3 . PMITII tfc SUBSCRIPTION, $1.00 PER ANNUM. 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 ■