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LIVINGSTON SPEAKS
TO THE ALLIANCEMEN OF GEOREIA.
There has been much said
and written recently as to' the
position taken in congress by
alliance members, that is un¬
true, and likely tomisleand and
deceive. Every alliance con¬
gressman from the Southern
States (which includes Virginia,
North Carolina, South Carolina,
Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi,
Louisiana, ■ Kentucky, Texas,
Arkansas, and other states) en¬
tered the Democratic caucus to
participate in the nomination
of a candidate for speaker.
There were two salient reasons
for so doing: first, we were
elected and nominated as Dem¬
ocrats. Take Georgia as an il¬
lustration: Lowson, Winn, Ev¬
erett, Moses and myself were,
and are still, members of the
order. Each of us made the
race as Democrats—submitting
to Democratic primaries and af¬
ter the nomination received the
votes of Democrats not alliance
men, but opposed to our Ocala
demands. Why did they vote
for us. Because we had sub¬
mitted to Democratic primaries
and asserted everywhere while
canvassing our districts that we
were Democrats and went
further and declared that our
Ocala demands were pure and
m mdu t tera tet l Democracy— as
taught by Jefferson, Calhoun
and others. Every democrat
that did not vote for us after
being fairly nominated was
charged with being a bolter, and
and how very severe did alli
ancemen denounce [the follow
ers of Felton for not standing
by the nomination of Everett
after he had submitted to Dem
ocratic primaries and won the
nomination and only to reasons
were, of* could be, given why
they should stand by Everett,
to-wit: l:e was a democrat and
represented the choice of a
f the democrats in
rf . Now, how incon¬
sistent ; nd untrue would Ever¬
ett, or either of us be, to our
prof s or promises, then
made fa i , now to panici
pate with democrats in congress
in matters purely partisian. If
we bad disregarded these prom¬
ises and professions how could
any one longer place confidence
in any promise we might make.
We are ejected openly as dem¬
ocrats is Sieving in and holding
to the 0 a,la demands We en¬
tered congress in a double ca¬
pacity, not only as democrats,
but pledged to do all in our
power for relief to the people
on the line of the Okala de
mauds or something instead
that would firing the needed
relief. Now, as long as we keep
good faith with the democratic
party in our districts, and [keep
good faith with our alliance
brethren in our districts, we
will haw done our full duty as
we stood obligated to each
when we adopted our nomina
tion election. Have we
kept good faith with both? is an
inquiry each and every man
that voli b for us, either in the
primaru the polls on tht
fii-st Tuesday m November, last
has t s r ulht We entered the
detuoc ati esm-us and did all
in our power to secure the *best
democrat possible to serve as
speaker of the House for the
52nd congress. As democrats
that was our plain and unques¬
tionable duty. Did we get the
best democrat for speaker with¬
in reach? No man who knows
Charles F. Crisp will dare at¬
tempt to discount his democra¬
cy from a Jefferson or Calhoun
standpoint. Some modern,
mugwump democrats objects to
him, simply because he adheres
so closely to “equal rights to all
and special privileges to none.’’
Have we kept good faith with
our alliance constituency, is the
next question to be settled in
entering said caucus and sup¬
porting Crisp. The issue be¬
tween Mills and Crisp was not
a personal one; both were dem¬
ocrats, but for some time previ¬
ous to the assembling of con¬
gress, the old bosses of the dem¬
ocrat party assisted by the
mugwumps, and Wall street
had proclaimed defiantly that
but one issue should be made
by the democrats in congress
and in the national campaign
for 1892, that one issue, “tariff
reform,” on the line of the Cle¬
veland and Mills programme.
This just suited the Republican
party also. This policy was
objected to by the masses of
the party and decidly so by alli
ane democrats. When we as¬
sembled the issue was made a
clean cut one Mills backed by
the old leaders in the democrat¬
ic party and the “gold bugs” on
the one side, for teriff reform
simply, and that after such a
fashion that there was no earth
ly chance to win, with Crisp
backed by a large majority of
new members elected to con¬
gress and the solid alliance dem
ocratic vote on the other side.
If Mills should be elected speak¬
er, there would have been no
reduction in the tariff on the
necessities of life (for his plan
was general revision on a fixed
scale) and no expansion of the
currency either by free and un¬
limited silver coinage, or [other¬
wise, Crisp’s election would
pledge congress and the party
to both tariff and financial re¬
form, and this is the gift of the
Ocala'demands. Now if the*
seventeen alliancemen that en¬
tered the caucus and did all
they could for Crisp’s nomina¬
tion, had remained outside, vot¬
ing for some one that did not
have the ghost of a chance for
election, then Mills would have
been nominated on the second
ballot, and the only chance to
help alliancemen in tlieir de¬
mands for financial relief dur¬
ing the 52nd congress would
have been lost. Not only so,
but no opportunity, either upon
the committees or upon the
lloor of the House would or
could have been secured by
which alliance demands could
have been urged upon the at¬
tention of the House. Now we
can and will be heard.
Again by keeping our promi¬
ses, as Democrats to our home
people, and going to the demo¬
cratic caucus, we have the re¬
spect and at least a just consid¬
eration vouched safe unto us
hv the dominant party of the
House to such measures as we
may present for consideration.
Again we secured a Democrat
for speaker that is not pledge
against financial reform. Again
we secured a man for speaker
that has not said or written one
harsh word against the order or
their demands—not withstand
ing a publication recently to
the contrary—that “Crisp had
said that the union between the
republicans and democrats of
Kansas was right and [the alli¬
ance people of Kansas ought to
have been beaten.” Crisp nev¬
er said that or anything like it,
and the assertion is false and
entirely false.
There are only two things that
alliancemen need be careful
about—or for which they can
consistently contend:
First; The Ocala demands.
Are those demands rights and
will their enactment into law
be “equal rights to all and spec¬
ial favors* to none.” We say
yes, and stand on those de¬
mands first, last and all the time
Second: How can we, best se¬
cure such legislation? There
are the two questions and the
only questions involved in our
contest.
Upon the first question (as to
the Ocala demands) every true
and unadulterated allianceman
is agreed.
Upon the second question
(how can we best (Secure such
legislation)there are a diversity
of opinions.
Some alliancemen (and many
of them) believe that the system
of education pursued for t wo or
more years past, with good and
active sub-alliance organization
—with discreet and conserva¬
tive state and national officers
—embracing every opportunity
to enforce our views through
the press on the hustings and at
the ballot box as we did in
Georgia last year, gaining at
every step and holding what we
gain will soon end in an enlight
ened public opinion and a uni¬
ted effort by all good and true
men in controlling legislation so
as to reach the ends for which
we contend chiefly, financial re¬
ief.
The arguments in favor of
the first plan here given are
first. That our organization
cannot declare in favor of any
political party—that we are
non partisian and have no right
to declare in favor of the Re¬
publican party, democratic par¬
ty People’s party or any other
party. This position is clearly
set up both by the principles,
obligations and decision of our
highest alliance court. At our
last Supreme Council held at
Indianapolis an appeal case
was before the National Judici¬
ary committee from the state
of Louisiana, where they bad
adopted a resolution a the State
Alliance to join in with a wing
of the democratic party in
which the alliancemen of the
state got all they asked for, yet
the National Committee held
that as an organizatiod they
could do uo such Thing, neither
can a sub-alliance or a county
alliance pass resolusions touch¬
ing any political party binding
either on themselves or any one
else.
The second argument in fa¬
vor of the first plan mentioned
is that if as an organization, we
declare for either the Republi¬
can party, democrat party, or
People's party, we declare we
are no longer an alliance organ¬
ization, but people’s pa ty or
democrats as the case might be
and in such action our alliance
organization would go to pieces
in the event we either failed for
succeeded—this would be ver¬
itably true and when we, as an
organization, either as sub-alli¬
ances, county alliances, resolve
ourselves into any political par¬
ty we then no longer can claim
the organization to which we
belong as an alliance organiza¬
tion, but a political one and
should be known by the name
of the party to which we give
our allegiance. Let me illus¬
trate the effect of such a course
If one sub-alliance has the right
to declare in favor of the peo¬
ple’s party, another has the
right to declare in favor of the
republican party an other in
favor of the democratic party
and an other in favor of the
National prohibition party.
Now grant the right to one and
we must grant the right to all
and suppose the National Su¬
preme Council had given this
right, in less than six months
every sub-alliance in the Union
would have allied themselves
with the several political par¬
ties existing and what then
would become of our order.
The 3rd argument in favor of
the first plan is that if we de¬
clare ourselves into the people’s
or third party our day of educa¬
tions will be at an end, and un¬
less we be strong enough to
win in that party we must be
inevitably driven to the wall.
The moment we declare for the
People’s party then we draw
the line between us and dem¬
ocrats and republicans and can¬
not hope for recruits from eith¬
er, but while we remain as an
alliance organization we can,
and are drawing from both the
old political parties. In this
way we have gained our pres¬
ent political strength.
Every allianceman from the
south and indeed every alliance
men in C ongress not presented
be their connection with the
people’s party, believes that
they could best serve their alli¬
ance constituency and got more
out of the 52d congress for our
demands, by going into the
caucus and helping to nominate
Crisp for speaker, and not one
single demand in the 0 cala plat
oral was jeopardize! by so do¬
ing, but instead we gained
prominence for financial relief.
No ay let our alliancemen be pa¬
tient, considerate and refuse to
“serve other Gods” and see
whether your interests have
been or will be best conserved
by the course we have taken or
not.
There are those who are push
ing you to hasty and indiscreet
action that are visionary and
unsafe. They know nothing of
the dangers that await you if
you follow their lead. They
have only sru veyed the ground
around their own door steps
and either from ignorance or
selfishness would have you risk
all that we have gained upon
the throw of a single dice.
L. F. Livingston,
President Georgia State Alliance
Dec. 2oth 1891.
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