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VOL. i.
ALLIANCE TALKS.
„ NEWS OF THE ORDER FROM
ALL SECTIONS.
Items of Interest to Alliance
men Everywhere.
The Mill Greek, Ga., Alliance endorses
the Ocala platform of the Farmers’ Alli
ance “whether it be known as the first
party or the third party, and that our
woithy State President be instructed to
stand upon it, even if it be called first or
third party.”
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The Progressive Farmer says: “It is
now pretty certain that many of the
l'aimers who oppose the Alliance are not
at all acquainted with its doings or ob
jects. They accept t.he biased statements
of partisan papers without making any
investigations or without studying the
matter. This is very unNft.”
The Milton (W. Va.) Star says: “Quite
a number of uninformed farmers labor
under ih<: delusion that tho Alliance
movement is of very recent origin, and
wili have but an ephemeral existence.
Such is not the cn*,- Tt . .s, the State
of its birth, his just held her twelfth
annual State Alliance, and the order in
Texas is much stronger in number and
more united in’purpose and more deter
mined in resolution than ever before.
The order, however, in many of the
States is young in years but strong in
spirit and growing fast. The order now
in the United States numbers about four
million members.”
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The Free Press (Winfield, Kans.,) says:
“Most of the so-called farmers or agri
cultural papers are nothing but partisan
papers clothed in a garb calculated to ,
deceive the people. r i he farmers cannot
afford to support papers that are oppos
ing their interests. For years these pa
pers have taught the farmers that they
should let politics alone, aud that work
ing harder and harder was the key-note
to success, and most of the mischief that
bad legislation has brought about must
be attributed to this attempt to keep the
farmer out of politics. It has been the
schemes of the money kings, and it is
time that the people were opening their
eyes to the true situation of affairs.”
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Dakota Ruralist (Huron, S. D.) says:
“One ean hardly pick up a republican
paper of the North or a democratic of the
South without finding one are more edi
torials or copied articles smiching the
character of the Alliance leaders. • Such
papers are not considered faithful unless
they can show their ardor in that partic
ular line. No word of commendation
for the Alliance or the principles it ad
vocates is ever seen in their columns,
hence, what rot it is for men who are
laboring to extend ihe principles of the
order to still cling to the filth that is
poured in upon them weekly. Fight for
your own and your enemies will respect
you for your manhood. The fight is now
on. The question is, shall we be free
men or wage slaves? ‘Shall the citizen
or the dollar rule?’”
The Alliance Monitor (Falkville,*Ala.,)
says: “Tlie Alliance comprises a major
ity of the voters of Alabama. These
voters have the right to their opinions,
to their policies, to their plans and their
purposes. They are simply exercising
the right of citizenship in all they have
undertaken and all they propose to ac
complish. They have all their material
interests and the wolf Are of their chil
dren involved in the result. It is not only
their, right, hut their duty to do all they
are undertaking. They would he recre
ant to the demands of manhood and
every obligation incumbent upon them if
they should do less. A majority of them
regard the hnion of the West and South
as the easiest, best and safest plan to be
pursued, and those who claim to be their
leaders should seek that consumma
tion.”
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The People's Journal, (Lompac, Cal.)
says: “Alliaucemcu as well as others,
should not believe one-half the reports of
Alliance doings th it are telegraphed to
.the city dailies from the east. They are
generally framed to suit the schemes of
the enemies of the Alliance movement,
and ii they can cause dissensions in the
ranks of the Alliance on this coast, or
deter farmers and laborers from joining
the organization the object aimed at will
be accomplished. The leading organs of
both the great political parties either
sneer at or boldly antagonize the Alliance
movement, and the smaller fry copy their
remarks as so much solid truth. I rom
this time on till after tlie election next
fall Alliauce men may be on the lookout
for all manner of “yarns” in a certain
class of papers, -calculated to injury,a
movement that is becoming a terror to
the capitalists and monopolists whose
golden riveted collars the conductors of
suejt journals wear.”
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The Independent (Grand Forks, N. D.)
says: “The opponents of the sub-treas
ury plan ought to address themselves to
the task of showing how much preferable
it is for the farmers to sell products at
cost of production and pay the syndicate
which purchases them from 50 to 100 per
cent, profit when they are consumed.
That is the condition now. The elevator
trust is on top. The question is, should
this elevator trust robbery continue, or
had the government best provide protec
tion? TIow? The Alliance offers the
sub-treasury. If th-re ia n better or
more efficient plau to meet the demands
and requirements, let it he brought forth.
But the present robberies ought Dot to
continue, nor ought the government to
permit them to continuq. The farmers
want the government to perform its
function to protect the ciiizeu from
robbery. They pay for the protection.
They want it: they are entit’ed to it.
If they shall persist and insist, tb y will
get it. The question must be met It
must be settled aright. It will !>efettled
aright, if there is any power in votes;
and votes decide every issue in this
country.”
LAND LOANS.
The Economist says: There is much
confusion which hss led to considerable
misapprehension in regard to the land
loan demand of the Alliance. The pre
cise language of the demand is as fol
lows :
"'Ye demand that the government
shall < stablish sub-dreasuiies or deposi
tories in the several sta’es, which shall
loan money direct to the people at a low
rate of interest, not to exceed 2 per cent
per annum, on non-perish dile farm pro
ducts, and also upon real e-tate, with
proper limitations upon the quantity of
laud and amount of money.”
This does not contemplate the wild
indiscriminate loans that is charged
against it, but expressly declares to the
contrary, that the amount of both land
and loan shall be properly limited. It
leaves all the safeguards and limitations
to the wisdom and discretion of Con
gress, whose proper function is fo legis
late upon all matters of this character.
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STATE MEETINGS.
So far the results of the State meet
ings have been very gratifying. They
have disclosed a healthy growth in mem
bership and, what is far hettcr, a unity
of sentiment und determination that is
sure to bring success and progress to the
Order. In Mississippi, which was among
tho last to hold its meetings, the breth
ren were practically a unit upon the de
mands of the Order, and were filled with
enthusiasm over the great work now in
drogresa throughout the State. The
bitter political contest and relentless
warfare that is being made on
the Alliance there, has both
increased aud solidified the membership
and proved under great difiicu'ties the
vitality and vigor of the Order. In Mis
souri the State meeting has been held
and the honor of the Alliance vindicated.
The welfare of the Order is now in loyal
keeping and a rapid iucrease in mem
bership and unillc itiou among the breth
ren is looked for' in the near future.
The breihren in the State are loyal and
intelligent, and can be trusted to do what
is right aud proper. All good Alliance
members should rejoice at the changed
condition in Missouri, and aid the breth
ren there in their contest for a correct in
turpr.-taliorj of the demands of the Order’.
— Economist.
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STAND BY THE DEMANDS.
Tire Tarboro Advocate rises to remark.
“The more we read the comments of the
press of both parties, and note its atti
tude toward the Alliance, the more
united and determined we should be in
our efforts to secure the reform measures
which the Alliance bus inaugurated.
There is at) under-current that is sweep
ing against the foundation of our order
with such a force that unless vigilantly
watched and earnestly resiste 1, will have
tho effect of destroying much of the
power and influence of the organization.
While our brethren are sanguine of ac
complishing many things for the good of
the organization, they should not be for
getful of the fact that the mightiest
forces arrayed against us are to be re
sisted; and in order to resist
them successfully wo must be' united
in ono solid line. We must haz
ard almost auything in order to
secure the utmost unity and harmony
in the organization. The most essential
prerequisite to the securement of any re
form iu which the masses of the people
are interested is unity, and we admonish
our brethren throughout the country to
stand by the demands as adopted at
Ocala, Florida. Thoy are the embodi
ment—the essence—of the principles of
honest, just, wise and economic govern
ment, and it is our duty to maintain
them. After calm and deliberate reflec
tion they were formulated for adoption
by that great convention, and seeiug in
them the embodiment of wisdom and jus
tice, they were adopted as the platform
of the Farmers’ Alliance aud Industrial
Union of America. We have espoused a
great cause—one that requires gigantic
i fforts on the part of an opp essed and
down-trodden class of people to throw
off the fetters of the enormous money
powers of the country, and let not petty
jealousies aud bickerings estrange you in
the fight against these monste s.
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THE OCALA DEMANDS —KEEP THEM BEFOHB
THE PEOPLE.
la. We demand the abolition of na
tional banks.
b. We demand that the government
shall establish Sub-Treasuries or deposi
tories in the several State’s, which shall
loan money direct to the people at a low
rate of interest, not to exceed two per
ceut. per annum, on noupcrishable farm
products, and also upon r. al estate, with
proper limitations upon the quantity of
land and amount of money.
c. We demand that the amount of the
circulating medium be speedily increased
to not less'than SSO per capiti.
2. That we demand that Congress
shall pass such laws that will effectually
prevent the dealing in futures of all ag
ricultural and mechanical productions;
providing a stringent system of proced
ure in trials that will secure the prompt
conviction, and imposing such penalties
as shall secure the most perfect compli
ance with the law. *
3. We condemn the silver bill recently
pas-cd by Congress, and demand iu lieu
thereof the free and unlimited coinage of
silver. .
4. We demand the passage of laws
prohibiting alien ownership ot land, and ■
that Congress take prompt action to de-
TRENTON, GA.: FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 18,1891.
vise some plan to obtain all lands now
owned by aliens aud foreign syndicates;
and that all lands now held by rai ro ids
and other corporations in excess of such
as is actually used and needed by the n
be reclaimed by the government, and heft!
for actual settlers only.
5. Believing in the doctrine of equal
rights to all and special privileges tq
none, we demand—
a. That our national legislation shall
bo so framed in the future ns not to build
up one industry at the expense of an
other.
ft. We further demand a removal of tht
existing heavy tariff tax from the neces
sities of life, that the poor of our land
must have.
c. We further demand a just and equi
table system of graduated tax on iu
comes.
and. We believe that the money of the
country should be kept as much r.s pos
sible in the hands of the people, und
hence we demand that all 'national and
State revenues shall be limit'd to the ne
cessary expenses of the government eco
nominally and honestly administered.
0. We demand the most rigid, honest
and just State and national governmental
coutrol aud supervision of the moans of
public commuuicatiou and transporta
tion, and if this control and supervision
does not remove the abuse now existing,
we demand the government ownership o'*
such mean's of communication and trans
portation. „
7. We demand that the Congress of
the United States submit n amendment
to the constitution providing for an elec
tion of United States Senators by direct
vote of the people of each State.
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REFORM FAI'ERS.
The Progressive Farmer has the follow
ing timely article commendatory of the
reform press of North Carolina. The
same reasoning and argument given for
their support and*encouragement by all
members of the order holds goods in
every section of the country. The Pro
gressive Farmer says:
‘Tn North Carolina we have ten pa
pers that have joined the reform move
ment. Very few if any of them are new
recruits, their editors having been en
gaged in alliance work for some years.
Most of these papers have been started or
purchased with the view of advocating
the reform movement, In most cases
our farmers were very anxious that these
papers be started, knowing the great in
fluence of the press when directed right.
Now the reform press has certain duties
to perform. It mu-t be plain to all.
The editors of such papers must be hon
est, truthful and fearless. There should
bo-bo extremist in the editorial chair,!
but at the same time a milk and cider
man has no abiding place in the office of
a reform paper. Any paper fa ling
to come up to the requirements will
be dropped from the list of . reform
papers. A paper 6liould stand by our
demands and work to change our condi
tions. But at the same time these papers
should represent all classes. What is
the duty of the members of the Alliance
and the general public ? The members of
the Alliance own and are interested in
the of these papers financially
and in the success of the reforms they
advocate. Hence it is apparent that they
should give the papers the most liberal
support possible. Self protection is the
first law of nature, therefore these papers
are entitled to the support of farmers
first of all. Our National and State
organs are entitled to liberal support,
and great issues ought to be discussed
in their columns. But the local papers
should have more liberal support than
they ever have had. These papers can
not depend on a little meat from poli
ticians and others; they depend entire
ly upon a legitimate subscription list
and advertising patronage. Another
thought right here. Our people must
stop sending such a great mass of matter
for publication to the State and National
organs. When a man an article
for publication he naturally wants it to
reach a9 many people as possible. Owing
to this the larger reform papers are crow
ded almost out of existence. Now send
some of your thunder to your local Alli
ance paper and try to air your views
among your home people. This will uot
detract anything from the efficiency of
the State and National organs, for they
are always full to the brim, and may add
interest to the local paper. Above all
give your local paper more liberal sup
port. Don’t pay your money for pluto
cratic papers that don't care whether you
are slaves or free citizens. Spread them
among the people and make them inter
esting. If you mean business do this, if
not get out of the reform movement and
go to work on the other side.
A WATERY GRAVE.
Forty People Perish in a Steam
ship Collision.
A cablegram of Friday from Athens,
Greece, states that a collision has taken
place (*fl Cape Colonua, the most south
ern point of Attica, between the Italian
steamship Taorimina, of the Italian Mes
sageries Company, and the Greek steam
ship Thessalia. The Taorimina sank
soon after the accident, drowning her
captain, several of her crew and foity of
the passengers. The second officer of
the Taormina and a number of passen
gers, who were standing ou the bridge
at the time the collision occurred, were
saved by boats of the Thessalia.
A Naval Order.
An order was issued by Secretary
Tracy on Wednesday which forebodes a
considerable reduction of the number of
naval vessels now on the Atlantic coast.
It was directed to chiefs of bureaus, and
ordered them to immediately prepare the
Yorktown for service on the Pacific sta
tion, and the gunboat Petrel for service
on the Asiatic coast.
THROUGH DIXIE.
NEWS OF THE SOUTH BRIEFLY
PARAGRAPHED
Forming- an Epitome of Daily
Happening's Here and There.
The Southern Afternoon Press Asso
ciation held its fourth annual session at
Dallas, Tex., Monday.
New Orleans celebrated the seven
teenth anniversary of the overthrow of
the Kellogg government Monday.
The Augusta, Ga. exposition delega
tion spent Tuesday at Lowell, Mass.,
where they visited the leading manufacto
ries.
Attorneys on both sides of the Lane-
Kolb contest in Alabama have petitioned
for a special term of the supreme court
to settle matters.
M. B. Curtis, well known in theatrical
circles as “S-tm’l of Posen,” killed Officer
Grant Friday in San Francisco, who had
him arrested for creating a disturbance.
A Raleigh dispatch of Tuesday says:
The number of licensed grain distilleries
in this collection district las consider
ably increased, being now 130, while the
number of bonded brandy distilleries has
reached 500.
Orth Stein, a festive journalist whom
the newspapers of the country have been
showing up in a bad light, and over
whose head a reward of SIO,OOO is said
to hang, was arrested at Stone Mountain,
Ga., Sunday morning.
A man suppose 1 to be the notorious
William B. Tascott, who murdered the
millionaire, Amos J. Snell, in Chicago,
on February 8, 1888, was arrested at
Bamberg, S. C., Saturday afternoon, by
a private detective who followed the
su-pect from Savannah, Ga., disguised as
a tramp.
A Nashville dispatch says: As was an
ticipated,-the senate, on Saturday, tabled
the house resolution to take a recess to
allow a committee to select a site and
plans for anew penitentiary. Mr. Curtis
charged that political trickery kept the
house from acting on the penitentiary
question.
A telegram of Saturday from Knox
ville, Tenn , says: Fear of immediate
treble at Briceville is at an end. The
extra guards sdht there have returned.
Prison Superintendent Goodwin states
that, iu a conference with the mine lead
ers, they assured him that they would
protect the cctujaguy’s property and the
convicts, and tnlrc there should be no
trouble.
A Chattanooga dispatch of Friday
says: President Coleman, of the Catho
lic Knights of America* in that city is in
vestigating the of M. J. O’Brien
treasurer of the order. CjMeman has
taken charge of the office. Phus far, in
the investigation of accounts, there is an
apparent deficit of about thirty thousand
dollars, which, in the absence of .Mr.
O’Brien, is unexplained.
A San Francisco dispatch says: A
large mass meeting was held at Metro
politan hall Saturday night iu the interest
of free coinage. Resolutions were passed
instructing California representatives in
congnss to give earnest support to the
free coinage bill immediately on the
opening of congress,'and demanding that
President Harrison sign such bill when
passed.
Judge William Miller, of Tuscaloosa,
Ala., died iu Baltimore Friday afternoon.
Judge Miller was for a number of years
probate jndge of Tuscaloosa county, and
was postmaster at that place up ‘othe time
of his death. He had on his lips a very
ugly cancer, and he went north to have
it worked ou. The operation was per
formed, but the immediate cause of
death was kidney complaint. His age
was seventy-six years.
A Nashville dispatch says: Whether
the legislature does anything with the
penitentiary question or not, in case of
further trouble with the free miners of
Briceville, the governor will have ample
authority to call out the militia, and also
to call out every sheriff in the state for
his services, with a posse. The house
passed a senate bill giving him this
authority Friday. Both houses also pass
ed a senate bill appropriating $25,000
per annum for the maintenance of tho
militia.
A Dallas, Texas, dispatch of Friday
says: A few weeks ago it was announced
by some of the daily papers that R. G.
Ingersoll, the skeptic orator, would be in
at endance and lecture during the coming
state fair and Dallas exposition. Tnis
announcement raised such a howl of
disapproval, especially among the alli
ance people, that President Connor, of
the fa r association, denied that Ingersoll
would deliver addresses, and stated that
it had only been suggested while he
(Connor) was iu New York.
Another change in the railroad freight
rates of Chattanooga was annouced Fri
day when notice was served that begin
ning September 14tli, the rate on stoves
from that point to Mississippi river points
would be 19 cents per hundred in car
load lots or less, being the same rate
Naslivil c has had. The rate has been
heietofore 26 cents in carload lots and
39 cents on less than a carload. The
now tariff opens anew, large territory
for Chattanooga stove Lmndries. Rail
road men deny that the Chattanooga
merchants’ one-hundred-thousand-dol
lar s'eamboat fund had anything to do
with it.
MONEY SAVED.
Cook—What shall we have for supper?
Boarding-house Keeper—Not much of
anything. The boarders won’t be in
condition to eat to-night. We had
bakery mince pies for dinner.—[Good
News.
ENCOURAGING OUTLOOK
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For the Trade of the Country
Reported by Dun & Cos.
R. G. Dun’s review of trade for week
ended September 11th says: All returns
of the condition of business are encour
aging. There is no room for doubt
about the improvement in trade. From
nearly, every city reporting there comes
the same cheering information that busi
ness is better aud prospeets brighter.
The government crop report is one of
the most favorablo ever issued. It is not
impossible that some of the injuries sus
tained, since the detailed reports were
forwarded from the different counties,
may reduce the yield somewhat below
the indications of "the official returns.
At the south improvement is general
—especially at I.ouisvillo, Memphis, Sav
annah and Atlanta, and at New Orleans
trade is more active, rice being especi
ally strong, and money in good demand.
The enormous receipts of wheat Lave de- 1
pressed prices. The exports continue
large, but tho belief is growing that
foreign crops are not quite so short as
has been reported, though short enough
to cause au unprecedented demand from
this country. Thus the price of wheat
has fallen 5$ cents during the past week,
with sales of only 22,000,000 bushels.
The fall since the highest point in
August has been 16 cents at New York
and 49 cents in Chicago, and this week
there has been a semi-panic abroad, as the
new crop presses heavily upon markets
overloaded with American purchases.
Corn declined but little, and oats only 1
ceut. Pork products are higher, and
oil about 5 cents lower.
The great industries are making satis
factory progress. The weekly out put
of iron September Ist was 170,846
against 169,576 last- month, and at the
same date last year 171,776 tons.
The financial outlook is clearer. While
the shipments of gold from Europe were
not strictly upon an exchange basis, the
rate of sterling exchauge has fallen to
$4.83f during the week, and the exports
of merchandise from New Y.irk for the
past two weeks have exceeded those of
the same week last year by more than 50
per cent, while in imports there appears
a decrease of about 20 per cent. The
government has paid out over ten million
dollars for bonft not extended, and fur
ther disbursements on the same account
aro expected, though the treasury is re
stricting other payments for the time ns
far as possible.
The opening of Germany and Denmark
to American pork products has lifted the
price of pork a half dollar per barrel.
With the greatest crops every grown,
and an unprecedented foreign demand
for grain and meat, the prospect must be
considered unusually encouraging.
The business failures occurring
throughout the country during the past
week number for the United States 167;
Canada 27. Total, 214, against 217 last
week.
KOLB’S VICTORY.
Governor Jones’ Appointment
Did Not Hold.
A Montgomery, Ala., dispatch says:
On September Ist Governor Jones ap
pointed Hector D. Lane as commissioner
of agriculture on the expiration of the
term for which R. F. Kolb was appoint
ed two years ago. The last legislature
passed a law making the office of com
missioners cf agriculture elective, and
provided that a commissioner of agricul
ture shall be elected at the next election.
Kolb’s attorneys claimed that the law
making the commissionership elective,
which states that it repeals all laws in
conflict therewith, repealed tho law au
thorizing the governor to fill the time be
tween the expiration of Kolb’s term and
the time at which the first elected com
missioner would take his seat, December,
1892.
THE CONTEST FILED.
Lane demanded the possession of the
office and Kolb refused it, on the ground
that the governor had no right to appoint.
Lane then broimht suit before Judge
Randolph, of The Montgomery probate
court, and the case was argued for two
days by some of the best lawyers of the
state.
THE DECISION RENDERED.
On Wednesday Judge Randolph ren
dered his decision, citing tho old and
new law. He declared that the enact
ment of the new law repealed the old
law, and such repeal made the appoint
ment of Mr. Lane to succeed Kolb void.
The effect of the decision is that Kolb
was appointed commissioner of agricul
ture to serve until the appointment and
qualification of his successor, and that*
Kolb will continue to discharge the du
ties of the office. The attorneys for Mr.
Lane will carry the case to the supreme
-.court, which meets in November.
Movement of Specie.
The exports of specie from the port ot
New York duting the week ended Sept.
12th, amounted to $717,752, of which
$20,232 was gold, and $697,520 silver.
All the silver and $14,627 in gtdd went
to England, and $5,783 in gold went to
South America. The imports of speeie
duriug the week amounted to $65,365,
of which $23,471 was gold, aud $42,895
was silver.
Reminiscence of the War.
A*large turtle, bearing upon its upper
shell the inscription “A. H. N., First
Illinois Cavalry, 1861,” was captured the
other day in a pond at Liuwood Lawn
farm, near Lexington,-Mq., and theshell
preserved. In August, 1801, part of
Marshall’s company of Union troops, be
longing to the First Illinois Cavalry,
was camped at Lin wood Lawn, and the
inscription was no doubt made by one of
these troopers.
ANOTHER WHEAT CIRCULAR
Calling Upon the Farmers to
Hold Back.
A dispatch from St. to a Chicago
morning paper says: Farmers’ Alliance
leaders in Minnesota and North and South
Dakota liuve resolved upon another at
tempt to stop the tremendous flow of
wheat to the markets. The alliance,
therefore, on Monday t began mailing
from its headquarters a million of letters
to farmers, calling a halt along the line.
The letter states that the new Wheat
Growers’ Association and alliance secre
taries all over the country are unanimous
that wheat is bound to sell as high
as $1.50, and possibly $3 per
bushel, and they are unanimous in this
warning to farmers not to sacrifice their
wheat and give the speculators all the
profit there is in it. The letter says the
crop is being greatly overestimated by
the newspapers and grain dealers. It is
said at the headquarters of tho Farmers’
Alliance press bureau of information, in
Washington, that the circular letter
above referred to simply conveys infor
mation relative to the condition of the
wheat crops of the world, which officers
of the bureau say is such as must result
in an increase of prices iu the American
product. The object of the bureau is to
put information into the’ hands of pro
ducers in order to .enable them to take ad
vantage of existing conditions, and reap
the benefit of any increase in price
themselves, rather than let their products
go to middlemen, who, it is asserted, aro
now buying wheat, and wifi sell it later
on at an advanced price. The circular
referred to is not an official, document of
the alliance, but merely a letter of infor
mation, intended not only for the benefit
of members of the alliance, but for
farmets everywhere. The circular bears
the caption, “Facts Worth Money,” and
its first paragraph says:
“We have hit upon a plan of advertis
ing the state by showing our ability to
make for the farmers in this country a few
hundred million dollars, trusting that
there fire enough sensible and decent peo
ple among them, to swell our circulation to
such proportions that we would receive the
propel reward for our expense and trouble.
This idea was the origin of our now fa
mous wheat circular, of whicli wo sent
out over a million about two months ago,
and whi h has started a discussion about
the breadstuff supply that has helped, to
the extent of many million dollars, even
those who through iguorance or necces
sity, threw tln-ir <*rain prematurely into
the hands of speculators. We is ue this
treatise on the wheat question in the same
enormous numbers again, and request in
the first place, all secretaries of the alli
ance to distribute them promptly and
have special meetings called to discuss
them.
THE OFFER REFUSED.
Ryan’s Creditors Will Not Ac
cept the Thirty Cents.
a New iork dispatch says: There
will be no compromise with Ryan’s
creditors at thirty cents on the dollai
and probably not for anything near that
figure. It was expected that the offer
of 80 cents would have been accepted
Friday, hut it was rejected almost unan
imously. This created great surprise,
and inquiry as the cause of their refusal
developed a live sensation. A meeting
of the Ryan creditors was called Friday
afternoon to consider Ryan’s proposition
to settle at 30 cents on the dollar.
Three hundred thousand dollars of
claims were represented by the- credi
tors present. A few of the credi
tors present "expressed them
selves as being willing to accept the
compromise offered, but the majority
positively refused. This created con
siderable surprise, as it had been the talk
that the compromise would be accepted
by all. The meeting adjourned with the
above result, . and inquiry began to be
made as to the cause of the refusal of the
dffer by the creditors. It developed that
Ryan’s Atlanta competitors in the
dry goods business had a hand in the
case. Several of Atlanta’s large dry
goods dealers spent some time iu New
York during the past month, aud have
been, naturally enough, doing all in their
power to defeat the compromise. They
say that if the compromise was made
and the Ryan stock put on the
Atlanta market at bankrupt prices it
would mean ruin for their fall trade.
They have been openly a work, aud to
them may be attributed the failure of the
compromise. They bought large‘bills of
goods from some of the'iargest of Ryan's
creditors, with the understanding that
they were not to accept Ryan’s offer.
This was done with dealers who repre
sented a large amount of the claims aud
this in itself practically nipped the
compromise in the bud. But it is said
they went further iu order to make sure
of the rejee ment of the offer made by
Ryan, aud they are reported to have
brought upjquite au amount of the claims
at 30 cents oa the dollar.
TWO BROTHES LYNCHED.
They Killed a Sheriff_Who Was
Trying to Arrest Them.
A telegram from Somerset, Ky., says:
About 1 o’clock Tu slay morning a
crowd went to the jail, where the Gilli
land brothers were confined oa the
charge of assassinating Sheriff McCarque,
aud overpowered the guard and forced
Jailer Shepherd to give up the keys.
The Gillian 1 boys were then taken out to
a ravine a short distance west of the city
add hanged. No confession could be
procured. The boys declared to the la-t
that they were innocent. The mob is
supposed to have come mostly from
Whitely and Laurel couutits, where the
sheriff was well known and had many
friends.
NO. 21.