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ALLIANCE TALKS.
________ NEWS OF THE ORDER ______ FROM
ALL SECTIONS.
Items of Interest to Alliance
men Everywhere.
livingston DISCUSSES M’GUATH’S IN
VTTATION TO SOUTlIEItN ALLIANCES.
On being asked for information re¬
garding the eall by Frank McGrath of
the Kansas alliance, for the affiliation of
southern alliancemen in the committee
convention, whith is a declared effort to
constitute a third party, Colonel L. F.
Livingston his views of the Georgia alliance pre¬
sented as follows:
,. I T , lave no . seen the , call. no, Southern
alliancemen will not participate in the
convention. This whole question was
carefully and considered at Oca a last Decern
ber, a convention of delegates from
the several farmers’ and labor organiza
llZl™ ruary 22, 1892. At this convention CUlled ! 01 ' F the r e r b ‘
t’/rn pis. 1 . 0 , iat
the event neither of should agree to
such a poliev as demiihded, then asecond
convention should be called. I do not
Jy c '?*
cinnaticonvenlion . .. .. . called, but certainly , .
is
McGrath has no right as president of the
to
1, i) ? ^ t ft 1C ^ as
• f ^ • * p 1 0rts ,
S ir h X r f d 1 s J e R -
w n
ing our demands-and upon that our
people are largely agreed. A third party
may become a necessity to enforce our
demands, but certainly until the two
parties now in existence refuse our peo
pie anv encouragement or recognition, an
attempt to create a third warty is mine
cessarv, hazardous and unwise. There
is quite a prejudice in the north
west among Alliancemen to affiliating
with either party. Whether this can be
overcome is a question for the future,and
chiefly depends upon the action of the
fifty-sepond congress, which is largelv
demochitic. If the congress now elected
reasonable substitute therefor, then, in
my opinion, the northwest will be clam
•?« I ! or * “” rd > ° > W?cnD^eip«°
MW calailaMdupon
■our Alliance friends of the north and
west to accept anything short of an assur
ance that the controlline political party
will at least endeavor to^so shape legisla
tion as to meet the emergencies that now
are so embarrassing to the farmers and
laborers of this country, and a failure to
do so might drive the bulk of tie south
•ern Alliancemen to their assistshce. I
have all confidence thift the democratic
party will give us the relief we seek,
The notthwestern Alliancemen have no
such confidence in the democratic party.
nnv more than in the republican party.
That is the difference between us now.
Time will show which is right.” °
another reply to m’grath.
Levi Dumbauld, chairman of the Farm¬
er’s Alliance state central committee, has
issued an address to the people in reply
to that recently issued by Frank McGrath 5
president of the Kansas State Farmers
Alliance, who claimed, that unless the
farmers of the south deserted the demo¬
cratic party the farmers of the north
would go to the republican party. Dum¬
bauld denies McGrath’s statement, and
adds: “The people’s party in Kansas
is in the field to stay and has no
intention under any circumstances
of abandoning the third party movement
and returning to the old party lines. It
is solidly in favor of tho overthrow of
both of the old parties without any ifs
and buts, and its delegates -will go to the
Cincinnati convention on May 19th for
the purpose of assisting to organize tho
third party national campaign of 1892,
Teady to clasp hands with all who will
join that movement for the emancipation
■of the laboring class. Hesitate or halt
who may, the people’s movement must
marching on to final victory. Let none
lose faith or falter. Forward en masse,
over all opposition.”
***
Industrial reform as contemplated by
the Farmers’ Alliance does not mean the
abrogation of the rights of any individual.
What it seeks special is to deprive a few mdi
viduals of privileges by which the
rights of a majority of our citizens have
been wrested trom them. The privileged
■classes have not only absoibed the wealth,
but seized the political power of civilized
nations. A system of social and political
■economy which compels the laborer to toil
■daily to keep want from bis door, and is
so inflexible that tbe sickness of a week
entails waut and destitution upon his
family, is one of the worst forms of
slavery. It is labor which should em
ploy •apital—not capital which should
labor,'"made employ labor. to Capital and is the not creature to of
serve govern
it. Organized enjoyed labor by asks few that be the extended special
privileges that they the be extended
tp many, or to
none. “Equal rights to all and special
favors to none,”is our motto .—Alliance
(Tallahassee, Fla).
5fe^5k iM
The Farmers' Vidette (Alexandria actiln
La.) very wisely says: “Unity of
among the workingmen condition, is the only means
for improving their and to
secure this there must be unity of senti
ment. No unity of sentiment can exist
unless there is education in that direction.
This to be accomplished of must education come from
one source. The source for
the Alliance is its Supreme Council meet
ings. Here expressing the delegates needs, come from the in
people their and
couuctl ilcvisu menus lor tucir relief.
From the principles and plans enunciated
at these councils the teachers—both lcct
urers and journals—get their texts and
should teach the people one uniform sys¬
tion, tem. and Any should divergence from this is sedi¬
bo dealt whh as such.
There must bo. a unity or there will be a
failure and disruption.”
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bill Tn and discussing Senator the Stanford’s Alliance sub-treasury The
scheme,
Orange Comity Farmer, of Port Irvis, N.
Y., claims that as a.matter of fact, if the
people’s and justice rights mooted were properly there would respected be
out,
no possible excuse for the farmer to ask
the government to loan him money. He
would not need assistance; he could and
would help himself. It is the persistent
determination of the government to en¬
courage monopolies and money brokers
that works, disastrously to the rural in
terests and makes the producer feel war
ranted in asking fora share of the loaves
and flsh(js thatare being °. so lavishly dis
tributed ani £ the non subject, produccre . ‘That
is tbe ist of t e whole J
*
A. writer in the Farmer and Fruit
Qr<ywer makes a broad distinction between
Hie man already r rr in cc who , to j takes e :
? n c ‘ sa y s ’ any man has come
should 1 “ t . ° , tbe ,, not A 1,ance be in . fo ‘\ the the order; sake of , but 0 ? ce when , h °
offices are lving around loose like big
July / wate rmelons in tbe shade, nobody
ca bIainc a poor Allianceman if he stum
hies over on to one of them. It is the
prerogative and the duty of every Ameri
can citizen to be a politician, 1 should nor is there
any reason why he be a rascal.
“ ob obll f ed to W Do u t damn ft® T oll ‘
tlcmn ~ I mean the Alhance . n . politician.
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T1 rp. ™ Weekly w u Toiler T - 7 (Nashville, , ... Tenn.) .
, Eas the following . teise paragraph:
He that not for tlm Alliance _ _
is There pnnci- mid
§ , es 18 W 84 tkem - is no
d 0 ffj ound . and we kave no ' ise for
straddlers. The time has come to draw
the line, and we must raw it. A half
hearted support of any principle never
® U ^ cd f,; lf .^ l ! art ’,^'
colors a that flf r r , may nv know where
ypj 1 stand. f The wishy-washy, milk and
-HIhailJbo^dumpeVon “g® r tb f h ° a ^’ a nd° r un with the till hounds
the pile
0 f wor wortniessness, thlessness and anu the me sooner sooner we we dumn uump
tt *” *•
The Alliance of the (Mehassee, Allian Fla.) elevate says:
The object oe is to
and improve the farmer morally socially
and financially What farmer desires to
prevent it? What farmer should obstruct
° r lm P ed ® lt? Where is the farmer who
does n< ^ deslr e the full and complete con
summation of these laudable purposes? Is
^ rcas ,°? c and nat ural that the farmer
fHould join . in . with our;enemies and seek
down cee m P llmse the chains / , and of j 11 industrial ? / e }°. ws t )0Und servi
tude ’ and to remain thc he ^ ers °/ wo od
and t lu dra Y® rs f water f for eterm f y
, ls . n °f f^ e prompting of reason.
***
The Effingham , County , Ga., „ Alliance
, has arranged for the grand annual mass
time “ eet < the T oathc alliance 4, ' resolved a °V Ju I y that :, At it the was same to
the best interests of the members of the
alliance to purchase their guano direct
from the manufacturers, and thus save
to themselves the commissions, which are
charged when further purchased advised through alliance¬ a local
agent. They all
meu not to buy their guano from any
local agent, but to patronize such firms
or corporations as will recognize them in¬
dividually, and will sell to them directly
and at the manufacturers’ prices.
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*
The president of the North Carolina
state Alliance has issued a call for a meet¬
ing of tobacco growers at, Henderson, N.
C., on April 27th, to consult with the
Alliance tobacco growers of Virginia, the
object being to organize an Alliance to¬
bacco growers’ association for self-pro¬
tection. All persons interested in tobacco
culture are invited to co-operate.
*
The Alliancemen of Arkansas have se¬
cured the passage of a joint resolution in
the legislature of that state in favor of
the election of UniteC\ States senators by
the people, and the governor has ap¬
proved it. The constitution of the
United States must be changed to secure
this desired object.
* *
y, ]] over Kentucky the Alliances are
^ p ass j U f g resolutions to vote for no man
ho u ea whisky and money in his can
va?S- q' be state organ says resolutions
are g0 od enough, but too ‘much time is
o-iven them instead of to the work of sup
p ress j n g ° the evil condemned.
*
Liberty Alliance* in North Carolina,
£ publishes an appeal for the curtailment
f the cotton crop , bis year from tbirty _
five to thirty per C ent,and the planting of
the land thus reserved in cereals and pro
v - : on om 1
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***
It is reported that some of the whole
sale merchants of Louisville are prepar
ing to boycott thc Alliance Business Ex
change of Kentucky, but the Alliance
men are getting ready to “block the
game.”
THE TREATY SIGNED
Inaugurating Reciprocity „ Be- t>„
tween Cuba and Uncle Sam.
A cablegram from Madrid announce?
that the draft of the new commercial
treaty between Spain and the United
States, looking toward partial- reciproe
ity with Cuba, was concluded Friday. It
is understood that the treaty fixes very
low duties on flour and other articles
imported from the United States into the
CONDENSE NE From F TELEGRAPH NOTES.
1 4 CABLE.
Epitome of Incidents that Hap¬
pen from Day to Day.
A cablegram from Berlin reports that
thc strike at Essen affects fifteen collieries,
employing 2,000 men.
Of 080,000 ounces of silver offered fot
sale to the teasury department Friday
000,000 ounces were purchased at 97.48.
The census office has issued a statement
of the acreage and yield of tobacco for
the year 1889, showing an increase over
the last year.
The medical faculty of the University
of Bonn, Germany, has abandoned the
use of both Koch’s and Liebreich’s rein
edies for tuberculosis,
Archbishop Ryan has issued an order
that iii”!he future Catholics will not be
permitted to bury any of tlieir relatives
or friends on Sunday.
n .v,
arran g ement8 to reopen the Boston and
League island navy yards for cohstruc
tion and repair ‘ work!
r ,„ m laboiers , engaged . in grading ,, Jack- T ,
$° P P ark - 111 preparation for the World’s
^k for an advance from
* Lu0 t0 P«r day.
John Thompson, founder of Thomp
son’s Bankrupt Reporter, and also of the
First National and Chase Nation-1 banks
Thc ^?f ner I " vestnlent Company, of
Kansas - City made an assignment ihurs
da ^‘ for t lc beneut of its creditors. The
company was capitalized for $1,200,000.
The grand jury at Chicago, on Monday,
returned a true bill agaiust George T.
bribe Gibson on the charge of attempting blow to
a government officer to up
Shufeldt’s distillery,
The Dutch steamer Caland, from New
y ork f 01 . Amsterdam, collided in the
Britisk channel with the steamer Gamor
f Thursday ^ . The lntter vess el was
unk> but nQ were lo#t
A dispatch of Sunday savs: Cincinnati
AUing up with delegates and
vlsltors to the National Republican
JesSCroprJnLT convention Tt is evne, ted that
Alansop Sweet, who went to Chicago
when only solaiers, Indians and tquat
ters were there and who was one of
twelve men that agreed bunday, to found aged the
town of Chicago, died 87.
A New York dispatch of Monday says:
The sale of the property belonging to the
Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Corn
pa ny in Tennessee has been practically
abandoned, because of opposition of
stockholders,
The chief of the secret service bureau
of the treasury department at Washington
has information of the capture ot “Dean,
tbe counterfeiter of Winsted county, Ala¬
bama.” Moulds for making coins were
found in his possession.
The comptroller of currency, on Fri¬
day, declared an eighth dividend of 3
per cent in favor of the creditors of the
Exchange National Bank, of Norfolk, l r a.,
making in all 83 per cent on claims
proved, amounting to $2,892,219.
Signor Imbriana has given notice in
the chamber of deputies at Rome, Italy,
that he intends to question Premier Ru
dini in regard to tho refusal of Inspector
Byrnes, in New York city, to accept the
decoration sent to him by King Humbert.
The firm of Schoff, Fairchild & Co.,
woolen merchants, New York, it is re¬
ported, have been compelled to offer a
settlement with creditors, on a basis of
fifty cents on tho dollar. Most of their
creditors agreed to this $200,000. arrangement.
Liabilities said to be about
A dispatch of Sunday to The London
Graphic from Reiff says: “It is stated
in military circles that tho government
intends to increase the forces on the south¬
western frontier by 50,000 men. There
is a growing belief that the period of the
armed reserve in Russia is about to end.”
A London cablegram says: the mem
bers of an artillery battery at Portmouth
mutinied Sunday, in order to call atten
tion to their grievances. drill They and other com¬
plained of excessive
onerous duties. The leaders of the mutiny
were arrested and will be tried by court
martial. . . The officials at Portsmouth
tned t0 kee P tlle troublc 8ecret ’
Saturday was the last day of the Min
nesota legislature for passing and excited bills, and
the session was a long one,
adjournment not being taken until 7
o’clock Sunday morning. on.' A great num
ber of bills were not acted The new
usury bill was not taken up for action,
an d was thus defeated, and the famous
McIIale anti-tights bilL was killed in like
manner.
Rear Admiral Alfred Taylor, of the
United States navy, retired, died at
Washington, Sunday afternoon, from
pneumonia and acute bronchitis follow¬
j n g the grip. He was bora in Fairfax
C ( unty, Virginia, in 1810, and entered
the navy as midshipman in 1820. He
served in the Mexican war, and during
the civil war was attached to the Boston
navy yard. He was retired in 1872.
Fire broke out Thursday night in the
Ross building, and warehouse, was communicated adjoining. to
Tagsart’s in storage the warehouse got beyond
Tbe fire
control and both were distoryed. The
loss exceeds $500 000. Station “C,”
New York postoffice, was in flic building,
but the mails were saved. Among the
heaviest losers are the New York Wagon
Company, Automatic Delivering Com
pany, Edward Blonde’s electrical goods;
Seidell, hat store; F. M. Thayer, silver¬
smith; Andrew & Co., brass workers.
DUN’S REVIEW
Of the Condition of Trade for
the Past Week.
Ii. G. Dun & Co.’s woekly review of
trade says: ‘‘With better weather, there
is a visible improvement in trade and
collections, and while it is but slight as
yet, the outlook for the future is gene¬
rally regarded as encouraging. is Crop less
prospects continue excellent; there
monetary pressure at points where some
stringency has existed, and in the chief
industries some improvement in demand
appears. The volume of trade continues
nearly as large in aggregate value as it
was a year ago, some decrease in quanti¬
ties of important products being balanced
by an advance in the level of prices,
which were nearly 15 per cent, higher
than a year ago, April 1st, and is still
more than 15 per cent, higher.
SHRINKAGE IN THE IRON TRADE.
The iron trade shows a greater shrink¬
age than any other, the decrease in char¬
coal iron production in March having
been 1,895 tons, and in all iron with cor¬
rections in thc coke output, 21,3G3 tons.
The output is 05,311 touq or 30 G pei
cent lower than continue a year ago. slightly Spinners
takings of cotton grcatei
than a year ago, with exports very much
larger.
PAIR GROCERY TRADE.
The grocery trad? at Philadelphia and is
only fair; the glass trade is quiet,
the demand for dry goods medium, but
the outlook for paints is better, and the
hardware trade is larger than at this sea¬
son for two years, though at low prices.
In nearly all trades these collections are
slow. Business is improved at New
Orleans aud Atlanta.
AN ADVANCE IN' BREADSTUFFS.
In the speculative markets there has
been a general advance in breadstuffs,
hogs and lard, a decline in oil, and no
change in cotton and coffee. A larger
export demand, and reports of scarcity
abroad, lifted wheat 2Jc to $ 1 , 194 , with
sales of 40,000,000 bushels at New York,
aud oats have risen 2 cents to 01 $ cents,
and corn 5J cents to 82f cents on small
sales. The actual scarcity of corn and
oats makes an advance easy, but of wheat
the receipts at western ports continue
larger than a year ago, and exports, until
very lately, have been much smaller. It
is noteworthy that, in all winter wheat
sections, the prospect is considered ex¬
ceptionally good aud the acreage is re¬
ported as largely increased. Raw sugar
has yielded a shade this week, but all
refined above granulated is a shade higher.
With breadstuffs an d vegetables un¬
usually high and wool about the same as
a year ago, cotton is much lower, drugs
and chemicals lower, manufactured iron and its prod¬
ucts and the range of prod¬
ucts generally rather lower, notwith¬
standing an expansion of more than
$90,000,009 in circulation during the
year.
EXPORTS INCREASING.
Exports of merchandise are increasing,
and for two weeks iii New Y. X exceed
last year’s by 18 per cent. T n March the
exports of cotton, breadstuffs, provis¬
ions, cattle and petroleum from all the
chief ports were in value $52,499,037,
against $52,760,202 last year, indicating
an increase in the aggregate of exports,
while heavy imports of sugar raised the
aggregate about $6,400,000 at New York
alone above that of the same month last
year. Failures week number 217. For
of the
the corresponding week of last year the
figure was 181.
THE TROOPS WITHDRAWN,
And the Mine Operators are
Nervous in Consequence.
A dispatch of Friday from Scottdale,
Pa., says: The exodus of state troops,
coupled with the braced large consignment backbones of
relief money, has the
of 14,000 strikers still out, and the labor
headquarters are radiant just now as
compared with the deep gloom boarded of a few
days past. As the soldiers the
train bitter epithets were hurled after
them. Captain Lour was especially made
an object of ridicule. Two companies, where
however, were left at Moorewood,
they are to remain. The operators are
f ” . r0W i U o- nervous, and have doubled
3 uards at sevcral points,
THE TROUBLE RENEWED.
A special of Saturday from Scottdale,
says: Hardly had the so diers left the
region before the fears of the citizens
were realized, and gangs of cokers again
turned loose their lawless passions region of
hate and revenge. Throughout the trembled
all Friday night thc earth fairly
with the succession of shocks following
explosion of dynamite bonds. At Leiser
ing No. 3, of the Frick works, a crowd
of strikers gathered on the hill, and at
one time thirty bombs were exploded in
simultaneously, tearing great holes
the earth, breaking the windows in many
houses and frightening the people for
miles around by the terrific roar.
A HALF MILLION IN ASHES.
A Disastrous Fire in Little
Rock, Arkansas.
Little Rock, Ark., suffered a terrible
loss by fue Saturday night, originating
in thc dry goods establishment of Guss
Blass firm & Co., a building of four stories. $400,
The carried a stock valued at
000, the largest retail dry goods house in
that section of the country. The build¬
ings occupied on the south side by Lev¬
inson, wholesale liquors aud cigars, and and
on the north by Sweetman, florist,
A.Kuttner, millinery goods, were also
destroyed. Not a wall remained stand¬
ing. Blass’ stock was insured for $200,
000. The total los3 will not fall below
$500,000.
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SOUTHERN BRIEFS
DAILY OCCURRENCES IN THE
SUNNY SOUTHLAND
Curtailed into Interesting and
Newsy Paragraphs.
Tho Tennessee Banker’s association
will meet in Nashville on May 12th.
A meeting of Norfolk business men in¬
vited thc Southern Press Association to
hold its next annual meeting in that city.
The trial of Mrs. Julia Martin for tho
murder of her brother-in-law, Edward
Martin, in Birmingham, Ala., began in
that city Saturday morning.
Dispatches of Saturday report that a
case of smallpox lias developed at Bristol,
Tenn. There is much excitement, but
the case is well quarantined.
Chancellor McGill, at Asbury Park, N.
J., has appointed ex-State Treasurer
Talley receiver of the Decatur and Nash¬
ville Improvement Company.
The Richmond, Ya., grand jury has
brought in eight indictments against E.
Buford Gryuies, late chief clerk in the
treasurer’s office for altering records in
the auditor’s office.
The steamer Olympia, from Palermo,
arrived at quarantine station at New Or¬
leans Sunday morning with 450 Sicilians,
who will be cast adrift in the city, from
the northeastern wharf.
Malvern Hill, located about twelve
miles below Richmond, the scene of one
of the most famous battles during the
late war, has just been sold to William
H. Hale, of New York city.
Thirteen men, all colored except two,
are under indictment by the grand jury
of the Mecklenburg, N. C., criminal
court for inciting or leading in the mob¬
bing affair at the county jail last Sunday
nighf.
Thc directors of the North Carolina
railroad met at Raleigh Thursday after¬
noon and accepted Governor Thomas M.
Holt’s priate resignation regarding as president. his faithful Appro¬
resolutions
service for sixteen years were adopted.
At Raleigh, N. C., on Monday, General
Robert T. Iloke had a long conference
with Governor Holt, and made known to
the latter the fact that he declined to ac¬
cept the presidency of the North Carolina
railway, to which position directois. he was Another elected
last week, by the
election will, therefore, be held this week
to fill tho vacancy.
Tennessee’s last legislature appropria¬
ted $5,000 for the expenses of making a
survey for a canal to cennect the Cum¬
berland and the Tennessee, and the Ten¬
nessee and the Mississippi rivers. Gov¬
ernor Buchanan, on Saturday, appointed.
Robert A,. Allison, of Jackson; W. C.
Whitehorn, of Columbia, and Thomas
McConnell, of Chattanooga, commission¬
ers to have charge of the survey.
The Charlotte police Las been -busy f...
the past few days getting up evidence tc
convict the ring leaders in thc mobbing
business last Sunday night, of both tho
white aud colored factious, aud on Thurs¬
day the work of making arrests was be¬
gun. Attention is first being paid to the
white people, and several men have been
arrested by the police on warrants issued
bv the mayor. It is said that fifteen are
on the list.
A dispatch from Pensacola, Fla., says:
The British bark Curlew, which arrived
Sunday from Rio Janeiro, had on board
eighteen cases of yellow fever. deaths. During
the passage there were four The
last case was convalescent on March 19th,
since which time the health of the crew
has been good. The board of health de¬
cided that it would be dangerous to hare
the ship remain at Pensacola, and the
vessel was accordingly ordered to sea.
An injunction suit by Ridgeway Smith,
of Augusta, Ga., to prevent the Central
Railroad and Banking Company of Geor¬
gia from issuing $13,000,000 worth of
bonds and executing a mortgage for their
payment to the Central Trust Company
of New York, was filed in the Chatham
superior court Friday, and Smith owns
100 shares of- Central stock. He alleges
that the board of directors has executed
the bonCs and mortgages without author¬
ity, and in contravention of the provis¬
ions of their charter.
VETERANS INVITED
To Hold Their Annual Reunion
at Jackson Miss.
A dispatch of Thursday from Jackson,
Miss., says: Adjutant General William
Henry is in receipt of a letter from Lieu¬
tenant General W. Catsell, commanding
the United Confederate Veterans of the
trans-Mississippi at Dallas, informing
him that he had written to General
John B. Gordon, commanding the
Association of the United Confeder¬
ate Veterans of the whole South,
suggesting that the entire association
hold its annual reunion in Jackson, com¬
mencing June 3d, the date of the unveil¬
ing of the confederate monument. He
says to General Henry that he can depend
upon a large attendance from the tram
Mississippi department. General He
will at once send the invitation, thr
General Gordon, and on behalf
confederate veterans of Mississip
them a cordial welcome.
Settled at * ■s being
The spinners’ strike
mill at Newark, N.
Saturday. The r
most of the nn'
announced to
mediately strike r
the
be reins!
been o