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ALLIANCE TALKS • i
NEWS OF THE ORDER FROM
ALL SECTIONS.
Items of Interest to Alliance
men Everywhere.
»»n’t go f armer.
Under the above caption The Alliance
Advocate, “Like Indianapolis, Indiana says:
the dropping of the leaves on a
doleful day, falls the plaint of old party
bosses against the people going into poli¬
tics. From the first it has been: “Don’t
'Undertake to regulate these troubles your¬
selves. If the farmer will only tiust us
'lawyers and bankers aud educated geu
ftlemen we will make just the laws you
meed.” And we did trust them aud have
never got two per cent on the investment
an return. There never was a more pa¬
tient, trusting people in the worid than
the farmers and laborers of America have
been. They have had all power at their
-control, but have backed down and sub¬
mitted till politics havs become a science
-in the hands of a few, aud common men
have almost felt it a gracious privilege to
walk up in a line and vote a straight
.party ticket just ns directed. They have
been told thut this would bring relief,
but relief has not come. The plain man
(knows that he is not getting along as
well a9 he ought to. He sees that tho
speculator, the banker and the manufac¬
turer have the benefit of law to help them
-along, but when he asks for laws it is
‘unconstitutional’ and he is called a
■‘wild-eyed anarchist.’ He is the most
patient man in the world, and if he could
only get relief he would stay inside party
line till doomsday'. But he is tired of
broken promises from both republican
and democrat alike. And now he wants
several things and he wants them bad.
Sis very long suffering will make him
'terrible when he does reach out after
•what he warns. And the plantive wail
■goes on: “Don’t go, farmer, don’t go.
We will give you what you want.” A
page of history is worth a volume of
prophecy. An ounce of fact is better
than a pound of promise. The situation
is easily stated. So far as the Farmers,
Alliance is concerned it has clear and
«empathie demands which can be accom¬
plished oniy through legislation. The
Alliance is not a distant political party.
Its members can causider all party
-organizations likely and act with the one most
to do the work they want to have
-done. But they are in no mood to be
>fooltd with. The Alliance is a compact
'and powerful organization for political
purposes. If it cannot control existing
parties demands.” it can make one that agrees with
dts
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SELECTION OF SENATORS BY THE PEOPLE.
In the opinion of the Germantown,
Penn., Telegraph, an able and venerable
^farmers’ newspaper, the selection of
United States senators by the popular
vote is an innovati ou which would be
-adopted if presented to the people. The
public anything may be safely which counted enlarge on to sup¬
port in the of may its
•power work government.
There is evidence in our constitu¬
tion, if we did not know it from hist¬
ory and the speeches of the early pa¬
triots, that the National Govern¬
ment is not a pure democracy,
that it is very largely a representative
•democracy. In the case of the United
frtates senate, the body is once more re¬
moved fiom the people. They vote for
state representatives and these latter se¬
lect the United States senators. While
free government here was experimental,
<aud the people had not learned to trust
•themselves, this body, so remote from
the people, gave, it was supposed, a cer¬
tain stability to the new order of things.
The public feeling on this point, this
-distrust of the people by
the people, has now almost passed
•away. This is seeu in the selection
•of judges in many states by popular vote,
officials that were once selected by the
-appointment of the governors of the
,states with the consent of the legisla
-tures. ’i he elective judicial system has
;given to Pennsylvania as able a body of
jurists as may be found in states where
•they are still chosen by appointment.
The argument has resolved itself into
this: If the public can be trusted and is
trusted, t.o select good judges, why can
it not be relied on to elect capable Uni
fed States senators?
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A BlftNlFICANT RESOLUTION.
At a meeting of the Elk County, Kan
ssas, Fanners’ Alliance a few days ago
*the following extraordinary resolution
■was adopted: has shown that four
Whereas, It been
fifths of the homes through the entire
•country are under mortgages, and that
the same are falling due in large lots
.every six months-, aud
Whereas, lhe loan companies and
banks have all refused to loan more
raaom-y in Kansas; and,
Whereas, failures An unprecedented number
•of crop have occurred during
•the last decade; that where we have
made a goud crop the unjust hand of
monopoly has been so well played as to
make it impossible for us to sell the sur
Hit pay out the mortgages. ° “ Now, ’ therefore, ’
Resolved, That we ask tho Industrial president
of the Farmers’Alliance and
Union of Kansas to immediately call a
convention of the people for the purpose
of United petitioning tie president tender of the
States to issue legal treas
ury^otes to the extent needed, and loan
to the people above mentioned at a low
rate of interest, with the' privilege of
paying small annual i Attallmeuts on the
principal until the whole is paid, and
that the government shall be secured by
the laud above mentioned, thus relieving
^/K^worid,^? giving Zmi
chance to suve their homes.
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BOTH LKOAIi AND PRACTICABLE.
Ihu Arkansas , Firmer, speaking of the
sub-treasury bill, 1ms tins to say: "lwo
objections are coutautiy raised by the
ini guided lueu who oppose everything
that has not gut a party label.to it.
(objection 1: it is impracticable.
Objection 2: It is unconstitutional.
As to the llrst, it is no argument, be
cause it has never been tried. Sixty
years ago railroads were thought “im
practicable.’ hifty years ago telegraghs
were considered “impracticable.” Forty
years ago the national banking system
which was proven very practical was
considered “impracticable,” Thirty j
y ears ago the telephone would have been j
thought an absurdity, and so on. De
velopment means change, aud that means
tnat men must adjust their systems to
the changed conditions. The Sub
Treasury cannot be charged withimprae
tit ability until it has been tried and
proved a failure.
idle, Tiie second objec’ion is worse than j
it is criminal. Statutory laws and j
written constitutions in a republic are ]
but the concreted expressions of the will ;
of the people. It is the people who make
the constitutions and laws, and when
these comitutious and laws no longer fit
the times, they must be made to tit by
altering, am- ml in.-, patching, and or if need
be by discarding altogether making
anew, All this wicked nonsense about
“unconstitution dity” comes from men
who take the ipse dixit of a few legal
office holders or office seekers who could
not full off a log unless they had prece
cedent for it.”
NOT TO BE FEARED.
The New York World asserts that “the
democratic victory in Kentucky demon¬
strates that the democratic party in the
south has nothing to fear from the Farm¬
ers’ alliance.” The Atlanta (Ga.) Con¬
stitution, commenting on the above says:
“We are vety glad, indeed, that our
contemporary has made this discovery at
last, and we should tie gladder if other
esteem'd contemporaries nearer home
were to make the same discovery. It
would save a great deal of unnecessary
worrying the and wrangling. has The fact that fear
democratic party nothing to
from the al ianeemeu was demonstrated
long before the Kentucky elec¬
tion. The only danger, so far as
known, has been that the arrogauce of
small politicians aud unsympathetic news¬
paper editors would operate in other
parts of the south as it has operated in
South Carolina. Fortunately, the con¬
servatism and common sense of the farrn
ers are proof against the continual nag
ging of the editorial brethren who are .
convinced that they carry the democratic
party in their pockets. We have had a
good deal of this nagging in Georgia, but
it has amounted to nothing, and the
spirit of intolerance behind it seems to be
subsiding.”
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A SUCCESS.
We clip the following from the Southern
Mercury, the fcltate organ of Texas: “Af¬
ter advertising lor over a month in every
partisan politcal paper in the State, and
obtaining excursion rates on all railroads,
and after repeated and earnest appeal by
its steerers, only thirty-seven could be
raked and scraped together in all Texas
who are, or have been members of the
Alliance, at the Fort Worth scab con¬
vention. These thirty-seven have every
one liances been repudiated by their county Al¬
as political .demagogues and
blatherskites. Brethren outside of Texas
may rest assured that the Alliance all
over Texas is nearer a unit now than it
iver was before, and is gaining members
very rapidly, .,, , having nearly doubled its
membership in the last year. The A1U
hance in Texas has gone through the cru
cial test, and has come out solid to the
^° re > ' v)t ^ a g ro ' vt h that means death to
the demagogues, and life, liberty and
prosperity to the whole people. ’
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wants the ocaia platform.
The Colored Farmers’ Alliance of Vir
ginia held a three days’ session at Rich
mond, which was very successful and in
teresting. State officers were re-elected
aufl various committees appointed. Tho
committee on legislation made a plausible
leport, which was adopted. The paper
asserts that the alliance is now beginning
to realize that the salvation of the col
ored man rests not in either of the old
political parties, and that he is no longer
a slave to them. The report continues in
this vein: “We are uniting to protect
ourselves and wives and children, and to
build up enterprises among ourselves, and
thus free the toiling masses of our race
from the deadly fangs of monopolies,
rings “Furthermore, and trust companies. cannot, J !
we as an or
ganization, act with any party that will
not accord to us the rights and privileges
guaranteed by the articles of agreement
drawn up and adopted by the Ocala con
vention.”
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The State Alliance in session at Fay
etteville, North Carolina, in 1889 and at
Asheville in 1890 passed resolutions urg- 1
Tobacco Manufacturing awsi
ance organized by Company
was and run Alliancemen,
every dollar of the capital being factory subscrib
ed b» Alliancemen. This is sit- !
uated at Oxford, in the midst of tho
finest tobacco growing section in the
United States. The company has $50
000 capital invested in a warehouse and
factory. The warehouse is one of the
largest and best in the State. It is well
managed and gives universal satisfac
tion.
Fresident Polk’s Progressive Former,
discussing how to treat the partisan
gard press, suggests stringent measures in re¬
to the worst of them, and closes
its editorial with a thrust at some of the
alliance journals. We know, it says, of
a few so-called alliance papers that arc
not what they should be. They are frieud
jy enough 10 keep up appearances, but
when any test comes they show the white
feather. Thev are traitors in the camp,
and should be treated as such without
delay. Beware of giving aid to traitors
j c or out 0 f (jj C alliance.
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Bellcview sub-Alliance, of Richmond
county, Ga., at a recent meeting passed a
resolution Alliance convention imploring the state Farmers’
to pass a resolution
requesting the farmers of Georgia not to
plant more than ten acres of cotton to
the plow next year; requesting the state
convention also to advise the farmers
no t to buy or use any guano or conuner
c ial fertilizers in 1802.
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The Alliances in Emporia, Kansas,
have decided to help the trades by not
patronizing non-union the establishments. goods sold or made by
Convict
made goods are put equally under (he
j>a n .
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The Warren County, Ky., Alliance
proposes to boycott every merchant in
Bowling Green and Warren county who
trade with the wholesale houses which
re f U9e to sell goods to the State Alliance
business agent.
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The politicians are undoubtedly run¬
ning the Alliance, but it is in the way
that the fellow was running the
policeman—he policeman was in front and the
was after him.— Advocate.
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The Alliance in California is said to be
in fine condition. California will soon
be one of the very best organized states.
The order all along the Pacific Coast is
flourishing.
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Within the last mouth there have been
thirteen new counties organized in Ohio,
with 170 Sub-Allianoes, and the net in¬
crease of membership is over 10,000.
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New Jersey State Alliance will be or¬
ganized in this month and Dcleware
will fall into line in September.
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State Secretary O. S. Dawes, of Texas,
has issued 45 charters for new Alliances
in the last two weeks.
“GUILTY OF MURDER”
Is the Jury’s Verdict in the
Baker Case.
A dispatch from Abingdon, Va., says:
The jury, Friday morning, in the case of
D r . Baker, charged with the killing of
his wife by poison, brought in a verdict
of “guilty of murder in the first degree.”
The trial which has just ended will go
down in history as one of the most sen¬
sational ever known in Virginia, if not
in the south. The circumstances of the
crime are fresh in the public memory.
Dr. Baker was one of the most highly
respected citizens of the beautiful and
historic town of Abingdon. He was a phy¬
sician of high rank, a gentleman of un¬
usual intelligence and leader in his com¬
munity. It was thus that Dr. Baker
stood in the public estimation when Die
awful shadow fell across, his life that
blighted his reputation and will now
send him to the gallows. Dr. Baker’s
wife died under circumstances which in¬
dicated poison. Dr. Baker was suspect¬
ed of the crime, whs arrested and im¬
prisoned. It was charged that he had a
partner in the crime, and that partner
a woman, who wished to dispose of her
husband so that she could marry.
She was Mrs. Loula Gilmer, wife of an¬
other prominent citizen of Abingdon, a
woman who stood high in social circles
aud whose character is supposed to have
been spotless. The two paities to the
crime are well-known throughout Vir¬
ginia and many portions of the south.
Their arrest and trial created a profound
sensation. Mrs. Gilmer turned state’s
evidence in the trial and it was on her
to-timouv that Dr. Baker was oonvicto i.
BACKER ARRESTED
^ Instance Of a Citizen of
Savannah aavannan.
A New York dispatch says: Broker
Abraham Backer, who recently assigned
for the benefit of his creditors, was ar
rested at noon Thursday on a warrant
sworn out by William D. Harden, pre
siding justice of the city court ef Savan
nah, Ga., who charges him with de¬
frauding him of debenture bonds of the
Central Railroad and Banking Company
of Georgia, valued at $9,700, and other
certificates valued at $2,250. When
Backer was arrested, Judge Harden dc
Sired a prompt hearing, but Backer’s at
lorney was not ready, and the hearing
was put off. The prisoner was released
in $15,000 bail,
ANOTHEREXCURSION HORROR.
Fourteen Lives Lost On a Pic
— Nic - Barge. -
says- *.«*•* The employ>8 «* o Theodoie L r v*. Kaiser
of Graham avenue, Brooklyn went on an
^ c “ ISI £ n to Lauiel on Giove, Cod
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on pL r( j ’ Tllu unDer deck of the halve
, deck^srave 1h
, • ’ awav
? ^ about fiftv uersons Four
T re instantly in8tantI y killed k,Ued and aad
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People who are sly should ba discreet.
A lady who had a servant somewhat giv¬
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from a one afternoon:
“Did tho carrier leave any mail,
Mary?”
“Nothing but a postal card ma’am.”
“Whom is it from, Mary!”
“And did you think I’d be leading it,
ma’am?” said the girl with an iujured air.
“Perhaps not, but any one who sends
memeeRages impertinent—that’s on postal cards is stupid aud
all.”
“You’ll excuse me ma’am,” said the
servant, loftily, “but that's a nice, purty
way to be talkin’ about your owu moth¬
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“Got a job as night going to
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