The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1889-12-07
FARnERs AND LABoRERs UNION.
Opening of tho Annual Convention -
8s st. Louis.

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Sr. LOUIS, Dec. 3.-The Annual con-
vention OF the Tnrmers' and Lab0rers'
Union met here to-day with barge
number Of delegates 10 attendance.
The convention was called to order by
PRECEDENT Evan Jones of Texas. After
addresses Of welcome by Mayor Noonap
lon behalf Of the city, and by Governor
|Erancls for the State, and q brief res.
|ponse by J. III. Mcdowell, chairman
|of the executive board, the convention
took q recess until this afternoon 70
|meet In executive session.
AT 1880 the convention reassembIedN
lin executive session for business.
These meetings are TO be secret. The
|commitlee on credentials reported the
following organizations as represented
10y delegates on the floor: AskansatI
wheel, Arkansas alliance, Kentucky
wheel, Kentucky alliance, Texas wheel,|
Kansas wheel, Virginia alliance, Geor-
Gle alliance, Tennessee farmers and
iaborers' union, Louisiana farmers'|
union, Oklahoma wheel, Maryland al
liance, Alabama alliance, Missouri
farmers' and laborers' union, Indiana|
iarmers' and laborers' union. Texat|
ance-conditionally.
The following committees were then
appointed "a
TO confer with the alliance north OIL
the formation of national alliance.
On cooperation with the Farmers
Mutual Benefit Association.
After listening TO an address BY
President Evan Jones, q recess wac
taken until 1880 p. m.
The delegates to the convention Of
the northern alliance meeting met q.
the Planters House, under President
u. d. Burrows and Secretary August
Post, and held an Informal conferences
in parlor %. There are seventy-flvt
delegates to this convention, represent
ing the State organisations Of Illinois.
Ohio, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Kansas,
Iowa, Nebraska, Dakota, Colorado
and Washington.
Under the plan of consolidation With
the Farmers and LabOrers' Union Of
America this body will probably ad'
iourn to sit in convention at the expo
sitiou building before the week Il
passed.
At the meeting of the Farmers ALI
snce this afternoon at the Planters
House, at the request OF tho Farmers
and Laborers' Union, committee wal
appointed to confer with similar
committee from the union, to discuss
the advisabilEty OF consolidation
The following are the committee:
NJ. Morris, Kansas Alonzo Wardell
South Dakota; Geo. w. sprague
Minnesota; A. ]. Streator, Illinois
! John H. Powers, Nebraska; Walte
! Muir, North Dakota; N. B. Ashley
Iowa; VIM. Urich /; Wisconsin L
Williams, Washington. The majority
LOT these are not in favor of consolida
tion.
4 AS to the proposed consolidation
3 with the Knights of Labor, +. l.
Livingston, president of the Georgi'
Estate organization, said: eve pro-
pose to form an offensive and defensive
|, alliance with the knights of Labo
! and cooperate with them as long a
!. it Is mutually advantageous. If on
paths lead US along the same road
adds to the strength Of both orders t
work together. When our ways di
: verge we can part In friendship t.
y meet further along on some other lie
q sue. / am not one Of the principa
!, advocates of cooperation with tn
knights, but can see the advantag
Ito be derived from such STEP"
d During some manouvers Of the 9e
man cavalry at Breig woman an
her little boy got in front of a regimen
y of cuirassiers charging In full gallon
g THE leading officer shouted to her
ID HE down, and she did, lying upon hi
boy. The whole regiment passed owe
without ipjuring her, every horse !
= whose track she lay, having been mad