Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-12-04
BREAKERS AHEAD.
The Alliance Menaced by So
ciaIistic Rocks.
EEtfss MEMBERS GOING TOO FAST.

ace In the Direction of Logical Con-
cl Ision That Bodies Trouble In the Near
Fiiture-sambo Comes Out for a Third
Pirty. based on Socialism. single Tax,
M d Community of Land--Thcir Leader
White Ex-Prearher of Texas.
OALA, Fla, Dec. 4--Tbe principal bust
ness done yesterday by the Farmers ALI
anc WAS TO denounce the force bill,
viii the delegates did by an almost un
anil nous vote. More important, however,
thar any action of the Alliance was the
announcement that the Colored Alliance,
which held the first session of its conven-
ton yesterday, was unanimous in demand
ing he organization OF third party. The
new is of even greater scope and signifi-
canoe than at first appears. The Colored
Allince, according TO the reports of its
offic .-s, now has membership of 200, 0C0,
and Of these 10, 900 are legal voters. These
are II included in the Farmers Alliances
Claim of total membership of more than
5000 600
Socialism and single Tax
Col r. +. Humphreys, the president OF
the Colored Alliance, and the other dele
gates who are here unite in declaring that
the Alliance negroes of the south are unani.
mou in demanding new party and new
measures and issues. The matter is made
m ors significant by the fact that the Col
ored Alliance, in its official utterances
Wed nesday, was outspoken in its declara-
ton of pure Socialistic principles. The
common ownership Of land and the single
tax lea are openly advocated in this re.
spect. The Colored Alliance seems TO have
simply gone ahead faster than their breth-
rem in the White Alliance.
The Colored Man Is Too Frank.
They have carried the application Of
some of the Alliance measures and princi.
pies 20 their logical conclusion. This at
tituo of their colored friends is alarming
the Alliance leacsrs They dare not 90
aheai so fast and they fear they viii be Sc
riously compromised before the country
by the frank declarations of their negro
allies. The demand of the negroes for a
third party. instead of strengthening the
move ment in the white Alliance, will
probably weaken it for the present, be-
whole movement would at once assume
Run by q White Man.
Col Humphrey, the head of the negro
Allia nee, is remarkable man. He is q
Whit man, and the only one in the organ
ization. He was formerly a Baptist
preac her in Texas, where his home still
is, an he devoted many years to mission
airy W ork among the colored people. When
the negro Alliance movement was begun
two or three years ago the members in
sisted on his taking charge of it aud re-
naming at its head He has the I'M
bound ed confidence of every man in it.
Tney ook upon him as father and his
control over them Is absolute.
The Negro Vote in Demand.
Col Humphrey said yesterday: From
the Inception of the Alliance movement
among the negroes they have been in ia
vor of a new political party In the last
election the negroes OF the south did net
vote, except in South Carolina, where they
regarc ed the Tillman campaign as third
party movement. The Alliance could not
have won that fight without the negro
vote. In Mississippi, on the other hand,
20 per cent. OF the negroes did not 90 to
the polls because they were determined
not to vote the Republican ticket and be
cause hey certainly will not vote the Dem
ocratio ticket
Opinion on the Force Bill"
No sir; the negroes do not complain
that they are not protected in the fran
chise will say this on that point: One
of our most influential members made the
staten emit at this mornings meeting that
ths force bill, If offered twenty Years ago.
would have been a blessing to the country.
Now, Il is too late. There is no longer any
need OF it. He meant by his words that
the time had now come when white and
coloreo laborers would vote together in a
CONNER party. and that both would have
the sal he protection at the ballot box.
Size Of the New Party.
"Ou1 Alliance now has organizations In
thirty six states, and twenty-five will be
repress nted at the convention Our menu
bership in the principal southern states is
about as follows: Alabama over 100, 600.
Georgia s4,o00, South Carolina $4,000, Mis-
sissips 5000, Texas $1,000, Arkansas
10000, louisiana 300. Virginia $1,000;
kentuek ky 5000, Tennessee 10000, North
Carolin 50 600