The daily state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 188?-1891, 1890-12-09

oue leeEng among the great masses, it is
nc1 wondered at that the great leading
papers are watching the developments as
10 tue third party movement Our or
Ra'lzatlon, as such, can no more endorse
the third party than they can the Dem
oteratic or the Republican party. but still
IL Is true the people composing these or
CARNATIONS are being rapidly educated to
toe absolute necessity of bold and deter
mined action. Whether this i,>''cation
Is to result in party movement cannot
say. l simply give you the signs of
the times, and you must judge for your
self
Livingston on the Third Party.
ColoneI Livingston says:
III is believed in the S>nth that. when |
the Democratic and Republican parties |
md out our strength, they will yield to |
our demands without fight l confess /
cannot imagine any condition by which |
the Republican party would get the
southern Alliance vote. I can under.
stand how the Democratic party, with
low taxes and the adoption of our other
principles, could get our support. The
Democratic party is changing rapidly in
| its ideas about our platform. They will
gress more than ever before The Dem
ocratlc party will be on trial in that Con-
gress. The Alliance stands just where
Jefferson and Webster and Calhoun and
Lincoln and Steward and Sumner stood.
Lincoln was j1st as thoroughly opposed
to monopoly as the Alliance is today.
We do lot hope to break down either
party, but hope and expect that one or
both parties will see the necessity of
coming to our relief. believe the Dem
ocratjc platform Of 1892 will include all
TIE planks Of our st. Louis platform of
1888
Mr. Harvey, of : lorida, remarked that
Livingston was consuming too much
time in talking to run the convention
Livingston replied that when he run
convention it was run in business way
and he further observed that Harvey's
cnly conception Of congressman s du-
ties was the distribution of seed.
An important item in the business Of
the afternoon session was the adoption
of President Polk's suggestion that the
national Legislative board be superseded
by a national Legislative council, COM
posed of the national president and the
presidents Of the State Alliances This
leaves The national executive board
intact
The National Reform Press Assoca-
ton has been organized by the election
OF Dr.. MaCune as president; j. B. Stell,
of Montana, vice president, and W. s.
Morgan, of Missouri, secretary and treas
urer The association numbers twenty
five papers and will have forty.
, Macune Again Endorsed.
, After some further business, Col. Liv-
ington, on behalf of the National Ali
5 ance, presented President Polk with a
handsome gold headed cane. Also, in
| behalf of the Alliance, Mr.. Wynn, OF
, Kentucky, presented DR.. Macune with q
q handsome gold headed cane.
The last thing before adjournment was
q the adoption 0, the following resolution
: RESOLVED, That we endorse the Ma
tional Economist, and the manly action
of Brother Macune and his associates in
t said paper, and will do all we can tt
S urge them onward in the good work o.
4 education.
) The Platform.
l. Under call of the States, the St
b Louis platform was adopted unani
s mously after amendments made here il
J. Ocala The sub-treasury is not a par
II of this platform. 1t provides for the
l. free coinage of silver and expansion O
IS the currency by the issue of treasur,
it notes direct to the people, without tn
Intervention of banks, in sufficient vol
ume to meet the business requirement
of the country and as cheaply as th
banks now get it. The issue is to b
e based upon the products of industry AM
,r not on bonds, as at present, through tn
4 national banking system. This plan
~ -. widely different from the bill which ha
If been introduced in Congress.
20 10 The St. Louis platform also called 70
~ the ownership and control by the GOV
~, ID ernment of the lines of railroads an
~ ~ telegraphic companies. The Allianc
~ amended this plank by adopting con
q promise from Mr.. Livingston, giving tn
~ Government the liberty to control theS
"a lines, and if that is not done satlsfact'
1il rily, then for the government to assun
~. control and ownership. There is also
or plank in the st. Louis platform requirin
Nd M that the duty levied by the governmel
ba on imports, the tariff shall bear event
of on all consumers embodying the idea I
o' equal Justice to all and favor to none, ar
w. ~ that the revenue shall not exceed tt
;oss need of commercial expenditure for go
his ernment purposes, with no surplus. The
rs' rs is also clause prohibiting the allie
es' owership of lands in the United State
ON and requiring the government to recov
or. all such holdings aud open them to &C
~ ~ ual settlers. These are the chief pom
~; of the platform Among other amen
tha ments adopted to it was one requlrll
' .ho that all Alliance officials shall suppo
ND the same, with Ocaia amendments, und
rha penalty of suspension, and that no ca
ont didate for national Office shall receive t
I ;nT support of Alliance membership unle
NV he pledges himself in writing to suppt
, ~ the ST. Louis platform. Any subordins
Alliance not in accord with the pl
tho form will be suspended at the will
orv the president.
an The Negro Alliance.
and At the morning session OF the mes
on Alliance Mr. Powderly and A.
lere Wright. of Toronto, member of
,eo- general executive board, made frat
ent nal visit and extended them an invi
inst ton to send fraternal delegates to