The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-12-04
National Farmers Alliance.

OCALo, Fla. Dec. 3.-The sensation of the
morning session of the Farmers alliance
was when President Livingston, of the
Georgia alliance, arose to a question of
privilege and denounced as UNANIMOUSLY
false the insinuations in certain news
papers aimed at Dr. Macune and himself,
and even at President Polk in connection
with the recent senatorial contest in
Georgia. He demanded the appointment
OF fair and impartial committee to thor
oughly investigate the charges.
President Polk and Dr. Macune also
spoke and it was decided that committee
Of investigation be appointed, to consist of
one member from each state, the delega
tion to make a thorough and searching in
vestigation in accordance with the demand
of the gentlemen concerned.
At the afternoon session w. G.. McAllis-
ter, of Mississippi, introduced preamble
and resolution setting forth:
That the President of the United
States in his annual message recon-
mendsd and urged the immediate
passage of the Lodge election bill
That said bill involves a radical revolution
in the election machiney of the union and
it's passage will be fatal to the autonomy of
the states and the cherished liberties of
the citizens.
u,
Spit, and will be partisan in application,
thus revitalizing the hoary ghost of sec
tional enlargement.
That in holy war the alliance has de-
clared against sectionalism and the firesides
of the farmers of the north east, south and
| west are citadels around which the heavi-
est battle is being fought, and to the end
| that victory may crown their crusade, and
| fraternity and unity reign.
| Be it resolved by the National Farmers
Alliance and Industrial Union of America
| in national council assembled, that we do
| most solemnly protest against the passage
OF said bill, and most earnestly petition our
Senators to employ all fair and legal means
| to defeat this unpatriotic measure, which
can result in nothing but evil to our com
mon and beloved count V.
| McAllister made a strong speech in favor
of the resolution. Delegate Deming, of
Pennsylvania, said he regarded the intro
duction of the resolution as untimely, that
there was largely prevalent at the north a
| feeling that the Farmers alliance was a
southern organization saturated with
southern sentiments, and that the passage
of the resolution would strengthen this
opinion and check the growth of the ALI
! ance in the north and east.
a delegate from Illinois expressed the
same sentiment. He feared the adoption
OF the resolution would confirm the charge
that the Farmers alliance is a partisan
body The alliance, he said, is getting a
grip in the west and in localities where Re-
publican sentiments are strong. This &C
ton of the national order would tend to
throw in into political disrepute and stop its
expansion over the states of the west and
northwest After several other speeches,
however, McAllister's motion to adopt the
resolutions was put and carried unani
mously aulind the widest enthusiasm.
Resolutions were also adopted denounc
Ing the Louisiana lottery as blow al
American civilization and morals, and ask
ing for submission to the people of Amer
lea of an amendment to the national con
stitution prohibiting the operation of lot
teries in any state.
A resolution will be offered tomorrow il
Senator Stanford's bill for loaning money
on land at per cent. interest, mortgage!
to run for thirty wears.