Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-30
FIGHTING INGALLS,.
The Kansas Farmers Alliance Dead
Set in Opposition to the Junior
Senator From That State.
STRONG DELEGATION TO FLORIDA
That Will Insist on the Southern Members
of the Alliance Showing Their
Political Hands,
The KNIGHTS OF LABOR ABSORBED
And Independent Political Action Will be Urged by
the Leaders
STRONG DELEGATION TO FLORIDA
The KNIGHTS OF LABOR ABSORBED
And Independent Political Action Will be Urged By
the Leaders.
ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE prsrA1cH..

ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THK pTsPATcH.
TOPEKA, KAN, November 29.-The
delegates from Kansas, who left this city to
attend the National Convention of the
Farmers Alliance, at Ocala, Fla, on De-
cember ., ftly represent their order in this
State. There were 40 of them, and they
claim to represent the progressive element
of the Farmers Alliance" Their recent
victory has given them an exaggerated idea
of their own importance. They think the
st. Louis platform, on which their order
was founded, was good as far as it went, but
it does not go far enough to suit them.
The leaders are Nationalist, pure and
simple. The influence of Bellamy's book,
Looking Backward" on a secret organi-
cation OF 100, 600 farmers is apparent in
every speech and in every public document.
The control of the whisky traffic has been the
hardest problem with which Kansas
Legislators have ever grappled. The ALI
ance now demands that the Government
control it. Every ism which has follow
ing in. the State has fastened on to the new
movement. The Farmers Alliance claims TO
be non political, but so closely is it identified
with the Peoples party that even the lead
ers no longer pretend to explain their sep
srate features.
IN FAVOR OF WOMAN SUFFRAGE.
If the sub-alliances could vote on the
question OF woman suffrage it would be car.
red by a practically unanimous vote. The
leaders in this new movement recognize that
If their wives could vote tEeir power in this
State would be perpetuated. Their children
are being taught at home to hate the pluto
Gratis, and the term includes everybody who
does not make his living on the farm.
The Kansas contingent will insist on the
Southern farmers taking the same bold. in
dependent stand that has been taken here.
The election OF Governor Gordon, of Georgia
TO the United States Senate has aroused
their suspicious, and the leaders admit that
they do not understand how it was brought
about. The Republican press of the State
Is citing the election of Gordon to prove
that the Alliance movement is simply a
Democratic scheme. If the rank and file
or the Peoples party read the Republican
press 1t would have great effect, but they
do not. Their whole fight was made on
Senator Ingalls,, and in order to defeat him
they must not allow outside matters to in
tertere. When the Legislators arrive in
Topeka a committee of Alliance men will
watch them until the Legislature adiourns.
The leaders recognize that the future of the
party depends on the action taken by the
next House.
THE FIGHT is AGAINST INGALLS,.
There are Republicans who Joined the AL
lance VINO would vote for the senior Kansas
Senator if their constituents would permit
1t. 1t is to the independence of these men
that the Republicans will look for the re-
turn OF a Republican to the United States
Senate. The Alliance men were not in
structed for any candidate, but simply against
Ingalls, With Ingalls, out of the fight,
these men could vote for Republican and
still obey instructions. The Alliance
leaders demand that an out and out
Peoples party man be elected, but they will
md 1t difficult matter to unite on a can
dldate. If Senator Ingalls, remains in the
hight the Alliance men will get together in
caucus. II he withdraws from the fight the
Republicans will have more than fighting
chance for electing their candidate.
ss The peoples party has promised TO legis-
late In the interests of the agricultural
classes and more new measures have been
sprung than the conservative leaders have
wished for. The hold-over Senate, however,
can prevent any wild legislation. There
are many changes on the statute books which
the Senate will permit
REFORMS DEMANDED BY THE ALLIANCE.
Prominent among them are the abolition
of the present Board of Railroad Commits
sioners and its election by the people; the
reduction of interest rates; reorgan ization
Of the Agricultural Department, with an
appropriation for farmers institutes in
the various counties, and a radical
change in the law regarding
the publication of school books
The Alliance will make no concessions
whatever TO the Democrats, but demands
that they leave their old party for good.
The Knights OF Labor have been absorbed
by the new movement. 1t is through John
Davis, of the Fifth district, who was elected
to Congress on the Peoples ticket, that the
Knights in the United States will be drawn
into line. Davis has been a labor agirator
for years and has attended every national
convention of the knights OF Labor He
was on the committee which drafted its
declaration of principles and recently was
elected to a membership on the Executive
Board.
NOT IN ACCORD WITH PoWDERLY.