The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1890-12-07
THE NATIONAL ALLIANCE.
YESTERDAYS PROCEEDINGS OF
THE CONVENTION.
Complaint Of Reports OF Crop ssasisties'-
Master Workman PowderIy mskss -
Adsress-Hs Wants Reform IN Mains
and Equal Pay for Men and Women.

and Equal Pay for Men and Women.
OcALA, FLA, Dec. 6.--Upon the en-
nouncement of his reelection by the Farm
ers Alliance yesterday evening, President
Polk took the floor ard said: my Brethren
and sisters,-I say TO you, without the
slightest affectation, that this Is the proud
est moment OF my life. l accept the mani.
festation OF your extreme kindness and
partiality and confidence, not AZ personal
tribute, but simply rs an endorsement OF
my fidelity to yeur cause, and TO thegreat In
terest that you sntrusted 10 my hands when
YOU elected me twelve months ago. have
gone In and out before you, conceAliug
nothing and shirking nothing that l con-
ceived to be my duty. l stand before you
with heart too full for utterance, and only
express 10 you as best | can the deep
gratitude 1 feel at this moment towards
you all. can say 10 you, my dear brethren
and sisters, that as you have again placed
your banner In my hands as your leader,
whenever you want 10 see that banner, 20
long as God shall permit me 10 carry IL. i
charge you that YOU need look In but one
direction for IL. squsrely In front In the hot
test OF the contest. l pledge you here and
now that, with the help OF my kind Maker,
will return it without one single blot or blur
on its sn0w-white folds, save the marks
that are placed there by the enemy.
"May God bless each and all Of you and
bless your cause and our common country
now and forever. | thank you again tor
this renewed manifestation OF your conn.,
dence."
COLONEL LIVINGSTONE CRITICISED.
Livingstone, OF Georgia, made . c)m-
plant this morning In the Alliance con-
yention that the crop statistician
relied too much on information obtained
from uniformed congressman. The Com.
mittee on Agricultural Statistics recon-
mended in their report that a commit
tee OF five Alliance Congress, men be APP
pointed 10 cooperate with the Alliance
crop statistician in furnishing information,
so that people would not have to depend
upon unauthorized reports Of the Govern
ernment statisticiau.
Frank Burkitt, of Mississippi. moved that
a roster Of all sab-Alliance secretaries be
taken which will lead TO all the information
bearing on statistics.
Secretary Turner protested against such
roster being furnished, as II gave one man
TOO much power.
The protest was referred to the Committee
on Conventions.
At ll:45 A. NJ. the adjournment was
lihtH W tutplt tut utltkNttS W DfOtttd w
the Exposition to hear an address from
Grand Master Powderly and other promi-
nent Knights.
PowDERLy's SPEECH
At noSn the delegates to the Farmers
Alliance Convention marched TO the Exhi-
bition Hall in body. Fully 1900 people
were assembled in the hall TO listen to the
speeches OF the distinguished visitors.
Master W orkman Powderly, Of the Knights
0t Labor, was introduced by General Long.
Mr.. Powderly aid he had never addressed
such an audience before, but hoped that
they would carry away his words
and think about what he had said. II he
gave them any new ideas 10 think about.
At this point the speakers voice was drown
ed by the strains OF band In remote part
Of the grounds, and he politely requested
that IL be stopped, saying that
he could not attempt to talk down
brass band. He reviewed the history
Of the Knights OF Labor organization IRON
its inception, and then addressed himself
tD the questions OF Government ownership
OF railroads, employment OF child labor,
and compulsory education. He gave woefui
picture OF the condition OF child laborers In
the factories OF Biddei0rd, Maine, by the
way OF illustration Of the need ofreform In
that respect, and asked the cooperation OF
the Alliance in amelioration OF their ccndi-
ton. AS to railroads, he said that IL the
Government has right to control the letter
which conveys the order for goods,
it had an equal right 10 control
the carrying OF the goods. lie also touched
upon the question OF equal pay for women
who do the same work as men and made
fiery attack upon labor-saying machines,
declaring they defrauded workmen u the
right to work. lie was especially bitter
against all electric devices, asserting that
capitalists in their greed had even cornered
Gods wrath and compelled IL 20 do their
bidding. lie was followed by Hon. john
Davis, Congrcssman-elect from Kansas,
who spoke chiefly on finance.