The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-11-26


from politics, coAfining itself to the
working out Of purely social, educa-
tional. and economic problems. The
tendency of the hour IS, however, over
coming its conservatism, and it may be
said to be rs deeply in polite now as
the Farmers Alliance Of the South. al
tnv%qh in not quite so aggressive Il
style.
1t Wit; organized in Washington
City twenty-three years ago. Very
little progress was made until 1865,
when about 200 Oranges had been or
glniZed in various parts OF the coun-
Try. BY 1872 it had developed into a
formidable power and tWo years later
it proclaimed that 1t had nearly twelve
thousand Sub-Granges.
These figures were soon nearly doub-
led with an average membership OF
forty each, but owing to lack of Elf
cient discipline and thorough organiza-
tion the body toppled from its own
weight. The superStructure was too
big and too heavy for the foundation.
Smaller IN membership now than it
was some years ago, it is far more ef-
fectiye in every way and yields a
greater influence on current politics
and State and national legislation. 1t
has its representatives at Washington,
and its position on the tariff IS that if
anybody is to be protected the farmer
shall have quite as big slice OF the
cake as the manufactures.
TIE FARMERS LEAGUE.
The National Farmers League is a
comparatively new organization. 1t
proposes to work in harmony with all
the other farmer organizations, but it
distinctly announces that it is going to
take a hand in politics. 1t defines its
own position as follows:
The Farmers League is a non-secret,
independent, non-partisan organiza-
ton, in harmony with the Alliance,
Wheel, Farmers Union, Grange and
kindred associations, agricultural So
cieties, farmers clubs and similar or
CARNATIONS. But the League goes a
step further. It's object is the farmers
political welfare.
The work of the League is directed
toward securing just representation
and treatment of the agricultural il
terests in Congress and in the LegiSla-
ture, and due recognition Of farmers in
all public affairs, without conflicting
with the best interests Of the entire
people. It consists Of a National
League Of State leagues, with county
and town leagues.
The National League has general
supervision of the affairs of the Farm
ers' League and the work Of organiza-
ton, and attends specially to the farm
ers' interests in Congress.
The State leagues, as soon as organ
lied, push the work of organization in
their respective States and attend to
the farmers special interests in the
Legislature.
The County League attends to the
farmers interests in county matters
and to affairs in Senatorial and Repre-
sentative districts. The town leagues
furnish the delegates who constitute
the county leagues and attends to the
farmers interests in local districts and
in each election precinct. The pay
ment of 50 cents constitutes life men,
bership in the Farmers League-State
and national.
This life membership fee is not high,
and it is said there are forty thousand
members of the Order in New York.
The organization was born in Mas
sachusetts and is less than a year old.
The farmers of that State had been
vainly petitioning the Legislature OF
that State for years to pass an oleomar-
garine bill. 1t always went through
the House, but was uniformly rejected
by the Senate.
In the middle Of the last campaign
the New England Homestead appealed
to the farmers to elect Senate that
would pass the bill. There was an
electrical response to the suggestion.
More than forty thousand farmers
were enrolled in month and the can
didates for the Senate from both par
ties quickly pumped in their pledges
to vote against oleomareo--iiio and on
the side of genuine butter.
1t was significant victory and the
Yankee farmer has not been slow to
profit by the lesson. There are strong
organizations now in Connecticut, New
Hampshire, Vermont and a score of
other Eastern. Middle and Western
Commonwealths. The headquarters are
at Springfield.
These in brief are the plans, pur-
poses, methods, aimS-soclal, political
and economic-of the farmers of the
country. They are united as they have
never been united in all our history,
and the first fruit of their organization
was the big rotation this fall in the
crop political. The Washington states
man is dazed ct the situation.
WHAT THE LEADERS CLAIM.
WASHINGTON, November 6.-At the
national headquarters of the Farmers
Alliance in this city great victory for
the farmers is claimed in the results Of
Tuesdays election,
Secretary Rittenhouse says that in the
States were the Farmers, League is
strong it has aided in showing this Con-
gress that the demand of the farmereS
for free coinage was not an idle one.
in Massachusetts and New
Hampshire in the East, and Missouri,
Kansas, Wiscosin and Colorado in the
West. "This ground swell, he says, 'does
not prove that the Alliance and kin
dred organizations will support the
Democrats in 1892. II the Democrats
fail to give a greater volume of currency
they will receive the same kind Of
punishment in 1892. We are determined
to be felt, and if this House ignores our
petitions we will send House of our
own"
The Fall of the Great Irish Leader.
LONDON, Nov. 1.-THE trial of the
O'Shea divorce case was resumed IN
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