The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1890-12-11
COL. POLK REELECTED PRESIDENT.
He Recommends That q Le.isla-
tive Council BE Formed.
THE FRAUDULENT CENSUS,
THE BAYONET FORCE BILL
CONDEMNED, AND CON
GER LARD BILL CON
DEMNED.
Macune and Livingston Investi-
gated.
NO THIRD PARTY-'TIs BETTER TO
BE TIE POWER BEHIND THE
THRONE.

me largest ana most important
meeting of bread-Winners ever as
sembled since the world began, was
the annual meeting Of the National
Alliance, which convened ut OcaIa,
Florida, on Monday Of last week.
One year ago, when the last Nation
al meeting was in session at st. Louis,
the world paid little attention, save
ridicule, othe "grulnbiing hay-seed-
ers." Themetropolitan papers simply
referred to the meeting in little para
graphs i'll some corn ernf their sheets
and no congressman allowed su,h a
matter to disturb his slumbers. But
how dilferent to-day. The bold and
positive stand taken by that body
backed up by the powerfully Convinc-
ing logic of the farming and laboring
people on the 4th Of last November.
has turned Sneers into fears, ridicule
into respect, and Indifference into the
deepest interest and concern. The
farmers have walked up and they are
waking the country up. For the last
ten days the eyes OF the nation have
been upon the Ocala meeting, the
metropolitan papers have given with.
double and triple headlines every
particular they could get. The pig
my Presidents message and the do
ings of tie National Congress have
been matters Of minor Importance.
The one body is a rebuke to the 9th
er. The former is a protest against
present conditions, the latter with
reckless deviltry is intensifying
these very conditions.
President Polk. in his annual ad-
dress, said:
"Profoundly impressed with the
magnitude of this great revolution
for reform, involving issues monen-
tous and stupendous in their char
acter, as affecting the present and
future welfare of the people, the
public mind is naturally directed to
this meeting with anxious interest,
if not solicitude, and you cannot be
unmindfui of the importance and
responsibility that attach to your
action as representatives, coming
from States and localities remote
from eacn other, and differing wide
ly from each other III their material
and physiological characteristics, and
marked by those social and political
differences which must necessarily
arise under our form of government.
1T is your gracious privilege, as
it Sha be your croWnlig honor, to
prove to the world by your harmo-
niOuS action and thoroughly fratern-
al cooperation that your supreme
purpose is to meet the demands of
patriotic duty in a spirit Of equity
and justice"
In his recommendation upon the
proposed National Legislative Coun-
Gil President Polk said: Il would
suggest that a Legislative Council be
formed, to be composed OF your Ma
tional Presi lent, who shall be ex-
officlo Chairman, and the Presidents
of all the State Alliance represent
ed in the Supreme Council, ard that
this body shall hold its annual meet
ing within sixty days after the adj
Journnent of the Supreme Council,
at such time and pIaceas may be de-
signated by tho National President;
that it be empo wered and authorized
to appoint such legislative commit
tees as in its judgment may be wise,
and that it be required to transmit
to each of the States, in printed
form, through the National Secreta
ry, for distribution to the reform
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