The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1890-12-04
A DECIDED. SENSATION. .
IN the National Convention Of
the Farmers Alliance.
THE CHARGES OF CORRUPTION
Against President Polk and Others.
Demands for nh Invcstign.
tIon...lsesOlutlons Conh cmn.
Ing the Elections Bill.

Alliance Convention met in regular
session this morning. Aresolution wal
adopted providing committee from
each State delegation to investigate the
conduct Of Mr.. McCune, Chairman o.
the National Executive Committee, L.
F. Livingstone, President OF the Georgia
State Alliance, and President Polk, in
reference to the Georgia Senatorship, 1t
hHving been charged that these gentle.
men were influenced in their actions by
money considerations. The committee
is empowered to investigate any other
charges with which any OF the officers
may be accused. Mr.. Livingstone, ris-
ing to question Of personal privilege in
the convention, stated that the charges
and rumors affecting him in reference to
the Georgia Seuatorship were untrue,
and he demanded thorough investga.
tion. Hesaid McCune and Polk heartily
joined in this sdemand. These insin uations
mad been aimed at Dr.. McCune and him.
self and President Folks name had been
connected with them. He denounced
these rumors and inBinuations as infam-
ously false and demanded the appoint.
ment OF committee 10 investigate
them. Assertions, he said, had been
made in these specials that the National
Economist and some other State Alliance
organs had been or arc being conducted
by Wall street capital, which assertions
Mr.. Livingtone also denied most en-
phatically.
President Polk then said that as fsr
as he was concerned personally he cared
little for slanders OF this kind, but urged
the appointment OF committee for the
purpose Of investigation. He was fol.
lowed by Dr.. S. w. McCune, of the
National Economist, who joined Nlpssrs.
Livingston and Polk in their demands
for sitting this slander to the bottom in
the interest of future harmony OF the
Alliance. It was finally decided that "a
committee Of Investigation should b.
appointed, and that it should consist OF
one member from each State delegation
in the convention, to be selected BY the
delegation itself. It is said, however,
that this action, asked for by Messrs.
Livingston, Polk and Mcclure, will not
prevent the filing OF charges against Nc.
Cune, as outlined in Tuesdays dis
patches. ...'l.I.
At the afternoon session Delegate
W. S. McAllister, OF Mississippi, intro
duced resolution, which was adopted,
as follows:
WHEREAS, In the holy war which we
have declared against sectionalism, the
6resides Of the farmers Of the North,
East, South and West are the citadgls
around which the heaviest battles nre
being fought, and to that end the yic,o-
ry may crown our crusade and fraternity
and unity reign; therefore be it
Resolved, BY the National Farmers
Alliance and Industrial Union OF Amer.
lea in National Council assembled, That
we do most solemnly protest against the
passage OF the Lodge election bill, and
most earnestly petition our Senators to
employ all fair and legal means to defeat
this unpatriotic measure, which can re.
suit in nothing but evil to one common
and beloved country.
Mr.. McAllister, at the end OF strong
speech, moved their adoption. After q
few moments Of suspense, Delegate
Deming, OF Pennsylvania. arose and
said that he regarded the introduction
OF the resolutions as untimely; that there
was largely prevalent at the North a
feeling that the Farmers Alliance was a
Southern organization, its members be.
ing saturated with Southern sentiments,
and that passage OF these resolutions
would strengthen this opinion and
check the growth Of the Alliance in the
North and East. His language was
very temperate and conclatory and
ripple OF applause greeted the close OF
his speech.
President McGrath, Of the Kansas
State Alliance, moved the adoption OF
the resolutions.
A delegate from Illinois expressed
practically the same sentiments ss MIR.
Deming, Of Pennsylvania.
The question then required on Mr..
McAllister's motion to adopt the resolu-
tions, and when the motion was finally
put it was carried unanimously amid the
widest enthuEiasm.