Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1890-12-25
I !he National Farmers Alliance. Hold
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Over Two Hundred Delegates Attend
70 Emphasize Former Pleas
.foI Public Reform.

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8 OcALA, FLA. Dec. Special Cor:
1espondences The session Of Wednesay
{ the 9th RI IS animated with enthusiasm
andSh good work was done. A com
mittee appointed to investigate the
charges preferred against President Polk,
! Doctor Macune and President Livingston
of the Georgia Alliance. The charges
have been made against these men that
they have taken undue interest in the
recent senatorial election in Georgia.
They are of course without foundation
and the committee, in their aeport COM
pletely exhonorate the gentlemen.
At the afternoon session Wednesday, Mr..
McCallister, Of the Mississippi delegation
introduced the following resolution,
which created quite q ripple upon the.
surface Of the convention, but after ma
ture deliberation the resolution was ad-
opted by a large majority:
Resolved, by the National Farmers
Alliance and Industrial Union Of America,
that we do most solemnly protest against
the passage Of the Lodge bill and earnest.
" petition our senators to employ all fair
/eg3al means to defeat this unpatriotic
a6easAre, which can result ip nothing but
our common and beloved country.
resolution received considerably
+ oposi sh among the northern delegates on
the ground that there is pervelant in that
section feeling that the alliance was a
southern organization, and that the pass
4 age Of such resolution would give color
to5the opinion and impede the growth Of
the. order in the north. Among the
opponents of the resolution were Ward
45sall and I.oucks of South Dakota Dem
4 ing and others Of Pennsylvania and all of
the delegations from Illinois, Wisconsin,
Texas, Missouri and other states. The
council also adopted strong resolutions
denouncing the Louisiana lottery and
favoring the idea Of submitting toa vote
of the people an amendment to the ma
Z tional constitution prohibiting the chart
ering Of lottery concerns in any state Of
the union
I'll AAul0Ooy 5CAC VUA 1uVos, VAC COuuCAI
was visited by the National colored
Farmers Alliance, who attended the
morning session in q body. During the
,aftgrnoon q delegation representing
khs citizens Alliance of Kansas attended
NJ NV onvention. Most of them spoke in
3rt af the Farmers Alliance move
nscht and stated that their organization
was deeply interested in the success of
the farmers movement and that they
could see no reason why merchants of all
kinds should not unite in promoting this
movement. They asked for committee
Of conference to arrange for closer rela-
tions and the committee was promptly
appointed
There was good deal of Indignation
among the associated press cotrespon,
dents, Thursday afternoon, over the fail
ure of the press committee of the conven-
tion to give out information for publica-
ton The strictest secrecy was maintains
ed in the proceedings of the convention,
and it was next to impossible to secure
complete accounts Of the proceedings.
The chief object of this was to prevent
any Misrepresentation of the proceedings
being made by the numerous correspon-
nents in attendance. AS a general thing
the proceedings of labor organizations are
so badly colored and so recklessly doctor
ed to suit the occasion, that there is rea-
: son for keeping the official proceedings
secret until they can be first published in
tSle officia. papers Of the order.
AT Thursday evenings session
CONGRESSMAN PICKLER,
who has one eye on the soon to be vacant
senatorial scat in South Dakota, scored
point in his favor, by getting the ear Of
the convention. He made an able speach
in support of the sub-treasury bill and
said that it was the keynote to the
prosperity of the country in the future.
He advocated the free coinage of silver
and spoke in favor of alliance principles
on the railroad question.
During the afternoon the secretary of
the national alliance submitted his report
which showed that during the year, LOGO
new charters were issued to sub-alliances
as follows: West Virginia, 252; Colorado,
152; Indiana, l32: Michigan, log; Vir-
ginia, 95; Illinois, 81; South Carolina, SO;
Ohio 81; Pennsylvania, SO, New Jersey,
20; Minnesota, S; ooregon, l; Oklahoma.